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Transforming Education: Realizing a Vision
Small Schools And the
Issue of Scale: Executive Summary Patricia Wasley
Just how effective are smaller high schools? Patricia Wasley shares the results
of the study, Small Schools
-- Great Strides.
Teacher Talk: Teachers
Building A Professional Community William Ayers
Teacher Talk, a regular gathering of classroom teachers to talk about teaching,
offers insight and collegiality to teachers and helps them to do an even better
job in the classroom.
Rethinking Education in
Light of Great Change S. J. Goerner
Goerner explains the complexity of the problems in education in order to help
correct them.
Organic EducationT: A
National Imperative Hugh Osborn
Educational consultant outlines principles from which to build a school system
that can prepare our kids for the 21st century.
Healing
Math Learners
George W. Gagnon,
Jr.
The metaphor of healing math wounds inflicted by poor curriculum, poor
instruction, and poor assessment is the basis of this essay on the current
condition and changes needed in math education.
North Carolina Education
Project Closes Achievement Gap Margaret Gayle
Bright IDEA, a program using gifted techniques to teach all children, is
achieving remarkable academic results for students at all ability levels in
North Carolina.
Maturing Outcomes
Arthur L. Costa and Robert J. Garmston
Arthur L. Costa and Robert J. Garmston present a systematic map of educational
outcomes intended for use by educational leaders. Students who can pursue broad
meanings are better able to become citizens who are ready to contribute to a
democratic society and a global community.
Class Size: Does It Really
Matter? Robert J. Rios
Robert J. Rios writes about overcrowded classrooms from his perspective as an
educator at an alternative school in New York City.
Keys to School
Success National Education Association
Identified factors that all high achieving schools have in common. Based on more
than five years of research by the NEA.
Learning, Learning
Organizations, and Leadership: Implications for the Year 2050 Jerry
Bamburg
The major issue that confronts educators in America is whether or not we can
transform education and create schools that can successfully prepare our
nation's students for life in the year 2050.
A New Crisis in America's
Schools Allan Kullen
No Child Left Behind requires school districts to meet the rigorous
standards set by the new law or risk losing millions of dollars in federal aid.
This has forced educators across the United States to choose between the basic
skills the legislation promotes and measures and the broader traditional
curriculum in which academic success is not always as easily assessed.
Understanding Why
Education Must Change Renate Nummela Caine and Geoffrey Caine
Researchers Renate and Geoffrey Caine offer their perspective based on current
brain research and analysis of pervasive assumptions that interfere with the
development of schools and learning organizations that work for all.
Beyond the Rhetoric of the
Achievement Gap Dr. Stephen Fink
The co-director of the University of Washington's Center for Leadership
addresses one of today's foremost challenges in education.
The Profound Knowledge
School Lewis A. Rhodes
W. Edwards Deming popularized the term "Profound Knowledge" to describe a base
of fundamental beliefs that provided the context for the ways he made sense of
organizations. More current terms for such framing beliefs are "paradigm" and "mental
model." Thus Deming's System of Profound Knowledge t is a systemic, holistic
core of fundamental beliefs about organizations -- and the people who comprise
them -- that frames the way one perceives, and operates in, the world.
Acceleration, Not
Remediation: Closing the Achievement Gap with AVID Strategies Robert Gira
How an international educational reform program is helping to close the
achievement gap.
Transforming Geography in
our Schools Kieran O'Mahony
We must perceive
the need for geography in a modern world where our very survival depends on
attitudes towards our planet and our neighbors.
