books by Penny Bender Sebring (organizing charting localism)

books by Penny Bender Sebring

books:

Charting Reform: Chicago Teachers Take Stock

Consortium on Chicago School Research, 1995

In 1994, as Chicago (Illinois) completed the fifth year of school reform under the Chicago School Reform Act, the Consortium on Chicago School Research launched its third and fourth surveys of teacher and student responses to change. In all, 39,000 students, 6,200 elementary school teachers, and 2,600 high school teachers completed the surveys. Individually tailored reports were provided to the 266 elementary and 46 high schools that ...

Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago

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University Of Chicago Press, 2010

Path-breaking study
This book and the research that went into it are first-rate. From my perspective, the significance of this work is the close attention to context -- so much writing on education reform is about the technical aspects, such as assessment, professional development, standards, curriculum. What this work does is show the vital contribution of school climate: the trusting, collaborative relationships ...

Charting Chicago School Reform: Democratic Localism As A Lever For Change

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Anthony Bryk, Penny Bender Sebring, ...

Westview Press, 1998

All schools should use the system described here.
In 1989, Chicago began an experiment with radical decentralization of power and authority. This book tells the story of what happened to Chicago's elementary schools in the first four years of this reform. Implicit in this reform is the theory that expanded local democratic participation would stimulate organizational change within schools, which in turn would foster improved teaching and ...

School Leadership and the Bottom Line in Chicago.: An article from: Phi Delta Kappan
Penny Bender Sebring, Anthony S. Bryk

Phi Delta Kappa, Inc., 2000

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