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Informationen zum Autor By Harold Kwalwasser Klappentext Renewal offers a clear picture of how to move away from the mass-production style of education that most schools offered throughout the twentieth century to a new, more innovative, and flexible model that can meet this country's promise of truly educating every child and preparing each of them for the challenges ahead. Zusammenfassung Renewal offers a clear picture of how to move away from the mass-production style of education that most schools offered throughout the twentieth century to a new, more innovative, and flexible model that can meet this country's promise of truly educating every child and preparing each of them for the challenges ahead. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroductionPart One - The BasicsCh. 1 - Management Theory 101Ch. 2 - Human Relations 101Ch. 3 - Politics 101Part Two - Leaders Ch. 4 - SuperintendentsCh. 5 - Principals Part Three - TeachersCh. 6 - A Brave New WorldCh. 7 - Keeping - and Working with - Those You haveCh. 8 - Training New (and More) Teachers Inside the SystemCh. 9 - The Rest of Your Life: Good Teachers always get better: The Professional Learning CommunityCh. 10 - Training New (and more) Teachers: Working the Pipeline into the ClassroomCh. 11 - Creating more Alternative Training and Certification ProgramsCh. 12 - What is a Good Teacher: Evaluation in a Professional WorldCh. 13 - TenureCh. 14 - Motivating Teachers: Is Pay the Be All and End All?Ch. 15 - The Coleman Report Effect on Motivation: Do Teachers have low Expectations of Poor Kids?Ch. 16 - The Special Challenge of Hard-to-Staff SchoolsPart Four - CustomersStudents Ch. 17 - Do not lose Sight of the StudentCh. 18 - Seeing Every Child for Who They are, not Who We Assume Them to be: Replacing One Curriculum Taught One WayCh. 19 - Ending a System Designed to Lose Track of Kids: Paying Attention to Real Students, Not to the Assumptions We Make About ThemCh. 20 - Assessing Students: Never Letting Them Fall too far BehindParents Ch. 21 - Parents: One Half of a Confused Partnership Ch. 22 - Parents: Long-Ignored Consumers and OwnersPart Five - The Template: The Things High-Performing Schools Have in CommonCh. 23 - Six Beliefs Ch. 24 - Eight Practices Ch. 25 - A Case Study in What It Takes to FailCh. 26 - The Things not DonePart Six - Beyond the School District: The Role of the States and Federal Governments Ch. 27 - The Role of the StatesCh. 28 - The Role of the Federal Government Postscript - The Future of the American Public School SystemCh. 29 - The System of Schools We Want: The Education System We NeedAppendix I - The Principles of a Citizens' Movement for Better Education Appendix II - A Proposed School "Disclosure Document" ...