Recommended
Reading
Transforming
Schools: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement Allison Zmuda,
Robert Kuklis, and Everett Kline
Romances
With Schools: A Life of Education John I. Goodlad
Education
for Everyone: Agenda for Education in a Democracy John Goodlad, Corinne
Mantle-Bromley, and Stephen John Goodlad
Inventions of
Teaching: A Genealogy Brent Davis
Creating the Future Dee Dickinson,
editor
The Happy Child: Changing the Heart of Education Steven Harrison
Awakening Genius Tom Armstrong
The
Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should Understand Howard Gardner
Engaging
Minds: Learning and Teaching in a Complex World Brent Davis, Dennis
Sumara and Rebecca Luce-Kapler
Lifelong
Learning in Action: Transforming Education for the 21st Century Norman
Longworth
Proceed With
Passion: Engaging Students in Meaningful Education Paul Cummins with Anna
Cummins and Emily Cummins
The Results
Fieldbook: Practical Strategies from Dramatically Improved Schools Mike
Schmoker
Teaching
Democracy: Unity and Diversity in Public Life Walter C. Parker
Victory in
Our Schools: We CAN Give Our Children Excellent Public Education John
Stanford.
Vision: How
Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century Machio Kaku
Teacher
Evaluation: to Enhance Professional Practice Charlotte Danielson and
Thomas L. McGreal
The Power of
Mindful Learning Ellen J. Langer
Teaching with
Power: Shared Decision-Making and Classroom Practice Carol J. Reed
Hooray for
Diffendoofer Day! Dr. Seuss, with some help from Jack Prelutsky and Lane
Smith
Kids and
School Reform Patricia Wasley, Robert Hampel, and Richard Clark
Related links
eMints National
Center
eMINTS changes how teachers teach and students learn. Its instructional model
provides a research-based approach to organizing instruction and can be
implemented in any subject area at any level.
The Center for Strengthening the
Teaching Profession
CSTP, pronounced "C-step" was founded in 2003 as an independent, non-profit
organization intent on helping students achieve by ensuring they have the
teachers they need.
Washington Alliance for
Better Schools
A partnership of the Edmonds, Everett, Federal Way, Highline, Kent, Lake
Washington, Mukilteo, Northshore, Seattle, Shoreline and Tukwila School
Districts and the University of Washington College of Education. The mission is
to raise the academic achievement levels of all students in their member school
districts, so that all students meet the rigorous new standards created by
Washington's 1993 school reform legislation.
Pathways to School
Improvement
Pathways to School Improvement Internet Server offers easy to find, concise,
research-based information on school improvement. The Pathways server provides
clear, accurate information on a variety of categories including: Assessment,
At-Risk Children and Youth, Goals and Standards, Governance/Management,
Leadership, Learning, Literacy, Mathematics, Parent and Family Involvement,
Professional Development, Safe and Drug-Free Schools, School-to-Work transition,
Science, and Technology.
Critical Questions:
- What kinds of
support are there for public schools in your community?
- Is there a
database of the individual and organizational resources available to your
local schools (i.e., individual skills and talents, organizations with
opportunities for internships and service projects, organizational and
institutional partnerships, and monetary resources)?
- How would you
characterize the educational systems in your area?
- From your
perspective, what positive changes in education are currently underway and
what changes are needed?
- How are you
catalyzing positive change or actively participating in the process?
Possible Actions:
- Become well
informed about the characteristics of excellent educational systems utilizing
some of the resources on the website and current issues of
The Journal.
- Share this
information with your colleagues, friends, and others interested in
educational change.
- Know your
national, state, and local school standards. You will find them on the
Internet.
- If a database
of resources for your school or school district does not yet exist, you may
wish to begin one through a collaborative effort.
- If a
database already exists, utilize it to form an alliance of individuals and
organizations interested in supporting your local school or district. (See
http://www.alliance4ed.org/ as an
example of how one was formed to support Seattle Public Schools.)
Leadership in
Education
Howard Gardner's
Definition of Leadership
We open with Gardner's definition of the term leader from his book
Leading
Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership.
The Courage to Lead: an
Equity Agenda Stephen Fink
Co-Director Steve Fink of the University of Washington's Center for Educational
Leadership explores the underlying structures causing the achievement gap and
challenges educators to create high quality educational systems for all.
Will the Real Leader
Please Stand Up? Kimberley McLeod
Texas Southern University Professor discusses the needs of Black students and
the role of school leaders in closing the achievement gap.
