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This ""how-to"" book delves into reflection as a concept and provides specific, replicable tools for professional practice. Each chapter draws on a particular school situation demonstrating the value of teacher reflection and describing the nuts and bolts of the process.

The National Writing project has become one of the most influential and long lasting professional development programmes in the history of the United States. This text looks at the project, analyzes what makes it so successful and shows how other professional development efforts can learn from it.

How effective is whole-school high school reform, such as the Schools-Within-Schools (SWS) model? What benefits does it have for students and in which areas does it fall short? This book seeks to answer these questions through the stories of five public high schools that have embraced the SWS method.

This work explores the power of using media education to help urban teenagers develop their critical thinking and literacy skills. Here, Steven Goodman looks closely at both the problems and possibilities of this model of media education.

This collection features original essays from international superstars in the field of educational change. Each think piece draws on the latest knowledge from research, policy, and practice to provide important insights for creating systemic, meaningful reform. The authors directly address contemporary challenges, misconceptions, and failed strategies, while also offering solutions, ideas, and guiding questions for examination. Unique in its breadth of ideas and diversity of voices, Leading Educational Change is must-reading for education decision makers on all levels, frontline practitioners, and everyone involved with children and adolescent learning. Together with the online companion Instructors Guide, this is also a perfect text for educational leadership and policy courses.

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