Ten Trends: Educating Children for a Profounding Different Future

Education & Teaching

Marx, Gary

Schools & Teaching

Educational Research Service

Staffing patterns in public school systems: Current status and trends, update 2002 (ERS research snapshot)

Williams, Alicia D.

A resource to provide educators to help them understand statistics, to explain data about schools to others, and, all too often, to respond to statistics that have been misused or misinterpreted to unfairly attach public educators and schools. (Taken from foreword in book)

Understanding and Using Education Statistics: It's Easier (and More Important) Than You Think

Gerald W. Bracey

Data-Based Decision Making

Business & Money

Protheroe, Nancy

Management & Leadership

Six Pillars of Dynamic Schools uncovers an often overlooked truth effective change is the product of hard work and dedication. There is no silver bullet; no matter how many programs, software packages, or new initiatives a district uses, the magic won't just happen. Dynamic schools result from consistent and redundant focus on the fundamental core elements affecting teachers and students the premise of Six Pillars of Dynamic Schools. What sets this book apart is its focus on how school leaders do business, instead of on what business leaders should do. Regardless of the methods chosen, there are six fundamental processes pillars that must be ongoing within the school and district in order to sustain meaningful change on the road to dynamic schools. The chances of long-term success for school reformation plans that lack even one of these essential pillars are doomed to mediocrity at best and complete failure at worst. Ideal for use as a book study in a professional learning community, Problem-Based Learning exercises are provided with each chapter to drive discussion and facilitate learning and understanding.

Six Pillars of Dynamic Schools

Steven W. Edwards

Paul E. Chapman

PH.D.

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