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2018
Volume 107, Issue 4
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

Two school leaders and ELA teachers share the process through which they convinced their department to abandon the vocabulary workbooks they had been using for more than 30 years, the collaborative process through which they fostered a new approach, and the initial results of its implementation.

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2018-03-01
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