Results now how we can achieve unprecedented improvements in teaching and learning

Summary: Discusses how schools can exceed expectations, swiftly reduce achievement gaps, and enhance the lifetime learning of all students. Describes simple actions that can swiftly and substantially improve education and provides a set of structures and practices for improving instruction in any school.

Record details

ISBN: 1416605630 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781416605638 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781416605645
ISBN: 1416605649
ISBN: 1416603581 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781416603580 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781416605652
ISBN: 1416605657
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (vi, 196 p.)
Publisher: Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-191) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: The Brutal Facts About Instruction and Its Supervision -- I. Reality and Illusion in Public Schools -- 1. The Buffer -- 2. Isolation: The Enemy of Improvement -- 3. Leadership Interrupted: How the Buffer Compromises Supervision -- 4. Curricular Chaos -- II. Literacy Education: The Greatest Opportunity of All -- 5. The Power of Authentic Literacy -- 6. Authentic Literacy and Intellectual Development -- 7. The Startling State of Literacy Education -- III. Learning and Leading in the Professional Learning Community -- 8. Professional Learning Communities: The Surest, Fastest Path to Instructional Improvement -- 9. Leadership in the Professional Learning Community -- 10. Scaling Up: Central Office and State-Level Leadership in the Learning Community -- Conclusion. Why Not Us? Why Not Now? -- Appendix A: Suggestions for Teaching Critical and Argumentative Literacy -- Appendix B: Start Here for Improving Teaching -- Appendix C: Agreements.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.