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title	:	Learning in Small Moments : Life in an Urban Classroom Practitioner Inquiry Series
author	:	Meier, Daniel R.
publisher	:	Teachers College Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0807736260
print isbn13	:	9780807736265
ebook isbn13	:	9780585353531
language	:	English
subject	Teaching--United States--Case studies, Teachers--United States--Case studies, Education, Urban--United States--Case studies.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	LB1025.3.M45 1997eb
ddc	:	371.1/02
subject	:	Teaching--United States--Case studies, Teachers--United States--Case studies, Education, Urban--United States--Case studies.

Learning in Small Moments: Life in an Urban Classroom

Page i The Practitioner Inquiry Series Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Susan L. Lytle, SERIES EDITORS ADVISORY BOARD: Rebecca Barr, Judy Buchanan, Robert Fecho, Sarah Freedman, Karen Gallas, Dixie Goswami, Andrew Gitlin, Peter Grimmett, Roberta Logan, Sarah Michaels, Susan Noffke, Susan Florio-Ruane, Marsha Pincus, Marty Rutherford, Lynne Strieb, Carol Tateshi, Polly Ulichny, Diane Waff, Ken Zeichner Interpreting Teacher Practice: Two Continuing Stories RENATE SCHULZ Creating Democratic Classrooms: The Struggle to Integrate Theory and Practice LANDON E. BEYER, Editor Learning in Small Moments: Life in an Urban Classroom DANIEL R. MEIER

Page iii Learning in Small Moments: Life in an Urban Classroom Daniel R. Meier Foreword by Deborah Meier

Page iv Published by Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027 Copyright 1997 by Teachers College, Columbia University All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Meier, Daniel R. Learning in small moments: life in an urban classroom / Daniel R. Meier; foreword by Deborah Meier. p. cm. (The practitioner inquiry series) ISBN 0-8077-3626-0. ISBN 0-8077-3627-9 1. TeachingUnited StatesCase studies. 2. TeachersUnited StatesCase studies. 3. Education, UrbanUnited StatesCase studies. I. Title. II. Series. LB1025.3.M45 1997 371.1'02dc21 96-40291 ISBN 0-8077-3626-0 (paper) ISBN 0-8077-3627-9 (cloth) Printed on acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

Page v For my parents teachers still

Page vii Contents Foreword by Deborah Meier ix Preface xi Prologue by John Sierra xiii 1. The First DaySetting the Tone 1 2. Settling InCurriculum and Classroom Organization 16 3. Astronauts and Hammerhead SpaceshipsGetting to Know Students 30 4. RhythmThe Art of Classroom Discipline 39 5. A Sense of BelongingDiversity and Community-Building 56 6. HalloweenTeaching Today's Children 70 7. Our FamiliesA New Parent-Teacher Relationship 77 8. New BeginningsTeaching and Making Changes 100 9. RobertLessons from a Child 113 10. "Am I going to repeat?"Testing and Teaching 127 11. "You're looking like a little kid"Toward a Sense of Closure 140 12. The Last DayReflections on 181 Days 152 Afterword 161

Page ix Foreword I first encountered Daniel Meier in an odd way. Someone sent me a copy of an article he had written and complimented me on my son's wise and useful voice. I had a sonalso a teacher of first graders and also living in Californiaso it was a natural mistake. And under the circumstances both my son and I were relieved and flattered. We liked what Daniel said and how he said it. It would be all right to be mistaken for relatives. What makes his voice so valuable to me is its utter directness and honesty about what it feels like and sounds like to work in our most troubled schools. It also tells it as it could take place anywhere. Yet, he tells it as it actually did take place in one particular settingand to one particular pair of teachers. Directness and honesty may seem to some like trivial traits. But I have read hundreds of books and would-be books, articles and would-be articles, and, in fact, it's rare. We tell our war stories and we tell our stories of perspicacious triumph. But we hesitate to tell what it was really likethe hurt, pain, satisfaction, confusion, and just plain unending hard work. The trial and error that thoughtful and well-educated practitioners have to go throughover and over againis the untold tale, the "dirty" secret. We are always "new" to teaching. I returned to the classroom after a hiatus of several yearsthinking I'd bring to it all my latest wisdom. I flopped, much as Daniel does in the first half of this story. It was a semester-long course, and I never quite recovered. I like to think I would have, had I only had more time.

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