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Creating Small Schools : a Handbook for Raising Equity and Achievement.
Offers school leaders lessons, case studies, practical tools, advice, vignettes, and step-by-step instructions for developing new schools or converting existing ones, plus guidance for forging partnerships with the community.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Part I
- Creating Small Schools
- Chapter 1
- Key Components of Successful Small Schools
- Why Small Schools?
- Origins of the Small Schools Movement
- Four Conditions for Successful Small Schools
- Lessons from Experience
- Getting Started: Small Schools Design and Implementation
- Tool 1.1 Focus Group
- Tool 1.2 School Visitation Protocol
- Tool 1.3 Text-Based Discussion
- Chapter 2
- Launching Small Schools in a Community
- Negotiating Autonomy: The Role of Teachers Unions and School Districts
- Organizing Community Support for Small Schools
- Principles for Community Organizing
- Pilot School Replication in Fitchburg, MA
- Tool 2.1 Excerpt from the Boston Pilot Schools Collective Bargaining Agreement
- Tool 2.2 Sample Work-Election Agreement
- Chapter 3
- Converting Large Schools to Small
- Differences between Small Schools and Small Learning Communities
- A Case Study of a Large School Conversion
- Sample Conversion Designs
- Cherry Lane High Case Study: Restructuring a Large, Comprehensive High School
- Tool 3.1 Options for Conversion
- Tool 3.2 Strategizing about Barriers to Conversions
- Tool 3.3 Common Conversion Design Issues
- Resource 3.1 Common Conversion Questions
- Chapter 4
- Building Partnerships to Sustain Small Schools
- Why Engaging Families and Community is Important
- A Framework for Family Engagement
- Sample Practices for Family and Community Involvement
- Getting Started: Developing Plans for Family Engagement
- Tools and Resources for Building Partnerships: Creating Schools as Centers for Learning
- Tool 4.1 Community Walk
- Tool 4.2 Student-Led Conferences
- Tool 4.3 Parent-Teacher Conferences
- Resource 4.1 Framework of Focus Areas for Involvement and Sample Practices.
- Part II
- Learning and Achievement in Each Small School
- Chapter 5
- Teaching, Learning, and Assessment for High Achievement for all Learners
- Rethinking Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
- A Framework for Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment: What Do We want all Students to Know and be Able to Do?
- Habits of Mind: Defining an Overarching Vision for Teaching and Learning
- Less is More: An Approach to Curriculum Design
- Student-as-Worker, Teacher-as-Coach: An Approach to Instruction
- Assessment by Exhibition: An Approach to Assessment
- Creating Curriculum Through Backwards Design
- Creating a Coherent Schoolwide Curriculum
- The Centrality of Literacy
- Tool 5.1 Guidelines for Developing Inquiry-Based Curriculum Units
- Planning Guide Template
- Chapter 6
- Restructuring the School for Personalization
- The Interconnectedness of School Structures
- Personalization Through Autonomies of Budget, Staffing, and Calendar
- Grouping Students for Learning
- Advisory and Student Support Models
- Tools for Restructuring the School for Personalization
- Tool 6.1 Guidelines for Differentiating Instruction
- Tool 6.2 Advisory Design Checklist
- Chapter 7
- Building a Culture of Adult Learning and Collaboration
- Creating a Professional Collaborative Culture
- Developing a Unifying Vision
- Governing the School Through Shared Leadership and Teacher Teams
- Tools for Building a Culture of Adult Learners
- Tool 7.1 Building a Collaborative School Culture: How are We Doing?
- Tool 7.2 Survey on Findings of Successful Schools
- Tool 7.3 Powerful Learning Experience
- Tool 7.4 Developing a Vision Statement
- Tool 7.5 Setting Norms for Collaborative Work
- Tool 7.6 Understanding Governance in Small Schools
- Tool 7.7 Governance Structure Chart
- Tool 7.8 Guidelines for Effective Meetings.
- Tool 7.9 Sample Format for Recording Team Meetings
- Tool 7.10 Compass Points: An Exercise in Understanding Preferences in Group Work
- Tool 7.11 Text-Based Seminar
- Tool 7.12 The Final Word
- Tool 7.13 The Obstacle Resolution Protocol
- Tool 7.14 Making Decisions by Consensus
- Tool 7.15 Assessing a Team's Quality of Work
- Chapter 8
- The Practice of a Collaborative Culture
- Using Protocols to Look at Student and Teacher Work
- Peer Observation
- Data-Based Inquiry and Action Research
- Tools for the Practice of a Collaborative Culture
- Tool 8.1 Consultancy Protocol
- Tool 8.2 Tuning Protocol
- Tool 8.3 Charrette
- Tool 8.4 Critical Incident Protocol
- Tool 8.5 Reviewing a Slice of Writing
- Tool 8.6 Video Camera
- Tool 8.7 Focus Point
- Tool 8.8 Interesting Moments
- Tool 8.9 Teaming
- Tool 8.10 Observer as Learner
- Tool 8.11 Peer Observation Record
- Tool 8.12 Continuum on Using Data for Equity and Excellence
- Tool 8.13 Analyzing Data Chart
- Tool 8.14 Determining Possible Causes of the Problem
- Tool 8.15 Action Planning Form
- Chapter 9
- Conclusion
- References
- Index.