Includes bibliographical references.

What makes a great teacher? PDK Summit offers many ideas / Erin Young -- Reform: to what end? / Mike Rose -- Embarking on action research / Catherine M. Brighton -- Teaching with awareness: the hidden effects of trauma on learning / Helen Collins Sitler -- Supporting adolescents exposed to disasters / Anne K. Jacobs, Eric Vernberg, and Stephanie J. Lee -- Play and social interaction in middle childhood / Doris Bergen and Doris Pronin Fromberg -- Childhood obesity in the testing era: what teachers and schools can do! / Susan M. Winter -- Why we should not cut P.E. / Stewart G. Trost and Hans van der Mars -- Adolescent decision making: an overview / Bonnie Halpern-Feisher -- Safe at school: an itnerview with Kevin Jennings / Joan Richardson -- What educators need to know about bullying behaviors / Sandra Graham -- The bridge to character / William Damon -- Academic instructors or moral guides? Moral education in America and the teacher's dilemma / Hunter Brimi -- Improving the way we think about students with emotional and/or behavioral disorders / Kelly S. Regan -- Sam comes to school: including students with autism in your classroom / Diana Friedlander -- Universal design in elementary and middle school: designing classrooms and instructional practices to ensure access to learning for all students / Margaret M. Flores -- How can such a smart kid not get it?: finding the right fit for twice-exceptional students in our schools / Nina Yssel, Mike Prater, and Deb Smith -- The relationship of perfectionism to affective variables in gifted and highly able children / Mary M. Christopher and Jennifer Shewmaker -- Social and emotional development of gifted children: straight talk / Tracy L. Cross -- Understanding unconscious bias and unintentional racism / Jean Moule -- Improving schooling for cultural minorities: the right teaching styles can make a big difference / Hani Morgan -- Becoming adept at code-switching / Rebecca S. Wheeler -- Gender matters in elementary education: research-based strategies to meet the distinctive learning needs of boys and girls / Virginia Bonomo -- A fresh look at Brain-based education / Eric P. Jensen -- What will improve a student's memory? / Daniel T. Willingham -- Classroom assessment and grading to assure mastery -- Backward design: targeting depth of understanding for all learners / Amy Childre, Jennifer R. Sands, and Saundra Tanner Pope -- Learning-style responsiveness approaches for teaching typically performing and at-risk adolescents / Andrea Honigsfeld and Rita Dunn -- "To find yourself, think for yourself": using Socratic discussions in inclusive classrooms / Barbara Fink Chorzempa and Laurie Lapidus -- Setting the record straight on "high-yield" strategies / Robert J. Marzano -- What happens when eighth graders become the teachers? / Stephanie Stecz -- Designing learning through learning to design / Punya Mishra and Mark Girod -- What is technology education? A review of the "official curriculum" / Ryan A. Brown and Joshua W. Brown -- Plagiarism in the Internet age / Rebecca Moore Howard and Laura J. Davies -- R U safe? / Johanna Mustacchi -- Assessing middle school students' knowledge of conduct and consequences and their behaviors regarding the use of social networking sites / Stacey L. Kite, Robert Gable, and Lawrence Filippelli -- The perils and promises of praise / Carol S. Dweck -- Should learning be its own reward? / Daniel T. Willingham -- Beyond content: how teachers manage classrooms to facilitate intellectural engagement for disengaged students / Deborah L. Schussler -- "The strive of it" / Kathleen Cushman -- Middle school studetns talks about social forces in the classroom / Kathleen Cushman and Laura Rogers -- Classroom management strategies for difficult students: promoting change through relationships / Mary Ellen Beaty-O'Ferrall, Alan Green, and Fred Hanna -- From ringmaster to conductor: 10 simple techniques that can turn an unruly class into a productive one / Matthew A.