Improved Test Scores, Attitudes, and Behaviors in America's Schools

Supervisors' Success Stories

Thomas C. DeBello, Rita Dunn

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 1999
• Print ISBN: 9780897896870
• eBook ISBN: 9780313002168
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Education is a profession in which billions of federal dollars have been spent to reduce academic underachievement—particularly for minority children from poverty homes. Few funded programs have reduced failure on standardized achievement tests. Despite either repetition or innovation, most children who fail do not perform substantially better the next time around. On the other hand, practitioners who have used the Dunn and Dunn learning-styles approaches have reported statistically higher standardized achievement test scores among average, poorly achieving, and special education students. This book is based on the practical, diverse experiences of more than thirty different supervisors throughout the United States. Representing a variety of urban and suburban locations with diverse student populations, each supervisor was able to obtain significantly higher standardized achievement test scores for his or her student populations.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction: Successful Supervisors: What Worked for Whom, Where, When, and Why
• Chapter 1 Bart Kelliher, Dorothy Robertson, Richard Quinn, Gail Lewis, and the Buffalo City Schools: Supervisors Providing a Very Special Education for All Students
• Chapter 2 Wanda Dean: The Journey of a Blue Ribbon School Supervisor from Oxford, Mississippi to Washington, DC
• Chapter 3 OOOOOOOklahoma, Where Styles Come Sweeping Down the Plain: How Sue Ellen Read Is Helping the State “Do Just Fine”!
• Chapter 4 Penny Todd Claudis: Curriculum Supervisor and Learning-Styles Coordinator, Shreveport, Louisiana
• Chapter 5 June Hodgin and the Saga of Alta Vista Elementary School, Abilene, Texas
• Chapter 6 The Most Profound Gift a Teacher Can Share: Larry Howie and the Chico Unified School District, California
• Chapter 7 Imogene Carroll Teaches Teachers to Teach Themselves: Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
• Chapter 8 Mary Laffey: Missouri’s “Principal of the Year”
• Chapter 9 Ann Braio: Big-City Director of Special Education
• Chapter 10 Tana Martin Finds That Learning Styles Add Up in El Campo, Texas
• Chapter 11 Jan Meritt Sees Merit in Using Learning Styles with All Students in Klamath Falls, Oregon
• Chapter 12 Mary Cecilia Giannitti: Guiding Angel of Hempstead’s Sacred Heart
• Chapter 13 Patricia Lemmon: A Delicious Kansas Lemmon-Aid!
• Chapter 14 A 100 Percent Pass Rate on the Statewide Exam for Graduation: T.Y. Harp Made it Happen!
• Chapter 15 Emmett Sawyer: Leveling the Playing Field at Glendale High School in Springfield, Missouri
• Chapter 16 A Learning-Styles High School Grows in Brooklyn: Roger Callan Creates a Demonstration Model Through Faith
• Chapter l7 Ilisa Sulner Sets the Stage for Special Education Successes in New York
• Chapter 18 Where in the World Is Carolyn Brunner? Learning-Styles Training in International Schools
• Chapter 19 Jack Gremli and Music Education: Marching to the Beat of a Different Drummer
• Chapter 20 Denise Parker: Oakland’s Reading Expert
• Chapter 21 Bill Turns Over a New Leaf in Rural Cascade, Idaho
• Chapter 22 Over the Rainbow with Dorothy Logan-Alexander in Brookhaven, Mississippi
• Chapter 23 The Educational Spirit of St. Louis: Sr. Natalie Lafser Brings Learning Styles to the Archdiocese
• Chapter 24 Heralding a Hudson Valley Highlight: Regina White, the First Internationally Awarded Pioneer in Learning-Styles Research
• Chapter 25 Roland Andrews: From the 30th to the 83rd Percentile in Three Years with Poverty, Minority Children!
• Chapter 26 MagneTech’s Gwen Cox: The Believe-in-the-Teaching-Staff Lady
• Chapter 27 With a Song in Her Heart: Dee Ainsworth of Manchester, Missouri
• Chapter 28 Joan DellaValle: A New Yorker Brings Learning Styles to Her Long Island School
• Chapter 29 Susan Wellman: Wisconsin Classroom Teacher Turned Staff Developer
• Chapter 30 Sherrye Dotson: “Learning Styles Is Just the Way We Teach!”
• Chapter 31 Julia Kron: Empowering Teachers to Become Instructional Leaders in North Carolina
• Chapter 32 Denise Stephenson: A Southern Lady Brings Learning Styles to Davidson County, North Carolina
• Epilogue: Alabama Mary and Learning Styles: “This Ain’t the Army, Mrs. White!”
• Appendix A: International Learning Styles Network
• Appendix B: Supervisor’s Success Story Survey and Implementation Chart
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors