Close to the Classroom is Close to the Bone: Coaching as a Means to Translate Research into Classroom Practice

Exceptional Children

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 52-66

  Gersten, Russell ^a   Morvant, Martha ^a   Brengelman, Susan ^a  

^a Eugene Research Institute   (United States)

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EID: 84973741588     PISSN: 00144029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001440299506200105     Document Type: Article

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