Changing Education Systems: A Research-based Approach

Education & Teaching

Ainscow, Mel

Chapman, Christopher

Hadfield, Mark

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

As countries seek to develop their education systems, achieving sustainable improvements amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds remains a major challenge. This has considerable implications for those in the research community as they seek to influence developments in the field. Drawing on the authors' extensive experiences as researchers, policy advisers and influencers, Changing Education Systems offers key insights on how to promote equity within education systems. Exploring three large-scale national reform programmes, the book: <ul> <li>Presents a series of propositions that are the basis of a research-based approach to system change</li> <li>Explains the creation of relationships in which academic researchers collaborate in the process of development</li> <li>Considers smaller place-based projects that are set within policy contexts dominated by the idea of market forces as a strategy for improvement</li> <li>Explores the steps needed to overcome locally specific barriers</li> </ul> Changing Education Systems is a must-read for policy-makers and practitioners involved in educational reforms, as well as researchers wishing to contribute to and learn from such developments.

Educational Equity

Focusing on what can be done to promote equity within education systems, what the barriers to progress are and how these barriers might be overcome, this book provides detailed examples of strategies that have proved to be effective in addressing this challenge. Built on the work of the authors over the last three decades, the book presents an approach to educational change that will be relevant to different countries. 
The authors argue that there is untapped potential for promoting progress towards greater equity within schools and the communities they serve. They also show how this potential can be mobilised by using forms of collaborative action research to stimulate the development of more inclusive ways of working. Central to this approach is the use of evidence collected by practitioners with the support of university researchers, drawing on the human resources that are there in every school. 
Grounded in research, evidence and experience in the field, this book is ideal reading for a wide audience of practitioners and policy makers globally, including senior staff in schools, as well as post-graduate students, researchers and academics who are focusing on educational improvement.

In a complex and multi-layered world, the conventional idea of great leadership being the result of the efforts of a single individual is rapidly becoming redundant. This book takes up the challenge of finding an alternative method of leadership in educational contexts, and looks at how this can help achieve sustained improvement in schools. The authors acknowledge that there are no simple solutions to school improvement. They argue that the effective leaders of the future will be those who are able to share responsibility, build positive relationships and offer stakeholders - teachers, parents and students - an opportunity to work together to improve their schools. The book is based around four key areas of concern: the changing context of leadership, leadership and school improvement, building leadership capacity, and future direction and implications. In each section, the authors discuss current theories and issues, and put forward alternative ideas and perspectives. This important book will make valuable reading for headteachers, principles, deputies and other senior teachers, particularly those undertaking leadership qualifications and training. It will also be of interest to postgraduate students and school governors.

Effective Leadership for School Improvement (School Leadership)

Business & Money

Hargreaves, Andy

Day, Christopher

Hopkins,David

Harris, Alma.

Management & Leadership

Leading School-based Networks

The persistent challenge of achieving excellence and equity within education systems has renewed interest in generating context-specific solutions through localised school networks. But how can successful school networks be developed?  Based around the lifecycle of a network, this book traces the development of a network from its initial inception, exploring the ways in which it can be sustained and remain capable of meeting the future challenges faced by schools and their communities. The book explores a series of important issues facing school leaders, including:   the benefits of investing time and energy in networks with other schools and communities   the particular problems faced by schools and the education system which are best tackled by network-based solutions   the advantages for schools and communities of engaging with collaborative reform agenda   the ways in which networks can be managed, and the differences between leading a school or a team and a network   the elements which make an effective network.  The book draws on UK and international research to discuss the development and leadership of networks and to outline a number of tried-and-tested leadership approaches. In addition, the authors draw on their own experience and research to provide accounts of real networks to expose the realities of networking. Each chapter tackles a key leadership issue and ends with a series of tools to support those leading and facilitating networks tackle these in practice. This book will be of interest to practising school leaders, network co-ordinators, postgraduate students and those researching educational leadership and school improvement.

The persistent challenge of achieving excellence and equity within education systems has renewed interest in generating context-specific solutions through localised school networks. But how can successful school networks be developed? Based around the lifecycle of a network, this book traces the development of a network from its initial inception, exploring the ways in which it can be sustained and remain capable of meeting the future challenges faced by schools and their communities. The book explores a series of important issues facing school leaders, including: <ul>
<li>the benefits of investing time and energy in networks with other schools and communities</li> <li>the particular problems faced by schools and the education system which are best tackled by network-based solutions</li> <li>the advantages for schools and communities of engaging with collaborative reform agenda</li> <li>the ways in which networks can be managed, and the differences between leading a school or a team and a network</li> <li>the elements which make an effective network.</li> </ul>
The book draws on UK and international research to discuss the development and leadership of networks and to outline a number of tried-and-tested leadership approaches. In addition, the authors draw on their own experience and research to provide accounts of real networks to expose the realities of networking. Each chapter tackles a key leadership issue and ends with a series of tools to support those leading and facilitating networks tackle these in practice. This book will be of interest to practising school leaders, network co-ordinators, postgraduate students and those researching educational leadership and school improvement.

