Tables of contents

Engaging Middle School Parents, Students, and Teachers in a Learning Community: A Case in Point

    Kay Wright and Susan Willis

54

It’s All in the Game

    Cindy Leigh

59

Music Makes Math Meaningful

    R. Jill Edelson and Gretchen Johnson

65

Building Better Human Connections: Parenting/Caring Education for Children and Teens in School

    Dana R. McDermott

71

Linking Reading, Science, and Fiction Books

    Charlene E. Fleener and Katherine T. Bucher

76

Teaching Strategies: Teaching in Troubled Times, Under Difficult Conditions

    Judy Williston and Sue Grossman

85

For Parents Particularly: Ten Lessons I Have Learned From Being Lydia’s Mom

    Leigh M. O’Brien

88

 Books for Children  

    Jeanie Burnett

90

 Children’s Books in Spanish  

    Isabel Schon

93

Professional Books

    Meredith Kiger

96

Technology in the Classroom

    Jen Lacina

101

Special Publications

    Maryann Manning and Janice Patterson

103

Connecting Classroom Practice and Research

105

Scientific research in education: a critical perspective1

    Patti Lather

759

Researching policy borrowing: some methodological challenges in comparative education

    David Phillips and Kimberly Ochs

773

Subject departments as professional communities?

    Adrie J. Visscher and Bob Witziers

785

SATurated models of pupildom: assessment and inclusion/exclusion

    Kathy Hall, Janet Collins, Shereen Benjamin, Melanie Nind, Kieron Sheehy

801

The synthesis of subject and pedagogy for effective learning and teaching in primary science education

    Joan Parker

819

When performance is the product: problems in the analysis of online distance education

    David Hamilton, Ethel Dahlgren, Agneta Hult, Bertil Roos, Tor Söderström

841

Editorial: Vox Populi?

     George H. Buck

217 

Articles 

Parent Marginalization, Marginalized Parents: Creating a Place for Parents on the School Landscape

     Debbie Pushor and Bill Murphy

221

Online Teaching: Creating Text-Based Environments for Collaborative Thinking

     Judith C. Lapadat

236

Teachers' Attitudes Toward Government-Mandated Provincial Testing in Manitoba

     Sheri-Lynn Skwarchuk

252

Performance Appraisals of School Administrators in One Canadian School District: A Contemporary Model

     Anthony H. Normore

283 

Development of the Depressive Symptoms Questionnaire for Children

     Derek H. Berg

299 

Research notes 

Rewards, Task Difficulty, and Intrinsic Motivation: A Test of Learned Industriousness Theory

     Judy Cameron W. David Pierce and Sylvia So

317 

The Effects of Ethnic Capital and Family Background on School Performance: A Case Study of Chinese-Canadian Adolescents in Calgary

     Henry P.H. Chow

321 

Book review 

Re-mapping Literary Worlds: Postcolonial Pedagogy in Practice by Ingrid Johnston

    Lynne Wiltze

Parallel leadership for 21st Century schools

     Dorothy Andrews and Marian Lewis

5

Editorial 

1

Leadership - a challenge for all teacher librarians

    President, Mary-Ann Salisbury

3

Financial management and strategic planning

    Executive Officer, Karen Bonanno

16

Significant progress in the past year

    President, Mary-Ann Salisbury

22

In the workplace

Losing the plot: Workplace stress in school libraries

  Amanda Credaro

17

Pine cones and apple orchards

   Margaret McKay-Lowndes

Positioned to lead learning

    Julie Murray

Teacher leadership a reality

From reflection to action: What have we learned about leadership

    Judith Timbs

Towards greater synergies in a joint-use environment

    Janice Wilson and Catherine Marshall

 News

Queensland launches new referencing guide

26

RSS: A new time-saving technology for teachers

   Jessica Gardner

Profiles

Bev Endersbee: Commitment, contribution are Bev's hallmarks

    Alle Goldsworthy

38