Title: The new structure of school improvement : inquiring schools and achieving students /
Authors: Joyce, Bruce R.; Calhoun, Emily.; Hopkins, David, 1949-
Publisher: Open University Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: School improvement programs Great Britain.; School improvement programs United States.; School-based management Great Britain.; School-based management United States.
Abstract: "Self-renewing schools where students and staff are involved in ongoing inquiry has long since been an ideal in education. However, this goal has not proved readily achievable. The authors of this book regard this as a challenge which can be confronted positively, believing that enough knowledge exists to develop a fresh structure of school improvement - and one which is likely to succeed. The book draws upon the considerable body of research on successful and unsuccessful school improvement programs to generate a practical strategy for school improvement that can be used by schools, school districts and local education authorities, and policymakers with a high probability of success. The heart of the strategy is an inquiry process centered on the continuous study of student learning and the creation and study of initiatives to enhance student achievement in academic, personal and social domains."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Foreword / Peter Mortimore -- Pt. I. Creating the School as a Center of Inquiry: Searching for a New Structure -- 1. Building the evolutionary school: looking for success in research and experience -- 2. Centering the school on student learning: imagining the possibilities -- 3. Studying evolving schools: watching the action -- Pt. II. Elaborating the Hypotheses: The Detailed Work of School Improvement -- 4. Establishing the Responsible Parties: organizing the decisionmaking community -- 5. Information, information, and information: the schoolwide action-research way of doing business -- 6. Connecting to the knowledge base: finding curricular and instructional options -- 7. Embedding staff development: living in a state of learning -- Pt. III. Refining, Renovating, and Redesigning: Taking Steps Large and Small -- 8. Refining: thinking through sets of changes -- 9. Renovating: changing a dimension of the learning environment -- 10. Redesigning Pembroke School: unfolding an evolutionary state -- Pt. IV. Policymaking for School Renewal: Making the Context through National, State, and Local Education Authority Policy -- 11. Supporting evolution: working at a distance from the school -- 12. Reforming reform: renewing the local education authority -- Coda: history and current context.