The International Handbook of Educational Effectiveness and Improvement draws together leading academics and researchers in the field to reflect on the history, traditions and the most recent developments in this dynamic and influential field. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of: <ul>
<li>the foundations of the field </li> <li>the evolution of educational effectiveness theory and methodology</li> <li>the links with other research disciplines</li> <li>the links between policy and practice. </li> </ul> In conclusion, the handbook sets out a new agenda for future educational effectiveness research. This handbook is an essential resource for those interested in the effectiveness of educational systems, organisations and classrooms. It offers academics, researchers, students and policy-makers new insights into the latest thinking and evidence about educational effectiveness.

The Routledge International Handbook of Educational Effectiveness and Improvement: Research, policy, and practice (Routledge International Handbooks of Education)

Muijs, Daniel

REYNOLDS, David

Teddlie, Charles

Sammons, Pam

High-Leverage Leadership: Improving Outcomes in Educational Settings (Leading School Transformation)

Globalisation of world trade, international media, technological innovation and social change are creating opportunities and challenges that today’s pupils will inherit and build on. A pupil’s academic, technical and social capacity will define their success or failure. Therefore, educational outcomes and well-being for young people across emerging and developed economies and the crucial role of education and leaders of education has never been more important. Schools are under pressure to think more clearly about their place in children’s lives beyond the passage of learning in classrooms. The processes inside schools, the organisation of school systems and the relationship between communities’ educators are critical elements in a complex mix that must balance correctly if it is to benefit school children properly. Using the term ’high leverage leadership‘ to describe leadership that is associated with higher outcomes than would normally be found in similar contexts, this timely book: <ul>
<li>Provides an overview of the development of educational leadership research</li> <li>Demonstrates how successful educational leaders apply contextual, social and professional expertise to the three distinctive leadership tasks of navigation, management and partnership</li> <li>Offers an insight into the complexity of the educational leadership and practices of school leaders who, against the odds, produce high outcomes for young people</li> <li>Validates the idea that a renovation of educational leadership is necessary to maximise educational outcomes. </li> </ul> High Leverage Leadership will be an indispensible text for school leaders, public sector officers, post-graduate students and researchers in leadership, policy, school improvement and educational change.

Mongon, Denis

Higher & Continuing Education

It happened. He’s met her, and she is it. She’s not merely the one he tells all his buddies about, or the one where he wants to call his mother and entire family. She is…the one. She’s the one. The one that he dreams about, the one he can’t stop talking and thinking about. The one that makes his face warm, the one that makes him hear his racing pulse, pounding heart, and brain overloading from all the processing power it’s devoting merely to thoughts of her. She’s the one he’d actually, and literally, do anything for. She is his soul mate, and the cosmos has been telling him this since the day he first saw her. The problem is…he doesn’t realize it until she’s gone. Kyle comes from a middle-upper class family in the United States, while she is a product of the Soviet Union. He hates high school, but she’s a brilliant astronomy student. He leads the typical life of an eighteen year old, but she has a troubled and mysterious past. They meet in 1990, in the Florida Keys. He is getting lifeguard certified, while she is a new counselor at a summer camp. The world, the universe, and fate were trying to tell him, but he didn’t listen. He let her go, and now, he can’t go on. They met in the Keys, but maybe they’ve met before.

The Picnic Table

Romance

Zorya Films, LLC

Strategy, risk management and project management are often considered separately by those applying their principles--but at their most effective, all are dependent upon each other for success. Enlightened Planning teaches this holistic perspective and demonstrates how a synthesis of these approaches yields far greater opportunities. A strategic, calculated risk, for example, can be less inherently risky than chronic risk aversion over time. Here, a respected specialist and teacher demonstrates how to become an 'enlightened planner', one that is aware of project, strategy and risk concerns, and their potential interplay. Following the core principle of Keep It Simple Systematically, he shows how organised, systematic thought processes can demystify the complexities of decision-making when considering a huge variety of concerns at once. Supported throughout with real-life cases from the author's considerable experiences with commercial organisations, it is also supported by a website containing even more cases, learning and teaching materials. This book is essential reading for any practitioner specialising in risk management, project management or strategy; as well as those teachers or participants in executive programmes.

Enlightened Planning: Using Systematic Simplicity to Clarify Opportunity, Risk and Uncertainty for Much Better Management Decision Making

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Changing Education Systems: A Research-based Approach

Changing Education Systems: A Research-based Approach

Educational Equity

Effective Leadership for School Improvement (School Leadership)

Leading School-based Networks

Leading School-based Networks

The Routledge International Handbook of Educational Effectiveness and Improvement: Research, policy, and practice (Routledge International Handbooks of Education)

High-Leverage Leadership: Improving Outcomes in Educational Settings (Leading School Transformation)

The Picnic Table

Enlightened Planning: Using Systematic Simplicity to Clarify Opportunity, Risk and Uncertainty for Much Better Management Decision Making