The Keys to Effective Schools

Educational Reform as Continuous Improvement

Willis D Hawley editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc

Published:12th Dec '06

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Raise organizational effectiveness to improve the quality of instruction and dramatically impact student achievement!

Working in tandem with the powerful National Education Association′s KEYS initiative (Keys to Excellence in Your Schools), this second edition focuses on how to change a school′s organizational structure and culture to improve the quality of teaching and learning.

Each chapter, revised and updated to address continuous improvement and narrowing the achievement gap, provides a wealth of knowledge from leading experts in the field including Patricia A. Alexander, Eva L. Baker, James A. Banks, Peter Cookson, Lorna M. Earl, Richard F. Elmore, Michael Fullan, Geneva Gay, Willis D. Hawley, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Kenneth Leithwood, Ann Lieberman, Judith Warren Little, Lynne Miller, P. Karen Murphy, Fred M. Newmann, Sonia Nieto, Janet Ward Schofield, Walter G. Stephan, Gary Sykes, and Linda Valli.

Educators at all levels, policymakers, and parents will discover how to apply the lessons learned from research. This essential handbook provides new chapters, including exemplary practice on teaching and learning for a multicultural society and on continuous school improvement.

Now you can advance to the next level of change with an integral resource for school reform.

“This is a book that we need now more than ever. Continuous improvement stands at the heart of school leadership and school improvement. This update brings the best thinkers and the strongest voices on the topic together to help launch a stronger and deeper effort for improvement that is likely to sustain itself. Readers will find this new edition timely and helpful.” -- Thomas J. Sergiovanni, Lillian Radford Professor of Education
“An illuminating, must-read book that brings laser-like focus from several perspectives about the most important components in sustainable school reform.”

 

-- Jerry D. Weast, Superintendent of Schools

“Provides valuable insights into how systematic reform works, offers suggestions regarding successful learning environments, and addresses the need for intensive, long-term professional development for the purpose of engaging teachers, administrators, and their colleagues in communities of practice supported by a strong school culture.”

-- Pedro Reyes

ISBN: 9781412941013

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 340g

248 pages

2nd Revised edition