The Essential Renewal of America's Schools: A Leadership Guide for Democratizing Schools from the Inside Out

ISBN-13: 9780807764022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 146 str.

Carl Glickman; Ian Mette

Spis treści

• Prologue ix
• Preface xi
• Acknowledgments xiii
• 1. Introduction: Recapturing the Essence of Schools 1
• The Fork in the Road 1
• Whipping American Public Schools with External Control 2
• Being Real 3
• Recapturing the Goal of American Public Schools 4
• A Reframing of the Work 6
• Ordinary Good People Doing Extraordinary Good Work 7
• PART I: A RENEWED FRAMEWORK FOR DEMOCRATIZING SCHOOLS FROM THE INSIDE OUT
• 2. The Promise: Establishing Common Principles of Teaching and Learning 11
• Schools as Successful Organizations 12
• Traditions of (Mis)Education 15
• Existing Conditions as a Forum for Discussion: Types of Schools 17
• Developing the Promise 19
• Principles of Learning 21
• What to Do with the Promise 23
• 3. The Pledge: Creating a Commitment to Make Decisions as a Community 24
• Developing a Decisionmaking Process 25
• Guiding Rules of Decisionmaking 25
• Locus of Control 26
• Factors Impacting Democracy in Schools 27
• The Ideal Governing Rules 29
• Navigating Between Ideal and Reality 32
• What Type of Governance? 33
• Representative, Direct, and Hybrid Governance 34
• Why Do This? 35
• If Not Us, Then Whom? 37
• Focus on Governance 38
• A Final Note About Formality and Procedures 38
• 4. Problem Solving: Community-Based Action Research to Drive Student Learning 40
• The Critical Self-Study Process 41
• Raising Community-Based Questions to Drive Action Research 41
• Data Sources for Self-Study 42
• An American Tendency: Action Without Study 45
• Infusion of Information 46
• Ways to Gather Information 47
• Giving Voice 49
• PART II: THE WORK OF SCHOOL RENEWAL
• 5. Educational Priorities and Organizational Application 53
• Curriculum Development and Implementation 54
• Staff Professional Development 56
• Instructional Coaching 57
• Student Assessment and Outcomes 58
• Instructional Resources 59
• Implementing New Practices 61
• Stages of Concern 62
• Blurring of Tasks 63
• Departmental and Grade-Level Plans 64
• 6. Becoming an Educative Community 66
• Change and the Shadows of Our Own Caves 66
• Understanding (De)Motivating Factors: Approaches to School Change 67
• Developmental Needs 69
• Sociocultural Differences 71
• Getting Started 73
• The Need to Identify and Act on Inequity 74
• 7. Dealing with Tough Questions of Practice 75
• With Freedom Comes Responsibility 76
• Moral Authority; Not Imposed Formal Authority 79
• Diversification vs. Competition 80
• The Ability of a Principal to Mobilize 82
• Opportunities to Engage the Larger Community 83
• Why Opportunities Are at the Heart of Renewing American Schools 84
• The Continuum of Renewal 86
• 8. Supporting School Renewal: Important Signals from the District 88
• The Politics of a School Board and District Personnel 88
• Opportunities to Empower 89
• An Age-Old Issue: Equality vs. Equity 91
• Democratic Use of Economic Principles 92
• Developing a District Plan for School Renewal 93
• Fade Away or Facilitation? 96
• Issues in Developing District Policies 96
• The Morality of Decentralization 98
• PART III: MOVING BEYOND IDEAS AND INTO ACTION
• 9. Dilemmas of Good Schools: Pinpointing and Moving On 103
• The Issue of Time 103
• External Regulations 104
• Voice 106
• Coordinating with Other Schools 108
• Dependence on External Authorities 109
• Sequence, Emphasis, and the Pace of Educational Change 110
• Dysfunctional Behavior 112
• Dilemmas and Decisions 114
• 10. Conclusion: If Not Now, Then When? 115
• How to Take This Book and Run with It 116
• Restructuring Policy 118
• A Sobering Appraisal of the Need to Focus 119
• Believing 120
• Appendix A: Sample Pledge to Democratic Governance 123
• Appendix B: The Peakview School Pledge 129
• Appendix C: A Sample of a Process for Decentralizing Authority to Local Schools by a District and State Invitational Policy 131
• References 135
• Index 139
• About the Authors 145