Partnering to Lead Educational Renewal: High-Quality Teachers, High-Quality Schools

By Jean Wilson Houck

This timely book presents examples of best practices and highly effective strategies to bring about systemic change to improve student achievement--describing the lessons learned from one of the most highly successful Pre-K through university partnerships in the United States.

Providing invaluable guidance from the Long Beach Education Partnership, this highly readable volume:

Offers concrete solutions to problems confronting many urban schools, ranging from day-to-day operations to complex issues such as teacher readiness, advice that comes from the winner of the 2003 Broad Prize for Urban Education.Describes many of the key initiatives implemented by the partnership, such as K-3 reading, high school tutoring, service learning, a standards-based teacher education program, and professional development for teachers.Shows how three large educational institutions worked together to increase achievement for all pre-kindergarten through graduate school students in a large, highly diverse, multilingual urban area.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807744212
• ISBN13: 9780807744215
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.0"