Growing Into Equity - Gleason, Sonia Caus

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Résumé :
High-Achieving Students and Teachers-Winning Strategies from Title I Schools! This illuminating book shows how four outstanding Title I schools make the goal of personalized learning a reality for every student and every teacher. The common thread is commitment to equity-the belief that every child can achieve. Readers will find: Guidance on identifying obstacles to equity within your school and building a case for personalized learning Case studies showing the lived values, practices, and leadership that have helped schools transform learning How-to's and templates for creating a team-based professional development program that helps teachers individualize instruction

Biographie:
she was a contributing writer for Learning in Deed: A Report of the National Commission on Service Learning. She coauthored How Eight State Education Agencies in the Northeast and Islands Region Identify and Support Low-Performing Schools and Districts (IES).

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Sonia Caus Gleason has over twenty-five years of professional experience in consulting and designing professional learning on leadership, school organization, developing data-driven instruction, and use of data to improve achievement in high poverty communities. Sonia has crafted and delivered professional learning for schools, districts, cadres of coaches, and SEA leaders. Collaborations with WestEd, Education Development Center, the Regional Educational Laboratory for the Northeast and Islands (REL-NEI) and Comprehensive Centers have been central over time, as has work with a range of community-based agencies.

Sonia is founding developer of the award-winning Success at the Core (www.successathtehcore.com), a free, online suite of professional learning materials that build school leadership and instructional capacity. Success at the Core is driven by documentary-style videos of high achieving, high poverty schools. Videos are complemented by resources that support reflection, analysis, and taking action This toolkit offers a range of materials that educators can take up, without external support and resources, and start to deepen their focus and practice.

Sonia has written in publications including Educational Leadership, the Journal of Staff Development, Perspectives (the Massachusetts Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development)...

In a series of compelling and vivid case studies, authors Sonia Caus Gleason and Nancy Gerzon uncover a vision for education in which all students matter and each student succeeds. For anyone concerned with social justice in our nation's schools, this is a must-read book.