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

Sammon, Grace M.

ISBN 10: 1412917832 / ISBN 13: 9781412917834

Verlag: Corwin, 2005

Beschreibung

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3478308-n

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Battling the Hamster Wheel : Strategies for Making High School Reform Work
• Verlag: Corwin
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1412917832
• ISBN-13: 9781412917834
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

 

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

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Grace Sammon, president and founder of GMS Partners, Inc., is an educator, school reformer, consultant, "coach," speaker, and internationally recognized author. She has spent nearly twenty years working in one of the United States' toughest institutions, the American high school. She has inspired change and fostered improvement in schools, districts, and government organizations nationally through her upbeat advice and sound, practical
recommendations. GMS Partners, Inc. is an educational consulting firm dedicated
to enhancing school communities through a focused effort on vision, alignment of resources, planning, coaching, professional development, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Under Ms. Sammon's leadership, GMS Partners, Inc. has worked in thirty-two states across the nation, with a focus on whole-school improvement. She is the cofounding director of the National Career Academy Coalition (NCAC) and the Executive Director of the Business Institute for Educators. Her clients have included schools and school systems at the state and district
level, nonprofits, and the U.S. Departments of Defense, Education, Health and
Human Services, and Navy. 
   
Ms. Sammon has authored Battling the Hamster Wheel:TM Strategies for Making
High School Reform Work, eight manuals on school-to-career transition, and articles on
organizational change, school partnerships, and staff development. She created
Metro MANIA: The Great Train Ride Through Washington, a board and street experience
game to facilitate student use of public transportation while they gain an appreciation
for the employment and cultural offerings of the nation's capital. She has also
authored five integrated curricular pieces for use in middle schools and a teen pregnancy
prevention curriculum and training manual.

She earned her Master's Degree in Education at The Catholic University of
America. She has ten years' experience in higher education administration and has
served as an adjunct university professor and a long-term substitute teacher. Her
professional notes include listings in Who's Who in American Education and being
named Outstanding Business Person of the Year by Future Business Leaders of
America. In the spring of 1996, she was appointed to the U.S. Secretary of Defense's
Joint Civilian Orientation Council. She has two children, Brian and Kate Loewe,
who continue to inspire her with their commitment to justice and equity, and to
improving the communities they serve.