Jean Johnson

You Can't Do It Alone (eBook, PDF)

A Communications and Engagement Manual for School Leaders Committed to Reform

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Experts and reformers have suggested many promising ideas for improving schools and ramping up student learning, but in too many cases, proposals for change run up against resistance, confusion, and anxiety from key stakeholders such as teachers, parents, students, and members of the broader public. To propel change-and to sustain it-school leaders need to understand what is driving these responses and develop more effective strategies for engaging these groups in the mission of reform. You Can't Do It Alone provides school leaders with a crisp summary of opinion research among teachers, parents, and the public conducted by Public Agenda, Education Sector and other respected analysts. It offers tips on what leaders can do to more successfully engage these groups in areas such as reforming teacher evaluation, turning around low-performing schools, and building support for world-class standards. The book also introduces a theory of change and public learning developed by social scientist Daniel Yankelovich, along with some practical rules of the road for promoting the kind of dialogue that leads to consensus and action.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216319450
• Artikelnr.: 75141734

Autorenporträt

Jean Johnson authored dozens of articles and reports on how parents, teachers, students, and the general public see public education today. A leading authority on public opinion in education, she also speaks and writes extensively on how school leaders can work with communities and colleagues to build robust support for change.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Daniel Yankelovich
Chapter 1: It's Enough to Make Your Head Spin
Chapter 2: Mind the Gap
Chapter 3: The Indispensable CompactWhy Engaging Teachers is Job No. 1
Chapter 4: Change the Rules and People Are Bound to Get Upset
Chapter 5: Are Younger Teachers Different?
Chapter 6: Being an Instructional Leader-Getting the Results the Kids
Deserve.
Chapter 7: The Knowledge Sweepstakes
Chapter 8: When Money Is Short
Chapter 9: It Takes Two to Tango: Engaging Parents and Students to Ramp Up
Learning
Chapter 10: The Big Turnaroud:
Chapter 11: A New Model of the Informed Public
Chapter 12: Dialogue and Engagement-And How They Differ from Communications
as Usual
Chapter 13: Reaching Out to the Community for Help
Chapter 14: Is It Time for School Leaders to Speak Up for Themselves-and
for the Rest of Us?
Epilogue: Re-Connecting the American People with their Schools
Appendix: So You Want To Do Some Engagement? Here's Where to Start
Acknowledgments
About the Author