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I Used to Think-- and Now I Think--

Author : Richard F. Elmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book I Used to Think-- and Now I Think-- written by Richard F. Elmore and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this book, I Used to Think...And Now I Think..., is borrowed from an exercise often used at the end of teacher professional development sessions, in which participants write down how what they've learned has changed their thinking. In this provocative volume, Richard F. Elmore invites leading educators at every level of school reform--teachers, administrators, policy makers, school founders, community organizers, union leaders, teacher educators--to share an intimate retrospection on the personal experiences and intellectual journeys that have shaped their practice. These exemplary and inspiring essays model the ongoing process of reflection and growth among those deeply committed to the work of education. "I used to think that our best education researchers, policy analysts, policy makers, and practitioners were too busy with their own work to indulge in honest and reflective reconsideration of their positions and opinions. And now I think, thanks to this extraordinary volume, that our field is blessed with scholars and educators whose honesty, modesty, and capacity for self-correction establish ever stronger foundations for optimism about the future of our work and its relevance to the future of our schools." -- Michael J. Feuer, dean, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University "Reflection and learning from experience can change the ways educators think in real time about how to improve the work of school reform. A must-read for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers." -- Thomas W. Payzant, professor of practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education Richard F. Elmore is the Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The Digital Classroom

Author : David T. Gordon
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Digital Classroom written by David T. Gordon and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educators and technology experts share their thoughts on classroom technology and how equity, the digital divide, and other issues need to be addressed to ensure students and teachers are realizing the full potential of different technologies.

The Harvard Education Letter

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Harvard Education Letter written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Data Wise, Revised and Expanded Edition

Author : Kathryn Parker Boudett
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 1612505236
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Data Wise, Revised and Expanded Edition written by Kathryn Parker Boudett and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders. It shows how examining test scores and other classroom data can become a catalyst for important schoolwide conversations that will enhance schools’ abilities to capture teachers’ knowledge, foster collaboration, identify obstacles to change, and enhance school culture and climate. This revised and expanded edition captures the learning that has emerged in integrating the Data Wise process into school practice and brings the book up-to-date with recent developments in education and technology including: The shift to the Common Core State Standards. New material on the “ACE Habits of Mind”: practices that prioritize Action, Collaboration, and Evidence as part of transforming school culture. A new chapter on “How We Improve,” based on experiences implementing Data Wise and to address two common questions: “Where do I start?” and “How long will it take?” Other revisions take into account changes in the roles of school data teams and instructional leadership teams in guiding the inquiry process. The authors have also updated exhibits, examples, and terminology throughout and have added new protocols and resources.

Fugitive Pedagogy

Author : Jarvis R. Givens
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674983688
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Fugitive Pedagogy written by Jarvis R. Givens and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose faith in the subversive power of education will inspire teachers and learners today. Black education was a subversive act from its inception. African Americans pursued education through clandestine means, often in defiance of law and custom, even under threat of violence. They developed what Jarvis Givens calls a tradition of “fugitive pedagogy”—a theory and practice of Black education in America. The enslaved learned to read in spite of widespread prohibitions; newly emancipated people braved the dangers of integrating all-White schools and the hardships of building Black schools. Teachers developed covert instructional strategies, creative responses to the persistence of White opposition. From slavery through the Jim Crow era, Black people passed down this educational heritage. There is perhaps no better exemplar of this heritage than Carter G. Woodson—groundbreaking historian, founder of Black History Month, and legendary educator under Jim Crow. Givens shows that Woodson succeeded because of the world of Black teachers to which he belonged: Woodson’s first teachers were his formerly enslaved uncles; he himself taught for nearly thirty years; and he spent his life partnering with educators to transform the lives of Black students. Fugitive Pedagogy chronicles Woodson’s efforts to fight against the “mis-education of the Negro” by helping teachers and students to see themselves and their mission as set apart from an anti-Black world. Teachers, students, families, and communities worked together, using Woodson’s materials and methods as they fought for power in schools and continued the work of fugitive pedagogy. Forged in slavery, embodied by Woodson, this tradition of escape remains essential for teachers and students today.

