Awards

• Winner of 2003 Honorable Mention, Delta Kappa Gamma International Honor Society.
• Winner of Delta Kappa Gamma Society Interational Educator's Award 2003.
• Winner of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Educator's Award 2003
• Winner of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Educator's Award 2003.

Overview

Who are the won't learners ? They are the students who fail to succeed in the traditional elementary, middle and high schools. What can educators do to reconnect with the won't learner? Darlene Leiding has some positive approaches based on her experience and research with these at-risk students. The focus is on classrooms where the lessons are interdisciplinary with opportunities for hands-on learning, where the work is challenging, relates to real life, and is rich with meaning. Students are challenged at their own levels. This scenario describes the many successful schools that are attracting the won't learners. This text is about teachers, parents, and community members working together. It recommends an alternative way for the reader to look at the won't learner and how to change the way we teach them.

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Dr. Leiding sees cast-offs and children in a similar light. A hopeful light that assures a positive outcome of the application of the Teaching Crafts. Her book will inspire the jaded education professional to hope again for a successful outcome of the educational endeavor. The challenge is to practice the Art of Teaching.--Longoria, Jimmy

From the trenches of an inner-city educational system...a voice crying in the wilderness, comes a book that sheds light on the educational disparities that reside in the classrooms of today. Dr. Leiding speaks in language easily understood by teachers, educational administrators, students, and families alike; she recounts the measures taken to mend the torn social fabric of our country's policy of inclusiveness. Courageous as much as it is thought provoking and insightful, this treatise brings to bear,When will we learn?> -- Michael Vaszuez, former educator ...gives voices to the won't learn generation and hits hard at an education system that is failing to capture the hearts and minds of many young people. A pioneer in alternative education practices, Darlene Leiding not only identifies the challenges educators face, but also presents strategies for successfully reaching these students. -- Mike Damyanovich, director of curriculum and instruction, NCS Learn Dr. Leiding's passion and concern for the 'won't' learners is obvious and infectious. She has been successful in reaching and working with these students and has many of the answers we need if we are going to educate this important sector of our community. These young people are our future and we must succeed. -- John King, provost and vice president of education, Brown College Dr. Leiding sees cast-offs and children in a similar light. A hopeful light that assures a positive outcome of the application of the Teaching Crafts. Her book will inspire the jaded education professional to hope again for a successful outcome of the educational endeavor. The challenge is to practice the Art of Teaching. -- Jimmy Longoria Darlene Leiding refuses to accept the notion that teachers and schools are helpless in the face of today's at-risk youth. Rather, she presents a blueprint for understanding won't learners and for transforming their lives. This book is for teachers, school administrators, counselors, youth workers, parents, and anyone concerned about youth in the twenty-first century. Darlene Leiding has written a very important book for our time. -- Curtiss Paul DeYoung, executive director, City Gate Project From the trenches of an inner-city educational system...a voice crying in the wilderness, comes a book that sheds light on the educational disparities that reside in the classrooms of today. Dr. Leiding speaks in language easily understood by teachers, educational administrators, students, and families alike; she recounts the measures taken to mend the torn social fabric of our country's policy of inclusiveness. Courageous as much as it is thought provoking and insightful, this treatise brings to bear, When will we learn? -- Michael Vaszuez, former educator

Author Information

Darlene Leiding is principal and director of Special Education at Heart of the Earth Center for Indian Education Charter School, Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has been involved in the field of education for over 30 years, active in the charter school movement since its beginning and has special expertise in the realm of alternative education programs.

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