This book shows how schools can--and must--develop expertise in "learning variation" (understanding how different kinds of minds learn) and apply this knowledge to classroom instruction in order to address the chronic learning challenges and achievement gap faced by millions of students. Barringer shows how using what we know about learning variation with a focus on discovering learning strengths, not just deficits, can help schools create plans for success for those students who often find it elusive.
Generative Leadership: Shaping New Futures for Today's Schools
The authors demonstrate how to tap into an organization's collective intelligence through generative leadership. The model includes engaging in personal reflection, promoting professional conversations, and harnessing creativity.
Equality in the Secondary School: Promoting Good Practice Across the Curriculum
This book draws on a wealth of knowledge from a varied list of contributors all of whom recognise the importance of promoting equality in schools. In this insightful book the editor's draw on a wealth of knowledge from a varied list of contributors all of whom recognise the importance of promoting equality in schools. Topics covered include: social class; race; gender; sexual orientation; disability and special educational needs with reference to all subjects taught at secondary school level.
Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan was released on December 1, 2009. Over the past sixteen years, Greg Mortenson, through his nonprofit Central Asia Institute (CAI), has worked to promote peace through education by establishing more than 130 schools, most of them for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
