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Spotlight on Leadership and School Change. No. 4 in the Harvard Education Letter Spotlight Series by Nancy Walser and Caroline Chauncey is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Scratch the surface of a successful school and you will find a web of interactions that is the root of its success. Who is it that envisions, inspires, cajoles, and rallies all the various players in and around a school toward any improvement goal? Often it's a superintendent, a principal, a professor, a special teacher, or a parent. In a word, it's a leader. This latest volume in the "Harvard Education Letter" Spotlight Series brings together 20 recent articles that highlight the ways leadership has made a difference in schools. Whether the topic is teacher collaboration or parent involvement, special education or closing the achievement gap, these stories illustrate how education leaders--including some of the most renowned thinkers in the field--have sought to effect change by bringing best practices to where students are: right in the classroom. This book is divided into five parts. Part I, Instructional Improvement, contains the following: (1) More than "Making Nice": Getting Teachers to (Truly) Collaborate (Laura Pappano); (2) Standards-Based Evaluation for Teachers: How One Public School System Links Teacher Performance, Student Outcomes, and Professional Growth (Andreae Dow

Author

Nancy Walser and Caroline Chauncey

Publisher

Harvard Education Press. 8 Story Street First Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138. Tel: 888-437-1437; Tel: 617-495-3432; Fax: 978-348-1233; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.hepg.org/hep

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781891792489

Subjects

Education