Sustaining Professional Learning Communities - Blankstein, Alan M.

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Résumé :
Featuring contributions from top educators, the third volume of The Soul of Educational Leadership series examines leadership and moral choices and offers strategies for supporting professional learning communities.

Biographie:
Award-winning author and educational leader, Alan Blankstein served for 25 years as President of the HOPE Foundation, which he founded and whose honorary chair is Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. A former ?high-risk? youth, Alan began his career in education as a music teacher. He worked for Phi Delta Kappa, March of Dimes, and Solution Tree, which he founded in 1987 and directed for 12 years while launching Professional Learning Communities beginning in the late 1980s. He is the author of the best-selling book Failure Is Not an Option?: Six Principles That Guide Student Achievement in High-Performing Schools, which received the Book of the Year award from Learning Forward. Alan is Senior Editor, lead contributor, and/or author of 18 books, including Excellence Through Equity with Pedro Noguera,.? He also authored some 20 articles in leading education print including Education Week, Educational Leadership, The Principal, and Executive Educator. Alan has provided keynote presentations and workshops for virtually every major U.S. Ed Org, and throughout the UK, Africa, and the Middle East.? Alan has served on the Harvard International Principals Centers advisory board, and the Jewish Child Care Agency, where he once was a youth in residence.

Sommaire:
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Introduction
1. Communities Committed to Learning: A Case Story of Building Sustainable Success - Nancy Shin Pascal and Alan M. Blankstein
2. Making the Promise a Reality - Shirley M. Hord and Stephanie A. Hirsh
3. Creating and Sustaining Professional Communities - Karen Seashore Louis
4. From Model Implementation to Sustainability: A Multisite Study of Pathways to Excellence in Social-Emotional Learning and Related School Programs - Maurice J. Elias
5. A Leadership Team Approach to Sustaining Social and Emotional Learning - James B. Vetter
6. Pursuit of Sustainability - Larry Leverett
7. Using National Board for Professional Teaching Standards as a Framework for Learning Communities - Joseph Aguerrebere
8. Compelled to Create Collaborative Learning Communities - Deborah L. Wortham
9. Leading Professional Learning Communities: Moral Choices Amid Murky Realities - Andy Hargreaves
Index