Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Your path to sustainable school improvement starts here
School reform scholars Joseph Murphy and Daniela Torre shed light on the components that promote learning-centered leadership at the secondary level. Strengthen your school culture and discover clearly defined processes for engagement among students, teachers, parents and community members. Learn to:
- Understand variables that shape leadership practices and student learning
- Cultivate school, community, and parent partnerships
- Include both rigor and acceleration within a caring culture, particularly for at-risk schools
- Create communities of professionalism for teachers
Use this comprehensive resource to explore how comprehensive school improvement really works
Synopsis
Leading Researcher Joseph Murphy and his colleague Daniela Torre shed light on two critical issues in education today: student underachievement and how to build effective, high-performing schools. Murphy draws from considerable research and scholarship in the area of school reform. This research is based on meaningful links with the worlds of practice and policy, and builds upon our most robust understanding about school improvement. The book examines the historical footings of the American public school to expose the economic, political, social, and cultural currents that have shaped and continue to influence our understanding of public education and underachievement.