Creating The Schools Our Children Need

Author : Dylan Wiliam
Publisher : Learning Sciences International
ISBN 13 : 9781943920334
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Creating the Schools Our Children Need written by Dylan Wiliam and published by Learning Sciences International. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research shows school improvement initiatives are most effective when they come from the district level, rather than the state. While there is no one solution to school improvement that holds true in every classroom every time, there are two clearly identified aspects that improve the odds of school success: implementing a curriculum focused on developing knowledge, and supporting a culture where every teacher improves.In Creating the Schools Our Children Need, Dr. Dylan Wiliam outlines a framework for evaluating new district initiatives, and guides school boards, administrators, and district leaders through a breakdown of why what we¿re doing right now isn¿t working, and what we need to be doing instead.

Author : Alfie Kohn
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618083459
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Schools Our Children Deserve written by Alfie Kohn and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing against the tougher standards rhetoric that marks the current education debate, the author of No Contest and Punished by Rewards writes that such tactics squeeze the pleasure out of learning. Reprint.

Author : Thomas Hatch
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1071838504
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Education We Need for a Future We Can′t Predict written by Thomas Hatch and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve Schools and Transform Education In order for educational systems to change, we must reevaluate deep-seated beliefs about learning, teaching, schooling, and race that perpetuate inequitable opportunities and outcomes. Hatch, Corson, and Gerth van den Berg challenge the narrative when it comes to the "grammar of schooling"--or the conventional structures, practices, and beliefs that define educational experiences for so many children—to cast a new vision of what school could be. The book addresses current systemic problems and solutions as it: Highlights global examples of successful school change Describes strategies that improve educational opportunities and performance Explores promising approaches in developing new learning opportunities Outlines conditions for supporting wide-scale educational improvement This provocative book approaches education reform by highlighting what works, while also demonstrating what can be accomplished if we redefine conventional schools. We can make the schools we have more efficient, more effective, and more equitable, all while creating powerful opportunities to support all aspects of students’ development. "You won’t find a better book on system change in education than this one. We learn why schools don’t change; how they can improve; what it takes to change a system; and, in the final analysis, the possibilities of system change. Above all, The Education We Need renders complexity into clarity as the writing is so clear and compelling. A powerful read on a topic of utmost importance." ~Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, OISE/Universtiy of Toronto "I cannot recommend this book highly enough – Tom tackles long-standing and emerging educational issues in new ways with an impressive understanding of the challenging complexities, but also feasible possibilities, for ensuring excellence and equity for all students." ~Carol Campbell, Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Author : William G. Ouchi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Making Schools Work written by William G. Ouchi and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This program has produced significant, lasting improvements in the school districts where it has already been implemented. Drawing on the results of a landmark study of 223 schools in six cities, a project that Ouchi supervised and that was funded in part by the National Science Foundation, Making Schools Work shows that a school's educational performance may be most directly affected by how the school is managed."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Phillip C. Schlechty
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Creating Great Schools written by Phillip C. Schlechty and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2005-02-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping educational leaders sustain continuous innovation and improvement in schools, this text presents a framework for understanding the norms, behaviours and structures that make school systems so intractable to change.

Author : Ted Spear Phd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781999174408
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Education Reimagined written by Ted Spear Phd and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Ted Spear started his own independent school because he was impatient with what he believed to be the shortcomings of our contemporary system. He was frustrated by the structural faults in our current educational model that make it difficult-despite the best intentions of teachers and administrators-to offer students an education that is worthy of the name. He believes, for example, that our assessment system, which celebrates the "good" student and disenfranchises the "bad," decisively fails to discover and develop the unique strengths and interests of not only the disenfranchised but of all our students. The result, he says, is a colossal waste of the human spirit. Spear argues that the fundamental purpose of K-12 education is "to equip and inspire students to cultivate their humanity." His thought-provoking book is both a clarion calland a practical guidefor making schools more powerful, authentic, and worthwhile than they have ever been. Building on his experience creating and running an innovative and highly successful school, Spear describes the structural and operational changes that can make the dream of "authentic education" a reality. This is a must-read book for parents who want more powerful schools for their kids, and for educators who know something is not quite right with the current state of affairs but cannot quite put their finger on the problem. For parents, it lifts the veil on the challenges and possibilities of contemporary education and recruits them as essential allies in improving schools. For educators, it shows them the operational changes they can make that will untie their hands so they can follow their deepest intuitions about what they know to be most important about grade school education. It is a book that will change the way we think about schools.

