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Results now : how we can achieve unprecedented improvements in teaching and learning /
Discusses how schools can exceed expectations, swiftly reduce achievement gaps, and enhance the lifetime learning of all students. Describes simple actions that can swiftly and substantially improve education and provides a set of structures and practices for improving instruction in any school.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Alexandria, Va. :
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development,
©2006.
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| Series: | Gale virtual reference library.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Brutal Facts About Instruction and Its Supervision
- I. Reality and Illusion in Public Schools
- 1. The Buffer
- 2. Isolation: The Enemy of Improvement
- 3. Leadership Interrupted: How the Buffer Compromises Supervision
- 4. Curricular Chaos
- II. Literacy Education: The Greatest Opportunity of All
- 5. The Power of Authentic Literacy
- 6. Authentic Literacy and Intellectual Development
- 7. The Startling State of Literacy Education
- III. Learning and Leading in the Professional Learning Community
- 8. Professional Learning Communities: The Surest, Fastest Path to Instructional Improvement
- 9. Leadership in the Professional Learning Community
- 10. Scaling Up: Central Office and State-Level Leadership in the Learning Community
- Conclusion. Why Not Us? Why Not Now?
- Appendix A: Suggestions for Teaching Critical and Argumentative Literacy
- Appendix B: Start Here for Improving Teaching
- Appendix C: Agreements.