Research Catalog

Title

Successful school change : creating settings to improve teaching and learning / Claude Goldenberg ; foreword by Michael Fullan.

Author

Goldenberg, Claude, 1954-

Publication

New York : Teachers College Press, ©2004.

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Details

Description

xvi, 207 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Drawing on 15 years of research and teaching in low-income schools, the author provides a powerful model of school change for anyone seeking to make reform happen in their school or classroom. With great care and sensitivity, he demonstrates the kinds of long-term planning and coordinated effort required to create lasting change.

Subject

• School improvement programs > California > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area > Case studies
• School environment > California > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area > Case studies
• School management and organization > California > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area > Case studies
• School environment
• School improvement programs
• School management and organization
• Qualitätssteigerung
• Schulverwaltung
• Schule
• Schoolorganisatie
• Onderwijsmanagement
• Administration scolaire
• Environnement scolaire
• Réforme pédagogique
• California > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
• Los Angeles, Calif
• Los Angeles (Calif.)

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-200) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Michael Fullan -- Doing the Ordinary -- A Case Study of Change -- Latino Students in U.S. Schools -- The Bilingual Education Controversy -- Happy New School Year -- Before the Beginning: School, Community, History -- School in Community -- Living and Learning in Lawson -- A Study of Early Reading Development -- Making Changes in One Elementary School -- New School, Same Problems--Only Different -- Early Improvement Efforts Stalled -- School Reform and School Overload -- Creating Contexts and Settings for Change -- Creating a Context: The School Change Model -- "It's Only October and Already It Feels Like June" -- Confronting History -- A Setting for Change: The Academic Expectations Committee -- Ups, Downs, and Finally Ups -- School Settings for Teacher and Student Learning -- Settings for Change and Learning -- Teaching and Learning in Freeman Classrooms -- Concluding Comments from Teachers -- Creating Coherence in School -- The Coherence Problem -- Developing Indicators in the Academic Assessment Committee -- Forging the AAC-Grade Level Link -- Settings in Children's Homes for Improving School Achievement -- "Culture of Poverty" -- "If He Could Be a Teacher Or a Doctor ... An Educated Person" -- Continuities and Discontinuities Between Families and Schools -- Class, Culture, and Achievement -- Home-School Connections and Low-Income Minority Students -- Home-School Connections Through Homework -- Other Home-School Connection Efforts at Freeman -- School--University Links: Settings for Joint Work.

ISBN

• 0807744247
• 9780807744246
• 0807744239
• 9780807744239

LCCN

2003063441

OCLC

• ocm53315151
• 53315151
• SCSB-8904851

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library