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9781891677106

Inside School Improvement : Creating High-Performing Learning Communities

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  • ISBN13:

    9781891677106

  • ISBN10:

    1891677101

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-08-01
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Summary

Provides practical tools, activities, and resources to create an improved environment for learning in the schools.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgment vii
About the Authors viii
Introduction: The Inside Story ix
How to Use This Book xix
Broadening the Learning Community
1(60)
School and Community: A Three-Part Invention
3(2)
School for Community: Tomorrow Is Another Day
5(10)
School within Community: Build It and They Will Come
15(15)
School as Community: The Ties That Bind
30(21)
Processes That Involve and Build Community
51(10)
Sharing Leadership for Learning
61(46)
The Journey from Cocksure Ignorance to Thoughtful Uncertainty: Reflections of an Elementary Principal
63(1)
Through the Looking Glass: From Control to Commitment
64(9)
The Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow
73(5)
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
78(2)
Making the Time
80(6)
Choosing a Boat to Row: Structures to Facilitate Shared Leadership
86(21)
Enriching the Learning Culture
107(62)
The Culture Puzzle: Parts, Patterns, & Possiblities
108(1)
Creating & Nurturing a Culture for Learning: Lessons Learned from Three Schools
109(7)
What If the Glass Slipper Fit Your School?
116(2)
Crystallizing the Vision
118(6)
Nurturing Norms and Strenghening Shared Beliefs
124(10)
Celebrations & Rituals: Special Moments in Time
134(11)
Stories and Storytellers: Capturing, Celebrating, and Learning from the Past
145(3)
Professional Development to Enrich the Learning Culture
148(17)
Looking at the Learning Culture in Your School
165(4)
Enabling Smart Learners
169(132)
Developing Smart Learners: What's It All About?
170(5)
Empowering Students to Achieve Success
175(20)
What Motivates Students to Learn---Extra Credit or Increased Connectedness?
195(9)
The Autonomous Learner: Competent and Self-Directed
204(8)
Answerable, Accountable, Trustworthy, Reliable, Dependable ... Responsible Means Much More than ``Doing As I Say to Do''
212(6)
Critical, Reflective, Considerate, Creative---The Many Faces of Thoughtfulness
218(15)
Using Assessment to Promote Smart Learning: The Big Picture
233(20)
Appendixes
Appendix A. Descriptions of Schools
253(16)
Appendix B. Quest Scholars
269(4)
Appendix C. Sample Observation Forms for Data in a Day
273(10)
Appendix D. Smart Parenting Excerpts
283(12)
Appendix E. Summaries of de Bono's Six Thinking Hats
295(6)
Bibliography 301

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