The Keys to Effective Schools: Educational Reform as Continuous Improvement

By Willis D. Hawley

Book Overview

Raise organizational effectiveness to improve the quality of instruction and dramatically impact student achievement

Working in tandem with the powerful National Education Association′s KEYS initiative (Keys to Excellence in Your Schools), this second edition focuses on how to change a school′s organizational structure and culture to improve the quality of teaching and learning.

Each chapter, revised and updated to address continuous improvement and narrowing the achievement gap, provides a wealth of knowledge from leading experts in the field including Patricia A. Alexander, Eva L. Baker, James A. Banks, Peter Cookson, Lorna M. Earl, Richard F. Elmore, Michael Fullan, Geneva Gay, Willis D. Hawley, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Kenneth Leithwood, Ann Lieberman, Judith Warren Little, Lynne Miller, P. Karen Murphy, Fred M. Newmann, Sonia Nieto, Janet Ward Schofield, Walter G. Stephan, Gary Sykes, and Linda Valli.

Educators at all levels, policymakers, and parents will discover how to apply the lessons learned from research. This essential handbook provides new chapters, including exemplary practice on teaching and learning for a multicultural society and on continuous school improvement.

Now you can advance to the next level of change with an integral resource for school reform.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412941016
• ISBN13: 9781412941013
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"

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