Table of Contents

Foreword
Kenneth C. Williams

Preface
Audrey Cohan and Andrea Honigsfeld

Acknowledgments

Section I: Making Personal Connections and Engaging Students in Reflection

1.Using Urban Youth Culture to Activate the Racial Literacy of Black and Latino Male High School Students
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz

2.Embracing Project-Based Learning with Emerging Technologies in the Multiage Classroom
Shannon T. Page, Andrew P. Charland, April A. Scott, and Hiller A. Spires

3.Nurturing Curiosity by Teachers’ Purposeful Self-Evaluation and Reflective Practice
Angela K. Salmon and Thomas G. Reio, Jr.

4.Partnerships for the Common Good: Democratic Citizenship Through Writing, New Media, and the Arts
Susan N. Wood, Nancye E. McCrary, Kate Larken, and Sioux Finney

Section II: Student Engagement with Literacy

5.Empowering English Language Learners: Reluctant Readers Learn to Believe in Themselves
Audrey Figueroa Murphy and Robin E. Finnan-Jones

6.Teacherless Discussion: Engaging Middle School Students Through Peer-to-Peer Talk
Patricia M. Breslin and Rebecca Ambrose

7.Staying Afloat in Ninth-Grade English: Letting Students Trim the Sails
Beverly S. Faircloth and Samuel D. Miller

8.The Power of Technology to Advance Literacy, Learning, and Agency
Evelyn M. Connolly

9.It’s All About Me; I Mean You; I Mean Me: Strategies for Engaging Students in the Language Arts Classroom
Meg Goldner Rabinowitz

10.Everything Old is New Again: 21st Century College Students as Engaged Readers
Heather Rogers Haverback

Section III: Music, Movement, Arts, Drama, and Other Creative Engagements

11.Increasing Student Engagement Through the Implementation of Interactive Teaching Strategies
Mara Sapon-Shevin

12.Competition and Considerations: The Use of Active Gaming in Physical Education Class
Eve Bernstein, Anne Gibbone, and Ulana Lysniak

13.Low SES Primary School Students Engaging in an Afterschool Robotics Program
Vinesh Chandra, Annette Woods, and Amanda Levido

14.Stepping into Pictures and Music Scores: Imaginative Dramatic Play
Joanne Kilgour Dowdy and Mary T. Toepfer

15.Classrooms or Rock Stages? Learning Music Through Collaboration
Rut Martínez-Borda, Pilar Lacasa, María Ruth García-Pernía, and Sara Cortés-Gómez

Section IV: Connecting School Culture, Community, and Student Success
16.Growing Up Chinese American
Judy W. Yu
17.Raising Engagement and Enhancing Learning: School Community Partnerships that Work for Students at-Promise
David Zyngier
18.Montessori High Schools: Where Long-Standing Tradition Meets the Cutting Edge
Wendy J. LaRue and Peter Hoffman-Kipp

19.Ma te Mahi e Ako Ai (Learning by Doing in New Zealand Higher Education): The Influence of Service-Learning on Student Engagement
Lane Graves Perry, Billy O’Steen, and Peter Cammock
20.“I teach like you are all gifted”: Leading Lowest Track Students to Become Confident Mathematics Learners
Della R. Leavitt and Erin N. Washington

Afterword
Laura J. Shea Doolan

Contributors

About the Author

Dr. Audrey Cohan is a professor in the Division of Education at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, NY. She has published on child sexual abuse and effective professional development practices.

Dr. Andrea Honigsfeld is a Professor in the Division of Education at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, NY. She received several awards including a Fulbright Lecturing Award, Outstanding Dissertation Award, and ESL Educator of the Year Award.

Reviews

Breaking the Mold of Education delivers on the promise of its title. More than a simple recounting of known best practices, it provides a vision of what education can and should be.
*Robert J. Marzano, Chief Academic Officer, Marzano Research*

This volume of Breaking the Mold is a carefully selected collection of articles, essays, and case studies divided into four broad areas. It takes a hands-on, no-nonsense approach as to how American schools should be tweaked... modified... and overhauled—to engage and empower our children. Audrey Cohan and Andrea Honigsfeld have brought to the table educational leaders with concrete proposals to jump start the system. Simply put, this volume is required reading for anyone in the vanguard of educational reform.
*Steve Kussin, Education Reporter for WCBS Newsradio 880 and adjunct professor, Hofstra University*

The fourth book in the five-part Breaking the Mold series is a must-read. Cohan and Honigsfeld thoughtfully compiled research and best practices that center on student engagement. Given our collective concern with college and career readiness and positive behaviors in school, this book should serve as a cornerstone for any educator working with diverse student populations.
*Timothy Eagen, assistant superintendent, Plainview-Old Bethpage CSD, New York*