The Whole-Faculty Study Groups Fieldbook

Lessons Learned and Best Practices From Classrooms, Districts, and Schools
Dale W. Lick - Florida State University Learning Systems Institute and Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Carlene U. Murphy - National Whole-Faculty Study Groups Center
The Whole-Faculty Study Groups Fieldbook
July 2006 | 328 pages | Corwin
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Master one of today's most successful school reform and school improvement strategies!

The Whole-Faculty Study Group (WFSG) System is a student-centered, teacher-driven process for facilitating major staff development and schoolwide change. When applied properly, it has produced extraordinary results for thousands of educators and students in schools and school districts across the country.

The Whole-Faculty Study Groups Fieldbook is a comprehensive guide to applying the WFSG process. Edited by Dale Lick and Carlene Murphy, this practical manual provides concrete strategies for implementing and sustaining a school improvement process in any environment. Offering extensive experience, each contributor explores a different aspect of Whole-Faculty Study Groups and supplies lessons learned and many first-hand examples of successful school reform and student performance enhancement. Written to complement existing resources or serve as a stand-alone guide, this book will

  • Demonstrate how concepts can be applied in a variety of school improvement efforts
  • Present relevant strategies and activities
  • Illustrate how to use suggestions in real-world situations
  • Highlight critical concepts through extensive case examples
  • Provide helpful tips and lessons learned
  • Explain how findings can be applied to professional learning communities

Offering numerous illustrations of the WFSG System in action and a comprehensive collection of tools for initiating and sustaining successful improvement programs, this fieldbook is an essential resource for K-12 administrators, staff developers, and teachers involved with any type of school transformation effort.

Contents

Foreword by Harold M. Brewer

Foreword by Harold M. Brewer

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Contributors

About the Contributors

About the Editors

About the Editors

Part I: Getting Started

  • 1. Introducing Whole-Faculty Study Groups
  • 2. Applying the Whole-Faculty Study Groups Framework in Schools
  • 3. Aligning Whole-Faculty Study Groups With Staff Development Standards

Part II: Leadership and Sponsorship

  • 4. Enhancing the Principal's Instructional Leadership Role
  • 5. Strengthening School Improvement Plans Through District Sponsorship
  • 6. Partnering With Teacher Unions for School Improvement

Part III: Study Groups and Learning Communities

  • 7. Answering the Question: Do Professional Learning Communities Really Work?
  • 8. Establishing Student Study Groups
  • 9. Implementing Study Groups for Principals

Part IV: Key Success Elements

  • 10.The Whole-Faculty Study Groups Rubric: Defining Context, Process, and Content
  • 11. Building Commitment
  • 12. Using Study Groups for Cultural Change in Schools
  • 13. Changing School Culture
  • 14. Using Data to Improve Achievement in Mathematics
  • 15. Making Data-Based Decisions for School Success

Part V: Instructional Strategies

  • 16. Improving the Quality of Student Performance
  • 17. Implementing Instructional Strategies
  • 18. Implementing Reading and Mathematics Programs
  • 19. Enhancing Performance in the English Language Arts
  • 20. Raising Student Achievement in Reading and Mathematics
  • 21. Improving Reading in Primary Grades

Part VI: Perspectives for Teachers and Teaching

  • 22. Increasing Teacher Learning to Improve Student Learning
  • 23. Changing Teachers' Beliefs About Students and Learning
  • 24. Creating School Successes: A Teacher's Point-of-View
  • 25. Planning and Implementing Strategies for School Improvement
  • 26. Activating a Professional Teacher Evaluation Model

Part VII: State and National Initiatives

  • 27. Going Statewide With Whole-Faculty Study Groups in Louisiana
  • 28. Developing and Supporting Leaders: A New Day, A New Way With New Results
  • 29. Improving Schools Through Statewide Collaboration
  • 30. Establishing a Support Network: The National Whole-Faculty Study Groups Center

Part VIII: An Overview of School Reform

  • 31. Improving Schools: Seeing the Big Picture
  • References
  • Action Research--Related Sources
  • Index

Additional materials

Description

Master one of today's most successful school reform and school improvement strategies!

