•50 Ways to Close the Achievement Gap (3rd Ed.) by Downey, et al.
•Smart Parenting for African Americans: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Difficult World by Jeffrey Gardere.
•Young, Gifted and Black by Michelle Foster.
•Dead Poets Society (movie featuring Robin Williams).
•Teaching Tolerance (Tolerance.org).
•TheGreatCourses.com.
•“The Intelligent Brain” by Richard J. Haier (TheGreatCourses.com/course/642).
•Closing the Racial Academic Achievement Gap by Matthew Lynch.
•Raising Black Students’ Achievement through Culturally Responsive Teaching by Johnnie McKinley (AlfieKohn.org).
•The Homework Myth: Why Our Children Are Getting Too Much of a Bad Thing by Alfie Kohn.
•Feel-Bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling by Alfie Kohn.
•The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning by Etta Kralovec and John Buell.
•What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten? by Susan Ohanian.
•One Size Fits Few by Susan Ohanian.
•What Successful Teachers Do: 101 Research-Based Classroom Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers by Neal A. Glasgow.
•The Don’t Sweat Guide For Teachers; Cutting Through The Clutter So that Every Day Counts by Richard Carlson.
•Smart Kids, Bad Schools: 38 Ways to Save America’s Future by Brian Crosby.
•Braking Free from Myths About Teaching and Learning Innovation As An Engine for Student Success by Allison Zmuda.
•Wasting Minds: Why Our Education System Is Failing and What We Can Do About It by Ronald A. Wolk.
•Motivating Students Who Don’t Care: Successful Techniques for Educators by Allen N. Mendler.
•Why Schools Fail by Bruce Goldberg.
•The Queen of Education: Rules for Making School Work by LouAnne Johnson.
•The Hurried Child by David Elkind.
•We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools (2nd Ed.) by Gary Howard.
•Raising Race Questions: Whiteness and Inquiry in Education by Ali Michael.
•The Culturally Inclusive Educator: Preparing for a Multicultural World by Dena Samuels.
•Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America’s Classrooms by Tyrone E. Howard.
•Bad Teachers: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture by Kevin K. Kumashiro.
•A Handbook for Teachers of African American Children by Baruti Kafele.
•“The Futurist, Forecasts, Trends and Ideas About the Future Educations Holy Grail: Personalized Learning” by Maria H. Andersen, wfs.org (Jan/Feb 2011).
•Frames of Mind and Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner.
•The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn by Alison Gopnik.
•The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein.
•Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich.
•The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn.
•Get Over It! Education Reform Is Dead. Now What? by Caren Black.
•Beyond the Classroom: Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need To Do by Laurence Steinberg.
•I Hate School: How to Help Your Child Love Learning by Cynthia Wrich Tobias.
•The Death of Common Sense of Our Schools and What You Can Do About It by Jim Grant.
•Inspirational Quotes Notes and Anecdotes That Honor Teachers and Teaching by Robert D. Ramsey.
•National Professional Resources (NPRinc.com).
•High Schools, Race, and America’s Future: What Students Can Teach Us About Morality, Diversity, and Community by Lawrence Blum.
Not being a polymath teacher, Hancock communicates his vision, experiences, opinions, philosophy, perceptions, and beliefs about teaching, learning, and education issues in society with vibrant energy, passion, and verve.
Satire, parody, and caricatures are also included.
Anyone interested in the state of education will want to read and think (reflect) about Hancock’s eclectic pontifications and jeremiads in reference to education policies, practices, and procedures.
Hancock’s moniker is the Don Quixote of Educational Philosophy.
Hancock after retirement (2003) conducts/presents professional development seminars at local colleges / school districts on the achievement gap and is an education consultant / child advocate. See flyer/brochure on page ___.
He had a professional educator career from 1968 to 2003.
