School Reform from the Inside Out - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook School Reform from the Inside Out write by Richard F. Elmore. This book was released on 2004. School Reform from the Inside Out available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is essential reading for any school leader, education reformer, policymaker, or citizen interested in the forces that promote school change. "Giving test results to an incoherent, badly run school doesn't automatically make it a better school. The work of turning a school around entails improving the knowledge and skills of teachers-changing their knowledge of content and how to teach it-and helping them to understand where their students are in their academic development. Low-performing schools, and the people who work in them, don't know what to do. If they did, they would be doing it already." So writes Richard Elmore in "Unwarranted Intrusion," an essay critiquing the accountability mandates and high-stakes testing policies of the No Child Left Behind Act. In School Reform from the Inside Out, one of the country's leading experts on the successes and failures of American education policy tackles issues ranging from teacher development to testing to "failing" schools. As Elmore aptly notes, successful school reform begins "from the inside out" with teachers, administrators, and school staff, not with external mandates or standards.
The Systems Thinking School
The Systems Thinking School - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Systems Thinking School write by Peter A Barnard. This book was released on 2013-09-19. The Systems Thinking School available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the school as an operational organization through the lens of systems thinking. In this way it serves as an invitation to look again at schools and how they operate as learning systems. It begins by showing exactly why our inherited, industrial school model, can never be made to work effectively no matter how hard school leaders try or how well schools are judged. This book uses systems thinking to explain and describe the management unlearning and new learning needed to create deep and fundamental changes to the way schools operate as complete learning entities. It explains why the reinstatement of the personal tutor in a vertical system is essential to the creation of a learning organization within a complete home/school operational learning process; one capable of building a values driven and more purposeful school culture within a more relevant and coherent society.
Changing Schools from the Inside Out
Changing Schools from the Inside Out - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changing Schools from the Inside Out write by Robert L. Larson. This book was released on 2011-06-16. Changing Schools from the Inside Out available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At any time, public schools labor under great economic, political, and social pressures that make it difficult to create large-scale, 'whole school' change. But current top-down mandates require that schools close achievement gaps while teaching more problem solving, inquiry, and research skills_with fewer resources. Failure to meet test-based standards can produce consequences such as school closure or staff replacement. With this real-world challenge to education foremost, this book presents pertinent research and instructive case studies of two 'good' high schools. It advocates a proven strategy of small-scale, incremental change_small wins_which increases the likelihood that schools will improve despite a climate of 'do more with less.' Chapters describe the current societal context; the history of major change projects since the 1970s; the organizational and social characteristics of schools and classrooms; human factors that encourage and support improvement; the effects of technology; forces affecting teachers and principals; commonplace components of and vehicles for change; and practical 'levers and footings' for change that can have a high positive payoff.
Restructuring in the Classroom
Restructuring in the Classroom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Restructuring in the Classroom write by Richard F. Elmore. This book was released on 1996-03-15. Restructuring in the Classroom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Restructuring 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.
From the Inside-Out
From the Inside-Out - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From the Inside-Out write by Rich Andrusiak. This book was released on 2020-07-15. From the Inside-Out available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If we want our students to be prepared for a life involved with artificial intelligence, global awareness, cultural understanding, racial, religious and lifestyle diversity, and changing economic and political realities, then we have to change what we are doing in our schools from pre-school to graduate school. We can no longer wait for large-scale reforms to develop, because those reforms will only occur due to some kind of tragedy. If schools are going to reform proactively, educators in each school and in each district have to lead the way.
