Resources for Administrators

 National Discussion about Education
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44693695/ns/today-education_nation/ 

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

  http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd 

American Association of School Administrators
http://www.aasa.org/

Washington Association of School Administrators

http://www.wasa-oly.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

Association of Washington School Principals
http://www.awsp.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

Council for Exceptional Children

http://www.cec.sped.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

National Staff Development Council

http://rethinkstaffdevelopment.com/

Educator’s Reference Desk

    http://www.eduref.org

ERIC Home Page

   http://www.eric.ed.gov

Department of Education

   http://www.ed.gov

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory

   http://www.nwrel.org

 Saint Martin’s University O’Grady Library

   http://www.stmartin.edu/library

Washington Office of Superintendent of Instruction

   http://www.k12.wa.us

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

   http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd

American Association of School Administrators

http://www.aasa.org/

Washington Association of School Administrators

http://www.wasa-oly.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

Association of Washington School Principals
http://www.awsp.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

Council for Exceptional Children
http://www.cec.sped.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

National Staff Development Council
http://rethinkstaffdevelopment.com/

Educator’s Reference Desk

   http://www.eduref.org

ERIC Home Page

  http://www.eric.ed.gov

Department of Education

  http://www.ed.gov

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory

  http://www.nwrel.org

 Saint Martin’s University O’Grady Library

  http://www.stmartin.edu/library

Washington Office of Superintendent of Instruction

  http://www.k12.wa.us 

Workshops in Video

  http://www.learner.org/workshops/workshop_list.html

Annenberg: (wide range of topics & grade levels as well as facilitator guides)

http://www.learner.org/workshops/workshop_list.html

Ex---Video---Hole in the Wall

http://edtechdev.blogspot.com/2006/10/dramatic-example-of-discovery-learning.html

Video—Language and Images

Quotes from Great USA Leaders

Rain-Perspectives….

http://www.welcometherainmovie.com/?SRC=ILRAIN&utm_source=Walk+the+Talk+Master+List&utm_campaign=4c2d612e1b-POI_12_02_08&utm_medium=email

Finish Strong…

http://www.thefinishstrongmovie.com/?SRC=POISTRONG2&utm_source=Walk+the+Talk+Master+List&utm_campaign=13cd18f097-POI_12_09_08&utm_medium=email

http://www.walkthetalk.com/pages/inspirational-movies.htm

http://www.walkthetalk.com/lul/lul.php?SRC=POILUL&utm_source=Walk+the+Talk+Master+List&utm_campaign=d640699c81-POI_3_10_09&utm_medium=email

See the Excellence Movie:

http://www.walkthetalk.com/information.php?info_id=39&SRC=POIEXCELLENCE&utm_source=Walk+the+Talk+Master+List&utm_campaign=14ebca9e7f-POI_3_03_09&utm_medium=email

Media eclips---WSSDA

http://www.wssda.org/wssda/WebForms/En-Us/news/eclips.asp

School Improvement….

http://www2.edtrust.org/edtrust


Human Migration:
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/timeline.swf

What Makes or Breaks a Principal 

http://www.educationalleadership-digital.com/educationalleadership/200910#pg10 

http://www.olympus.net/personal/skoehler/6trait/

MY THESIS

I successfully presentated my thesis August 15. It was accepted and I had very good feedback not only from my committee members but also from the people who came to listen. For me this is a big accomplishment. August 16 my advisor Dr. Mark Haddock and I went at St. Charles Borromeo Elementary School to set up schedule for my internship. Augus 18 is the day I begin the internship. It is going to be a time of learning and sharing. I am looking forward to learning things I can bring with me to Tanzania.
My whole thesis can be found at the Resources for Students of Poverty area. It is know as EFFECTIVE PEDAGOGIES TO RAISE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE FOR STUDENTS OF POVERTY.

 I never thought I will find this dance here in American. This dance is from Hagati-Maguu close to my village. This is the kind of dance I enjoyed dancing when I was growing up at Matuta village. I love this, I hope you will enjoy it too.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Mtumpya#p/a/u/0/cveiq3VqzEw

Resorces for Students of Poverty

The Effects of Poverty on Teaching and Learning

By Karen M. Pellino
http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/teaching/poverty/print.htm

The Effects of Poverty on Teaching and Learning
Brain-Based Research, Learning and Poverty

http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/teaching/poverty/7/ 

Cognitive Skills Instruction

This article is about how teachers can help students develop their cognitive skills. Very important (in my opinion)

http://education.calumet.purdue.edu/vockell/edPsybook/Edpsy7/edpsy7_instruction.htm 

