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Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation's
largest cities, American School Reform offers one of the clearest
assessments of school reform as it has played out in our recent
history. Joseph P. McDonald and his colleagues evaluate the
half-billion-dollar Annenberg Challenge - launched in 1994 -
alongside many other large-scale reform efforts that have taken
place in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay
Area. They look deeply at what school reform really is, how it
works, how it fails, and what differences it can make nonetheless.
McDonald and his colleagues lay out several interrelated ideas in
what they call a theory of action space. Frequently education
policy gets so ambitious that implementing it becomes a near
impossibility. Action space, however, is what takes shape when
talented educators, leaders, and reformers guide the social capital
of civic leaders and the financial capital of governments,
foundations, corporations, and other backers toward true results.
Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation's
largest cities, American School Reform offers one of the clearest
assessments of school reform as it has played out in our recent
history. Joseph P. McDonald and his colleagues evaluate the
half-billion-dollar Annenberg Challenge - launched in 1994 -
alongside many other large-scale reform efforts that have taken
place in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay
Area. They look deeply at what school reform really is, how it
works, how it fails, and what differences it can make nonetheless.
McDonald and his colleagues lay out several interrelated ideas in
what they call a theory of action space. Frequently education
policy gets so ambitious that implementing it becomes a near
impossibility. Action space, however, is what takes shape when
talented educators, leaders, and reformers guide the social capital
of civic leaders and the financial capital of governments,
foundations, corporations, and other backers toward true results.
Since it was first invented, Americans have been trying to
re-design the American high school. One of the latest approaches -
funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - is to find
inventive high school designs that work well in one location and
replicate them in other locations. The authors of this book
followed a design team from Big Picture Learning as it worked to do
exactly this, recording the challenges it faced, and the strategies
it employed. Their accessible and entertaining account of Big
Picture's work is laced with stories about 'scaling up' by other
school design teams, and in other enterprises beyond high school.
Based on careful research, the book is both a practical guide to a
new dimension of school reform, and also an interesting read for
anyone interested in school change.
This book examines a policy that is one of the most powerful levers
to improve teaching quality and advance teaching as a profession.
Jennifer Goldstein presents the story of Rosemont, an urban
district in California that created ""professional accountability""
with peer assistance and review (PAR), an alternative approach to
teacher evaluation in which expert teachers evaluate their teacher
peers. It challenges a number of long-held beliefs and practices in
education-- adversarial labor relations, ""being nice,"" hierarchy,
isolation, and negligence--to achieve very different teacher
evaluation outcomes. This timely and accessible volume: Chronicles
a rare case of a teacher union and school district partnering to
improve teacher quality and teacher evaluation. Presents the most
detailed study of PAR implementation, including its processes,
challenges, and outcomes. Summarizes the state of PAR
implementation across the country in an afterword by Susan Moore
Johnson.
Many users of the popular professional development book, The Power
of Protocols, discovered that protocols are also very useful for
online teaching. This new book, by three of the same authors,
focuses on using protocols to enhance learning with their students
in multiple environments including online-a growing sector of the
educational world. Going Online with Protocols lays out the diverse
challenges faced by teachers and by facilitators in the online
world and provides readers with strategies to tackle them. The
authors provide online adaptations for such traditional protocols
as the Tuning Protocol, the Collaborative Assessment Conference,
and the Consultancy Protocol. They also offer entirely new
protocols unique to online environments. This dynamic resource
combines a rich theoretical background with step-by-step
illustrations of powerful protocols, along with tips on how and
when to use them.
This inspiring book reveals the invisible inner landscapes of how
educators teach children from a variety of backgrounds to meet the
challenging expectations of today's standards without sacrificing
support for their developmental needs or their diverse ways of
learning. Featuring 'images of possibility' from an urban school,
it describes effective, child-centered teaching in pre-K through
fifth grade. Each image is analyzed for the educational decisions
that took place to make the experience effective, including the
planning involved, the classroom environment and routines that
supported it, how standards were addressed, how the teacher
assessed student learning to shape instruction, and the impact on
students. This practical resource is a must-read for pre- and
in-service teachers and anyone committed to helping inner-city
children succeed in school and beyond.
Since it was first invented, Americans have been trying to
re-design the American high school. One of the latest approaches -
funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - is to find
inventive high school designs that work well in one location and
replicate them in other locations. The authors of this book
followed a design team from Big Picture Learning as it worked to do
exactly this, recording the challenges it faced, and the strategies
it employed. Their accessible and entertaining account of Big
Picture's work is laced with stories about 'scaling up' by other
school design teams, and in other enterprises beyond high school.
Based on careful research, the book is both a practical guide to a
new dimension of school reform, and also an interesting read for
anyone interested in school change.
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