Breakthrough Leadership: Six Principles Guiding Schools Where Inequity Is Not an Option
Autor Alan M. Blankstein, Marcus J Newsomeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 oct 2020
This book was borne out of urgency. We face the consequences of a raging pandemic, coupled with an unprecedented call to end racial injustice. COVID-19 has exposed longstanding structural inequities, while at the same time offering a rare “breakthrough” opportunity to dismantle inequitable systems that have harmed our most marginalized students for generations.
Breakthrough Leadership is rooted in moral courage and calls us to act upon a new discovery, or epiphany about a fundamental truth that challenges previous beliefs.
While this book offers examples of schools that were “beating the odds” pre-COVID-19 as well as strategies for changing those odds in the future. Breakthrough Leadership also spotlights professionals now leveraging crises like this to shape local and national priorities toward a more equitable and healthy society for our children in order to:
- Create and sustain Equitable Learning Communities (ELCs) that are grounded in relational trust
- Establish comprehensive systems to ensure that all students thrive
- Implement cutting-edge principles of effective curriculum, instruction, and assessment including culturally responsive teaching, trauma-informed practice, and blended learning
- Meaningfully engage families and community
“The critical variable that determines whether or not our schools can respond adequately to the numerous challenges that they and their children face is leadership. . . This book is about the work of such leaders. In big cities, small towns, and rural areas, a small number of principals and superintendents are showing that progress can be made when leaders have the resourcefulness and courage to address equity challenges directly.
The educational leaders profiled in this book have a clear sense of how to systematically build the capacity of teachers and schools to meet the needs of the students they serve. I urge other leaders to learn from them so that great schools that serve all children well, will be the norm, rather than the exception.”
~Pedro Noguero
"With all its devastation, COVID-19 also presents the opportunity of the century to transform the public education system that, to say the least, has become stalled and stagnant in the past 50 years. . . . Breakthrough Leadership makes a significant contribution to our next phase, which must be one of definable and targeted transformation of equity-based learning.
~Michael Fullan
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781071824412
ISBN-10: 1071824414
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States
ISBN-10: 1071824414
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States
Recenzii
"With all its devastation, COVID-19 also presents the opportunity of the century to transform the public education system that, to say the least, has become stalled and stagnant in the past 50 years. The good news is that there are strong pockets of pent-up desire and frustration to develop new learning that engages students in the demands of the 21st century. Among other problems, inequity has worsened over the past 20 years despite substantial increased budgets and rhetoric to the contrary. Breakthrough Leadership makes a significant contribution to our next phase, which must be one of definable and targeted transformation of equity-based kerning. This book meets the challenge in two significant ways. First, it advocates a bold and specific vision. while at the same time is detailed in the specific strategies and actions that need to be taken in the face of COVID-19 related fallout. Second, aside from its revolutionary timeliness, the virtue of Breakthrough is that is stems from grass roots practice and practitioners. Any solution to our present problems must be relentlessly bottom up. This collection represents a strong contribution to the growing post-COVID movement that is vital for the immediate future of public education."
Cuprins
Foreword by Pedro A. Noguera
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1. Out of the Crisis
Chapter 2. Breakthrough Leadership
Chapter 3. The First Hundred Days: A Pandemic Reentry Plan
Chapter 4. Relational Trust as a Foundation for the Equitable Learning Community
Chapter 5. Principle 1—The Pillars of an Equitable Learning Community: Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals
Chapter 6. Principle 2—Ensuring Achievement for All Students: Comprehensive Systems for Prevention and Intervention
Chapter 7. Principle 3—Data-Based Decision Making for Continuous Improvement
Chapter 8. Principle 4—Collaborative Teaming Focused on Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessments
Chapter 9. Principle 5—Meaningful Engagement With Families and Community
Chapter 10. Principle 6—Building Sustainable Leadership Capacity
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1. Out of the Crisis
Chapter 2. Breakthrough Leadership
Chapter 3. The First Hundred Days: A Pandemic Reentry Plan
Chapter 4. Relational Trust as a Foundation for the Equitable Learning Community
Chapter 5. Principle 1—The Pillars of an Equitable Learning Community: Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals
Chapter 6. Principle 2—Ensuring Achievement for All Students: Comprehensive Systems for Prevention and Intervention
Chapter 7. Principle 3—Data-Based Decision Making for Continuous Improvement
Chapter 8. Principle 4—Collaborative Teaming Focused on Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessments
Chapter 9. Principle 5—Meaningful Engagement With Families and Community
Chapter 10. Principle 6—Building Sustainable Leadership Capacity
Index
Notă biografică
Award-winning author and educational leader, Alan Blankstein served for 25 years as President of the HOPE Foundation, which he founded and whose honorary chair is Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. A former ¿high-risk¿ youth, Alan began his career in education as a music teacher. He worked for Phi Delta Kappa, March of Dimes, and Solution Tree, which he founded in 1987 and directed for 12 years while launching Professional Learning Communities beginning in the late 1980s. He is the author of the best-selling book Failure Is Not an Option®: Six Principles That Guide Student Achievement in High-Performing Schools, which received the Book of the Year award from Learning Forward. Alan is Senior Editor, lead contributor, and/or author of 18 books, including Excellence Through Equity with Pedro Noguera,. He also authored some 20 articles in leading education print including Education Week, Educational Leadership, The Principal, and Executive Educator. Alan has provided keynote presentations and workshops for virtually every major U.S. Ed Org, and throughout the UK, Africa, and the Middle East. Alan has served on the Harvard International Principals Centers advisory board, and the Jewish Child Care Agency, where he once was a youth in residence.