The Whole-Faculty Study Group (WFSG) System is a student-centered, teacher-driven process for facilitating major staff development and schoolwide change. When applied properly, it has produced extraordinary results for thousands of educators and students in schools and school districts across the country.

The Whole-Faculty Study Groups Fieldbook is a comprehensive guide to applying the WFSG process. Edited by Dale Lick and Carlene Murphy, this practical manual provides concrete strategies for implementing and sustaining a school improvement process in any environment. Offering extensive experience, each contributor explores a different aspect of Whole-Faculty Study Groups and supplies lessons learned and many first-hand examples of successful school reform and student performance enhancement. Written to complement existing resources or serve as a stand-alone guide, this book will

  • Demonstrate how concepts can be applied in a variety of school improvement efforts
  • Present relevant strategies and activities
  • Illustrate how to use suggestions in real-world situations
  • Highlight critical concepts through extensive case examples
  • Provide helpful tips and lessons learned
  • Explain how findings can be applied to professional learning communities

Offering numerous illustrations of the WFSG System in action and a comprehensive collection of tools for initiating and sustaining successful improvement programs, this fieldbook is an essential resource for K-12 administrators, staff developers, and teachers involved with any type of school transformation effort.

Contents

Foreword by Harold M. Brewer

Foreword by Harold M. Brewer

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Contributors

About the Contributors

About the Editors

About the Editors

Part I: Getting Started

  • 1. Introducing Whole-Faculty Study Groups
  • 2. Applying the Whole-Faculty Study Groups Framework in Schools
  • 3. Aligning Whole-Faculty Study Groups With Staff Development Standards

Part II: Leadership and Sponsorship

  • 4. Enhancing the Principal's Instructional Leadership Role
  • 5. Strengthening School Improvement Plans Through District Sponsorship
  • 6. Partnering With Teacher Unions for School Improvement

Part III: Study Groups and Learning Communities

  • 7. Answering the Question: Do Professional Learning Communities Really Work?
  • 8. Establishing Student Study Groups
  • 9. Implementing Study Groups for Principals

Part IV: Key Success Elements

  • 10.The Whole-Faculty Study Groups Rubric: Defining Context, Process, and Content
  • 11. Building Commitment
  • 12. Using Study Groups for Cultural Change in Schools
  • 13. Changing School Culture
  • 14. Using Data to Improve Achievement in Mathematics
  • 15. Making Data-Based Decisions for School Success

Part V: Instructional Strategies

  • 16. Improving the Quality of Student Performance
  • 17. Implementing Instructional Strategies
  • 18. Implementing Reading and Mathematics Programs
  • 19. Enhancing Performance in the English Language Arts
  • 20. Raising Student Achievement in Reading and Mathematics
  • 21. Improving Reading in Primary Grades

Part VI: Perspectives for Teachers and Teaching

  • 22. Increasing Teacher Learning to Improve Student Learning
  • 23. Changing Teachers' Beliefs About Students and Learning
  • 24. Creating School Successes: A Teacher's Point-of-View
  • 25. Planning and Implementing Strategies for School Improvement
  • 26. Activating a Professional Teacher Evaluation Model

Part VII: State and National Initiatives

  • 27. Going Statewide With Whole-Faculty Study Groups in Louisiana
  • 28. Developing and Supporting Leaders: A New Day, A New Way With New Results
  • 29. Improving Schools Through Statewide Collaboration
  • 30. Establishing a Support Network: The National Whole-Faculty Study Groups Center

Part VIII: An Overview of School Reform

  • 31. Improving Schools: Seeing the Big Picture
  • References
  • Action Research--Related Sources
  • Index

Additional materials

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Master one of today's most successful school reform and school improvement strategies!

