This updated edition of the bestseller on school reform focuses on collaboration at three crucial levels: district, school, and classroom. Recognizing the power of multilevel support, reform expert Edie L. Holcomb provides a structure that helps teams of educators assess a situation, gather information, plan and implement change initiatives, evaluate progress, and sustain change.
In easy-to-understand language, Asking the Right Questions, Third Edition, effectively highlights the issues that need to be addressed when implementing school improvement initiatives. Building on her highly successful framework, the author presents a new discussion on shaping practice, creating effective decision-making structures, and reviewing improvement plans. The new edition also includes
- Innovative strategies such as symbolic displays, configuration maps, priority grids, and open space technology
- Additional examples of change scenarios from the field
- Review questions and chapter summaries that highlight key points
- A CD-ROM with figures, forms, and a chapter-by-chapter discussion guide to facilitate individual and group study
From simple policy changes to broad reform, this invaluable guide helps teachers, principals, and administrators work together to visualize and enact changes that improve student achievement.
Features:- Title - Asking the Right Questions
- Sub-Title - Tools for Collaboration and School Change
- Author - Edie L. Holcomb
- Binding - Paperback w/CD
- Pages - 232
- Publication Date - 02-Jul-08
- Edition No - Third Edition
- Primary Subject Code - School Change, Reform, & Restructuring - CAG
- Item Weight - 23 oz.
- Copyright Year - 2009
About the Author- Edie L. Holcomb work received the Excellence in Staff Development Award from the Iowa Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development in 1988. In 1990, her study of the needs of beginning principals was recognized by the American Association of School Administrators with the Paul F. Salmon Award for Outstanding Education Leadership Research.
- She served as an elected member-at-large on the Leadership Council for ASCD International, played an active role in Washington State’s School Improvement Assistance Program, and contributed to development of the new School System Improvement Resource Guide. Holcomb is the author of four previous books and numerous articles and reviews.
