Strategy in Action: How School Systems Can Support Powerful Learning and Teaching
Strategy in Action makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of what it takes to transform our schools and support more effective learning and teaching.... It emphasizes focusing resources on a few things that have the greatest potential to improve student learning, which, when done in concert, can leverage significant improvement. --from the foreword by Dr. Beverly L. Hall, superintendent, Atlanta Public Schools, and 2009 National Superintendent of the YearCurtis and City reveal the emperor without clothes when they conclude that too many educational systems have a strategic plan without a strategy. Their insights give teachers, leaders, and policymakers long-overdue relief from the tyranny of planning processes that elevate the production of documents over meaningful progress in teaching and learning. The authors challenge the common enthusiasm for multiple initiatives and replace it with remarkable focus and impact. This is a wise and important book. --Douglas Reeves, chairman, The Leadership and Learning Center