Leadership for Social
Justice: Envisioning an End to the Racial Achievement Gap Ed Taylor
Co-director Ed Taylor of the Center for Educational Leadership raises questions
regarding social justice in 2003, and explores why it is that despite decades of
school reform efforts children of color and children of poverty under-perform in
school.
Who's Responsible for
Closing the Achievement Gap? The role of School Leaders in Acknowledging and
Accepting the Challenge Jean L. Snell
The author suggests three essential steps for school leaders to take in
addressing long-standing educational inequities.
Getting Real About
Visionary Leadership for Progress in Education Scott Thompson
What is the distinction between a vision statement and the vision itself?
Thompson discusses how a vision's power is what stays in thought or heart when
one puts aside the words on paper.
Learning and Leading:
Rethinking District-School Relationships George S. Perry, Jr. and
Jennifer McDermott
The authors explore the struggles of central office administrators responsible
for supervising schools�an essential, yet often neglected, role in leading the
effort to redesign them.
The Role of Educational
Leadership in Ensuring Academic Success for Every Child Jill Jacoby
The executive director of a school administrators' association cites research on
successful school reform highlighting the power of the inclusive educational
family, recognizing and valuing the essential roles of teachers as well as
support staff including secretaries, assistants, bus drivers, food service staff,
and custodians.
The Way to Find a Teacher
Leader - Just Ask! Patricia Raichle
The author describes how a teachers' association has worked systematically to
open the eyes of teachers to their own potential for leadership and to help them
recognize that leadership takes many forms.
Leading with Hope and
Trust Michael Silver
A school superintendent discusses the importance of helping others to imagine
what is possible and, with an authentic voice, to ask who will care.
Alliance for
Education: Partner in Transforming Public Education Robin Pasquarella
The Director of the Alliance for Education describes the goal of the
organization in creating a system of schools with the conditions, culture, and
competencies to ensure that all young people are prepared to experience success
in the future.
Leadership for Democracy
in Schools:Charting a Different Course in Times of Uniform Standards and
External Accountability Andrew Rogers
A middle-school principal discusses how a democratic system that allows for
greater staff, student, and parent involvement in shared leadership can lead to
remarkable improvement in the school community.
Dialogue: A Paradigmatic
Shift in Communication Anne Adams
The author discuses how to bring people together to discuss our country, freedom,
unity, equality and our vision for the future.
Leadership at Every Level:
Appreciative Inquiry in Education Rich Henry
Through Appreciative Inquiry it is possible to recognize and amplify successes
and strengths that already exist and create a new image of the future that is so
compelling that we are drawn to it.
Introduction to the Report
A Decade of Reform Jeffrey T. Fouts
As we are barraged with results from tests on student achievement and data on
school progress, an educational researcher clarifies and combines test data for
Washington State and presents it in a non-technical format to make the findings
easily accessible.
NWIFTL:Learning
from a Six Year Professional Development Initiative
The Northwest Initiative for
Teaching and Learning was founded on the belief that collaboration is the key to
significant organizational change and school improvement. This report focuses on
the final phase of NWIFTL's successful work with partner schools.
Leaders for Learning
Pat Roschewski
The story of a new assessment system in the State of Nebraska where six
promising practices are making a difference in education.
Student Leadership Today
Grant Nelson
The student body president of a Washington State high school explains his views
that positive student leadership entails building community within a school.
Leadership: From a
Student's Point of View Chris Smith
For this Seattle Center School sophomore, student leadership equals individual
empowerment and less acceptance of the tyrannies of social cliques and peer
pressure.
Recommended Reading on Leadership in Education
Bibliography: Top Leadership Books Steve Boyd
Guiding Lights:
The People Who Lead us Toward Our Purpose in Life
Eric
Liu
Leading
Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership Howard Gardner
The Wounded
Leader: How Real Leadership Emerges in Times of Crisis Richard H.
Ackerman and Pat Maslin-Ostrowski
Learning to
Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith
Leading With
Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit
Lee
G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal
Leadership
Capacity for Lasting School Improvement Linda Lambert
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