Opening Doors Type:Paperback This contribution to teaching and

This contribution to teaching and curriculum design uses students' own media experiences or media vignettes from students' lives to enter teaching and learning

creates a more rigorous

which was highly successful in significantly narrowing the literacy achievement gap and in raising children’s motivation and engagement in literacy both inside and outside school

which methods work best and how to improve any students’ learning

Opening Doors Type:Paperback This contribution to teaching andSee how one school district made Cultural Proficiency real and how you can too! In spite of Brown vs. Board of Education, true integration and corresponding equality of educational opportunity is still far from reality in American schools. Opening Doors tells the story of Ventura Unified School District's successful implementation of cultural proficiency, which opened long closed doors for marginalized students and returned gains on every key success