Blueprint For School System Transformation

Author : Frederick M. Hess
Publisher : New Frontiers in Education
ISBN 13 : 9781475804683
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blueprint for School System Transformation written by Frederick M. Hess and published by New Frontiers in Education. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is widespread recognition that school systems need to do profoundly better, but those seeking to improve them have been persistently frustrated by popular reforms. Education leaders, policy-makers and funders lack clear guidance about the key elements and strategies necessary for effective ecosystem transformation. Would-be reformers need to understand both how these elements relate to one another, and what can be done to reduce, counteract, or overturn state regulations, local governance practices, funding systems, contractual limits, and other unquestioned practices that inhibit the growth of entrepreneurial ventures. In this volume, a team of national experts address the major elements key to system redesign and long-lasting reform, describing in detail the steps needed at the community, school, district and state-level by which to achieve long-lasting reform.

Author : Frederick Hess, author of Letters to a Young Education Reformer; director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1475804709
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blueprint for School System Transformation written by Frederick Hess, author of Letters to a Young Education Reformer; director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, a team of national experts address the major elements key to system redesign and long-lasting reform, describing in detail the steps needed at the community, school, district and state-level by which to achieve long-lasting reform.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309324882
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.

Author : Wayne Jennings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781456586782
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School Transformation written by Wayne Jennings and published by . This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to school transformation sends a wake-up call about the out-moded current school system. As educator and advocate during a sixty-year career, Wayne B. Jennings, PhD, writes in this revolutionary new text that our educational system remains stuck in the past. Jennings argues that the system should skip Band-Aid reforms and go for a full reboot! Jennings captures critical aspects of change. In School Transformation, he advances: · understanding the true purpose of education, · realizing we live in a new era, · seeing the fundamental flaws in the system, · bringing schools into the twenty-first century, · preparing students for an unknown future, · examining recent efforts to reform the system, · taking specific steps for transformation, and · considering examples of transformed schools. Jennings' experience as a teacher, principal, school board member, and university facility member energized him to start eight schools during his career. He believes community members, teachers, and students can respond to educational challenges and transform their schools. He describes specific steps and processes to follow and provides examples of transformed schools. He believes that transformed schools will make school an exciting, enriching experience for an entire generation of independent, innovative thinkers.

Author : New American Schools (Organization)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blueprints for School Success written by New American Schools (Organization) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Q. McShane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475814399
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New and Better Schools written by Michael Q. McShane and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, the number of students enrolled in private school choice programs has grown ten-fold. But granting students access to public financing for their private education has not led to the vibrant marketplace of school options many of its supporters envisioned. If school choice policy is to improve the American education landscape, careful thought must be put in to understand how it can expand existing high quality schools and create new high quality schools to serve more children. New and Better Schools attacks this problem from the perspective of both researchers and practitioners, documenting the hurdles entrepreneurial school leaders face and offering a way forward.

Author : Gary J. Schmitt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475815395
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trendsetting Charter Schools written by Gary J. Schmitt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents six different charter schools that explicitly embrace a compelling civic mission and that foster an excellent academic environment. This volume makes the case that the rediscovery of the civic mission of schooling is not at odds with the broader education reform movement. These charter schools all have widely different approaches to teaching and fostering civic-mindedness, but each charter system links good behavior, character formation, and the practical aspects of citizenship with classroom performance.

Author : Nancy Brown Diggs
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1475806124
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Cycle written by Nancy Brown Diggs and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a remarkable school, are headed for success. We learn about their world from teens like Shawna, the daughter of a crack-addicted mother. Or Andre, the only one in his family not on drugs. Or Daron, kicked out of his home by an abusive father. Challenged by the pernicious factors of their environment—drugs, violence, fatherless homes, and poor educational backgrounds—students at the Dayton Early College Academy are nevertheless beating the odds. All are headed for college, from which the vast majority will graduate. The book reveals how this school is succeeding when so many fail. It conveys the hopeful message that others can replicate much of what “DECA” does and save a generation mired in despair. America’s failure to educate its urban children is evidenced by our woeful statistics. If it is possible to turn around this bleak picture—and it is—this is a story well worth telling. And this is what Breaking the Cycle aims to do. For more information on the book, including interviews with the author please check out www.nancybdiggs.com.

Author : Prakash Nair
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 1612507069
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blueprint for Tomorrow written by Prakash Nair and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has about $2 trillion tied up in aging school facilities. School districts throughout the country spend about $12 billion every year keeping this infrastructure going. Yet almost all of the new money we pour into school facilities reinforces an existing—and obsolete—model of schooling. In Blueprint for Tomorrow, Prakash Nair—one of the world’s leading school designers—explores the hidden messages that our school facilities and classrooms convey and advocates for the “alignment” of the design of places in which we teach and learn with twenty-first-century learning goals. Blueprint for Tomorrow provides simple, affordable, and versatile ideas for adapting or redesigning school spaces to support student-centered learning. In particular, the author focuses on ways to use current spending to modify existing spaces, and explains which kinds of adaptations offer the biggest return in terms of student learning. The book is organized by area—from classrooms to cafeterias—and is richly illustrated throughout, including “before and after” features, “smart idea” sidebars, and “do now” suggestions for practical first steps. It outlines key principles for designing spaces that support today’s learning needs and includes tools to help educators evaluate the educational effectiveness of their own spaces. Blueprint for Tomorrow will open educators’ eyes to the ways that architecture and learning are entwined and will challenge them to rethink the ways they teach and work together.

Author : Anne D. Neal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475808836
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's A Parent to Do? written by Anne D. Neal and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year over a million newly-minted high school graduates enroll in four-year colleges and universities across the country. They do so often after a lengthy and almost always stressful selection process. Faced with growing evidence of declining standards, rising political correctness and spiraling costs, families feel more powerless than ever before – and question whether a college degree is really the key to the American dream. What is a parent to do? This book provides an answer. Higher education expert Anne Neal offers families a concise guide to finding the right college. Rejecting the notion that reputation is everything, this guide offers insightful chapters on curricula and teaching, campus and dorm life, freedom of thought and speech, and affordability – issues that are more and more in the news. Families are given a handy checklist of questions designed to help them zero in on key issues of quality and cost to ensure a college program that will provide the skills and knowledge needed for success after graduation.