Schoolwide Action Research for Professional Learning Communities: Improving Student Learning Through the Whole-faculty Study Groups Approach: 0 - Brossura

Clauset, Karl H.; Lick, Dale W.; Murphy, Carlene U.

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ISBN 10: 1412952085 ISBN 13: 9781412952088

Casa editrice: Corwin Pr, 2008

Riassunto

Discover how Whole-Faculty Study Groups (WFSGs) use collaborative action research to involve an entire professional learning community in improving staff and school performance.

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Recensione:

"Clearly shows the success that can occur when a staff learns together. I highly recommend this book to aspiring and beginning principals, as well as those with years of experience." (Paul Young, Executive Director, West After School Center 2008-01-24)

"Whole-Faculty Study Groups (WFSGs) have proven to be an effective vehicle for job-embedded professional learning in our district. We will be using this new resource to take us to the next level!" (Anita Kissinger, Executive Director, Quality and Development 2008-02-07)

"Clauset, Lick, and Murphy get to the heart of continuous improvement and closing the knowing-doing gap with this powerful tool." (Susan Zook, Associate Superintendent 2008-02-07)

"What a fantastic tool to ensure that districts will be successful in increasing student performance and implementing academic school improvement! The authors have used their understanding of the current issues in education to provide school districts with comprehensive guidelines that will guarantee success for schools involved in action research using data to improve student learning." (Cinde Wendell, Superintendent 2008-04-08)

"Imagine the impact when every teacher, principal, and central office administrator participates in a small group that focuses on increasing student achievement. The schoolwide action research program described in this book is not mere reform―results are nothing less than transformational." (From the Foreword by Bert L’Homme 2008-07-16)

L'autore:

Learn more about Karl Clauset's PD offerings
Karl H. Clauset is director of the National WFSG Center. He is an experienced school improvement coach and Whole-Faculty Study Group® trainer. Since 1999 he has helped more than ninety elementary, middle and high schools launch WFSG and has supported the schools through the implementation phase. He was the lead author, with Dale Lick and Carlene Murphy, for Schoolwide Action Research for Professional Learning Communities: Improving Student Learning Through the Whole-Faculty Study Groups Approach (Corwin Press, 2008), which focuses on the collaborative work teacher teams do to improve their teaching and increase student learning. He is also a senior consultant with Focus on Results and works with principals, school leadership teams, and central office staff to help them align and strengthen efforts to improve teaching and learning.

Previously, he worked as a site developer with ATLAS Learning Communities, a nationally recognized school reform program, and in standards-based reform and international education development at the Education Development Center. In his earlier careers in education, he was a teacher and administrator at the Jakarta International School in Indonesia, and taught in secondary schools in Philadelphia, Zambia and Tanzania. He received a national award from ASCD for the outstanding dissertation in supervision for his doctoral dissertation on the dynamics of effective schooling. As a faculty member at the Boston University School of Education, he taught graduate courses in educational policy analysis, organizational analysis, and planning. Before moving to western Washington in 2003, he served as an elected school board member and board chair for six years in his Massachusetts community.

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• Editore: Corwin Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1412952085
• ISBN 13: 9781412952088
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 278