Very Good Lives

Author : J. K. Rowling
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316369144
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Very Good Lives written by J. K. Rowling and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.K. Rowling, one of the world's most inspiring writers, shares her wisdom and advice. In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life. How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others? Drawing from stories of her own post-graduate years, the world famous author addresses some of life's most important questions with acuity and emotional force.

Selected Letters

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : I Tatti Renaissance Library
ISBN 13 : 9780674058347
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book Selected Letters written by Francesco Petrarca and published by I Tatti Renaissance Library. This book was released on 2017 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We naturally think of Petrarca first as a poet. But he was much more than that. The first of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance, Petrarca was instrumental in establishing as a cultural goal the rediscovery and collection of manuscripts of the ancient Latin authors; thanks to Petrarca the humanist scholars who followed him became the main conduit for the transmission and revitalization of classical learning, a necessary condition of the wider European Renaissance. Even more significant was Petrarca's role in shaping the literary movement that became known as humanism, a movement that for centuries promoted the study and cultivation of Latin literature. A charismatic figure with a gift for friendship, his life - revealed above all in his letters - became a model for how to live a literary life, how to reconcile the study of pagan literature with sincere Christian belief, and how the study of ancient languages and literatures could serve both true religion and the public world of princes and republics, as well as promote moral excellence in mankind as a whole. He gave the humanities a set of ideals that they fed upon for centuries. He taught how the civic virtues and philosophical wisdom of the pagans could be combined with Christian teachings to produce a a richer civilization. He taught that the humanistic study of antiquity could transform lives and bring back virtue as a personal and public ideal. He more than anyone planted the great tree of Christian classicism which flourished in the West down to modern times.--

The Letters of Robert Frost

Author : Robert Frost
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674057609
Total Pages : 837 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Robert Frost written by Robert Frost and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pensive, mercurial, and often funny, the private Robert Frost remains less appreciated than the public poet. The Letters of Robert Frost, the first major edition of the correspondence of this complex and subtle verbal artist, includes hundreds of unpublished letters whose literary interest is on a par with Dickinson, Lowell, and Beckett.

Schooling for Critical Consciousness

Author : Scott Seider
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 1682534316
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Schooling for Critical Consciousness written by Scott Seider and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schooling for Critical Consciousness addresses how schools can help Black and Latinx youth resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes. Scott Seider and Daren Graves draw on a four-year longitudinal study examining how five different mission-driven urban high schools foster critical consciousness among their students. The book presents vivid portraits of the schools as they implement various programs and practices, and traces the impact of these approaches on the students themselves. The authors make a unique contribution to the existing scholarship on critical consciousness and culturally responsive teaching by comparing the roles of different schooling models in fostering various dimensions of critical consciousness and identifying specific programming and practices that contributed to this work. Through their research with more than 300 hundred students of color, Seider and Graves aim to help educators strengthen their capacity to support young people in learning to analyze, navigate, and challenge racial injustice. Schooling for Critical Consciousness provides school leaders and educators with specific programming and practices they can incorporate into their own school contexts to support the critical consciousness development of the youth they serve.

