Battling the Hamster Wheel(TM): Strategies for Making High School Reform Work

 

Looking for effective strategies and best practices to break the cycle of ineffective school reform implementation? 

The author takes a sobering look at the state of high school reform and identifies the elements that keep us "running in place", rather than making progress on a road to success. This research-based resource-with built-in book study and facilitator’s guide-arms readers with the skills to establish and sustain the critical elements for schools' success:

• Demonstrating high expectations and a vision that matches it
• Building capacity for ultimate success
• Thinking small, dreaming big
• Engaging in legitimate community support
• Strong, sustained, and shared leadership