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A School Board Guide to Leading Successful Schools: Focusing on Learning - Softcover

Foster, Anne W.; Hirsh, Dr. Stephanie A.

 
9781452290423: A School Board Guide to Leading Successful Schools: Focusing on Learning
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1452290423 ISBN 13: 9781452290423
Verlag: Corwin, 2013

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The go-to resource for school board members’ greatest challenges!

This invaluable guide addresses the top challenges experienced by nearly every school board, and shows how professional learning can support positive change throughout a school system. Effective for individual study or group learning, this resource helps board members to:

  • Learn from case studies focused on 12 critical board-level decisions, including hiring a new superintendent, resource allocation, compensation planning, and more
  • Know when, where, and how to use professional learning to improve individual and districtwide performance
  • Benefit from best practices and tools developed to support effective decisions and successful implementation of major initiatives

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephanie Hirsh is executive director of Learning Forward. Learning Forward's more than 10,000 members and 40 state and provincial affiliates are committed to increasing student achievement and educator performance through more effective professional learning.

Prior to her appointment as executive director, Hirsh served the association as deputy executive director for 18 years. She began her career as a secondary teacher and also served as a school district administrator in the Richardson (TX) Independent School District. In 1996 she was elected to the Richardson school board and served for three terms. Today, Hirsh advises governors, legislators, state and local superintendents, and other policy makers regarding professional development, school improvement, and student learning.

Hirsh also presents, publishes, and consults on Learning Forward's behalf across North America. Her recent books include A Playbook for Professional Learning, co-authored with Shirley Hord, The Learning Educator, co-authored with Joellen Killion, and Transforming Schools Through Powerful Planning, co-authored with Kay Psencik. Hirsh writes a regular column for JSD, Learning Forward's bimonthly magazine. She has also written articles for Educational Leadership, Phi Delta Kappan, The Record, The School Administrator, American School Board Journal, The High School Magazine, and Education Week.

Hirsh serves on several advisory boards including Learning First Alliance, University of Texas College of Education, National Stem Equity Pipeline, and The Teaching Channel. She has been recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Learning Forward Texas; as a Distinguished Alumnae from the University of North Texas; and as Master Trustee and member of an Honor Board from the Texas School Boards Association.

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A guide designed to deepen school board members' understanding of high quality professional learning, its impact on student achievement, and its relation to key responsibilities and decisions of school boards.

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Verlag
Corwin
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1452290423
ISBN 13 
9781452290423
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
244
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