Portia S. Bonner

Possibilities of the Impossible

Obstacles of Educational Reform, Nets, Trenches, Sinkholes and Cisterns

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Produktbeschreibung

Four metaphors are used to describe the realities of how the educational system affects students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9781475864212
• ISBN-10: 1475864213
• Artikelnr.: 63595946

Autorenporträt

By Portia S. Bonner

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: Leading Unwanted Change When Change is Needed!
Section 1: Leading Change
Section 2: Rationale for Change: Because Everyone is Not Achieving!
Section 3: What's Holding Us Down?
The Setting
Chapter 2: A Story of Three School Districts
Section 1: District 1 - Transitioning District
Section 2: District 2 - The Shore
Section 3: District 3 - Northwest
Nets
Chapter 3: Nets That Capture
Section 1: What's Captured Our Children?
Section 2: Institutional Structure and Tradition
Section 3: Leadership at the Helm
Section 4: Teachers Collective Bargaining and the Rule to Work
Chapter 4: Nets That Hold
Section 1: Teachers' Expectations, Beliefs and Mindsets
Section 2: Students' Cultural Diversity and Generational Differences
Section 3: Parents Involvement, Engagement and Presence
Section 4: Community of Have and Have Nots
Trenches
Chapter 5: The Trenches - Leadership and Reform Efforts in the Midst of
Relationships
Section 1: In the Trenches
Section 2: Board of Education and the Superintendent
Chapter 6: More Important Relationships
Section 1: Central Office and School Building Staff
Section 2: Community, Parent and School District
Section 3: Policy Makers and Systemic Institutionalization
Sinkholes
Chapter 7: Sinkholes - Sustaining Reform Efforts During Political Tension
Section 1: Sinkholes
Section 2: Political Tide and Turnover in School and District Leadership
Chapter 8: Economic Unpredictability and Funding
Chapter 9: Ever Changing Pedagogical Approaches and the Curriculum Recycled
Section 1: Pedagogy, Curriculum and Assessment
Section 2: School Safety, Climate and Culture
Section 3: Family Relationships and Partnerships
Section 4: Technology- Blended Learning, STEM & Personalized Learning
Chapter 10: Accountability
Cisterns
Chapter 11: Cisterns: Empty Wells That Are Not Being Replenished
Section 1: Cisterns
Section 2: Teaching to the Middle and Lower Levels
Section 3: Cultivating the Prison Pipeline
Chapter 12: Workforce and Talent Development
Section 1: Preparing Students for the Future
Section 2: Globalization - Interdependence, Interconnected and Competitive
Breaking and Filling
Chapter 13: Breaking the Nets, Filling the Trenches, Sinkholes and Cisterns
Section 1: Visualizing the Perfect Scenario of Educational Utopia
Section 2: Rigorous Curriculum Embedding 21st Century Skills
Section 3: Accountability
Section 4: Leadership
Section 5: Partnership and Forward Thinking
Chapter 14: Overcoming the Hierarchy of Power
Section 1: What to Do?
Section 2: A House in Order Cannot Be divided
Denouement
Chapter 15: Denouement - Overcoming Obstacles and the Possibilities that
Prevail
Section 1: Entry Into Superintendence
Section 2: Falling Short of the Right Fit
Chapter 16: What Do We Say?
District's Response to Addressing Nets, Trenches, Sinkholes and Cisterns
Chapter 17: District One - Interweaving Coalitions and Strengthening the
Mesh
Chapter 18: District Two - Embattlement of the Casted Net
Chapter 19: District Three - Building the Framework for a Strong Foundation
Chapter 20: Possibilities
Section 1: Moving Away from Traditionalism
Section 2: Improving Relationships through Communication
Section 3: Qualities of Future Leaders
Section 4: Revelation in the Metaphors
Bibliography