Leading Dynamic Schools: How to Create and Implement Ethical Policies
Autor Sharon F Rallis, Gretchen B Rossman, Casey D. Cobb, Timothy G. Reagan, Aaron M. Kuntzen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 sep 2007
Policy is an often overused and more often misunderstood concept. The authors bring to life the making and enacting of educational policy in schools, and help readers develop a more sophisticated and complex understanding of the purposes, evaluation, creation, and implementation of school policies at all levels. As in the earlier books, the authors use vignettes and cases, as well as research and relevant theories, to illustrate important concepts.
The theme of power within policy permeates the text. The authors recognize that policy tends to represent dominant voices, and that power can be appropriate and legitimate. Dynamic schools are places where multiple voices contribute to the policy-making and implementing process.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1412915570
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States
Recenzii
"The authors do an excellent job of recommending practical strategies to help school leaders reason through policy dilemmas. As an academic, a former practitioner, and former member of an educational policy and advocacy organization, I give a ‘hats off’ to the authors for approaching educational policy and school leadership in this way."
"Educators and library collections catering to them receive a survey arranged by key issues that blends vignettes and research with policy reviews and more. A key to designing successful school and community interactions."
Cuprins
Preface
1. The Many Ps of Policy
What Are Dynamic Schools?
Policy, Program, Procedure, or Practice?
What Do School Leaders Say About Policy?
Policy as Local Deliberative Process
2. The Choice to Act: Shaping the Dialogue
Reasoning
Acting
Evaluating
The Framework in Practice
3. Inclusion: From Dilemma to Imperative
Reasoning
Acting
Evaluating
Reviewing the Inquiry Process of This Dynamic School
4. Immigrants and the Schools: Opening or Closing Doors
Reasoning
Acting
Evaluating
5. Meeting the Needs of English Language Learners: More Than One Way
Reasoning
Acting
Evaluating
6. Asset Building and ‘No Pass, No Play’: Considering the Whole Child
Justice in Learning
The Scenario: Part II
Reasoning: Justice in Policy
Acting and Evaluating
The Scenario: Part III
7. School Climate: Preventing Acts of Bullying
Reasoning
Moral Reasoning
Acting
Evaluation
8. Putting the Framework Into Practice
A Dialogue Among Principals
Final Thoughts
References
Index
Notă biografică
Sharon F. Rallis is Dwight W. Allen Distinguished Professor of Education Policy and Reform at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Previously, she was professor of education at the University of Connecticut; lecturer on education at Harvard; and associate professor of educational leadership at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Her doctorate is from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has coauthored numerous books, including several on leadership: Principals of Dynamic Schools: Taking Charge of Change (with Ellen Goldring); Dynamic Teachers: Leaders of Change (with Gretchen Rossman); Leading Dynamic Schools: How to Create and Implement Ethical Policies (with Gretchen Rossman and others); and Leading With Inquiry and Action: How Principals Improve Teaching and Learning (with Matthew Militello and Ellen Goldring). Her numerous articles, book chapters, edited volumes, and technical reports address issues of research and evaluation methodology, ethical practice in research and evaluation, education policy and leadership, and school reform.
A past-president of the American Evaluation Association (2005) and current editor of the American Journal of Evaluation, Professor Rallis has been involved with education and evaluation for more than three decades. She has been a teacher, counselor, principal, researcher, program evaluator, director of a major federal school reform initiative, and an elected school board member. Currently, her teaching includes courses on inquiry, program evaluation, qualitative methodology, and organizational theory. Her research has focused on the local implementation of programs driven by federal, state, or district policies. As external evaluator or principal investigator (PI), she has studied a variety of domestic and international policy and reform efforts, such as alternative professional development for leaders; collaborations between agencies responsible for educating incarcerated or institutionalized youth; initiatives supporting inclusive education for children and youth with disabilities; local school governance and leadership; labor-management relations in school districts; and leadership development. Her work with students on evaluation and qualitative methodology has taken her as far as Afghanistan, Turkey, and Palestine.
Descriere
This invaluable resource brings to life the process of making and enacting educational policy. The authors present a conceptual framework for developing effective and ethical school policies and help educational leaders evaluate, interpret, and analyze the regulations that govern their schools. Organized by key topics such as English Language Learners, inclusion, and bullying, the text incorporates vignettes, research, and relevant theories to illustrate how readers can:
- Create a dialogue that represents the needs of all stakeholders
- Define relevant policies that are ethically sound
- Integrate legally mandated policies with schoolwide resolutions