Realization - Sharratt, Lyn; Fullan, Michael
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'Sharratt and Fullan are an educational dream team! The combination of Sharratt's keen observations from her battle-tested district leadership experience and Fullan's astute perspectives on the essential challenges of systemic reform produce fresh insights into the most difficult, yet most central challenges facing local education reformers today. Together the authors generate important new knowledge of how to sustain and deepen districtwide instructional reform beyond the first generation' - Jonathan Supovitz Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Senior Researcher, Consortium for…mehr

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'Sharratt and Fullan are an educational dream team! The combination of Sharratt's keen observations from her battle-tested district leadership experience and Fullan's astute perspectives on the essential challenges of systemic reform produce fresh insights into the most difficult, yet most central challenges facing local education reformers today. Together the authors generate important new knowledge of how to sustain and deepen districtwide instructional reform beyond the first generation' - Jonathan Supovitz Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Senior Researcher, Consortium for Policy Research in Education Districtwide performance improvement requires a focus on capacity building, empowering colleagues throughout the organization to move change forward. Written by an experienced administrator who accomplished districtwide improvement on the ground and an internationally recognized expert in large-scale education reform, this compelling book outlines a step-by-step approach to implementing lasting, positive change across an entire district. This resource examines 13 research-based parameters for improving teacher and student performance, including advice on optimizing existing resources, and then introduces a 14th parameter-Realization-that goes beyond capacity building at the school and district level to systemwide change at the state level. Readers will find: - A wealth of school-specific strategies that support effective assessment and instructional practices to improve students' fundamental academic skills - "Do's" and "don'ts" from real districtwide school improvement programmes - Guidance on implementing programme assessment and establishing accountability Help your district advance from vision to action to realization of student achievement.
Autorenporträt
Lyn Sharratt is the senior advisor of system and school improvement for the York Region District School Board. Prior to this present position, Sharratt was superintendent of curriculum and instructional services in the York Region District School Board, north of Toronto, Canada. She has taught in 3 other school districts as well as having been an administrator/associate professor at York University's preservice program; executive assistant of professional development with the Federation of Women Teachers' Association of Ontario; and director of curriculum at the Ontario Public Schools Boards' Association, working with elected trustees across the province of Ontario. She has written many articles and presented internationally on such topics as districtwide reform; increasing students' literacy achievement; aligned system and school improvement; assessment that drives classroom instruction; technology implementation, change, and the importance of leadership development in increasing student achievement. She is an associate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, where she received her doctorate in 1996.