Descriere
Now is the time for Breakthrough Leadership
This book was borne out of urgency. We face the consequences of a raging pandemic, coupled with an unprecedented call to end racial injustice. COVID-19 has exposed longstanding structural inequities, while at the same time offering a rare “breakthrough” opportunity to dismantle inequitable systems that have harmed our most marginalized students for generations.
Breakthrough Leadership is rooted in moral courage and calls us to act upon a new discovery, or epiphany about a fundamental truth that challenges previous beliefs.
While this book offers examples of schools that were “beating the odds” pre-COVID-19 as well as strategies for changing those odds in the future. Breakthrough Leadership also spotlights professionals now leveraging crises like this to shape local and national priorities toward a more equitable and healthy society for our children in order to:
“The critical variable that determines whether or not our schools can respond adequately to the numerous challenges that they and their children face is leadership. . . This book is about the work of such leaders. In big cities, small towns, and rural areas, a small number of principals and superintendents are showing that progress can be made when leaders have the resourcefulness and courage to address equity challenges directly.
The educational leaders profiled in this book have a clear sense of how to systematically build the capacity of teachers and schools to meet the needs of the students they serve. I urge other leaders to learn from them so that great schools that serve all children well, will be the norm, rather than the exception.”
~Pedro Noguero
"With all its devastation, COVID-19 also presents the opportunity of the century to transform the public education system that, to say the least, has become stalled and stagnant in the past 50 years. . . . Breakthrough Leadership makes a significant contribution to our next phase, which must be one of definable and targeted transformation of equity-based learning.
~Michael Fullan
This book was borne out of urgency. We face the consequences of a raging pandemic, coupled with an unprecedented call to end racial injustice. COVID-19 has exposed longstanding structural inequities, while at the same time offering a rare “breakthrough” opportunity to dismantle inequitable systems that have harmed our most marginalized students for generations.
Breakthrough Leadership is rooted in moral courage and calls us to act upon a new discovery, or epiphany about a fundamental truth that challenges previous beliefs.
While this book offers examples of schools that were “beating the odds” pre-COVID-19 as well as strategies for changing those odds in the future. Breakthrough Leadership also spotlights professionals now leveraging crises like this to shape local and national priorities toward a more equitable and healthy society for our children in order to:
- Create and sustain Equitable Learning Communities (ELCs) that are grounded in relational trust
- Establish comprehensive systems to ensure that all students thrive
- Implement cutting-edge principles of effective curriculum, instruction, and assessment including culturally responsive teaching, trauma-informed practice, and blended learning
- Meaningfully engage families and community
“The critical variable that determines whether or not our schools can respond adequately to the numerous challenges that they and their children face is leadership. . . This book is about the work of such leaders. In big cities, small towns, and rural areas, a small number of principals and superintendents are showing that progress can be made when leaders have the resourcefulness and courage to address equity challenges directly.
The educational leaders profiled in this book have a clear sense of how to systematically build the capacity of teachers and schools to meet the needs of the students they serve. I urge other leaders to learn from them so that great schools that serve all children well, will be the norm, rather than the exception.”
~Pedro Noguero
"With all its devastation, COVID-19 also presents the opportunity of the century to transform the public education system that, to say the least, has become stalled and stagnant in the past 50 years. . . . Breakthrough Leadership makes a significant contribution to our next phase, which must be one of definable and targeted transformation of equity-based learning.
~Michael Fullan