Understanding learning disabilities (LDs) as constructed through multiple cultural practices including discourse, this paper focuses on a Latino middle school student with a LD named Elijah. This study documents both the discourses and practices used to position Elijah as a mathematics learner, as well as his use of similar discourses as he…

Assessing student understanding is a critical part of a teacher's routine. Most assessments are reviewed with a quick eye, but the evidence-centered assessment strategy encourages us to slow down and look more carefully at student work samples. In this article, the author proposes guidelines for the close examination of student work. These…

Art educators know all too well that teaching kids how to "see" the world around them and render life as they see it is a monumental task. Many students, when left to their own devices, even at the sixth-grade level, still draw familiar symbols for common objects because it is in their comfort zone to do so, and because it is easier and faster.…