Holding sacred ground : essays on leadership, courage, and endurance in our schools / Carl D. Glickman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glickman, Carl D.

Series:

Jossey-Bass education series

The Jossey-Bass education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational leadership--United States.

Educational leadership.

Democracy--Study and teaching.

United States.

School improvement programs--United States.

School improvement programs.

Education--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education.

Education--Aims and objectives.

Democracy--Study and teaching--United States.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

xx, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2003]

Summary:

What must school leaders think about and practice, asks Carl D. Glickman, if all students are to have a truly democratic education -- an education that will equip each student with the knowledge, skills, and applications to become wise, caring, and participatory citizens of an improving democratic society? To develop and implement such an education for all students at all grade levels takes thought, courage, and savvy leadership. In this collection of essays spanning writings from 1977 to the present, Glickman shows how this can be accomplished.

Glickman draws from his more than fifteen years of experience as director of a nationally validated school improvement program with more than one hundred diverse K-12 schools, and more recently, his two years spent examining some of the most successful progressive schools in the United States. He offers proven advice on leadership formats, approaches, and strategies for enhancing teacher thinking and collective action and provides specific examples of curriculum, methods, and strategies for improving student achievement while building citizen capabilities. He explains the types of standards and policies that can protect unique schools and document success for students. And he shows how sustaining progressive schools over the long haul offers the greatest hope for reinvigorating an informed and caring citizenry.

In addition to the previously published essays culled from more than one hundred articles and twelve books written over the past twenty-five years, the author has included four new essays that provide vivid contemporary cases of school practice from some of the country's most successful and enduring progressive public schools. These cases give clear illustration to the author's central ideas of school leadership, courage, and endurance.

Contents:

Part 1 Great Schools

1. More Than a Donation: Education with Public Purpose 3

2. Leadership for Navigating Great American Schools 11

3. Sustaining a "Sacred" Education: Symbols, Stories, and Ceremonies 27

Part 2 School Renewal: Ironies and Challenges

4. Good Schools and Effective Schools: What Do We Want? 41

5. Pretending Not to Know What We Know 47

6. Pushing School Reform to a New Edge: The Seven Ironies of School Empowerment 65

7. Unlocking School Reform: Uncertainty as a Condition of Professionalism 87

Part 3 Instructional Leadership

8. The Essence of School Renewal: The Prose Has Begun 95

9. Developing Teacher Thought 105

10. Looking at Classroom Teaching and Learning 123

11. The Supervisor's Challenge: Changing the Teacher's Work Environment 145

Part 4 Teaching, Learning, and Service

12. Democratic Education: Judy and the Dance 153

13. Listening to Students 175

14. Co-Reform as an Approach to Change in Education: The Origin of Revolution 191

Part 5 Standards, Policies, and Authority

15. Open Accountability for the 1990s: Between the Pillars 209

16. Holding Sacred Ground: The Impact of Standardization 219

17. Dichotomizing Education: Why No One Wins and America Loses 233

18. Standards, Freedom, and Authority: Systemic Sense About Schools

A Commissioned Proposal to the Georgia Governor's Commission on Educational Reform 245

Part 6 The Crux of Education, Democracy, and the Future of Our Place

19. Revolution, Education, and the Practice of Democracy 265

20. A Discourse on Education and Democracy 277

A. Original Essay: Educational Leadership for Democratic Purpose: What Do We Mean?

B. Commentary: The Grave Dangers in the Discourse on Democracy

C. Commentary: A Response to the Discourse on Democracy: A Dangerous Retreat

21. Going Public: The Imperative of Public Education in the Twenty-First Century 301

22. The Long Haul: Progressive Education and Keeping the Faith 313

Appendix A Has Sam and Samantha's Time Come at Last? 325

Appendix B Reflections on Facilitating School Improvement: Issues of Value 339.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-350) and index.

ISBN:

0787956716

OCLC:

50982388