Author : Linda Darling-Hammond
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Right to Learn written by Linda Darling-Hammond and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1997-05-12 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This well-organized and meticulously documented book presents an agenda for re-creating public education. "-Washington Post "Darling-Hammond's central claim is well worth listening to. "-New York Times Book Review Classrooms and schools centered on learning and learners are intellectually rigorous places, exciting and humane.

Author : Kyle Greenwalt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789463004725
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Home/Schooling written by Kyle Greenwalt and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, social reformers took hold of an already existing institution-the school-and sought to make it compulsory. In the process, they supplanted parents and domestic life-the home-as the primary educational force for children. As education was taken out of the home, American classrooms were at the same time remade into a particular kind of home life-one based upon a sentimentalized maternity, where love can always triumph over the "public" and "masculine" forces of competition, merit, and hierarchy. And so love entered into the discourse of teaching ... In this model, a good teacher loves her students. She makes her classroom into a home. Like a good mother, she sacrifices for them, enduring long hours of isolation, low pay, and little public support or recognition. Students, in their turn, should love their teacher. To please her, they should learn the values that would sustain a more virtuous republic. Parenting, through all of this, was redefined as a private activity. Battle lines were drawn and the stakes were love, learning and control. It doesn't need to be this way. It is time to rethink the ways in which parents and teachers interact with one another. It is time to redefine "homeschooling" as something all families engage in and that all public schools should seek to support.

Author : Chris Lehmann
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118222679
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Building School 2.0 written by Chris Lehmann and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninety-five propositions for creating more relevant, more caring schools There is a growing desire to reexamine education and learning. Educators use the phrase "school 2.0" to think about what schools will look like in the future. Moving beyond a basic examination of using technology for classroom instruction, Building School 2.0: How to Create the Schools We Need is a larger discussion of how education, learning, and our physical school spaces can—and should—change because of the changing nature of our lives brought on by these technologies. Well known for their work in creating Science Leadership Academy (SLA), a technology-rich, collaborative, learner-centric school in Philadelphia, founding principal Chris Lehmann and former SLA teacher Zac Chase are uniquely qualified to write about changing how we educate. The best strategies, they contend, enable networked learning that allows research, creativity, communication, and collaboration to help prepare students to be functional citizens within a modern society. Their model includes discussions of the following key concepts: Technology must be ubiquitous, necessary, and invisible Classrooms must be learner-centric and use backwards design principles Good technology can be better than new technology Teachers must serve as mentors and bring real-world experiences to students Each section of Building School 2.0 presents a thesis designed to help educators and administrators to examine specific practices in their schools, and to then take their conclusions from theory to practice. Collectively, the theses represent a new vision of school, built off of the best of what has come before us, but with an eye toward a future we cannot fully imagine.

Author : Ted Dintersmith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069118061X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book What School Could Be written by Ted Dintersmith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring account of teachers in ordinary circumstances doing extraordinary things, showing us how to transform education What School Could Be offers an inspiring vision of what our teachers and students can accomplish if trusted with the challenge of developing the skills and ways of thinking needed to thrive in a world of dizzying technological change. Innovation expert Ted Dintersmith took an unprecedented trip across America, visiting all fifty states in a single school year. He originally set out to raise awareness about the urgent need to reimagine education to prepare students for a world marked by innovation--but America's teachers one-upped him. All across the country, he met teachers in ordinary settings doing extraordinary things, creating innovative classrooms where children learn deeply and joyously as they gain purpose, agency, essential skillsets and mindsets, and real knowledge. Together, these new ways of teaching and learning offer a vision of what school could be—and a model for transforming schools throughout the United States and beyond. Better yet, teachers and parents don't have to wait for the revolution to come from above. They can readily implement small changes that can make a big difference. America's clock is ticking. Our archaic model of education trains our kids for a world that no longer exists, and accelerating advances in technology are eliminating millions of jobs. But the trailblazing of many American educators gives us reasons for hope. Capturing bold ideas from teachers and classrooms across America, What School Could Be provides a realistic and profoundly optimistic roadmap for creating cultures of innovation and real learning in all our schools.