Transforming School Leadership and Management to Support Student Learning and Development
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Description
Meets "the highest standard of evidence" for comprehensive school reforms that improve student achievement.
Review of Educational Research, 2003
"A unique feature of James Comer's school improvement is the comprehensiveness of his ecological approach. It necessarily involves all of the key players in each individual school setting and provides guidelines for their interaction. . . .The domain of educational change is not without good ideas, but it is rare to find them translated into the substance and strategies necessary to getting them into school practices. This handbook will help enormously to keep alive what James Comer and his colleagues have so carefully crafted over the years."
John I. Goodlad, President
Institute for Educational Inquiry
The tried, tested, and true approach to school leadership using consensus, collaboration, and no-fault problem solving!
For more than 35 years, the Yale School Development Program (SDP) has been pioneering the Comer Process for planned change in schools. From initial planning and preparation, through foundation building, transformation, institutionalization, and renewal, the Comer Process provides school leaders with a comprehensive and effective framework for transforming their schools and districts into learning communities that support the growth and development of every child and every adult.
Combining research; evidence-based best practices; essential tools for planning, data analysis, assessment, and program evaluation, and a generous collection of sample letters, sample presentations, charts, tables, and graphics, Transforming School Leadership and Management to Support Student Learning and Development offers educators a state-of-the-art guide to:
Transforming School Leadership and Management to Support Student Learning and Development is sure to be the essential resource for every school leader charged with creating schools, districts, and communities that foster the healthy development of young people and challenge them to the highest academic standards.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
- 1. Introducing the Comer Process to the Faculty for the First Time
- 2. Essential Understandings of the Yale School Development Program: A Reference Guide to the Comer Process
- 3. The School Planning and Management Team (SPMT): The Engine That Drives the School
- 4. Identifying the Problem You Are Trying to Solve with the Comer Process
- 5. All Decisions Must Be Made in the Best Interests of Children: SDP's Most Important Standard
- 6. Designing the Comprehensive School Plan
- 7. School Planning and Management Team (SPMT) Subcommittees: Where the Work of the Comprehensive School Plan Gets Done
- 8. Community Investment in Schools
- 9. Forging Strong Home, School, and Community Links
- 10. Families as Partners: Parent Teams and Parent/Family Involvement
- 11. The Student and Staff Support Team (SSST) and the Coordination of Student Services: "Nine Different People Were Helping One Child"
- 12. The Student and Staff Support Team (SSST) and Child Development
- 13. The Students Have Ruled That "School Should Not Hurt": One Comer School's Approach to Bullying and Other Student Interpersonal Problems
- 14. Letters from an Experienced Facilitator: Promoting a Team Approach to Educational Change
- 15. The Comer Facilitator and Teaming Skills for Meetings
- 16. SDP Facilitators Model Communication Excellence
- 17. Making Decisions: Reaching Consensus in Team Meetings
- 18. The School Development Program (SDP) Implementation Life Cycle: A Roadmap to Planned Change
Resources
- Reminder Cards
- Role Expectation Cards
Index
Index
Foreword
Foreword
Description
Meets "the highest standard of evidence" for comprehensive school reforms that improve student achievement.
Review of Educational Research, 2003
"A unique feature of James Comer's school improvement is the comprehensiveness of his ecological approach. It necessarily involves all of the key players in each individual school setting and provides guidelines for their interaction. . . .The domain of educational change is not without good ideas, but it is rare to find them translated into the substance and strategies necessary to getting them into school practices. This handbook will help enormously to keep alive what James Comer and his colleagues have so carefully crafted over the years."
John I. Goodlad, President
Institute for Educational Inquiry
The tried, tested, and true approach to school leadership using consensus, collaboration, and no-fault problem solving!
For more than 35 years, the Yale School Development Program (SDP) has been pioneering the Comer Process for planned change in schools. From initial planning and preparation, through foundation building, transformation, institutionalization, and renewal, the Comer Process provides school leaders with a comprehensive and effective framework for transforming their schools and districts into learning communities that support the growth and development of every child and every adult.
