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The School Leader's Guide to Learner-Centered Education - From Complexity to Simplicity (Paperback)
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The School Leader's Guide to Learner-Centered Education - From Complexity to Simplicity (Paperback)
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In the context of the current accountability and testing era, many
school leaders have become fearful and feel disenfranchised. Their
knowledge and experience are not being validated, and often they
are forced to engage in practices that go contrary to what they
know will provide a positive school climate and culture for their
staff and students. This book will introduce a model of leadership
as part of a transformation process arising from a learner-centered
system. Among the issues considered by educational leaders as the
most pressing are:the relationship between moral leadership and
school change (based on an ethic of responsibility for preparing
all learners to function in a global worlddiversity: the role of
school leaders to promote success for all marginalized groups of
studentspersonalizing learning and authentically engaging students
to make school more effective for all learnersincorporating
learning standards and high expectations without sacrificing the
personal and authentic engagement with studentsThis book addresses
each of these concerns from the perspective of learner-centered
systems, in which leaders distribute leadership among key
constituents in the educational systemustudents, teachers, other
school staff, parents, community membersuand empower them to engage
in a lifelong learning process of continuous growth and
improvement.aIt also provides a detailed and comprehensive
treatment of LCP, as well as helpful exercises and tools that can
be applied to practice.
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