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CURRICULM IN CONTEXT

Curriculum in Context (CIC) is WSASCD's award winning journal featuring articles on timely issues for all members.

Manuscript deadlines:
∙ Fall/Winter: August 1, 2010 Theme: Partnerships for Student Success
∙ Spring/Summer: February 1, 2011 Theme: TBA

Partnerships for student success.  Have you and your colleagues developed meaningful ways of using partnerships in your classrooms and schools that contributes to student success?  Can you shed light on practical, hands-on strategies designed to help districts and schools promote and sustain partnerships for learning into current and future policies and practices?  Can you illustrate recent research claims of utilizing partnerships through stories and classrooms on the front lines?  If so, consider taking some time to clearly and persuasively contribute to the intellectual life of the WSASCD community.  Please e-mail a 50-100 word preview of your contribution to Jim Howard ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and we will promptly send a submission guidelines form for your 1000-2500 word articles.  If you have questions, please contact Jim Howard at the above e-mail address.

 Past issues include:

Spring/Summer 2010

Preparing Students with 21st Century Skills  
Fall/Winter 2009 Moving from Success to Significance
Spring/Summer 2009 Educators as Learners: Inquiry, Collaboration, and Scholarship to Improve Lerning for ALL Students
Fall/Winter 2008 High Quality Teaching and Learning
Context: What EVERY student deserves
Spring/Summer 2008

Social Justice Issues: A call for reflection and action
Fall/Winter 2007 Educating the Whole Child: Creating a Shared Vision of the Schools We Want
Spring/Summer 2007 A New Equation for Mathematics Education: Math Literacy = ALL Students
Fall/Winter 2006 Expectations for Washington High Schools: Making Changes and Meeting Challenges to Serve ALL Students
Spring/Summer 2006 The Crowded Curriculum
Fall/Winter 2005 When All Really Means All: Educating Every Child
Spring/Summer 2005 Still Open, Still Free:
The Promises and Purposes of Public Schools
Fall/Winter 2004-05 Strength in Numbers: Exploring School-Community Partnerships in Washington State
Spring/Summer 2004 By Executive Order:
Engaging the No Child Left Behind Act in Washington State
Fall/Winter 2003-04 A United Front: Working Together to Help All Students Succeed
Spring/Summer 2003 SHB 1209 + 10:
A Decade After the Education Reform Act
Fall/Winter 2002-03 Growing Our Own:
Recruiting and Retaining Quality Teachers
Spring/Summer 2002 Voices at the Table:
Collaboration for Change in Washington's Schools
Fall/Winter 2001-02 School Leadership:
Creative Minds Think Differently
Spring/Summer 2001 The Dynamic Use of Technology:
Teaching the Love of Words
Fall/Winter 2000 The Importance of Early Learning:
A Response to the Crisis in Leadership
Fall/Winter 1999 New Realities in Education:
Meeting the Needs of All Our Students
Spring/Summer 2000 Building on What We Know to Be True:
Teaching as If It Mattered
Fall/Winter 1998 New Realities in Education:
Keeping Schools and Communities Safe for Young People
Spring/Summer 1999 New Realities in Education:
This Is Not School as Usual
Fall/Winter 1997 Reading & Writing Across the Curriculum
Spring/Summer 1997 Leadership in Changing Times
Fall/Winter 1996 Technology in the Classroom
Spring/Summer 1996 Assessment
Fall/Winter 1995 Creative Change in Education
Spring/Summer 1995 Space, Time and Institutional Change
Fall/Winter 1994 Creating New School Cultures:
Alternative Uses of Time
Spring/Summer 1994 Assessment With a Human Focus
Fall/Winter 1993 The Human Focus in Curriculum
Fall/Winter 1992 Connections and Partnerships in Schools
Spring/Summer 1992 Anniversary Issue:
Highlights of Curriculum in Context - 1986-1992
Fall/Winter 1991 The Roots of Tradition and Wings of Change
Spring/Summer 1991 Restructuring Education Through Synergy