Bringing Homework Into Focus. Eileen Depka

Bringing Homework Into Focus

Tools and Tips to Enhance Practices, Design, and Feedback

Eileen Depka

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Depka, Eileen.

Bringing homework into focus : tools and tips to enhance practices, design, and feedback / Eileen Depka.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-936763-23-8 (perfect bound) 1. Homework. I. Title.

LB1048.D46 2015

371.30281--dc23

2014028777

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Acknowledgments

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Solution Tree Press would like to thank the following reviewers:

Bobbie Brown

Fifth- and Sixth-Grade Math Teacher

St. Martha Catholic School

Louisville, Kentucky

Tim Jarman

English Teacher

Eugene Ashley High School

Wilmington, North Carolina

Barb Knighton

Fourth-Grade Teacher

Elmwood Elementary School