An Educational Calamity

Author : Uche Amaechi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book An Educational Calamity written by Uche Amaechi and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Covid-19 pandemic caused major disruptions to education around the world. Since the World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, most students on the planet were affected by the interruption of in-person schooling. To mitigate the educational loss such interruption would cause, education authorities the world over created a variety of alternative mechanisms of education delivery. They did so quickly and with insufficient knowledge about what would work well, for which children, and for what aspects of the schooling experience.Having to create such alternative arrangements in short order was the ultimate adaptive leadership challenge, one for which no playbook existed, one for which solutions would have to be invented, rather than drawn from existing technical knowledge. The nature of the challenge differed across the world and regions, and it differed also within countries as a function of the differential public health and economic impact of the pandemic on communities, and of variations in institutional and financial resources available to redress such impact, including availability of digital infrastructure and previous knowledge and experience of teachers and students with digi-pedagogies and other resources to create alternative education delivery systems.Sustaining educational opportunities amidst these challenges created by the pandemic was an example of adaptive education response not to a unique unexpected challenge but to one in a larger class of problems, just one of the many adaptive conundrums facing communities and societies. Beyond the challenges resulting from the pandemic, other complications of that sort predating the pandemic included those resulting from poverty, inequality, social inclusion, governance, climate change, among others. In some ways, the pandemic served as an accelerant for some of those, augmenting their impact or underscoring the urgency of addressing them. Adaptive puzzles of this sort, including pandemics, are likely to continue to impact education systems in the foreseeable future. This makes it necessary to strengthen the capacity of education systems to respond to them.Reimagining education systems so they are resilient in the face of adaptive challenges is an opportunity to mobilize new talent and institutional resources. Partnerships between school systems and universities can contribute to those reimagined and more resilient systems, they can enhance the institutional capacity of education systems to devise solutions and to implement them. Such partnerships are also an opportunity for universities to be more deliberate in integrating their three core functions of research, teaching and outreach in service of addressing significant social challenges in a context in rapid flux.In this book we present the results of one approach to produce the integration between research, teaching and outreach just described, resulting from engaging graduate students in collaborations with school systems for the purpose of helping identify ways to sustain educational opportunity during the disruption caused by the pandemic. This activity engaged our students in research and analysis, contributing to their education, and it engaged them in service to society. The book examines what happened to educational opportunity during the Covid-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, Belize, the municipality of Santa Ana in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Kenya, in the States of Sinaloa and Quintana Roo in Mexico, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, and in the United States in Richardson Independent School District in Texas. It offers an systematic analysis of policy options to sustain educational opportunity during the pandemic.

Instructional Rounds in Education

Author : Elizabeth A. City
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instructional Rounds in Education written by Elizabeth A. City and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instructional Rounds in Education is intended to help education leaders and practitioners develop a shared understanding of what high-quality instruction looks like and what schools and districts need to do to support it. Walk into any school in America and you will see adults who care deeply about their students and are doing the best they can every day to help students learn. But you will also see a high degree of variability among classrooms--much higher than in most other industrialized countries. Today we are asking schools to do something they have never done before--educate all students to high levels--yet we don't know how to do that in every classroom for every child. Inspired by the medical-rounds model used by physicians, the authors have pioneered a new form of professional learning known as instructional rounds networks. Through this process, educators develop a shared practice of observing, discussing, and analyzing learning and teaching.

Proust and the Squid

Author : Maryanne Wolf
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062010638
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Proust and the Squid written by Maryanne Wolf and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wolf restores our awe of the human brain—its adaptability, its creativity, and its ability to connect with other minds through a procession of silly squiggles.” — San Francisco Chronicle How do people learn to read and write—and how has the development of these skills transformed the brain and the world itself ? Neuropsychologist and child development expert Maryann Wolf answers these questions in this ambitious and provocative book that chronicles the remarkable journey of written language not only throughout our evolution but also over the course of a single child’s life, showing why a growing percentage have difficulty mastering these abilities. With fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, Wolf asserts that the brain that examined the tiny clay tablets of the Sumerians is a very different brain from the one that is immersed in today’s technology-driven literacy, in which visual images on the screen are paving the way for a reduced need for written language—with potentially profound consequences for our future.