Language Policy for Education and Development in Tanzania

by Eleuthera Sa: Swarthmore College

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/Linguistics/Papers/2007/sa_eleuthera.pdf

Strategies Used for Phonics Instruction in Early Childhood Classrooms: By Lesley Mandel Morrow and Diane H. Tracey

http://www.jstor.org/stable/20201842

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/simpleSearch.jsp?_pageLabel=ERICSearchResult&newSearch=true&ERICExtSearch_Descriptor=%22Early+Childhood+Education%22

How to provide feedback to students

http://students.ed.uiuc.edu/cgrunloh/EDPSFEED.htm

 http://www4.uwm.edu/org/mmp/Word%20Docs/Yr5.../Types-Feedback.doc

Effective Teaching Strategies in Higher Education/ Phi Kappa 
 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4026/is200410/ai_n9470147/

 Family Poverty, Welfare Reform, and Child Development 
http://www4.uwm.edu/org/mmp/Word%20Docs/Yr5.../Types-Feedback.doc 
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1132232 

The Mechanisms Mediating the Effects of Poverty on Children's Intellectual Development
Authors: Guang Guo and Kathleen Mullan Harris 
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2648070

Five Models of Staff Development
Authors: Dennis Sparks and Susan Loucks-Horsley (Fall 1989 vol. 10.no. 4). A journal of Staff Development
http://www.learningforward.org/news/jsd/sparks104.cfm

 Developing Practice, Developing Practitioners: Toward a Practice-Based Theory of Professional Education
By Deborah Loewenberg Ball and David K. Cohen
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dball/chapters/BallCohenDevelopingPractice.pdf
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/recordDetail?accno=ED431368

The Impact of Lifelong Learning on Poverty Reduction
by Ricardo Sabates
thhp://www.niace.org.uk/lifelonglearninginquiry/docs/Public-value-paper-1.pdf

Discipline by Design
11 Techniques for Better Classroom Discipline
http://www.honorlevel.com/x47.xml?ss=print

Children and the Long-Term Effects of Poverty
by the Connecticut Commission on Children
http://www.cga.ct.gov/coc/pdfs/poverty/2004_poverty_report.pdf

How Much Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children?
by Greg J. Duncan, W. Jean Yeung, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Judith R. Smith (June, 1998 Vol. 63,No. 3
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2657556

Parents as Teachers, How Lower-Class and Middle-Class Mothers Teach.
By Hess, Robert: Shipman, Virginia
http://web.ebscohost.com.exproxy.startin.edu/ehost/results?sid=0de668

Early Blocks to Children's Learning
by Robert D. Hess and Virginia Shipman
http://faculty.weber.edu/tlday/2500/earlyblocks1.pdf
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1126930
http://www.redandwhite.ws/hexagon/EE/.../Crane%20Psych%201.pdf

Portraits Success: Motivating Today's Students
http://www.eric.uoregon.edu/publications/text/portraits1.2.html 

Teacher's Expectations for Students
http://www.eric.uoregon.edu/publications/digests/digest116.html
http://www.ericdigests.org/1999-3/good.htm 

Assessment
http://laceybruner.weebly.com/student-self-assessment.html - Cached

Classroom Assessment Techniques
by Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross
 http://www2.honolulu.hawaii.edu/facdev/guidebk/teachtip/assess-1.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Classroom-Assessment-Techniques.../155542500
http://advan.physiology.org/content/26/1/57.full
http://www.betterworldbooks.com/classroom-assessment-techniques-id- 

A Model of Effective Instruction: Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk
Johns Hopkins University
by Robert E. Slavin
http://www.successforall.net//_images/pdfs/modeleffect.htm

Brain Development in Early Childhood
http://www.healthychild.ucla.edu/Publications/Documents/halfon.health.dev.pdf

Understanding and Working with Students and Adults from Poverty
By Ruby K. Payne
http://www.ahaprocess.com

Readings on the Development of Children.
http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0716709619

Closing the Achievement Gap: Executive Summary

by Gerald A. Lieberman, Ph.D. and Linda L. Hoody, M.A

http://www.seer.org/extras/execsum.pdf

http://www.seer.org/pages/research/execsum.htm

Poverty and Payne: Supporting Teachers to Work with Children of Poverty

http://www.pdkmembers.org/members_online/publications/.../pdf/k0901sat.pdf

Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain: Neurologically

http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0789017881

Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment

by Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam

http://weaeducation.typepad.co.uk/files/blackbox-1.pdf

http://www.setda.org/toolkit/nlitoolkit2006/data/Data_InsideBlackBox.pdf 

Using Classroom Assemessnt to Improve Teaching

 http://www.education.com/teacherqualityandcompensation

Poverty and Childhood
by Jerome S. Bruner
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1049995

The Effects of Poverty on Children
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1602387

Maximizing the Adult Learning Experience
by Vicky Dornbush, Principal Consultant, Epick Practice
http://agelesslearner.com/intros/adultlearning

30 Things we Know for Sure About Adult Learning
by Ro and Susan Zemke
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDeveCom/guidebk/teach

Education Leadership: The Continuum of Teacher Learning
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb09/vol66.n

Research-Based Strategies
http://www.netc.org/focus/strategies/summ.php

Methods of Motivational Teaching
By John M. Malouff, Sally E. Rooke, Nicola S. Schutte
 http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/recordDetail?accno=ED499496

The Concept of Formative Assessment
By Carol Boston
http://www.vtaide.com/png/ERIC/Formative-Assessment.htm

A Model of Effective Instruction
By Robert E. Slavin
http://www.successforall.net/_images/pdfs/modeleffect.htm

Half of Standard Seven Pupils Illiterate in Tanzania
By Subira Kaswaga
http://thecitizen.co.tz/news/-/4300-half-of-std-7-pupils-illiterate

Government Moves to Ease Shortage of Teachers
By Samuel Kamndaya
http://thecitizen.co.tz/news/4-national-news/2501-government-moves

Tanzania: Defiant Science Teachers Weaken Education
By Bilham Kimati
http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/201006160976.html

The 10,000 Girls Program (Senegal, West Africa)
Viola Vaughn
http://www.10000girls.org

The Effects of Poverty on Child Health and Development
By J. Lawrence Aber, Neil G. Bennett, Dalton C. Conley, Jiali Li
https://files.nyu.edu/dc66/public/pdf/res_Annual_Review_aber_etal.pdf

Poverty and Learning: Nine Powerful Practices
By Ruby Payne
http://www.ascd.org/publications/.../Nine_Powerful_Practices.aspx

New Directions for Educating the Children of Poverty
Vol. 48. No. 1. September 1990
http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/journals/ed_lead/el_199009_knapp.pdf



The Achievement Gap
By Richard Rothstein
http://bsdweb.bsdvt.org/district/EquityExcellence/.../RothsteinAchievementGap.p...
http://www.wilder.org/download.0.html?report=1830

The Effects of Poverty on Children's Socioemotional Development: An Ecological Systems Analysis

 By Mary Keegan Eamon

http://gbcnv.edu/../...

The Effects of Poverty on Children 

By Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Greg J. Duncan

https://www.princeton.edu/futureofchildren/publications/docs/07_02_03.pdf 

http://www.cga.ct.gov/coc/pdfs/poverty/2004_poverty_report.pdf 

The Pedagogy of Poverty Versus Good Teaching 

By Martin Haberman

https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/proflearn/docs/pdf/qt_haberman.pdf

http://www.ithaca.edu/compass/pdf/pedagogy.pdf

http://sslc.wikispaces.com/.../The+Pedagogy+of+Poverty+Versus+Good+Teachin.

http://pdkintl.org

A case Study: Leadership and its Effect on Achievement of Children from Poverty in a Rural Setting
By Marilyn Dishman Horst, Barbara N. Martin
http://www.ruraleducator.net/archive/28-3/28-3_Dishman-Horst.pdf
http://www.ruraleducator.net/archive/29-2/29-2_Huysman.pdf
http://www.ruraleducator.net/archive/26-1/26-1_Schultz.pdf
http://nrea.net/filestore/NREAChanceDissertation_022511.pdf

Developing Multiple Intelligences in Young Learners 

http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com

Does Poverty Affect Childhood Language and Literacy Development?

www.leaplearningsystems.org

Effective Teaching Methods

http://www.buzzle.come/articles/effective-teaching-methods.html 

The Effects Poverty has on Cognitive Development in Elementary School

http://ddmt.vaniercollege.qc.ca/~s0330431/ece/effects.htm

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs.svg

Discipline by Design: Four Steps for Better Classroom Discipline

http://www.honorlevel.com/x116.xml?ss=print

Painless Improvement Strategies within Reach

www.centerforcsri.org/files/presentations/PainlessImprovementStrategies.pdf

www.curriculumalignmentassociates.com 

www.meadowscenter.org/vgc/downloads/middle...instruction/RTS_Ch5.pdf 

www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/siteASCD/.../ASCD-Fall2011-preview.pdf 

www.george-lr.k12.ia.us/TeacherStuffNew/CEI%20Briefs/AFL_Brief.pdf 

Leading Assessment for Learning: Using Classroom Assessment in School Improvement

www.assessmentinst.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/insightnograph.pdf

