Beating the Odds: High Schools as Communities of Commitment. The Series on School Reform.

Autor/in	Ancess, Jacqueline
Titel	Beating the Odds: High Schools as Communities of Commitment. The Series on School Reform.
Quelle	(2003), (178 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	0-8077-4355-0
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Cooperation; Educational Environment; Educational Improvement; Educational Methods; Educational Practices; Educational Strategies; High School Students; High Schools; Instructional Leadership; Nontraditional Education; Parent Teacher Cooperation; Performance; School Community Relationship; Student Empowerment; Teacher Student Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Co-operation; Kooperation; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Educational method; Erziehungsmethode; Bildungspraxis; Lehrstrategie; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Parent teacher relation; Parent-teacher cooperation; Parent-teacher relation; Parent-teacher relationship; Parent teacher relationship; Eltern-Lehrer-Beziehung; Achievement; Leistung; Studienberechtigung; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung
Abstract	This book describes how administrators, teachers, and students in three high schools have worked to improve their schools. The schools; a suburban vocational-technical school, an urban school for immigrant English-language learners, and an urban second-chance school for students who have failed elsewhere. All operate as, what the books calls, communities of commitment. The book describes how these schools are organized, how they use adult-student relationships to leverage high levels of student performance, how they enact teaching and learning for making meaning, and how they confront the challenges they encounter. It also discusses the systemic conditions for sustaining and scaling up schools. The book is organized into five sections: (1) "Schools as Communities of Commitment"; (2) "Organizing Schools To Be Communities of Commitment"; (3) "Caring Relationships: The Main Thing"; (4) "Teaching and Learning for Making Meaning"; and (5) "Possibilities for Schools as Communities of Commitment: What It Takes." Appended are examples of documents (class schedules, steering committee goals, international curriculum, course catalog, best practices) from the three schools that illustrate the day-to-day operation of the schools, which can be adapted to fit other schools contexts. (WFA)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01