The Whole-Faculty Study Group (WFSG) System is a student-centered, teacher-driven process for facilitating major staff development and schoolwide change. When applied properly, it has produced extraordinary results for thousands of educators and students in schools and school districts across the country.

The Whole-Faculty Study Groups Fieldbook is a comprehensive guide to applying the WFSG process. Edited by Dale Lick and Carlene Murphy, this practical manual provides concrete strategies for implementing and sustaining a school improvement process in any environment. Offering extensive experience, each contributor explores a different aspect of Whole-Faculty Study Groups and supplies lessons learned and many first-hand examples of successful school reform and student performance enhancement. Written to complement existing resources or serve as a stand-alone guide, this book will

  • Demonstrate how concepts can be applied in a variety of school improvement efforts
  • Present relevant strategies and activities
  • Illustrate how to use suggestions in real-world situations
  • Highlight critical concepts through extensive case examples
  • Provide helpful tips and lessons learned
  • Explain how findings can be applied to professional learning communities

Offering numerous illustrations of the WFSG System in action and a comprehensive collection of tools for initiating and sustaining successful improvement programs, this fieldbook is an essential resource for K-12 administrators, staff developers, and teachers involved with any type of school transformation effort.


Table Of Contents:

  • Foreword by Harold M. Brewer
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Contributors
  • About the Editors
  • Part I: Getting Started
  • 1. Introducing Whole-Faculty Study Groups
  • 2. Applying the Whole-Faculty Study Groups Framework in Schools
  • 3. Aligning Whole-Faculty Study Groups With Staff Development Standards
  • Part II: Leadership and Sponsorship
  • 4. Enhancing the Principal's Instructional Leadership Role
  • 5. Strengthening School Improvement Plans Through District Sponsorship
  • 6. Partnering With Teacher Unions for School Improvement
  • Part III: Study Groups and Learning Communities
  • 7. Answering the Question: Do Professional Learning Communities Really Work?
  • 8. Establishing Student Study Groups
  • 9. Implementing Study Groups for Principals
  • Part IV: Key Success Elements
  • 10.The Whole-Faculty Study Groups Rubric: Defining Context, Process, and Content
  • 11. Building Commitment
  • 12. Using Study Groups for Cultural Change in Schools
  • 13. Changing School Culture
  • 14. Using Data to Improve Achievement in Mathematics
  • 15. Making Data-Based Decisions for School Success
  • Part V: Instructional Strategies
  • 16. Improving the Quality of Student Performance
  • 17. Implementing Instructional Strategies
  • 18. Implementing Reading and Mathematics Programs
  • 19. Enhancing Performance in the English Language Arts
  • 20. Raising Student Achievement in Reading and Mathematics
  • 21. Improving Reading in Primary Grades
  • Part VI: Perspectives for Teachers and Teaching
  • 22. Increasing Teacher Learning to Improve Student Learning
  • 23. Changing Teachers' Beliefs About Students and Learning
  • 24. Creating School Successes: A Teacher's Point-of-View
  • 25. Planning and Implementing Strategies for School Improvement
  • 26. Activating a Professional Teacher Evaluation Model
  • Part VII: State and National Initiatives
  • 27. Going Statewide With Whole-Faculty Study Groups in Louisiana
  • 28. Developing and Supporting Leaders: A New Day, A New Way With New Results
  • 29. Improving Schools Through Statewide Collaboration
  • 30. Establishing a Support Network: The National Whole-Faculty Study Groups Center
  • Part VIII: An Overview of School Reform
  • 31. Improving Schools: Seeing the Big Picture
  • References
  • Action Research--Related Sources
  • Index

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"Here are real-world examples of the WFSG model with the potential to guide the conversation toward core values, effective teaching, and improved student learning. You will have the opportunity to experience this model and general school improvement from the eyes of practitioners at all levels."
From the Foreword by Harold M. Brewer

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