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This book, though focused on one teacher in one school with one group of students, shows all teachers what can be accomplished. While the collective voice gives us community, it is the individual voice that gives us strength. Jim's voice gives us much strength, much strength indeed.
-Kylene Beers, author of When Kids Can't Read-What Teachers Can Do
How can we make the tools and habits of academic literacy available to every student? Jim Burke answered this question by creating ACCESS, a program for struggling students he began five years ago at Burlingame High School-a program where seventy percent of incoming ninth graders go on to college. In ACCESSing School, Burke examines academic success initiatives around the country, identifying their key components, then detailing how their practices apply to ACCESS so that you can adapt its principles to meet your school's unique needs.
ACCESSing School offers a reading-intensive alternative to ineffective remedial courses. It synthesizes the findings of recent studies with both the insight Jim has gleaned from teaching ACCESS classes and the "Four Cs of Academic Success" he identified in School Smarts. ACCESSing School offers a model for all schools, complete with:
- specific, practical elements of Jim's ACCESS program
- the actual documents he and his district use to select students for ACCESS
- the research that supports its principles and practices
- the ways in which ACCESS addresses specific challenges such as gender, reading problems, and chronic academic failure
- inspiring stories of the program's many successes and an honest examination of its challenges.
For purchasers of the book, reproducibles can be downloaded at http://www.heinemann.com/accessingSchool.
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