Learning Places
A Field Guide for Improving the Context of Schooling
Michael Fullan
- Michael Fullan Enterprises Inc.
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"This timely book is exactly what modern schools need, blending Fullan's theoretical genius about change with practical strategies that can work in any school. Readers will discover that it is practical, easy to use, and empowering for educators, with lots of room for personal choices at the school level."
-Lyn Sharratt, Superintendent of Curriculum and Instructional Services, York Region District School Board, North Toronto, ON, Canada
"This book is an easy read and provides a well developed idea of framing the school context for student achievement. The author provides excellent resources, worksheets, templates, walk-through and reflection ideas, and additional support materials."
-Rosemarie Young, Past President, National Association of Elementary School Principals
Encourage sustainable reform practices that foster development for the entire school community!
Need an inspiring approach to school change? Need staying power for school improvement initiatives? Organized to make learning contagious throughout the school, this user-friendly guide helps create a culture of learning that promotes the simultaneous development of students, teachers, and parents—addressing specific ways to maximize study groups, student data, classroom walk-throughs, and more. The interactive self-assessment protocols focus on:
-Lyn Sharratt, Superintendent of Curriculum and Instructional Services, York Region District School Board, North Toronto, ON, Canada
"This book is an easy read and provides a well developed idea of framing the school context for student achievement. The author provides excellent resources, worksheets, templates, walk-through and reflection ideas, and additional support materials."
-Rosemarie Young, Past President, National Association of Elementary School Principals
Encourage sustainable reform practices that foster development for the entire school community!
Need an inspiring approach to school change? Need staying power for school improvement initiatives? Organized to make learning contagious throughout the school, this user-friendly guide helps create a culture of learning that promotes the simultaneous development of students, teachers, and parents—addressing specific ways to maximize study groups, student data, classroom walk-throughs, and more. The interactive self-assessment protocols focus on:
- Achieving a sense of purpose
- Facilitating program coherence
- Invigorating classroom teaching
- Supporting the professional development of teachers
- Developing wider circles of leadership
Issuing a call to action for all educational communities, this easy-to-use manual offers a visionary yet grounded approach to revitalize educators and reenergize their efforts for meaningful, lasting reform.
Contents
Author to Reader
Author to Reader
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
About the Authors
Section A: Shaping Schoolwide Contexts
- 1. Building on Strengths
- 2. Achieving Momentum Through Innovativeness
- 3. Linking Standardized Test Data to Teaching and Learning
- 4. Promoting Purpose and Community
- 5. Making Learning Support Accessible
Section B: Improving Classroom Teaching
- 6. Sharing Ideas About Improving Classroom Teaching
- 7. Focusing Student Interest and Attention
- 8. Engaging Student Thinking
- 9. Supporting Student Performance
- 10. Affirming Student Understanding
Section C: Sustaining Passion and Commitment
- 11. Supporting Professional Development
- 12. Reframing Success
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
"This timely book is exactly what modern schools need, blending Fullan's theoretical genius about change with practical strategies that can work in any school. Readers will discover that it is practical, easy to use, and empowering for educators, with lots of room for personal choices at the school level."
-Lyn Sharratt, Superintendent of Curriculum and Instructional Services, York Region District School Board, North Toronto, ON, Canada
"This book is an easy read and provides a well developed idea of framing the school context for student achievement. The author provides excellent resources, worksheets, templates, walk-through and reflection ideas, and additional support materials."
-Rosemarie Young, Past President, National Association of Elementary School Principals
Encourage sustainable reform practices that foster development for the entire school community!
Need an inspiring approach to school change? Need staying power for school improvement initiatives? Organized to make learning contagious throughout the school, this user-friendly guide helps create a culture of learning that promotes the simultaneous development of students, teachers, and parents—addressing specific ways to maximize study groups, student data, classroom walk-throughs, and more. The interactive self-assessment protocols focus on:
-Lyn Sharratt, Superintendent of Curriculum and Instructional Services, York Region District School Board, North Toronto, ON, Canada
"This book is an easy read and provides a well developed idea of framing the school context for student achievement. The author provides excellent resources, worksheets, templates, walk-through and reflection ideas, and additional support materials."
-Rosemarie Young, Past President, National Association of Elementary School Principals
Encourage sustainable reform practices that foster development for the entire school community!
Need an inspiring approach to school change? Need staying power for school improvement initiatives? Organized to make learning contagious throughout the school, this user-friendly guide helps create a culture of learning that promotes the simultaneous development of students, teachers, and parents—addressing specific ways to maximize study groups, student data, classroom walk-throughs, and more. The interactive self-assessment protocols focus on:
- Achieving a sense of purpose
- Facilitating program coherence
- Invigorating classroom teaching
- Supporting the professional development of teachers
- Developing wider circles of leadership
Issuing a call to action for all educational communities, this easy-to-use manual offers a visionary yet grounded approach to revitalize educators and reenergize their efforts for meaningful, lasting reform.
