Description
Product ID: | 9781412973854 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Realization |
Subtitle: | The Change Imperative for Deepening District-Wide Reform |
Authors: | Author: Lyn D. Sharratt, Michael Fullan |
Page Count: | 136 |
Subjects: | Educational administration and organization, Organization & management of education |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Written by an experienced district administrator who accomplished reform and an internationally recognized expert in large-scale educational change, this book offers 14 key parameters for realizing districtwide improvement. "Sharratt and Fullan are an educational dream team! The combination of Sharratt''s keen observations from her battle-tested district leadership experience and Fullan''s astute perspectives on the essential challenges of systemic reform produce fresh insights into the most difficult, yet most central challenges facing local education reformers today. Together the authors generate important new knowledge of how to sustain and deepen districtwide instructional reform beyond the first generation." A powerful approach to leading and sustaining districtwide change! Districtwide performance improvement requires a focus on capacity building, empowering colleagues throughout the organization to move change forward. Written by an experienced administrator who accomplished districtwide improvement on the ground and an internationally recognized expert in large-scale education reform, this compelling book outlines a step-by-step approach to implementing lasting, positive change across an entire district. This resource examines 13 research-based parameters for improving teacher and student performance, including advice on optimizing existing resources, and then introduces a 14th parameter—Realization—that goes beyond capacity building at the school and district level to systemwide change at the state level. Readers will find:
Help your district advance from vision to action to realization of student achievement! |
Imprint Name: | Corwin Press Inc |
Publisher Name: | SAGE Publications Inc |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2009-10-08 |