Powerful Teacher Education: Lessons from Exemplary Programs

Linda Darling-Hammond

Jossey-Bass

Beyond Basic Skills: How Performance Assessments Bolster Teaching, Learning, and Testing

Frank Adamson

Beyond the Bubble Test: How Performance Assessments Support 21st Century Learning, Executive Summary

Powerful Learning: What We Know about Teaching for Understanding

P.David Pearson

Alan H. Schoenfeld

Brigid Barron

Elizabeth K. Stage

Timothy D Zimmerman

Gina N Cervetti

Jennifer L. Tilson

Teacher Education Around the World: Changing Policies and Practices (Teacher Quality and School Development)

Routledge

Winner: 2009 National Staff Development Council's Staff Development Book of the Year Award What can organizations do to create changes that are both profound and enduring? This anthology explores why traditional change strategies have failed and examines constructive alternatives. International experts prove successful change can be a realistic goal. Real examples of pilot projects, model schools, and other groundbreaking endeavors illustrate precisely how theory translates into practice. Benefits: 
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<li>Discover why the purposeful pursuit of a democratic and professional approach to change is essential for meeting the goals of education systems. </li> <li>Study the relationship between the government and teaching profession, a central issue in education reform. </li> <li>Understand the complexity and contours of change and the roles of leaders within racially polarized institutions. </li> <li>Examine the merits of international comparative benchmarks as drivers for educational change. </li> <li>Utilize industrial benchmarking a--research technique borrowed from industry to examine what makes education systems successful in countries across the world. </li> <li>Learn why research and development efforts must focus on the day-to-day practice of leadership and management. </li>
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Contents: Introduction: Change Wars: A Hopeful Struggle Chapter 1: The Fourth Way of Change: Towards an Age of Inspiration and Sustainability Chapter 2: Teaching and the Change Wars: The Professionalism Hypothesis Chapter 3: From System Effectiveness to System Improvement: Reform Paradigms and Relationships Chapter 4: International Benchmarking as a Lever for Policy Reform Chapter 5: Industrial Benchmarking: A Research Method for Education Chapter 6: The Music of Democracy: Emerging Strategies for a New Era of Post-Standardization Chapter 7: Preparing for the New Majority: How Schools Can Respond to Immigration and Demographic Change Chapter 8: When Politics and Emotion Meet: Educational Change in Racially Divided Communities Chapter 9: Engaging Practice: School Leadership and Management From a Distributed Perspective Chapter 10: Institutions, Improvement, and Practice Chapter 11: Level-Five Networks: Making Significant Change in Complex Organizations Chapter 12: Reform Without (Much) Rancor Chapter 13: Have Theory, Will Travel: A Theory of Action for System Change

Change Wars (Leading Edge)

Education & Teaching

Andy Hargreaves

Douglas Reeves

Dennis Shirley

Michael Barber

Richard Elmore

Michael Fullan

Jonathan Jansen

Ben Levin

Pedro Noguera

Andreas Schleicher

James Spillane

Marc Tucker

Schools & Teaching

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