A Policy Reader in Universal Design for Learning

Author : David T. Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934742389
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book A Policy Reader in Universal Design for Learning written by David T. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universal design for learning (UDL) is intended to create access to education curricula for all students, including those with disabilities. Gordon, director of communications at the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), gathers early documents in the field and related articles by researchers and administrators at CAST and by professors of education, special education, and law, to consider UDL's implications for federal, state, and local policy. An overview section places UDL in the context of education reform. Material on national considerations looks at how UDL could inform discussions about No Child Left Behind and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This section includes recent documents from Project Forum, a program of the National Association of State Directors of Special Education. Chapters on policy issues examine how UDL relates to assistive technology and response to intervention (RTI). Assessment of student learning and teacher effectiveness is also discussed.

Pathways to Teacher Leadership

Author : Marya R. Levenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781612506548
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Pathways to Teacher Leadership written by Marya R. Levenson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author investigates emerging patterns in the development and effectiveness of teacher-leadership. She looks closely at the particular demands on young teachers in mission-driven urban schools as well as those in more traditional settings, and examines movements to give teachers a voice in district, state, and federal policy. The book provides a powerful counterpoint to current debates about teacher quality and shows how teachers can work together to make schools better. (Orig.)

Striving for Equity

Author : Robert G. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781612509389
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Striving for Equity written by Robert G. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striving for Equity brings to light the complex and illuminating stories of thirteen longtime superintendents--all leaders of the Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN)--who were able to make progress toward narrowing opportunity and achievement gaps in traditional school districts with diverse populations and multiple, competing agendas. Drawing on current research in organizational learning, the authors introduce a framework consistent with the systemic perspective of these superintendents to help school leaders who want to prioritize the narrowing of gaps. "Equity is a major issue that confronts us in public education. We must develop thought leaders in education who represent and speak for the vast number of children in America who are not receiving the quality education they are entitled to. Striving for Equity can serve as an invaluable resource for superintendents and other school system leaders." --Daniel A. Domenech, executive director, AASA, The School Superintendents Association "Talk is cheap--action is hard! Smith and Brazer examine the complex and politically challenging processes and procedures necessary to create equity of outcomes for all children. The book is an excellent, easy read that provides a practical set of considerations and a framework for action for those who strive for excellence and equity for ALL children." --Jerry Weast, founder and CEO, Partnership for Deliberate Excellence, and former superintendent, Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland "Smith and Brazer present the reality of leading change to close achievement gaps. The commitment of the featured superintendents should give hope to leaders everywhere who are willing to challenge communities to provide equitable opportunities for all students. The stories are not easy, but the children are worth the price." --Edgar B. Hatrick, former superintendent, Loudoun County Public Schools, and past president, AASA, The School Superintendents Association Robert G. Smith is an associate professor in the Education Leadership program at George Mason University, and a founding member of MSAN. S.David Brazer is an associate professor and faculty director of Leadership Degree Programs at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

Author : Wolfgang F. Stolper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691194491
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Joseph Alois Schumpeter written by Wolfgang F. Stolper and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major scholarly study of the life of Joseph A. Schumpeter, one of the great intellectual figures of the twentieth century, the distinguished economist Wolfgang Stolper delves into the mind of his former teacher, exploring the development of his ideas and, especially, their influence on politics and public policy. After reflecting briefly on Schumpeter the man, Stolper explains the evolution of Schumpeter's work, particularly his insights during the 1920s on public finance, his contributions to monetary theory and the study of business cycles, and his writings on socialism. Stolper goes on to desribe and evaluate Schumpeter's public activities following World War I and his role as a finance minister, placing the development of his thought in the turbulence political context of his times. Drawing on a vast array of new and exciting sources, Stolper paints a portrait of his mentor as a decent, ambitious, and complex man whose many insights into economy and society found their way outside of the academy and into the practical world of economic policy. All readers interested in the history of economic thought and twentieth-century political and intellectual history will find this book invaluable. Wolfgang Stolper is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Michigan. He is author of The Structure of the East German Economy and Planning Without Facts and has made seminal contributions to international economics. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Investigation of Korean-American Relations

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Organizations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Investigation of Korean-American Relations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Organizations and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: