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Whole-Faculty Study Groups: Creating Professional Learning Communities That Target Student Learning

Autor Carlene U. Murphy, Dale W. Lick
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 ian 2005
Updated Edition of Bestseller! Foreword by Shirley Hord
'Planning is an important thing. What Whole-Faculty Study Groups has done for us is to ensure that we never forget that implementation is the only thing' - Jack Ernst, Superintendent , Springfield Public Schools, Springfield, MO
'This third edition from Murphy and Lick is a superb resource and a must read for all educators involved in the improvement of education. It should be in the hands of individuals from the state department of education to the classroom teacher, for it speaks to all layers of the system, and to the role that each person must play to assure successful learning for all students' - from the Foreword by Shirley Hord, Scholar Emerita , Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
One of the most successful and exciting approaches to staff development, school reform, and systemic change in education today!
Used by hundreds of schools and school districts in the US, the Whole-Faculty Study Group (WFSG) System is a student-driven, holistic process for facilitating major staff development and schoolwide change.
While providing a step-by-step methodology for the development and implementation of successful WFSGs, this newest edition of Murphy and Lick's groundbreaking bestseller incorporates the most current theoretical concepts on change, the latest refinements to change management procedures, and a wealth of new experiences from more than two thousand individual study groups.
Other significant revisions to this edition include:
- Three additional chapters: the research foundation for WFSGs, how to recognize and understand school culture, and fourteen key findings
- A reorganization of chapters to make the book even more reader-friendly
- New material on timely topics such as 'learning communities' and 'learning teams'
- An increased focus on assessment of student results
- Updated sets of resources and illustrations in the appendix
WFSGs are a proven way to successfully reform, improve, and change schools to meet tomorrow's needs. Filled with real-life examples and illustrative cases, this book provides both the practical knowledge and the theoretical foundation necessary to negotiate the societal, organizational, and cultural barriers affecting education.
This new edition is essential for advisors, teachers and staff in schools, as well as LEA staff, teacher trainers , and anyone interested in increasing student learning.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781412908948
ISBN-10: 1412908949
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.88 kg
Ediția:Third Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Recenzii

"Planning is an important thing. What Whole-Faculty Study Groups has done for us is to ensure that we never forget that implementation is the only thing."
"This third edition from Murphy and Lick is a superb resource and a must read for all educators involved in the improvement of education. It should be in the hands of individuals from the state department of education to the classroom teacher, for it speaks to all layers of the system, and to the role that each person must play to assure successful learning for all students."

Cuprins

Foreword - Shirley M. Hord
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Introduction
2. Enabling Faculties to Become Professional Learning Communities
3. What the Research Tells Us
4. Context: Conditions That Facilitate Change
5. Recognizing and Understanding School Culture
6. Process: A Proven Structure for Collaboration
7. Identifying Student Needs for Targeted Study: The Seven-Step Decision-Making Cycle
8. Content: Curriculum and Instructional Strategies
9. Supporting Synergistic Groups and Learning Teams
10. Sustaining School Improvement Efforts
11. Success: Learning From National, State, District, and Local School Experiences
12. Fourteen Key Lessons
Resource A: Forms
Resource B: Workbook for the Decision-Making Cycle
Resource C: WSFG Rubric
Resource D Clarke Middle School
Resource E: More Action Plans and Logs
Resource F: The Instructional Council
Recommended Reading
References
Index

Notă biografică

Carlene U. Murphy is founder and executive director of the National WFSG Center and the principal developer of the Whole-Faculty Study Groups® system of professional development. In August 2007, she began her 50th year of work in public schools. She started her teaching career in 1957 as a fourth grade teacher in her hometown of Augusta, GA. The next year she moved to Memphis, TN where she taught for 13 years, returning to Augusta in 1972 and retiring from the district in 1993 as its director of staff development. During her 15 years as the district¿s chief staff developer, the district received many accolades, including the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Professional Development from the American Association of School Administrators and Georgiäs Outstanding Staff Development Program Award for two consecutive years. She was awarded the National Staff Development Council¿s Contributions to Staff Development Award and served as the National Staff Development Council¿s chair of the annual national conference in Atlanta in 1986, president in 1988, and board member from 1984 to 1990. The friendships she formed and cemented during the over thirty years of her close relationship with NSDC were life-changing.

After retiring from the Augusta, Georgia schools, she has worked with schools throughout the United States implementing Whole-Faculty Study Groups. She has written extensively about her work in Educational Leadership and Journal of Staff Development and has written with Dale Lick two other books about the WFSG system: Whole-Faculty Study Groups: Creating Professional Learning Communities That Target Student Learning, Corwin Press, 2005; and The Whole-Faculty Study Groups Fieldbook: Lessons Learned and Best Practices from Classrooms, Districts, and Schools (co-editor), 2007. Another book with Karl Clauset and Dale Lick, Schoolwide Action Research for Professional Learning Communities: Improving Student Learning Through the Whole-Faculty Study Groups Approach (Corwin Press, 2008), focuses on the work of study groups and gives descriptive data from schools implementing WFSG.

She now lives on a small horse farm just outside of Augusta in a four generational home, which includes her husband, Joe, daughter, three grandchildren and a great-granddaughter. Even with all the activities in such a home, she still finds time to write about her work, correspond with colleagues and read about the latest developments in education.

Descriere

Filled with numerous examples, this best-selling book provides both the practical knowledge and the theoretical foundation necessary to develop successful Whole-Faculty Study Groups.