Articles

• Culturally Appropriate and Place-Based Practices: Pedagogy for All Students and Teachers
  Donna L. Jurich and Jim Vandergriff
  Culturally appropriate and place-based pedagogies provide teachers and students with opportunities for true gains in learning. As a result, it is critical for teacher-candidates to learn about and practice this pedagogy throughout their teacher preparation programs.
• Lift Every Voice and Sing: Cross-Cultural Teacher Education Field Experience — A Service Learning Perspective
  Teresa Blue Holden
  
• Turning the Mirror Around: Principles for Developing Culturally Responsive Teachers
  Kelley L. Costner
  
• You Want Me to Teach Where? Preparing Teacher Candidates to Serve in Culturally and Socially Different Contexts Than Their Own
  Pamela J. Konkol, Michelle Morkert, Isabel Nuñez, Laura Hudson Pollom, and Kristi Stricker
  
• Quincy University Summer Action Research 2007: Three-way Collaboration to Revise Secondary Methods Courses
  Ann Behrens
  
• Black Students: Identity and Schooling
  Denise Isom
  
• Preparing Teacher Candidates to Become Culturally Competent: An Exploration of Racial Identity Development
  Linda E. Hoffman, J. L. Kemp, Jymeka Boyd, Sandra S. Lang, and Russell Gray
  

Columns

Jan Fitzsimmons
The articles and columns in this issue of Success in High-Need Schools discuss the increasing diversity in student bodies across the nation, the importance of recruiting and preparing teachers in different ways to address the issue of diversity effectively, as well as the importance of diversity to learning and achievement.

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James Forstall

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Jesse Price

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