Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization: Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-First Century: Rita Dunn: R&L Education

Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization

Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-First Century

Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization

Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-First Century

Description

This one-of-a-kind collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative practices from classrooms, schools, districts, communities, and faraway places in the world. Each of the chapters-organized under six headings-tells an authentic, compelling story of a pioneering and successful initiative that breaks the traditional mold of instructional delivery and time-honored school organization. Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization guides readers through examples of education initiatives which go beyond traditional classroom restraints to achieve surprising success.

Chapter 1 Foreward
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Acknowledgements
Part 4 Classroom Innovations
Part 5 Positive (Unconventional) School Leadership
Part 6 School and District-wide Initiatives
Part 7 Community Involvement and Support
Part 8 Building and Facility Design
Part 9 Educational Innovations from Around the World
Chapter 10 Conclusion

Product details

Published	Jan 16 2010
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	272
ISBN	9781607094029
Imprint	R&L Education
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Andrea Honigsfeld

Anthology Editor

Audrey Cohan

Contributor

Monisha Bajaj

Contributor

Nadine Binkley

Contributor

Nancy Boxler

Contributor

József Braun

Contributor

Furman Brown

Contributor

Sally Brown

Contributor

James P. Capolupo

Contributor

Douglas Carney

Contributor

Patricia Chesbro

Contributor

Alan J. Cooper

Contributor

Alan J. Daly

Contributor

Maria G. Dove

Contributor

Lois Favre

Contributor

Marc Ferris

Contributor

Douglas Fisher

Contributor

Karen Bostic Frederick

Contributor

Mary Ellen Freeley

Contributor

Joan R. Fretz

Contributor

Alice E. Ginsberg

Contributor

Diane W. Gómez

Contributor

Richard Hanzelka

Contributor

Fleur Harris

Contributor

Madeleine F. Holzer

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Charles F. Howlett

Contributor

Nora E. Hyland

Contributor

Judit Kováts

Contributor

Diane E. Lang

Contributor

Diane Lapp

Contributor

Suzanne M. Lasser

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Anastasia Legakes

Contributor

Michael A. Malone

Contributor

JudithR Merz

Contributor

Mária Molnár

Contributor

Suzanne D. Morgan

Contributor

Audrey Murphy

Contributor

Irene Nigaglioni

Contributor

Stephen M. Noonan

Contributor

Scott Noppe-Brandon

Contributor

Margaret S. Parsons

Contributor

Michael Pezone

Contributor

Robert Pillar

Contributor

Philip J. Poinelli

Contributor

James H. Powell

Contributor

Lori Langer de Ramirez

Contributor

Susan Rundle

Contributor

Mavis G. Sanders

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Ingvar Sigurgeirsson

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Alan Singer

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Linda Kantor Swerdlow

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Zoila Tazi

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Thomas DeVere Wolsey

Foreword

Rita Dunn

Breakthrough schools require breakthrough practices, and Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization provides a guide for how to do just that that. Leadership, English learners, building classroom communities all these topics and more are addressed. The stories of successes across town and across the world will resonate with every reader interested in school reform. And the good news is that the advice is not to simply work harder, but rather to work smarter.

Nancy Frey, professor of literacy, School of Teacher Education, San Diego State University
Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization includes important ideas on teaching, leadership, and partnerships that will motivate students to learn and improve schools in wonderful ways. In chapter after chapter, the authors show that teachers and administrators have choices between the conventional vs. the creative, the isolated vs. the connected, and between old ways vs. new ways to organize schools, engage families and communities, and excite students about school and about learning. So many good ideas-tested and in practice-await others to see the point.

Joyce L. Epstein, director, Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships and National Network of Partnership Schools, and research profess
Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization is a once-in-a-blue-moon book written with you in mind. Editors Andrea Honigsfeld and Audrey Cohan have gathered forward-thinking minds to bring you a collection of chapters that provide eye-opening experiences from twenty-first century teaching to learner-centered classrooms. You will gain invaluable insight from a leadership, design, teaching, and learning perspective. Individual stories throughout the book emphasize the importance of the relationship between education and design, leadership and teaching, and students and learning.

Judith Patzke Hoskens, president, Council of Educational Facility Planners International
Editors Andrea Honigsfeld and Audrey Cohan have featured visionary educational leaders and change agents who successfully address the challenges of guiding students to master the knowledge, skills, and aptitudes necessary to live, work, and thrive in the twenty-first century. A broad range of educators share their personal experiences or research about others regarding what works in reaching and teaching youth. The book identifies holistic approaches to redesigning schools by involving students, teachers, administrators, parents, community leaders, and resources in the learning process.

Shirley A. Griggs, professor emerita, St. John's University