Renewal : remaking America's schools for the twenty-first century / Harold Kwalwasser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kwalwasser, Harold.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School improvement programs--United States.

School improvement programs.

United States.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Education--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education.

Education--Aims and objectives.

Physical Description:

xiv, 325 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2012]

Summary:

Harold Kwalwasser has put together a call to action for education reform that makes a clear case for what has to be done in order to educate all children to their full potential. He visited forty high-performing and transforming school districts, charters, parochial, and private schools to understand why they have succeeded where others have failed. The analysis in Renewal: Remaking America's Schools for the Twenty-First Century brings together all of the necessary changes in one dynamic strategy. Many schools, even though facing seemingly impossible odds, have succeeded brilliantly. But their histories also reflect that there are neither silver bullets nor demons. The heart of successful reform is systemic change, which requires the patience, understanding, and commitment of every adult who has a role in the process-from parents and taxpayers to school board members, superintendents, and teachers, and on to state legislators and members of Congress.

Renewal offers a clear picture of how to move away from the mass-production style of education that most schools offered throughout the twentieth century and instead move toward a new, more innovative and flexible model that can meet this country's promise of truly educating every child and preparing each of them for the challenges ahead. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Basics of School Reform 1

1 Management Theory 101 3

2 Human Relations 101 9

3 Politics 101 15

Part II Leaders 21

4 Superintendents 23

5 Principals 43

Part III Teachers 67

6 A Brave New World 69

7 Keeping-and Working with-Those You Have 73

8 Training New (and More) Teachers Inside the System 83

9 The Rest of Your Life-Good Teachers Can Always Get Better: The Professional Learning Community 95

10 Training New (and More) Teachers: Working the Pipeline into the Classroom 105

11 Creating More Alternative Training and Certification Programs 111

12 What Is a Good Teacher?: Evaluation in a Professional World 119

13 Tenure 133

14 Motivating Teachers: Is Pay the Be-All and End-All? 141

15 The Coleman Report Effect on Motivation: Do Teachers Have Low Expectations of Poor Kids? 159

16 The Special Challenge of Hard-to-Staff Schools 163

Part IV Customers 175

17 Do Not Lose Sight of the Student 177

18 Seeing Every Child for Who They Are, Not Who We Assume Them to Be-Replacing One Curriculum Taught One Way 187

19 Ending a System Designed to Lose Track of Kids-Paying Attention to Real Students, Not to the Assumptions We Make about Them 195

20 Assessing Students: Never Letting Them Fall Too Far Behind 209

21 Parents: One Half of a Confused Partnership 221

22 Parents: Long-Ignored Customers and Owners 239

Part V The Template: The Things High-Performing Schools Have in Common 245

23 Six Beliefs 247

24 Eight Practices 253

25 A Case Study in What It Takes to Fail 261

26 The Things Not Done 265

Part VI Beyond the School District: The Role of the States and Federal Government 269

27 The Role of the States 271

28 The Role of the Federal Government 275

Postscript: The Future of the American Public School System 281

29 The Education System We Need-the System of Schools We Want 283.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781610486873

1610486870

9781610486880

1610486889

9781610486897

1610486897

OCLC:

757485265