You Can Handle Them All—Strategies to Reduce/Narrow the Academic Achievement Gap. Problems, Causes, Solutions: Moving from Research to Practice
David Hancock, MA
Dates:
August 5 and 6, 2014
(Attendance is required at all sessions)
Times:
9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Location:
NDC Administration Building
(Room signs will be posted)
There is no single achievement gap. However, there are many kinds of gaps (i.e., attitude, racial, teacher quality, poverty, environment, etc.) The achievement gap has been a long-standing issue in US public education. To date, no programs or approaches have erased it, although some actions have shown promise to conceptualize the multidimensional nature of the gap issue and help define the means by which educators can begin to implement strategies to attack it successfully. This seminar is a trenchant analysis of the topics that are promoted by AfricanAmericanImages.com with usable resources and proposals for action.
Graduate credit:
1 semester hour
Graduate course no.:
ED526A
Graduate course cost:
$260
Solving Academic and Behavioral Problems
ADHD Diagnosis: Coerced to take Ritalin? You can get all As and still flunk life.
Was just informed that pre-K testing will begin and no recess!
Cure for Pain? No Brain Drugs.
•“The ADD/ADHD Checklist” by Sandra Rief
•Non-Drug Treatments for ADHD by Brown and Gerbarg
•Parenting Children with ADHD by Monastra
•ADHD, American Academy of Pediatrics
•ADHD for Dummies by Strong and Flanagan
•ADD/ADHD Alternatives in the Classroom by Armstrong
•The ADD/ADHD Answer Book: The Top 275 Questions Parents Ask by Ashley
•ADHD report by Guildford (Add.org)
What the teacher is is more important than what she/he teaches.
Positive Traits Common in Many Children and Adults with ADHD
•Energetic
•Creative
•Innovative
•Risk-taker
•Good-hearted
•Accepting and forgiving
•Resilient
•Gregarious
•Humorous
•Willing to take a chance and try new things
•Able to find novel solutions
•Observant
•Can think on their feet
•Can make and create fun
•Ready for action
•Enthusiastic
•Spontane
ous
•Persistent
•Imaginative
•Tenacious
•Ingenuity
•Inquisitive
•Resourceful
•Not boring
•Outgoing
•Good at improvising
•Inventive
•Full of ideas and spunk
•Good in crisis situations
•Enterprising
•Intelligent and bright
•Know how to enjoy the present
Schools should not be urgent day care, psychiatric trauma centers, and satellite orphanages with borderline and antisocial personality disorders as clients!
Recommended Reading:
•Kids on Meds by Kalikow
•AskTheJudge.Info (Children and the Law)
•Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD.org, 877-723-3462)
•ActiveParenting.com
•TheGreatCourses.com (800-832-2412)
•How We Learn Course No. 1691
•Scientific Secrets for Raising Kids Who Thrive Course No. 9542
•Raising Emotionally and Socially Healthy Kids Course No. 9531
•What Do You Really Want for Your Children? by Wayne Dyer
•Carson Scholars Fund by Ben Carson, MD (CarsonScholars.org)
•Education consultant services / interventions
•Education advocate / consultant: Helps to facilitate communication between parents and schools/teachers. I can assist the parents of children (K–12) with education issues, such as ADHD, learning, emotional, and behavioral issues, with home visits and school visits / conferences. Forty years experience.
•I can help you manage the quagmire of school bureaucracy. I will make them listen to reason!
Call me: David A. Hancock, MA
Phone No.: 440-487-0829
WJCU 88.7 FM: The Diary of a Mad Professor (iconoclastic, heretic, gadfly) palaver, wry, pedagogue, and erudite, pontifications, diatribes, harangues, and demagoguery with personal musings, ruminations, lamentations, and VIPs (views, insights, and perspectives) about the state of schooling and education in the United States.
The Mad Professor is an avant-garde and bellwether when it comes to the conundrums of education.
The Mad Professor uses parody, satire, and caricatures in his explanations about what is wrong with our education system today. He is definitely a bon vivant and raconteur when it comes to schooling and education. As Mark Twain said, “I never let schooling interfere with my Education.”
Cutting-edge research and innovative best practices share ideas and experiences and education knowledge to drive school reform!
You will become addicted to the Mad Professor! He is fervent and unequivocal with his philosophy and message about education issues!
Professor monologues: twelve/thirty minute harangues.
ENDNOTES
*This is the main reason why I have my students “play teacher” with their presentations to the class!
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before!
**War Is a Lie by David Swanson
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