Who Should Attend

The Presenters

Testimonials

Albuquerque

Riverside

• CREDE is a breath of fresh air! Their professional development and research strongly supports the research on best practices in Indian education. Teachers and students will strongly benefit!

Carmen Cornelius Taylor, Executive Director for the
National Indian School Board Association

• Thank you for a great experience among colleagues. The modules we reviewed were wonderful and I hope they will be used widely by our colleagues in our homeland.

— Cecilia Silentman-Carr, Middle School Teacher,
Newcomb, New Mexico (on her experience at a CREDE institute)

• "It is exciting to hear that you have an opportunity to work with Bureau of Indian Affairs schools in the Reading First project for 22 of their schools. I think that the Standards for Effective Pedagogy, and the work that you have done with Native groups in other settings, will provide an excellent platform from which to work with BIA school improvement activities. I know that the Greenlanders are excited about the partnership that they have developed with CREDE regarding their school reform efforts, and that they consider the principles for effective teaching a critical part of their school improvement priority."

• I attended the CREDE institute during the summer of 2003. What a treat it was to learn about the CREDE standards for effective pedagogy by experiencing them first-hand during the summer institute. The talented professional staff used interaction and hands-on learning to provide an in-depth understanding of coaching and collaborative literacy. The lucky teachers who participate in this workshop will not only learn skills to improve their instruction, they will have an authentic experience of their own to anchor the concepts.

• Amazing, and wonderful. What a great resource for a lot of people who desperately need to see images of teaching that goes beyond the cultural models everyone has in their heads.

— Ronald Gallimore, Professor of Psychology, UCLA (on Teaching Alive! CD-ROMs)

• Your research group is a beacon of light on a dreary landscape.

— Maria Sudduth, Teacher, Corning Elementary School, Corning, CA

• The International Reading Association (IRA)
  "Second-Language Literacy Instruction: A Position Statement" (April, 2001)
  In its position paper on second-language literacy instruction, the IRA endorses CREDE's Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy, describing them as "basic general education principles" for the teaching of English Language Learners.
  

• This book offers a detailed, theoretically grounded, practical plan for transforming teaching into a liberating experience for all. . . . A list of the book’s many strengths must begin with the book’s commitment to the belief that all children deserve to learn and that all teachers can teach them. (On Teaching Transformed, by Roland Tharp and others, which details the Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy.)

— Teachers College Record, Volume 104, Number 5, 2002 (February); Leah Kirell, Michigan State University; Suzanne M. Wilson, Michigan State University

• In stark contrast to the dogmatic, reductionist, controlling, 'one-size-fits-all' curricular prescriptions that have gained so much favor in the field of education, [CREDE researchers] propose a pedagogy that actually respects the intellect of teachers and students, and that advocates building on their sociocultural resources in creating advanced, flexible, and diverse circumstances for learning."
  

  — Luis C. Moll; Professor, Language, Reading and Culture; University of Arizona