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9780787956103

Inventing Better Schools An Action Plan for Educational Reform

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  • ISBN13:

    9780787956103

  • ISBN10:

    0787956104

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-02-05
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass

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Summary

Schlechty shows both educators and parents how to envision reform and design quality educational systems. He explains how the visioning process must be rooted in real shared beliefs, how mission statements must unpack visions into concrete goals that are connected to action, and how the results of reform can be usefully assessed. Drawing on the author's vast experience in the day-to-day work of implementing school reform, Inventing Better Schools offers new approaches for setting standards and ensuring accountability--and includes samples of actual mission statements and strategic plans of successful school districts.

Author Biography

PHILLIP C. SCHLECHTY is founder and CEO of the Center for Leadership in School Reform. The creator of some of the nation's most innovative professional development programs for educators, he has been the recipient of the American Federation of Teachers Quest Citation and the American Educational Research Association's Professional Service Award. Schlechty is the author of Schools for the 21st Century and Shaking Up the School House.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xix
The Author xxi
The Never-Ending Story
1(16)
The Need for Invention
17(9)
The Technological Imperative
26(15)
Producing Knowledge Work
41(19)
Beliefs, Vision, and Mission
60(17)
Assessing District Capacity
77(23)
Creating the Capacity to Support Change
100(34)
Changing the System
134(36)
Working on the Work
170(16)
Measuring What Matters Most
186(18)
Leading the Change Process
204(18)
Inventing the Future: The Task Before Us
222(61)
Appendixes: Action Plans for School Restructuring
A Memphis City Schools, Memphis, Tennessee
239(18)
B Phillipsburg School District, Phillipsburg, New Jersey: School District Profile Team Report
257(26)
References 283(4)
Index 287

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