Combining research; evidence-based best practices; essential tools for planning, data analysis, assessment, and program evaluation, and a generous collection of sample letters, sample presentations, charts, tables, and graphics, Transforming School Leadership and Management to Support Student Learning and Development offers educators a state-of-the-art guide to:
Transforming School Leadership and Management to Support Student Learning and Development is sure to be the essential resource for every school leader charged with creating schools, districts, and communities that foster the healthy development of young people and challenge them to the highest academic standards.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
- 1. Introducing the Comer Process to the Faculty for the First Time
- 2. Essential Understandings of the Yale School Development Program: A Reference Guide to the Comer Process
- 3. The School Planning and Management Team (SPMT): The Engine That Drives the School
- 4. Identifying the Problem You Are Trying to Solve with the Comer Process
- 5. All Decisions Must Be Made in the Best Interests of Children: SDP's Most Important Standard
- 6. Designing the Comprehensive School Plan
- 7. School Planning and Management Team (SPMT) Subcommittees: Where the Work of the Comprehensive School Plan Gets Done
- 8. Community Investment in Schools
- 9. Forging Strong Home, School, and Community Links
- 10. Families as Partners: Parent Teams and Parent/Family Involvement
- 11. The Student and Staff Support Team (SSST) and the Coordination of Student Services: "Nine Different People Were Helping One Child"
- 12. The Student and Staff Support Team (SSST) and Child Development
- 13. The Students Have Ruled That "School Should Not Hurt": One Comer School's Approach to Bullying and Other Student Interpersonal Problems
- 14. Letters from an Experienced Facilitator: Promoting a Team Approach to Educational Change
- 15. The Comer Facilitator and Teaming Skills for Meetings
- 16. SDP Facilitators Model Communication Excellence
- 17. Making Decisions: Reaching Consensus in Team Meetings
- 18. The School Development Program (SDP) Implementation Life Cycle: A Roadmap to Planned Change
Resources
- Reminder Cards
- Role Expectation Cards
Index
Index
Foreword
Foreword
Reviews
Transforming School Leadership and Management to Support Student Learning and Development
The Field Guide to Comer Schools in Action
May 2004 | 240 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 27/02/2023 | 9781412905107 | $94.95 |
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9781412905114 | $42.95 |
Meets "the highest standard of evidence" for comprehensive school reforms that improve student achievement.
Review of Educational Research, 2003
"A unique feature of James Comer's school improvement is the comprehensiveness of his ecological approach. It necessarily involves all of the key players in each individual school setting and provides guidelines for their interaction. . . .The domain of educational change is not without good ideas, but it is rare to find them translated into the substance and strategies necessary to getting them into school practices. This handbook will help enormously to keep alive what James Comer and his colleagues have so carefully crafted over the years."
John I. Goodlad, President
Institute for Educational Inquiry
The tried, tested, and true approach to school leadership using consensus, collaboration, and no-fault problem solving!
For more than 35 years, the Yale School Development Program (SDP) has been pioneering the Comer Process for planned change in schools. From initial planning and preparation, through foundation building, transformation, institutionalization, and renewal, the Comer Process provides school leaders with a comprehensive and effective framework for transforming their schools and districts into learning communities that support the growth and development of every child and every adult.
Combining research; evidence-based best practices; essential tools for planning, data analysis, assessment, and program evaluation, and a generous collection of sample letters, sample presentations, charts, tables, and graphics, Transforming School Leadership and Management to Support Student Learning and Development offers educators a state-of-the-art guide to:
Transforming School Leadership and Management to Support Student Learning and Development is sure to be the essential resource for every school leader charged with creating schools, districts, and communities that foster the healthy development of young people and challenge them to the highest academic standards.
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- 1. Introducing the Comer Process to the Faculty for the First Time
- 2. Essential Understandings of the Yale School Development Program: A Reference Guide to the Comer Process
- 3. The School Planning and Management Team (SPMT): The Engine That Drives the School
- 4. Identifying the Problem You Are Trying to Solve with the Comer Process
- 5. All Decisions Must Be Made in the Best Interests of Children: SDP's Most Important Standard
- 6. Designing the Comprehensive School Plan
- 7. School Planning and Management Team (SPMT) Subcommittees: Where the Work of the Comprehensive School Plan Gets Done
- 8. Community Investment in Schools
- 9. Forging Strong Home, School, and Community Links
- 10. Families as Partners: Parent Teams and Parent/Family Involvement
- 11. The Student and Staff Support Team (SSST) and the Coordination of Student Services: "Nine Different People Were Helping One Child"
- 12. The Student and Staff Support Team (SSST) and Child Development
- 13. The Students Have Ruled That "School Should Not Hurt": One Comer School's Approach to Bullying and Other Student Interpersonal Problems
- 14. Letters from an Experienced Facilitator: Promoting a Team Approach to Educational Change
- 15. The Comer Facilitator and Teaming Skills for Meetings
- 16. SDP Facilitators Model Communication Excellence
- 17. Making Decisions: Reaching Consensus in Team Meetings
- 18. The School Development Program (SDP) Implementation Life Cycle: A Roadmap to Planned Change
- Resources
- Reminder Cards
- Role Expectation Cards
- Index
- Foreword