Bøker av Joseph P. McDonald

Explores what data use in teaching really is, how it works in theory and practice, and why it sometimes fails to achieve expected goals. Each chapter includes a discussion of a new direction that schools and teachers can take to ensure that data use in teaching actually spurs growth in learning.

Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation's largest cities, this book evaluates the half-billion-dollar Annenberg Challenge - launched in 1994 - alongside many other large-scale reform efforts that have taken place in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Explores the diverse challenges faced by teachers and by facilitators in the online world and provides readers with strategies to tackle them. The authors provide online adaptations for such traditional protocols as the Tuning Protocol, the Collaborative Assessment Conference, and the Consultancy Protocol. They also offer entirely new protocols unique to online environments.

An analysis of teaching in which the author examines the classroom environment, the conceptual domains of research, the complex layers of public policy, and the language of educational discourse and polemic. He looks at what teachers do, how they learn, and how they cope.

"Should be read by all who are not satisfied with the status quo in education.

A guide to a fresh dimension of school reform. It includes stories about 'scaling up' by other school design teams, and in other enterprises beyond high school.