Autor: Ellen McIntyre

Diane W. Kyle is a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Louisville. She has coauthored Reaching Out: A K–8 Resource for Connecting Schools and Families and Reflective Teaching for Student Empowerment: Elementary Curriculum and Methods, coedited Creating Nongraded Primary Classrooms: Teachers’ Stories and Lessons Learned, and pub­lished in such journals as Language Arts, Peabody Journal of Education, Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, Education & Equity, Teaching Children Mathematics, and Elementary School Journal. Her most recent project, co­directed with Ellen Mc Intyre, is “Sheltered Instruction and Family Involvement: An Approach to Raising Achievement of LEP Students, ” funded by the US Department of Education. She also codirected with Ellen Mc Intyre a research project, “Children’s Academic Development in Nongraded Primary Programs, ” funded by the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE) at the University of California at Santa Cruz.