Full Description
"Leadership Lessons From Comprehensive School Reform addresses a topic that has received far too little attention in the comprehensive school reform movement: the role of school and district leaders in the reform process. This volume shows how much we've learned about how leaders shape comprehensive reform and how the reform process must shape leadership."
Robert Slavin, Co-Director
Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk
Johns Hopkins University
"This volume provides the most thorough, balanced, and informative source available on comprehensive school reform. In addition to insights regarding implementation of many of the most prominent CSR models, the book is a primer on 'distributed leadership,' providing perspectives on the interplay of principals, teacher leaders, central office administrators and model developers engaged in school and district reform."
James Lytle, Superintendent
Trenton, New Jersey Public Schools
"This book offers well-grounded insights about the leadership practices of educators involved in the implementation of Comprehensive School Reform models. Leaders and leadership scholars will find it a rewarding read. I recommend it highly."
Kenneth Leithwood
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Ontario, Canada
Discover what we've learned about educational leadership from comprehensive school reforms models—straight from the experts and insiders!
Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) is proving to be one of the most promising avenues for improving student achievement. The authors have found that leadership is frequently acknowledged to be a prime factor in the successful implementation of comprehensive school reform. Murphy and Datnow have gathered together a group of CSR insiders and researchers to examine the issue of leadership in CSR for the first time.
Contributors and CSR models include:
Expeditionary Learning Schools
Modern Red Schoolhouse
Co-Nect
Success for All
New American Schools
Chicago Annenberg Challenge
Bay Area School Reform Collaborative
Accelerated Schools
Coalition of Essential Schools
Comer School Development Process
Contents
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Preface
Part I: Setting the Stage
1. The Development of Comprehensive School Reform - Joseph Murphy and Amanda Datnow
Part II: New American Schools Designs
2. Expeditionary Learning Schools: Tenacity, Leadership and School Reform - Greg Farrell
3. The Modern Red Schoolhouse: Leadership in Comprehensive School Reform Initiatives - Sally B. Kilgore and James D. Jones
4. Co-nect: Purpose, Accountability, and School Leadership - Bruce Goldberg and Donald M. Morrison
5. The Accelerated Schools Project: Can a Leader Change the Culture and Embed Reform? - Christine Finnan and James Meza, Jr.
6. New American Schools: District and School Leadership for Whole-School Reform - Mark Berends, Susan Bodilly, and Sheila Nataraj Kirby
Part III: Annenberg Challenge Initiatives
7. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge: Lessons on Leadership for School Development - Mark A. Smylie, Stacy A. Wenzel, and Carol R. Fendt
8. The Bay Area School Reform Collaborative: Building the Capacity to Lead - Michael Aaron Copland
Part IV: Other National Comprehensive School Reform Designs
9. Success for All: District and School Leadership - Amanda Datnow and Marisa Castellano
10. The Coalition of Essential Schools: Leadership for Putting the Common Principles into Practice - Peter M. Hall and Peggy L. Placier
11. The Comer School Development Process: Developing Leadership in Urban Schools - Charles M. Payne and John B. Diamond
Part V: Conclusion
12. Leadership Lessons from Comprehensive School Reform Designs - Joseph Murphy and Amanda Datnow
Index
