Renewal : Remaking America's Schools for the Twenty-First Century.

Renewal : Remaking America's Schools for the Twenty-First Century.

Renewal offers a clear picture of how to move away from the mass-production style of education that most schools offered throughout the twentieth century to a new, more innovative, and flexible model that can meet this country's promise of truly educating every child and preparing each of them...

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Main Author: Kwalwasser, Harold
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : R & L Education, 2012.
Subjects:
School improvement programs > United States > Aims and objectives.
Educational change > United States.
Education > United States.
Education
Educational change
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Basics of School Reform; Chapter One: Management Theory 101; Chapter Two: Human Relations 101; Chapter Three: Politics 101; Part II: Leaders; Chapter Four: Superintendents; Chapter Five: Principals; Part III: Teachers; Chapter Six: A Brave New World; Chapter Seven: Keeping-and Working with-Those You Have; Chapter Eight: Training New (and More) Teachers Inside the System; Chapter Nine: The Rest of Your Life-Good Teachers Can Always Get Better: The Professional Learning Community.
  • Chapter Ten: Training New (and More) Teachers: Working the Pipeline into the ClassroomChapter Eleven: Creating More Alternative Training and Certification Programs; Chapter Twelve: What Is a Good Teacher?: Evaluation in a Professional World; Chapter Thirteen: Tenure; Chapter Fourteen: Motivating Teachers: Is Pay the Be-All and End-All?; Chapter Fifteen: The Coleman Report Effect on Motivation: Do Teachers Have Low Expectations of Poor Kids?; Chapter Sixteen: The Special Challenge of Hard-to-Staff Schools; Part IV: Customers; Chapter Seventeen: Do Not Lose Sight of the Student.
  • Chapter Eighteen: Seeing Every Child for Who They Are, Not Who We Assume Them to Be-Replacing One Curriculum Taught One WayChapter Nineteen: Ending a System Designed to Lose Track of Kids-Paying Attention to Real Students, Not to the Assumptions We Make about Them; Chapter Twenty: Assessing Students: Never Letting Them Fall Too Far Behind; Chapter Twenty-one: Parents: One Half of a Confused Partnership; Chapter Twenty-two: Parents: Long-Ignored Customers and Owners; Part V: The Template: The Things High-Performing Schools Have in Common; Chapter Twenty-three: Six Beliefs.
  • Chapter Twenty-four: Eight PracticesChapter Twenty-five: A Case Study in What It Takes to Fail; Chapter Twenty-six: The Things Not Done; Part VI: Beyond the School District: The Role of the States and Federal Government; Chapter Twenty-seven: The Role of the States; Chapter Twenty-eight: The Role of the Federal Government; Postscript: The Future of the American Public School System; Chapter Twenty-nine: The Education System We Need-the System of Schools We Want; Acknowledgments; Appendix I: The Blueprint for Action-an Outline of What We Need to Do.
  • Appendix II: A Proposed School "Disclosure Document"Index; About the Author.

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