American Schools The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community

by Chaltain, Sam; O'Connor, Sandra Day

• ISBN13: 9781607092537
• ISBN10: 1607092530
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-16
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

In American Schools, Sam Chaltain interweaves the leading ideas from the education, business, and scientific communities to outline a framework for leadership that helps educators and organizational leaders create the optimal conditions for transformational change. By pairing a rich theoretical framework with the stories of communities that have, over several years, tried to create more democratic learning communities, Chaltain does what any reader of this book will have to do - provide enough structure to empower people to do their best work, and enough freedom so that each person's inherent creativity can be unleashed.

Table of Contents

About the Images	p. ix
Foreword Sandra Day O'Connor	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Prologue Ways of Seeing (and of Being Seen): The Art of the Democratic Learning Community	p. 3
Theory	p. 13
Reflect (or, take the time to know "who's there")	p. 15
Connect (or, make the connections that let you "see the whole board")	p. 33
Create (or, recognize that "people support only what they create")	p. 51
Equip (or, equip people with the understanding, motivation, and skills they need to see their new ideas through)	p. 69
	p. 85
Practice	p. 97
Fairview Elementary School (Modesto, California)	p. 99
Nursery Road Elementary School (Irmo, South Carolina)	p. 115
	p. 131
Epilogue Ways of Seeing (Teec Nos Pos, Arizonia)	p. 147
Index	p. 155
About the Author	p. 163
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