Publications

Here are the guidelines for our peer-reviewed newsletter:

1. Word count: 275 words for the "Self Care Spotlight," and 550-650 words for any other article.
2. Use an informal voice. (Before you start writing, please review past issues to get a feel for the tone of our articles https://www.csun.edu/center-teaching-learning/publications).
3. Provide practical strategies that are geared toward educators.
4. Use minimal references. One or two at most. Any references should be included in the word count.
5. When you're ready to submit, please email ctl@csun.edu

Once you have submitted an article for review, please keep in mind that this is a peer-reviewed publication and it could take a couple of weeks to have your article published. You will be contacted by the CTL with further information. 

Teachers Connecting to Advance Retention and Empowerment

• Vol. XVII, Fall 2024 (.pdf)
• Vol. XVI, Spring 2024 (.pdf)
• Vol. XV, Fall 2023 (.pdf)
• Vol. XIV, Spring 2023 (.pdf)
• Vol. XIII, Fall 2022 (.pdf)
• Vol. XII, Spring 2022 (.pdf)
• Vol. XI, Fall 2021 (.pdf)
• Vol. X, Fall 2020 - Equity, Access, and Social Justice (.pdf)
• Vol. IX, Spring 2020 (.pdf)
• Vol. VIII, Fall 2019 (.pdf)
• Vol. VII, Fall 2018 (.pdf)
• Vol. VI, Spring 2018 (.pdf)
• Vol. V, Fall 2017 (.pdf)
• Vol. IV, Spring 2017 (.pdf)
• Vol. III, Fall 2016 (.pdf) 
• Vol. II, Spring 2016 (.pdf)
• Vol. I, Fall 2015 (.pdf)
• Vol. VII, Fall 2010 (.pdf)
• Vol. VI, Spring 2010 (.pdf)
• Vol. V, Winter 2010 (.pdf)
• Vol. IV, Winter 2009 (.pdf)
• Vol. III, Fall 2009 (.pdf)
• Vol. II, Spring 2009 (.pdf)
• Vol. I, Welcome to T-CARE (.pdf)

Leading the Co-Teaching Dance: Leadership Strategies to Enhance Team Outcomes

Authored by the Executive Director of the CTL, this new text is an invaluable resource to provide school leaders with the strategies, resources, best practices, techniques and materials they will need to establish and maintain successful co- teaching teams in their schools. Want more information? Contact the CTL for professional development in co-teaching by one of the nation's foremost experts!

Buy it here:

• CEC
• Amazon.com

Schools Attuned: A Model for Collaborative Intervention by Ivor Weiner and Wendy Murawski

Wendy W. Murawski, Ph.D

Articles

• Student Outcomes in Co-Taught Secondary English Classes: How Can we Improve? (.pdf)
• 50 Ways to Keep Your Co-Teacher (w/ Lisa Dieker) (.pdf)
• Five Keys to Co-teaching in the Inclusive Classroom (.pdf)
• Observing Co-Teaching: What to Ask for, Look For, and Listen For (w/ Wendy W. Lochner) (.pdf)
• Communicating and Collaborating with Families (from Working with Families of Children with Special Needs by Nancy M. Sileo and Mary anne Prater) (.pdf)
• Addressing Diverse Needs Through Co-Teaching: Take Baby Steps! (.pdf)
• A Glimpse Into the Inclusive Classroom (.pdf)
• Korean-American Parents' Perspectives on Teacher-Parent Collaboration (w/ Jumi Song) (.pdf)
• Response to Intervention, Collaboration, and Co-Teaching: A Logical Combination for Successful Systemic Change (W/ Claire E. Hughes) (.pdf)
• A Meta-Analysis of Co-Teaching Research: Where Are the Data? (w/ H. Lee Swanson) (.pdf)
• Teaching Self-Determination to Early Elementary Students: Six-Year-Olds at the Wheel (w/ Nancy Wilshinski) (.pdf)
• 10 Tips for Using Co-Planning Time More Efficiently (.pdf)
• Obstacles Faced by Latina Mothers of Children with Autism (.pdf)
• A Bully-Free School (.pdf)
• The Educational Therapist (.pdf)
• What Really Works (.pdf)
• Schools Attuned: A Model for Collaborative Intervention (.pdf)

Books

Visit Corwin Press to explore Wendy W. Murawski's work on Co-teaching

Ivor Weiner, Ph.D

Articles

• Obstacles Faced by Latina Mothers of Children with Autism (.pdf)
• Schools Attuned: A Model for Collaborative Intervention (.pdf)

Carrie Rothstein-Fisch, Ph.D

Articles

• Uncovering the Role of Culture in Learning, Development, and Education (.pdf)
• Bridging Cultures with Classroom Strategies (w/ Greenfield and Trumbull) (.pdf)
• Ours and Mine (w/ Greenfield and Trumbull) (.pdf)

Books

• Managing Diverse Classrooms (ASCD)
• Readings for Bridging Cultures (Routledge)

Rachel Friedman-Narr, Ph.D

Articles

• Teaching Phonological Awareness With Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students (.pdf)
• Phonological Awareness and Decoding in Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Students Who Use Visual Phonics (.pdf)
• The ‘‘Wh’’ Questions of Visual Phonics: What, Who, Where, When, and Why (w/ Stephanie W. Cawthon) (.pdf)

James Cunningham, Ph.D.

