Systemic Literacy Change

ISBN-13: 9783639123616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str.

Edwina Frasca-Stuart

Opis

School reform is at the forefront of the nationalconversation on education; however, implementation ofsuch efforts proves to be challenging due to thecomplexity of change itself. Teaching schoolpractitioners about reform and its accompanyingchange process is crucial to successful changeefforts. It is also important to focus on knowing howteachers and administrators experience change sincepersonal interpretations of change affect reformoutcomes. Unfortunately, advocates, policy makers,and politicians often do not focus on thesignificance of these areas. Thus it was the intentof this book to do just that. Follow along as twoliteracy reform efforts, one a national reform effortand the second, a locally generated reform effort,cross paths in a poor, rural Pennsylvania schooldistrict. Read a clear and focused account of theexperiences of district personnel, as seen throughtheir eyes, as well as the steps that were followedto support implementation. Read the ten "LessonsLearned" that were based on the findings of theaccount and see how they provide an invaluable guidefor policy makers, administrators, and consultantsworking in school reform.

O autorze

Edwina Frasca-Stuart,D.Ed: studied Educational Leadership at the
Pennsylvania State University; Director, Staff and Program
Development at the Bucks County Intermediate Unit in Doylestown,
PA; co-author of "Initial Line of Inquiry for Academic Problems"
and the eMBEDDED LEARNING online course "Providing Instructional
Leadership in Early Literacy."