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What The Academy Taught Us: Improving Schools from the Bottom Up in a Top-Down Transformation Era (Paperback)
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What The Academy Taught Us: Improving Schools from the Bottom Up in a Top-Down Transformation Era (Paperback)
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Early in the 2000s, a high-school principal in Minnesota, Dr. Bob
Perdaems, faced a complex challenge. The demographics of his school
were shifting, political tensions in the surrounding communities
were rising, and, thanks to the No Child Left Behind Act's new
testing and accountability requirements, his school's performance
was soon to be scrutinized more intensely and more publicly than
ever before. While he had several visions of how his school could
continuously improve through these realities, however, he had no
additional budget to bring his ideas to life.Undaunted, Dr. Bob set
to creating school improvements the best way he knew how--and that,
of course, he could afford: he prioritized his school's areas for
growth, found teachers who would lend minds and hands, and gathered
them to look at the blueprints. What the Academy Taught Us is a
book about the collaborative school-improvement culture Dr. Bob
created in his Minnesota high school: the principles that initiated
it, the collective effort that kept it running, and the lasting
effects it had on its teachers and students. The book also
brilliantly explores how bottom-up approaches like Dr. Bob's fare
in the current era, which seeks to transform schools through more
top-down and 'disruptive' means. Ultimately, What the Academy
Taught Us offers today's educators a way forward. While largely
viewing the difficult work of school improvement through the prism
of a single school, it presents abundant recommendations about how
schools everywhere can build effective and continuous improvement
from the bottom up.
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