Thinking and Acting Systemically: Improving School Districts Under Pressure

by Alan Daly, Kara Finnigan

Overview

This volume argues that districts are important as a lever for change given the limited success of school-by-school efforts. Policies that focus on skill development, recognize and support performance, create opportunities for collaboration, build leader capacity, and create networks of knowledge sharing hold great potential for improving districts but it will require a paradigm shift in the way we view our public school system and those who work within it - away from blame and toward complext systems change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780935302578
Publisher:	American Educational Research Association
Publication date:	05/19/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Alan J. Daly is Chair and Professor of the Department of Education Studies at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses primarily on the role of leadership, educational policy, and organizational structures and the relationship between those elements and the educational attainment of traditionally marginalized student populations.
Kara S. Finnigan is Associate Professor of Education Policy in the Warner School of Education at the University of Rochester. Her research focuses primarily on low-performing schools and high-stakes accountability, district reform, principal leadership, and school choice. She focuses primarily on urban school districts.