Contents
Author to Reader
Author to Reader
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
About the Authors
Section A: Shaping Schoolwide Contexts
- 1. Building on Strengths
- 2. Achieving Momentum Through Innovativeness
- 3. Linking Standardized Test Data to Teaching and Learning
- 4. Promoting Purpose and Community
- 5. Making Learning Support Accessible
Section B: Improving Classroom Teaching
- 6. Sharing Ideas About Improving Classroom Teaching
- 7. Focusing Student Interest and Attention
- 8. Engaging Student Thinking
- 9. Supporting Student Performance
- 10. Affirming Student Understanding
Section C: Sustaining Passion and Commitment
- 11. Supporting Professional Development
- 12. Reframing Success
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
Learning Places
A Field Guide for Improving the Context of Schooling
July 2006 | 224 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9781412942331 | $42.95 |
| Hardcover | 27/02/2023 | 9781412942324 | $94.95 |
| Lifetime | 27/02/2023 | 9781452237572 | $39.00 |
"This timely book is exactly what modern schools need, blending Fullan's theoretical genius about change with practical strategies that can work in any school. Readers will discover that it is practical, easy to use, and empowering for educators, with lots of room for personal choices at the school level."
-Lyn Sharratt, Superintendent of Curriculum and Instructional Services, York Region District School Board, North Toronto, ON, Canada
"This book is an easy read and provides a well developed idea of framing the school context for student achievement. The author provides excellent resources, worksheets, templates, walk-through and reflection ideas, and additional support materials."
-Rosemarie Young, Past President, National Association of Elementary School Principals
Encourage sustainable reform practices that foster development for the entire school community!
Need an inspiring approach to school change? Need staying power for school improvement initiatives? Organized to make learning contagious throughout the school, this user-friendly guide helps create a culture of learning that promotes the simultaneous development of students, teachers, and parents—addressing specific ways to maximize study groups, student data, classroom walk-throughs, and more. The interactive self-assessment protocols focus on:
-Lyn Sharratt, Superintendent of Curriculum and Instructional Services, York Region District School Board, North Toronto, ON, Canada
"This book is an easy read and provides a well developed idea of framing the school context for student achievement. The author provides excellent resources, worksheets, templates, walk-through and reflection ideas, and additional support materials."
-Rosemarie Young, Past President, National Association of Elementary School Principals
Encourage sustainable reform practices that foster development for the entire school community!
Need an inspiring approach to school change? Need staying power for school improvement initiatives? Organized to make learning contagious throughout the school, this user-friendly guide helps create a culture of learning that promotes the simultaneous development of students, teachers, and parents—addressing specific ways to maximize study groups, student data, classroom walk-throughs, and more. The interactive self-assessment protocols focus on:
- Achieving a sense of purpose
- Facilitating program coherence
- Invigorating classroom teaching
- Supporting the professional development of teachers
- Developing wider circles of leadership
Issuing a call to action for all educational communities, this easy-to-use manual offers a visionary yet grounded approach to revitalize educators and reenergize their efforts for meaningful, lasting reform.
Table Of Contents:
- Author to Reader
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- About the Authors
- Section A: Shaping Schoolwide Contexts
- 1. Building on Strengths
- 2. Achieving Momentum Through Innovativeness
- 3. Linking Standardized Test Data to Teaching and Learning
- 4. Promoting Purpose and Community
- 5. Making Learning Support Accessible
- Section B: Improving Classroom Teaching
- 6. Sharing Ideas About Improving Classroom Teaching
- 7. Focusing Student Interest and Attention
- 8. Engaging Student Thinking
- 9. Supporting Student Performance
- 10. Affirming Student Understanding
- Section C: Sustaining Passion and Commitment
- 11. Supporting Professional Development
- 12. Reframing Success
- Index
Recent Product Reviews:
"Presents a workbook-style blend of information about assessment, the change process, differentiated instruction, and other pedagogical approaches with strategies encouraging reflection, conversation, and research among groups of educators. The book is filled with inspirational quotes, thoughtful questions, and challenging directives to further encourage reader reflection."
PsycCRITIQUES, August 2007, Vol. 52(33)
"Presents staff, students, administrators and parents with a road map to a 'grand vision,' and invites us to join the highest of all human enterprises—the creating of a better world, starting with our schools. Provides every school staff the opportunity and tools to create a school engendering and affirming that deepest and most pervasive human drive, the drive to learn."
Lucianne B. Carmichael, Principal, McDonogh 15 School, New Orleans, LA, First Visiting Practitioner, Principals’ Center, Harvard Graduate School of Education
"Simply and beautifully weds theory and practice! This book should be on all administrators' desks as they go about the critical task of education for young people today. Brings forth the finest in theory and the best in practice and at the same time affirms the values that our society was built on and through which it will thrive."
Brother Jeffrey L. Calligan, Auxiliary Provincial and Director of Education, Brothers of the Christian Schools US/Toronto Board of Education for the Brothers of the Christian Schools, Canada
"Learning Places will help all of us transform schools and their classrooms into cultures hospitable to human learning. I wish I had had this field guide during my own turbulent years as a school principal."
Roland S. Barth, Author, Lessons Learned, Founder, The Principals’ Center at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education
"This timely book is exactly what modern schools need, blending Fullan’s theoretical genius about change with practical strategies that can work in any school. Readers will discover that it is practical, easy to use, and empowering for educators, with lots of room for personal choices at the school level."
Lyn Sharratt, Superintendent of Curriculum and Instructional Services, York Region District School Board, North Toronto, ON, Canada