Harness the Power of Reflection : Continuous School Improvement from the Front Office to the Classroom

by Ron Nash

• ISBN13: 9781412992671
• ISBN10: 1412992672
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-07
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

Harness the Power of Reflections aims to get students engaged and passionate about their own learning by first getting teachers and administrators involved in a continuous-improvement professional development program. Going beyond the classroom and into the offices of school personnel, this book stresses the importance of each educator's own continuous-improvement journey as a means of best serving the needs of students. This book provides a framework for evaluating a school organization and processes a school can implement in order to foster organizational dedication to ongoing, schoolwide improvement.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. iv
Acknowledgments	p. x
About the Author	p. xii
Prologue	p. xiii
Going Viral With Improvement	p. 1
Change and the Status Quo	p. 17
School Environment as Accelerant	p. 35
Classroom Environment as Accelerant	p. 51
Systematizing Process Improvement in the Classroom	p. 68
Facilitating the Long Haul	p. 88
Not Waiting for the ôGo!ö	p. 108
Asking Questions and Getting Started	p. 121
Epilogue	p. 141
Processes Into Systems: Building Level	p. 146
Building-Level Improvement Example	p. 156
Processes Into Systems: Classroom Level	p. 159
Classroom-Level Improvement Examples	p. 169
References	p. 175
Index	p. 177
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