Title:
Schools that succeed : how educators marshal the power of systems for improvement / Karin Chenoweth.
ISBN:
9781682530276
9781682530283
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2017]
©2017
Physical Description:
229 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction: What We Can Learn from Experts: It Takes Systems -- 1. Finding and uncovering expertise: Artesia High School, Lakewood, Los Angeles -- 2. "It's Not Just That": Systems at Malverne High School, Malverne, New York -- 3. How Malverne Became Malverne: Replicating Expertise at Elmont Memorial High School, Elmont, New York -- 4. Starting from Scratch: Dr. Robert W. Gilliard Elementary School, Mobile, Alabama -- 5. Experts and Their Systems at Work: Four Stories -- 6. Why Expertise Is Not Enough: A Cautionary Tale -- 7. Could There Be "Unexpected Districts" as Well as Unexpected Schools? -- 8. Marshaling the Power of Schools.
Summary:
Karin Chenoweth shows that turning around low performing schools is difficult work, but the knowledge and expertise needed to do it successfully already exists in various schools.-- Provided by the publisher
Subject Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn964242762
Availability:
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