Book Description
A documented volume about what is going on in the classroom - where traditional education is treated as an enemy.
Author : Barbara M. Morris
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780931650000
A documented volume about what is going on in the classroom - where traditional education is treated as an enemy.
Author : Justin Cohen
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1071875817
Educators, you are the hope you’ve been looking for. Have you ever wondered what it would look like for you and your colleagues to really change how things are done in your school? For over twenty-five years, Partners in School Innovation has empowered educators in doing just that, across twenty-two school districts and eight states, dramatically improving underperforming schools in the process. Their secrets? Specialized adult learning tools, a results-oriented cycle of inquiry, professional development systems focused on coaching and collaboration, implementing improvement science, understanding the roles of race, class, culture, and power in schools, and more. This book presents those time-tested, research-based practices through narratives chronicling the efforts of real-life educators. It presents thoughtful checklists and discussion questions to help educators strengthen the skill sets and mindsets needed to implement sustainable school improvement. A lot has changed in recent years, but the solution to turning schools into lively, loving, learning communities remains the same: you. This book provides a blueprint for you to become the change agent your students need.
Author : Ronald G. Havelock
Publisher : Educational Technology
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780877780397
Author : Tai A. Collins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 019006871X
"This volume includes a variety of intervention strategies utilizing peers as change agents in school-based interventions. The book presents an updated conceptualization of PMIs, including peer-mediated academic interventions, peer-mediated behavioral interventions, and peer-mediated group supports. Each section includes a chapter describing the research supporting each type of PMI, as well as practical chapters detailing the use of different strategies. The practical chapters describe the common procedures involved in each PMI, recommendations for successful implementation with an equity lens in applied settings, and practical resources such as implementation scripts"--
Author : Betty Achinstein
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2011-06-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807752185
This book examines both the promise and complexity of diversifying today's teaching profession. Drawing from a 5-year study of 21 new teachers of colour working in urban, hard-to-staff schools, this book uncovers a systemic paradox that the teachers confront. They are committed to improving educational opportunities for students of colour by acting as role models, culturally/linguistically responsive teachers, and change agents. The teaching profession encouraged such commitments and some teachers acted with support from individual, organizational, and community-based sponsors. However, many of these new teachers work in schools that are culturally subtractive and have restrictive accountability policies that challenge their ability to perform cultural/professional roles to which they are committed. Many teachers internalize the contradiction, resulting in their becoming changed agents within the educational system they sought to change. This book is essential reading for educators, leaders, and policymakers.
Author : Jean M. Bartunek
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135664382
Jean M. Bartunek, the 2001-2002 President of the Academy of Management, has written an excellent scholarly book on organizational and educational change. Using a joint insider/outsider approach, this book tells the story of a change agent group--a group of teachers--that was creating change in its organization setting, a Network of Independent Schools. The group's focus was on empowerment and professional development for teachers in the Network. The book describes virtually everything that happened in the group over its first seven years and summarizes what happened during its final two years. It explores the identity, work, and evolution of change agent groups in organizations, with particular emphasis on teachers and educational change. Through the book's extensive quotations and narrative account, the reader is enabled to enter into the world of the teacher group studied over the course of its nine-year history. In addition, the book includes analysis of the underlying processes involved in the change, focusing on the change agent group's identity, its actions and relationships with stakeholders as they jointly evolved over time, and their impacts on the vitality of the change effort. It contributes a new understanding of fundamental processes involved in organizational change, especially when viewed from the perspective of change agents. In addition, the book provides practical implications for change agents, specifically change agents in schools. As such, this account will be useful for graduate students and researchers in organizational change, educational leadership, and professional development. It is a part of Lawrence Erlbaum Associates growing series in organization management.
Author : Ronald G. Havelock
Publisher : Educational Technology
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780877782797
Author : Adam D. Drummond
Publisher : Ntl Ctr Leadership in Education
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Educational change
ISBN : 9781328027061
Offering 48 ways for leaders to move their school forward, The Instructional Change Agent is a practical resource to help shape one's passion "dashboard" and identify opportunities for change in high-impact areas.
Author : Jennifer E. Rogers
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1544353014
Develop and cultivate social-emotional learning to create a new school climate! As research on the positive outcomes of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) are emerging, schools and districts across the country are adopting the practices and processes to improve student outcomes and teacher capacity. The real-world experiences and evidence-based strategies outlined in this book will guide implementation of a practical and sustainable social emotional learning program. In addition to an integrated workbook readers will find: recommendations for steps with each strategy in an implementation rubric reflection questions to promote deeper thinking on SEL resources to explore at the end of each chapter
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 14,19 MB
Release : 1998-07-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 030906418X
While most children learn to read fairly well, there remain many young Americans whose futures are imperiled because they do not read well enough to meet the demands of our competitive, technology-driven society. This book explores the problem within the context of social, historical, cultural, and biological factors. Recommendations address the identification of groups of children at risk, effective instruction for the preschool and early grades, effective approaches to dialects and bilingualism, the importance of these findings for the professional development of teachers, and gaps that remain in our understanding of how children learn to read. Implications for parents, teachers, schools, communities, the media, and government at all levels are discussed. The book examines the epidemiology of reading problems and introduces the concepts used by experts in the field. In a clear and readable narrative, word identification, comprehension, and other processes in normal reading development are discussed. Against the background of normal progress, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children examines factors that put children at risk of poor reading. It explores in detail how literacy can be fostered from birth through kindergarten and the primary grades, including evaluation of philosophies, systems, and materials commonly used to teach reading.