Rigorous Dap in the Early Years: From Theory to Practice, Paperback/Christopher Pierce Brown

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RIGOROUS DAP in the Early Years: From Theory to Practice provides teachers with a roadmap for teaching that helps children meet academic expectations and maintains focus on the appropriate development of the whole child. A construct of eleven practices, RIGOROUS DAP supplies teachers with strategies for 1) making instructional decisions that meet the needs of the individual child; 2) sustaining culturally relevant practices; 3) engaging stakeholders in conversations about educating young children for school success through practices that attend to their individual, sociocultural, and developmental needs; and 4) ensuring all children experience high-level learning and succeed in school. The eleven practices comprising the construct are: Reaching all children About the Author: Brian Nelson Mowry is a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. He has 25 years of service as a teacher and teacher educator in the Austin Independent School District. He currently serves as a district-level instructional specialist developing curriculum as well as supporting and providing professional development for 700 preschool and kindergarten classroom teachers. Before this, he worked as a district-level mathematics specialist for grades K through 5 and spent 11 years as a bilingual preschool and kindergarten teacher in the Austin public schools.