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Author : Nina G. Dorsch
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791435989
A "tale from the trenches" of educational reform, this book chronicles a year in the life of four teachers as they implement an innovative new program.
Author : RoseAnne O'Brien Vojtek,Robert J. Vojtek
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452213682
Incorporating motivational theory and the authors' administrative experience, this resource presents 10 strategies for developing a collegial learning community through positive interdependence, reciprocal relationships, and mutual responsibility.
Author : JoAnne Ferrara,Reuben Jacobson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475831429
Ferrara and Jacobson go inside community schools across the country to explore the different roles that make this collaborative education reform work. This book provides practitioners, policymakers, family members, youth, and local leaders a greater understanding of the different roles that make up a community school and tools for action. Built on years of practice, research, and continuous improvement, community schools are an innovative, effective, and grassroots strategy for bringing schools and communities together in order to improve outcomes for students, families, and communities. This education reform is growing as school site, local, and state leaders seek collaborative solutions to our schools’ most persistent challenges. The contributors, experts in the field, represent a diverse group of people with longstanding commitments to the community school strategy. From principals to family members, from community partners to teachers, this book illustrates how together, we all have a part to play in the development of successful community schools.
Author : Louis J Kruger
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0789011824
Use computer technology to complement and strengthen your special education program! This book provides practical information, case examples, theory, and a critical summary of applied research about how computer technology can be used to support and improve special education and related services. With Computers in the Delivery of Special Education and Related Services, you'll learn how technology can be used to facilitate an individualized and collaborative approach to learning. Topics of discussion include innovative instruction, consultation, family collaboration, curriculum-based assessment, and professional development. Computers in the Delivery of Special Education and Related Services is a valuable resource in which special services providers can find ways to use computers to enhance individualized instruction and the problem-solving skills of their students, as well as avenues of professional collaboration and support. Computers in the Delivery of Special Education and Related Services presents thoughtful discussions that examine: how computer software can be used in the assessment of students’progress within specific curricula how students can use the Internet to discuss class projects with experts in a process known as ”telementoring” how software can help a school-based consultation team through specific aspects of the problem-solving process, including data collection, intervention selection, team decision documentation, and follow-up ways to use the Internet to create new types of learning communities for students and professionals, extending Vygotsky's notion of ”zone of proximal development” (ZPD) to the community level the advantages and disadvantages of using email with the intention of complementing and strengthening face-to-face collaboration the aspects of home computer use that address a student's special needs the importance of understanding the family's values, expectations, and cultural background Computers in the Delivery of Special Education and Related Services reflects the editors’hope that creative applications of technology will soon transcend the nagging stereotypes of computers (they isolate students, they're too difficult to use, that they lack the flexibility to treat people as individuals). Then computers will be viewed as partners in the process of special education--machines that enhance current practices and open new vistas for learning and education.
Author : Margaret C. Wang,William Lowe Boyd
Publisher : IAP
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781607525325
(published in cooperation with the Laboratory for Student Success)
Author : Judy W. Kugelmass
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807744913
How do schools sustain a collaborative, inclusive culture in these times of high-stakes testing and standardization? Through the story of a progressively minded public elementary school, the author shows how committed educators can collaborate to maintain a creative, inclusive educational environment and still rise to the demands of state-imposed standards. This timely volume explores the evolution of a school in chaos to a highly regarded school serving a diverse student population.
Author : Jacqueline Cossentino
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791460193
Analyzes how teachers attempt to translate the language of reform into pedagogical action.
Author : Frances Whalan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460918827
How to achieve school reform and organisational change has been a subject of much inquiry and interest by educators, education systems and academics. This volume advances both conceptual and methodological knowledge in understanding the cultural changes required at the school level to develop teachers’ collective responsibility for student learning. The concept of teachers’ collective responsibility is both intriguing and elusive as it traverses both sociological and psychological aspects of teaching. Five major but interconnected discourses: professional community; professional development; relational trust; accountability; and efficacy map the terrain of this complex phenomenon. Results reported in this volume provide clear evidence that collective responsibility is positively correlated the coherence between professional learning programs and the school’s learning goals, teachers’ commitment to enact those shared goals and teacher-to-teacher trust. In addition, teachers’ collective struggle to address pressing issues for teaching and learning, and pedagogical leadership, when embedded in the organisational capacity of a school, form a complex and dynamic set of factors influencing the development of collective responsibility. Drawing together these important findings surfaces a need to rethink how schools, education systems and academics pay attention to what falls between the cracks for school reform. This book addresses aspects of school culture that guide the choices in the development of teachers’ collective responsibility. Professional development, collective struggle, professional community, relational trust and pedagogical leadership as elements of school culture and organisational reform are modelled as a continuum of micro-political conditions interacting at the school level. This model offers new insights into the complexity of collective responsibility as a multi-dimensional phenomenon and is a useful guide to organisational change for school and system leaders and academics whose research interests are focused on the how of organisational change.
