Dynamic Instructional Leadership To Support Student Learning And Development
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Dynamic Instructional Leadership to Support Student Learning and Development
Meets "the highest standard of evidence" for comprehensive school reforms that improve student achievement.Review of Educational Research, 2003 "This Field Guide to Comer Schools in Action provides exactly what its title offers: guidelines to curricula, instruction, and educational development necessary to implementing the Comer process. . . . This handbook will help enormously to keep alive what James Comer and his colleagues have so carefully crafted over the years."John I. Goodlad, PresidentInstitute for Educational Inquiry The tried, tested, and true approach to instructional leadership and staff development that support academic achievement and life success! Schools are the only universally accessible institutions where there are enough adults to provide continuous support for children′s growth, development, and success in life. Using the process pioneered by renowned child psychiatrist Dr. James P. Comer and his colleagues at the Yale School Development Program (SDP), this unique field guide offers school leaders, school staff, and teachers a comprehensive and effective framework for providing curriculum and instruction that help all children grow and develop along the pathways that support success both in school and in life. Combining research; evidence-based best practices; essential tools for planning, data analysis, assessment, and program evaluation; and a generous collection of charts, tables, and graphics, Dynamic Instructional Leadership to Support Student Learning and Development offers educators a state-of-the-art guide to: Mobilizing all of the stakeholders in the learning community to support instructional excellence as a system responsibility Modeling of instructional excellence by school principals, district leaders, and university partners Aligning curriculum, instruction, and assessment with standards and research-based best practices Linking child development to challenging and rigorous classroom instruction based on respect, trust, and high expectations for all students Teaching essentials of literacy, math, and science that provide positive developmental experiences for all learners Teachers helping teachers for professional development and school improvement Dynamic Instructional Leadership to Support Student Learning and Development is the first-ever published field guide to the tried, tested, and true methods used by the Comer Process to promote academic achievement and life success for all children.
The School Leader's Guide to Student Learning Supports
"Offers a broad view, and a systemic approach missing from most books on school reform and improving student outcomes, especially for the student who is not achieving." -Susan Wooley, Executive DirectorAmerican School Health Association "I have not read any other book that is as comprehensive in explaining how the fragmentation of services limits our ability to serve children, as well as provides the ′how to.′ In this era of data-based decision making, the authors continue to present well-researched material that perhaps many educators have only read about in isolation." -Sandra Screen, Ph.D., DirectorDetroit Public Schools, MI Bring new direction to programs and policies for learning supports to address barriers to student learning! Barriers to learning and teaching interfere with students′ ability to participate effectively and benefit fully from classroom instruction and other educational activities. For school improvement efforts to succeed in ways that truly improve student achievement and student test scores, systemic changes must be made in how schools provide learning supports. Howard S. Adelman and Linda Taylor now provide this exciting new guide to student learning supports for school leaders, along with a companion volume for schoolwide use, offering an innovative approach to addressing barriers to learning. Emphasizing an intervention framework that is comprehensive, multifaceted, and cohesive, and offering a sophisticated approach to rethinking and facilitating systemic changes to infrastructure and policy at school and community levels, The School Leader′s Guide to Student Learning Supports covers strategies built on decades of research. The authors provide case studies, resources, quizzes, cartoons, and more than 75 figures, tables, and tools for analysis and capacity building to help school leaders understand, assess, and remedy the gap between the learning supports students need and the learning supports they are currently receiving. The unparalleled New Directions for Student Support Initiative described in this guide has been cosponsored by more than 20 professional associations, including: The American School Counselor Association The American School Health Association The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning The National Alliance of Pupil Service Organizations The National Association of School Nurses The National Association of Pupil Services Administrators The National Association of School Psychologists The National Association of Secondary School Principals The National Association of State Boards of Education The National Middle School Association The School Social Work Association of America And others!
Transforming School Leadership and Management to Support Student Learning and Development
Meets "the highest standard of evidence" for comprehensive school reforms that improve student achievement.Review of Educational Research, 2003 "A unique feature of James Comer′s school improvement is the comprehensiveness of his ecological approach. It necessarily involves all of the key players in each individual school setting and provides guidelines for their interaction. . . .The domain of educational change is not without good ideas, but it is rare to find them translated into the substance and strategies necessary to getting them into school practices. This handbook will help enormously to keep alive what James Comer and his colleagues have so carefully crafted over the years."John I. Goodlad, PresidentInstitute for Educational Inquiry The tried, tested, and true approach to school leadership using consensus, collaboration, and no-fault problem solving! For more than 35 years, the Yale School Development Program (SDP) has been pioneering the Comer Process for planned change in schools. From initial planning and preparation, through foundation building, transformation, institutionalization, and renewal, the Comer Process provides school leaders with a comprehensive and effective framework for transforming their schools and districts into learning communities that support the growth and development of every child and every adult. Combining research; evidence-based best practices; essential tools for planning, data analysis, assessment, and program evaluation, and a generous collection of sample letters, sample presentations, charts, tables, and graphics, Transforming School Leadership and Management to Support Student Learning and Development offers educators a state-of-the-art guide to: Identifying the problems the school wants to solve through reform efforts Designing a comprehensive school plan that includes assessment, modification, and staff development Using facilitators to model excellence and to promote team approaches Using teams for school planning and management, student and staff support, and promoting parent/family involvement and community investment in schools Training for teaming skills that support and develop consensus decision making Implementing and sustaining the school′s transformation into an effective and efficient operating system that supports student and staff growth and development Transforming School Leadership and Management to Support Student Learning and Development is sure to be the essential resource for every school leader charged with creating schools, districts, and communities that foster the healthy development of young people and challenge them to the highest academic standards.