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Improving Schools from within: Teachers, Parents, and Principals Can Make a Difference (Jossey Bass Education Series) - Hardcover

Barth, Roland S.

 
9781555422158: Improving Schools from within: Teachers, Parents, and Principals Can Make a Difference (Jossey Bass Education Series)

Synopsis

The author argues that teachers, principals and parents can be the most powerful source of innovative ideas for reforming schools and that communication, collegiality and risk-taking among adults in the school can create an atmosphere that encourages learning and leadership for all.

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"A humane blueprint for school reform that––instead of starting with a ′deficiency′ model of what teachers can′t do and giving them ′inservice′ workshops ad infinitum––would build on the educational staff′s existing strengths." (The New York Times Book Review)

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The author argues that teachers, principals and parents can be the most powerful source of innovative ideas for reforming schools and that communication, collegiality and risk-taking among adults in the school can create an atmosphere that encourages learning and leadership for all.

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9781555423681: Improving Schools from Within: Teachers, Parents, and Principals Can Make the Difference (Jossey-Bass Education Series)

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ISBN 10:  155542368X ISBN 13:  9781555423681
Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1991
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