Article

The Role of Intuition in Math Problem Solving (.pdf)

The CSUN students in the College of Education clearly demonstrate their own scholarship through their Masters’ Theses and Doctoral Dissertations. Many of these students have focused their efforts on research and work related to the focus areas of the CTL, and are under the guidance and advisement of our CTL faculty. The CTL is pleased to post links to the work of some of our finest students.

• Academic Outcomes for Students with Disabilities Educated in Co-Taught Secondary Mathematics Courses (Gaines, 2010) (.pdf)
• The Impact of Schools Attuned Professional Development on the Prereferral Process (Dummer, 2005) (.pdf)
• Comparing Schools Attuned and Co-Teaching (Rider, 2004) (.pdf)

• December 2024 - Educational Leadership: Helping Manage Reform in India (.pdf)
• April 2024 - The Bridge Project: Transdisciplinary Preparation to Serve Young Children with Disabilities (.pdf)
• November 2023 - L.A. Times Literacy Center at CSUN (.pdf)
• April 2023 - Diversity & Equity Innovation Grants in the MDECOE (.pdf)
• January 2023 - Los Angeles Male Teachers of Color Network (.pdf)
• October 2022 - The CTL goes global (.pdf)
• March 2022 - Social media safety: Local origins, National impact (.pdf)
• April 2020 - Establishing educational relationships through empathy (.pdf)

• May 2021 - A Pivotal Moment in the Teaching, Learning, & Counseling Consortium (.pdf)
• April 2020 - Establishing Educational Relationships Through Empathy (.pdf)
• December 2019 - The Bridge Project:Addressing needs through interdisciplinary collaboration (.pdf)
• May 2019 - Raising Test Scores Without Teaching to the Test: Access and Equity for Developing Mathematical Understanding (.pdf)
• February 2019 - Putting (Dis)Ability Back Into Black History Month (.pdf)
• January 2019 - Strength United: Trauma-Informed Care by CSUN's Community Agency (.pdf)
• November 2018 - The Deaf Education and Families Project (.pdf)
• September 2018 - The Literate Adolescents (LA) Intervention Project (.pdf)
• May 2018 - Math Camp: A Collaborative Intervention Partnership Project (.pdf)
• March 2018 - Professional Discourse Through a Critical Race Theory Framework (.pdf)
• January 2018 - Creating School Leaders Through Strong Preparation Programs (.pdf)
• November 2017 - Improving Writing, Improving Outcomes: The Cal State Northridge Project (.pdf) 
• September 2017 - Strategic Partnerships Buld a Demonstration Site (.pdf)
• May 2017 - University and District Partnerships Bridge the Gaps Around Inclusive Practices (.pdf)
• March 2017 - Experiences of MENASWA Families of Students with Disabilities (.pdf)
• January 2017 - Academic Intrinsic Motivation and Educational Competence (.pdf)
• November 2016 - Promoting Elementary Teachers as STEM Educators (.pdf)
• September 2016 - Classroom Simulation: A New Paradigm in Teacher Education by Sally Spencer, Ed.D. (.pdf) 
• March 2016 - The Responsive Teaching Cycle (.pdf)
• January 2016 - Mindfulness in Education (.pdf)
• March 2009 - T-Care (.pdf)
• November 2008 - Deaf Center Projects (.pdf)
• May 2008 - Positive Psychology (.pdf)
• March 2008 - Bridging Cultures (.pdf)
• Project Connect (.pdf)
• Strategic Instructional Model (.pdf)

• Annual Report 02-03 (.pdf)
• Annual Report 03-04 (.pdf)
• Annual Report 04-05 (.pdf)
• Annual Report 06-07 (.pdf)
• Annual Report 07-08 (.pdf)
• Annual Report 08-09 (.pdf)
• Annual Report 10-11 (.pdf)
• Impact Report 10-12 (.pdf)
• Annual Report 13-14 (.pdf)
• Annual Report 14-15 (.pdf)
• Annual Report 15-16 (.pdf)
• Annual Report 16-17 (.pdf)