Pictorial Illustrations Still Improve Students' Learning From Text

Each day when I wake up I have new ideas on how to help the Tanzania children and young mothers to read. Sometimes I get so excited and sometimes I fear because of my so many ideas. What if I will not be able to do the things I will enjoy doing. Well, if God wants me to serve his people He better make it possible and give me the opportunity.

Currently, I have been thinking about the limitation of resources in our schools in Tanzania. I have been telling people how hard it is for a Tanzanian student to buy a pen or pencil or a book to read. I have been telling people that our village schools have no libraries, and therefore children do not read. Some of my friends thought it is imposable for a school to exist without library. However, that is the reality of out schools in Tanznaia.

Summer of 2010, Diane Waste was teaching some of the administration courses, and it happen I took two classes to her. At the end of both courses we had to give a presentation. In my presentation I included the idea of starting a library in the school I will be administrating, and how the library will benefit the village people. In the presentation there were so many ideas that I mentioned I wanted to do when I go back to Tanzania. Mrs Waste told me that, "do one idea at the time do not try to do all of them together." She and my classmates gave me many other ideas.

The Idea of starting a library never went away in my mind, it kept pushing me so hard. One morning I woke up just like other mornings. At about 10:30, I heard a page "Sr. Redempta telephone line 3" it was Diane, she said, do you remember on your presentation you said you want to start a library? I said yes!!! Diane said "I CAN HELP YOU" I did not believe if she was telling me that she can help. Diane started collecting books right away. She told different people if they can donate a book for children in Tanznaia. She went to Griffin Elementary School and talked to the administrator, Greg Woods, he thought it was good idea for students to help as well. Excellent, Excellent, Excellent!!!!!! A DREAM COME TRUE.

December 07, 2010, I was invited to visit the Griffin Elementary School and meet all students, administrators, and staff. I told them about Tanzania, out people, our schools and the need of having a library. All of them were sooooooooo excited. The community of Griffin is collecting books for the children, young mothers, fathers and everyone of Songea, particularly at the villages of MAGAGURA, LUSONGA, MASANGU, NAKAHENGWA, MLALE AND FAMASI. The students of St. Agnes also will use those books, however, they will be the teachers of children who do not know how to read and write.
This is the time when I relize that DREAMS CAN COME TRUE, but you have to dream it first. I just pray that the cycle of poverty will come to the end in our coutry, and that is what motivates me to work so harder.
I should proculam very loud what I saw at Griffin Elementary School. 99% of good behavior of students. These students, teachers, administrators, without forgeting Chris Wolfe, the librarian, who is also organizing the book project with the help of the principal Greg Woods were so present. Can you believe, Kindergatens are also in this project? They are ready to give and make change in this world. Seeing how these children work together, helping the third world children, tears were about to come out but I hold them back, for I did not want them to see me cry. However, in the evening on my reflection and prayers, I let them come out for about 15 minutes. Now I know Griffin is joining the world to create a brighter future for our children in third world. This time is for the Children of Songea.

Leo rafiki mmoja alinichukua kwenda kujumuija na mtoto wake Elise huko shuleni kwao ambako alikuwa anapata pongezi za kufanya vizuri katika masomo yake, ambayo amepata GP 3.50. Kulikuwa na wanafunzi zaidi ya 25. Kitu kimoja ambacho kilinishangaza ni kwanza kwa mwanachama yoyote kuendelea kuwa humo kwenye Society anahitajika kufanya social activities 4 kwa kipindi kizima cha mwaka wa shule. Wanahitaji pia kuendelea kupata grade 3.5 kila muhula wa shule. Akipata grade za chini atapewa muhula mmoja to make it up. Akishindwa tena anatolewa na hatapokelewa tena. Very interesting.
The building was so big and beautful. In one point after I saw the big building and fancy stadium, and everything looked so parfect, I thought mmm why do some American students drop from school while they are given everything they need for education. They have nice schools, books, pen/pencils, and so on, while in Africa, you can barely have a pencil to use in classroom, but still our young cry for school.