Author : James G. Cibulka,William J. Kritek
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996-04-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791499139
Improving the connection among schools, families, and communities has emerged as a recent focus of the education reform movement posing many challenges for educators, social service professionals, community activists, and parents. This book provides information on the diverse goals of the coordinated services movement and the problems of reconciling competing goals within the movement. The political environment surrounding coordinated services reforms is discussed, including efforts to scale-back the scope of "the welfare state." Different models of coordination are presented, such as Kentucky's Family Resource Centers, the Nation of Tomorrow project in Chicago, a community-school coalition in Philadelphia, community youth organizations, and programs for the homeless as well as organizational and management issues surrounding coordination drawn from programs throughout the United States and Canada.
Author : Anthony S. Bryk,Penny Bender Sebring,Elaine Allensworth,John Q. Easton,Stuart Luppescu
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226078014
In 1988, the Chicago public school system decentralized, granting parents and communities significant resources and authority to reform their schools in dramatic ways. To track the effects of this bold experiment, the authors of Organizing Schools for Improvement collected a wealth of data on elementary schools in Chicago. Over a seven-year period they identified one hundred elementary schools that had substantially improved—and one hundred that had not. What did the successful schools do to accelerate student learning? The authors of this illuminating book identify a comprehensive set of practices and conditions that were key factors for improvement, including school leadership, the professional capacity of the faculty and staff, and a student-centered learning climate. In addition, they analyze the impact of social dynamics, including crime, critically examining the inextricable link between schools and their communities. Putting their data onto a more human scale, they also chronicle the stories of two neighboring schools with very different trajectories. The lessons gleaned from this groundbreaking study will be invaluable for anyone involved with urban education.
Author : Margaret Kristin Merga
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030210250
This book explores the role that librarians play within schools as literacy leaders. While librarians working in schools are generally perceived as peripheral to the educational experience, they can in fact provide significant support in encouraging children’s literacy and literature learning. As the need for strong functional literacy becomes ever more important, librarians who support literacy are often invaluable in achieving various academic, vocational and social goals. However, this contribution often seems to be overlooked, with funding cuts disproportionately affecting librarians. Building on recent research from Australia, the USA and the UK, the author examines the role that librarians may play as literacy educators in schools in order to make visible their contributions to the school community. In doing so, this book urges for greater recognition and support to school libraries and their staff as valuable members of the school community.
Author : Steven Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000082968
The standards in this book will enhance teaching and learning. The list of the book’s contributors reads like a “Who’s Who” in the field of instructional supervision. These standards are practical, specific, and flexible, so that schools and districts can adapt them to their own contexts and goals. Each set also includes activities for professional development.
Author : Helen Christiansen,Linda Goulet,Caroline Krentz,Mhairi Maeers
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791499054
The efforts of collaborative inquiry and community building in education are described by exploring a multitude of collaborative experiences in educational settings. The authors reflect upon many types of collaborative experiences in ways that will ring true for readers. They challenge educators at all levels to think about the multiple meanings and implications of collaboration by telling real stories about real people involved in collaborative experiences within schools and educational institutions.
Author : Joseph F. Murphy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031237591
This book examines the evolution of schooling from bureaucracy and hierarchy to post-industrial schools, and places teachers’ leadership on center stage at the same time. That is, it asks teachers to deepen leadership in their classrooms and with other teachers. The book carries education and schooling from formal control to a social influence process and addresses the deeply rooted difficulty of focusing too much energy on content. It reveals the strong power of internal and external context and helps educators implant the idea of the school not as a fixed, immutable home, but as a relatively deep social process. It shows how co-leadership comes alive in schools. Communities of schooling is one of the three most critical developments in education in the last 140 years. When it is linked with the two other fundamental reorientations in schooling - “dispersed ownership” and “constructivist work” - it becomes the most powerful force in education since the 1700s. This book shows how communities of schooling replace the earlier pillars of “learning as telling,” “hierarchy of control,” and “non-democratic influence.” The work also explains the meaning and understanding of school work as a social influence process where all school-based educators exert power, but at different levels. The idea of enhancing individual and collective capacity through interdependency, shared work, and collective responsibility is unpacked.
Author : Ann Lieberman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015017994420
A collection of articles from a group of commentators on American education, this book covers areas such as the creation of community in schools, the use of such ideas as commitment, the use of incentives and the promotion of colleagueship and leadership.