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Author: Pauline Lipman
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780791437698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the intersection of two central issues in American education today: school reform through restructuring and alienation from school of many children of color. A tough look at the impact of teachers' and administrators' beliefs and practices.
Author: Diana G. Pounder
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998-03-19
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1438416407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a more comprehensive discussion of collaborative school efforts than any other single source currently available. Specifically, multiple disciplinary perspectives are presented, addressing the complexity or "promises and pitfalls" of school collaboration efforts. The book is organized in terms of major considerations in school collaboration initiatives—the organizational structure; the change process; inter-agency and intra-school collaborative efforts; and implications for instruction, leadership, and leadership preparation. Also, the book informs the design of educator preparation programs emphasizing collaborative schools and cross-disciplinary teaching. The chapters address many issues regarding school collaboration, such as which organizational structures will enhance collaborative efforts; which change processes are important in building school collaboration; the costs (in effort, energy, time, or other resources) of collaborating with other external agencies; how teachers' work can be redesigned to enhance collaboration between teachers and the anticipated outcomes for teachers and students; how educators can overcome their separate role socializations to build collaborative work relationships within schools; and the implications of school collaboration for teaching and learning, school leadership, and leadership preparation. The closing chapter offers five synthesizing issues or dilemmas for school collaboration.
Author: Fred M. Newmann
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1996-10-28
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new book presents the findings of a five-year, federally funded study that examined the connection between school restructuring and student achievement. Investigating twenty-four elementary and secondary schools from twenty-two districts across the country, the researchers found that restructuring efforts fail when there is too much focus on structure and technique and not enough attention paid to the intellectual quality of student and teacher work and to the vitality of the school community. Using a wealth of examples, the authors provide a vivid picture of the conditions under which innovations in a school's organization contribute to student achievement - extending learning beyond rote memorization of isolated facts to thinking, disciplined understanding, and complex communication.
Author: Herbert J. Walberg
Publisher: IAP
Published: 2007-08-01
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1607526522
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Published in cooperation with The Center on Innovation & Improvement) As suggested by the title, the purpose of this Handbook on Restructuring and Substantial School Improvement is to provide principles for restructuring and substantially improving schools. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the Center on Innovation & Improvement (CII) engaged leading experts on restructuring and school improvement to prepare modules for this handbook to assist states, districts, and schools in establishing policies, procedures, and support to successfully restructure schools. The Handbook is organized into three sections. The topic of the Handbook’s modules – restructuring with a focus on the district as the impetus for dramatic improvement – is relatively new in the nation’s education history. For this reason, the module authors were selected because they are highly experienced experts in their fields and can be counted on to judiciously weigh the less than definitive evidence and to state useful guiding principles.
Author: Diana G. Pounder
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780791437452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive discussion, from multiple perspectives, of the complex nature of school collaboration efforts.
Author: Pauline Lipman
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-02-26
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780791437704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the intersection of two central issues in American education today: school reform through restructuring and alienation from school of many children of color. A tough look at the impact of teachers' and administrators' beliefs and practices.
Author: Richard F. Elmore
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1996-03-15
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRestructuring in the Classroom goes into the classrooms of three elementary schools to take a detailed look at how teachers responded to changes in structure in their schools. The authors interviewed principals, teachers, parents, support staff, and district personnel to produce in-depth case studies of schools at various stages of restructuring, showing what the school had done to change its structure and how those changes had occurred. Selecting four teachers in each school for closer observation and discussion, the authors reveal how those teachers responded to the changes around them in their day-to-day practice in the classroom. They show, for example, how teaching practice is or is not affected by changes in the way students are grouped for learning, in the way teachers relate to groups of students and to each other, and in the way time is allocated to subject matter.
Author: Tony Townsend
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-11-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1134785658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe restructuring of schools systems across the world has been controversial. Have reforms been driven by a desire to cut educational budgets or the need to improve the quality of educational provision? This book explores the restructuring movement, with a particular emphasis on how decentralisation of power has affected the quality of education. It provides a broad and international picture of educational reform.
Author: Valerie E. Lee
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780807740545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book demonstrates empirical links with achievement and investigates how restructuring relates to school size, teachers' attitudes toward students, and how teachers press their students to work hard and succeed.
Author: Joseph Murphy
Publisher: Corwin
Published: 1993-03-16
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMake good decisions about your own restructuring effort by seeing what has and what hasn't worked in other schools.
