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Successful School Change:
Creating Settings to Improve Teaching and Learning
Claude Goldenberg
Pub Date: March 2004, 224 pages
Paperback: $25.95, ISBN: 0807744239
Cloth: $54.00, ISBN: 0807744247
 
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"A powerful, authentic story that carries the reader along with ever increasing interest and clarity. This great book…pushes the boundaries of what we know, and sets the stage for going to the next stage of reform."
—From the Foreword by Michael Fullan"This highly readable book brings to light a reformer's agenda: raising expectations and student achievement, being accountable, creating a community. Goldenberg shows how these abstractions can take on meaning and achieve long term results. The work described in this fine book helps solve the mystery of improving schools."
—Ann Lieberman, Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching "Claude Goldenberg has done an extraordinary job of painting a complex and detailed picture of school improvement. For those of us concerned about making things better for children who are most at risk, this book is realistic, inspiring, and greatly needed by the educational community."
—Guadalupe Valdés, Stanford University Drawing on 15 years of research and teaching in low-income schools, Claude Goldenberg provides a powerful model of school change for those seeking to make reform happen in their school or classroom. With great care and sensitivity, Goldenberg demonstrates the kinds of long-term planning and coordinated effort required to create lasting change. Offering a unique glimpse into the reform process, this very readable account:
- Focuses on successful reform efforts in an elementary school in the metropolitan Los Angeles area serving a predominantly bilingual, Latino population.
- Details the partnership between school-based educators and university-based researchers working together over an extended period to improve academic achievement, primarily in language arts.
- Examines how to create a sustained, coherent, and focused school-wide effort aimed at improving identified student outcomes.
- Illustrates the everyday dynamics experienced by teachers, administrators, and students, including the many challenges involved in changing norms, belifs, and practices and how those challenges were addressed to improve student learning.
- Concludes with a revealing but sobering chapter describing what happened after the project officially ended.
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