Schools That Succeed: How Educators Marshal the Power of Systems for Improvement
Informed by years of research and on-the-ground reporting, Schools That Succeed is Karin Chenoweth’s most inspiring and compelling book yet—an essential read for educators who seek to break the stubborn connection between academic achievement and socioeconomic status.
 
Chenoweth draws on her decade-long journey into neighborhood schools where low-income students and students of color are learning at unexpectedly high levels to reveal a key ingredient to their success: in one way or another, their leaders have confronted the traditional ways that schools are organized and have adopted new systems, all focused on improvement. In vivid profiles of once-embattled schools, Chenoweth shows how school leaders doggedly and patiently reorganized internal systems in order to prioritize teaching and learning, resulting in improved outcomes that in many cases exceeded statewide averages.

From how they use time to how they use money, schools that succeed combine a deep belief in the capacity of their students to achieve with deliberate systems focused on student needs. As a result, they create vibrant places “where teachers want to teach and students want to learn."
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Schools That Succeed: How Educators Marshal the Power of Systems for Improvement
Informed by years of research and on-the-ground reporting, Schools That Succeed is Karin Chenoweth’s most inspiring and compelling book yet—an essential read for educators who seek to break the stubborn connection between academic achievement and socioeconomic status.
 
Chenoweth draws on her decade-long journey into neighborhood schools where low-income students and students of color are learning at unexpectedly high levels to reveal a key ingredient to their success: in one way or another, their leaders have confronted the traditional ways that schools are organized and have adopted new systems, all focused on improvement. In vivid profiles of once-embattled schools, Chenoweth shows how school leaders doggedly and patiently reorganized internal systems in order to prioritize teaching and learning, resulting in improved outcomes that in many cases exceeded statewide averages.

From how they use time to how they use money, schools that succeed combine a deep belief in the capacity of their students to achieve with deliberate systems focused on student needs. As a result, they create vibrant places “where teachers want to teach and students want to learn."
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Schools That Succeed: How Educators Marshal the Power of Systems for Improvement

Schools That Succeed: How Educators Marshal the Power of Systems for Improvement

by Karin Chenoweth
Schools That Succeed: How Educators Marshal the Power of Systems for Improvement

Schools That Succeed: How Educators Marshal the Power of Systems for Improvement

by Karin Chenoweth

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Informed by years of research and on-the-ground reporting, Schools That Succeed is Karin Chenoweth’s most inspiring and compelling book yet—an essential read for educators who seek to break the stubborn connection between academic achievement and socioeconomic status.
 
Chenoweth draws on her decade-long journey into neighborhood schools where low-income students and students of color are learning at unexpectedly high levels to reveal a key ingredient to their success: in one way or another, their leaders have confronted the traditional ways that schools are organized and have adopted new systems, all focused on improvement. In vivid profiles of once-embattled schools, Chenoweth shows how school leaders doggedly and patiently reorganized internal systems in order to prioritize teaching and learning, resulting in improved outcomes that in many cases exceeded statewide averages.

From how they use time to how they use money, schools that succeed combine a deep belief in the capacity of their students to achieve with deliberate systems focused on student needs. As a result, they create vibrant places “where teachers want to teach and students want to learn."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781682530290
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Publication date: 01/15/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 744,128
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Karin Chenoweth is author of It’s Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools (2007), HOW It’s Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools (2009), and co-author of Getting It Done: Leading Academic Success in Unexpected Schools (2011), all published by Harvard Education Press. A longtime education writer, she has written for a wide range of publications, including the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, Education Week, Black Issues In Higher Education (now Diverse), Kappan, and Educational Leadership. Since 2004, she has been writer-in-residence at The Education Trust.

Table of Contents

Introduction: What We Can Learn from Experts: It Takes Systems 1

Chapter 1 Finding and Uncovering Expertise: Artesia High School Lakewood, Los Angeles 11

Chapter 2 "It's Not Just That": Systems at Malverne High School Malverne, New York 35

Chapter 3 How Malverne Became Malverne: Replicating Expertise at Elmont Memorial High School Elmont, New York 57

Chapter 4 Starting from Scratch: Dr. Robert W Gilliard Elementary School Mobile, Alabama 83

Chapter 5 Experts and Their Systems at Work: Four Stories 105

Chapter 6 Why Expertise Is Not Enough: A Cautionary Tale 143

Chapter 7 Could There Be "Unexpected Districts" as Well as Unexpected Schools? 169

Chapter 8 Marshaling the Power of Schools 179

Notes 207

Acknowledgments 213

About the Author 217

Index 219

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