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Plugged In!: A Teacher's Handbook For Using Total Quality Tools to Help Kids Conquer the Curriculum

by Janet Peregoy, Jo Wheeler and Carolyn Wicks

182 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-2334; ISBN 1-4251-0576-9; US$24.95, C$28.69, EUR20.49, £14.35

This book will help teachers increase learning for students by using the data-proven quality tools to teach the curriculum.

Carolyn Wicks, co-author of Future force - Kids That Want To, Can, and Do! has now teamed with Janet Peregoy and Jo Wheeler to pull together Plugged In! A Teacher's Handbook for Using Total Quality Tools to Help Kids Conquer the Curriculum - a book filled with classroom examples that plug directly into the curriculum of virtually every course and at all grade levels.

Plugged In! A Teacher's Handbook for Using Total Quality Tools to Help Kids Conquer the Curriculum by Carolyn wicks, Janet Peregoy, and Jo Wheeler, is a resource you'll want to take with you on your quality journey...whether you've just started out or are moving right along!

Working together, Wick, Peregoy, and Wheeler have embraced educators from East Coast to West, North to South who have taken the principles, philosophies, and strategies of Total Quality into their classrooms to create learning environments that hum with excellence. With these close encounters of the quality kind, Wicks, Peregoy, and Wheeler have compiled a data bank rich with live classroom examples, tips for success, and lessons learned - a treasure trove to be sure, a resource with a very specific purpose: using quality tools to uncover the curriculum and help kids succeed.

Carolyn Wicks is co-author of the ground-breaking book Future force - Kids That Want To, Can, and Do! She is currently a psychologist in California.

Janet Peregoy is a veteran teacher with 27 years of classroom experience. She is currently a consultant who works with schools systems across the country to help them improve the quality of classroom instruction.

Jo Wheeler is a former elementary school teacher and pioneer in using quality tools with very young students. She is currently an assistant superintendent of a school district in North Carolina.

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