Text and additional resource on the accompanying CD-ROM highlight the range of choices available to teachers to engage diverse students actively in language and literacy development across the curriculum.

Part 1. Changing times, changing schools -- 1. Literacy -- 2. Pedagogy -- 3. Assessment -- 4. Technology -- Part 2. From literacy to multiliteracies: narratives from the frontier -- 5. Vignettes of classes in global learning networks -- 6. Project FRESA: cultivating community-connected learning -- 7. The oral history project: from a shrug to "How much time do I have, Mr. Green? -- 8. The biographies project: opportunities for math and change in the school library -- 9. Nuestro diccionario/our dictionary: student lexicography -- 10. Closing the digital divide around the world -- Part 3. 11. Framing directions for change -- 12. Implementing the change.