Transforming School Leadership and Management to Support Student Learning and Development
The Field Guide to Comer Schools in Action
Michael Ben-Avie editor Edward T Joyner editor James P Comer editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
Published:24th Jun '04
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- Hardback£73.00(9781412905107)
Meets "the highest standard of evidence" for comprehensive school reforms that improve student achievement.
Review of Educational Research, 2003
"A unique feature of James Comer′s school improvement is the comprehensiveness of his ecological approach. It necessarily involves all of the key players in each individual school setting and provides guidelines for their interaction. . . .The domain of educational change is not without good ideas, but it is rare to find them translated into the substance and strategies necessary to getting them into school practices. This handbook will help enormously to keep alive what James Comer and his colleagues have so carefully crafted over the years."
John I. Goodlad, President
Institute for Educational Inquiry
The tried, tested, and true approach to school leadership using consensus, collaboration, and no-fault problem solving!
For more than 35 years, the Yale School Development Program (SDP) has been pioneering the Comer Process for planned change in schools. From initial planning and preparation, through foundation building, transformation, institutionalization, and renewal, the Comer Process provides school leaders with a comprehensive and effective framework for transforming their schools and districts into learning communities that support the growth and development of every child and every adult.
Combining research; evidence-based best practices; essential tools for planning, data analysis, assessment, and program evaluation, and a generous collection of sample letters, sample presentations, charts, tables, and graphics, Transforming School Leadership and Management to Support Student Learning and Development offers educators a state-of-the-art guide to:
Transforming School Leadership and Management to Support Student Learning and Development is sure to be the essential resource for every school leader charged with creating schools, districts, and communities that foster the healthy development of young people and challenge them to the highest academic...
Meets "the highest standard of evidence" for comprehensive school reforms that improve student achievement. -- Review of Educational Research, 2003
"A unique feature of James Comer’s school improvement is the comprehensiveness of his ecological approach. It necessarily involves all of the key players in each individual school setting and provides guidelines for their interaction." -- John I. Goodlad, President
ISBN: 9781412905114
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 570g
240 pages