A guide to renewing your school
Subtitle: lessons from the League Of Professional Schools
By: Lew Allen ... [et al.] ; foreword by Carl D. Glickman.
Contributors: Allen, Lew, 1947-; League of Professional Schools.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Jossey-Bass education series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: School improvement programs -- United States; Educational change -- United States; Action research in education -- United States
Other titles: Renewing your schools
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-114).
Table of contents: title: Understanding the framework for school renewal. Why is the framework necessary? What is the framework? How do we decide whether to proceed? How do we begin to define our beliefs? What are the stages in implementing the framework?; title: Creating a covenant for teaching and learning. What should a covenant of teaching and learning cover? How do we begin? How do we get the whole school community involved? How do we focus the covenant on teaching and learning? How do we celebrate completing our covenant? How do we move from beliefs to action?; title: Designing charter for shared governance. What is the charter? How do we begin? What kinds of decisions should our school community consider? Who participates in the shared governance process? What is included in a charter? Is the charter development process a long one? What are the roles of participants? How do we tell how we're doing?; title: Using action research to monitor progress. What is action research used for? What have we learned about action research? How do we begin? How do we go about collecting data? How do we go about analyzing data? How do we communicate our results?; title: What do we do next? Applying the lessons of change. What elements make for lasting change? How do we build a collegial school community? Where can we turn for help? What are the real results?