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Informationen zum Autor Harold Kwalwasser writes and consults on education policy. He is the former general counsel of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the United States. He was a key part of a leadership team whose focus was building a modern twenty-first-century school system. Throughout the course of a long career in both the public and private sectors, he has analyzed why organizations succeed or fail, and has been a proponent for education reform as he travels the country speaking to parents, educators, and community leaders. 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 Preface Introduction Part One - The Basics Ch. 1 - Management Theory 101 Ch. 2 - Human Relations 101 Ch. 3 - Politics 101 Part Two - Leaders Ch. 4 - Superintendents Ch. 5 - Principals Part Three - Teachers Ch. 6 - A Brave New World Ch. 7 - Keeping - and Working with - Those You have Ch. 8 - Training New (and More) Teachers Inside the System Ch. 9 - The Rest of Your Life: Good Teachers always get better: The Professional Learning Community Ch. 10 - Training New (and more) Teachers: Working the Pipeline into the Classroom Ch. 11 - Creating more Alternative Training and Certification Programs Ch. 12 - What is a Good Teacher: Evaluation in a Professional World Ch. 13 - Tenure Ch. 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 Schools Part Four - Customers Students Ch. 17 - Do not lose Sight of the Student Ch. 18 - Seeing Every Child for Who They are, not Who We Assume Them to be: Replacing One Curriculum Taught One Way Ch. 19 - Ending a System Designed to Lose Track of Kids: Paying Attention to Real Students, Not to the Assumptions We Make About Them Ch. 20 - Assessing Students: Never Letting Them Fall too far Behind Parents Ch. 21 - Parents: One Half of a Confused Partnership Ch. 22 - Parents: Long-Ignored Consumers and Owners Part Five - The Template: The Things High-Performing Schools Have in Common Ch. 23 - Six Beliefs Ch. 24 - Eight Practices Ch. 25 - A Case Study in What It Takes to Fail Ch. 26 - The Things not Done Part Six - Beyond the School District: The Role of the States and Federal Governments Ch. 27 - The Role of the States Ch. 28 - The Role of the Federal Government Postscript - The Future of the American Public School System Ch. 29 - The System of Schools We Want: The Education System We Need Appendix I - The Principles of a Citizens' Movement for Better Education Appendix II - A Proposed School "Disclosure Document" ...
