Alan M. Blankstein, Paul D. Houston, Robert W. Cole

Sustaining Professional Learning Communities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Featuring contributions from top educators, the third volume of The Soul of Educational Leadership series examines leadership and moral choices and offers strategies for supporting professional learning communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Corwin
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 335g
• ISBN-13: 9781412949385
• ISBN-10: 1412949386
• Artikelnr.: 23069096

Autorenporträt

Award-winning author and educational leader, Alan Blankstein served for 25 years as President of the HOPE Foundation, which he founded and whose honorary chair is Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. A former "high-risk" youth, Alan began his career in education as a music teacher. He worked for Phi Delta Kappa, March of Dimes, and Solution Tree, which he founded in 1987 and directed for 12 years while launching Professional Learning Communities beginning in the late 1980s. He is the author of the best-selling book Failure Is Not an Option®: Six Principles That Guide Student Achievement in High-Performing Schools, which received the Book of the Year award from Learning Forward. Alan is Senior Editor, lead contributor, and/or author of 18 books, including Excellence Through Equity with Pedro Noguera,.  He also authored some 20 articles in leading education print including Education Week, Educational Leadership, The Principal, and Executive Educator. Alan has provided keynote presentations and workshops for virtually every major U.S. Ed Org, and throughout the UK, Africa, and the Middle East.  Alan has served on the Harvard International Principals Centers advisory board, and the Jewish Child Care Agency, where he once was a youth in residence.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Introduction
1. "Communities Committed to Learning": A Case Story of Building
Sustainable Success - Nancy Shin Pascal and Alan M. Blankstein
2. Making the Promise a Reality - Shirley M. Hord and Stephanie A. Hirsh
3. Creating and Sustaining Professional Communities - Karen Seashore Louis
4. From Model Implementation to Sustainability: A Multisite Study of
Pathways to Excellence in Social-Emotional Learning and Related School
Programs - Maurice J. Elias
5. A Leadership Team Approach to Sustaining Social and Emotional Learning -
James B. Vetter
6. Pursuit of Sustainability - Larry Leverett
7. Using National Board for Professional Teaching Standards as a Framework
for Learning Communities - Joseph Aguerrebere
8. Compelled to Create Collaborative Learning Communities - Deborah L.
Wortham
9. Leading Professional Learning Communities: Moral Choices Amid Murky
Realities - Andy Hargreaves
Index