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International Center for Leadership in Education: Dr. Willard Daggett

16th Annual Model Schools Conference: Dr. Willard Daggett

Adolescent Literacy Booklist

Adolescent Literacy, Session #2, January 2008

The Power To Transform- Leadership That Brings Learning and Schooling to Life
Author-Stephanie Pace Marshall
Publishing Company-Jossy-Bass

betterhighschools.org: Linking Research and Resources for Better High Schools

Common Characteristics of High Performing Schools

Core Principals of Professional Development

Professional Development: Empowering teachers to continuously improve their teaching practice

School Redesign Network

Fires In The Bathroom - Kathleen Cushman
Forty teenagers from across the country give their unvarnished and often surprising advice on how to engage, motivate, and challenge high school students.

Professional Learning Communities at Work - Richard DuFour & Robert Eaker
The book provides how-to information about transforming schools into results-oriented professional learning communities.

Collaborative Analysis of Student Work - Georgea M. Langer-Amy Colton-Loretta Goff
The book examines how teachers can talk about real students and examine real student work. It provides support for teachers to acquire the habits and capacity for reflective analysis of student work and collaborative interchanges with peers.

Best Practice - Harvey Daniels-Steven Zemelman-Arthur Hyde
The book compiles recommendations about “best educational practice” in each of the traditional school curriculum areas: reading, writing, math, science, and social studies.

Subjects Matter - Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman
This is a teacher’s guide to content-area reading.

School Leadership that Works - Robert Marzano, Timothy Waters, Brian McNulty
Unlike many other books about school leadership, this one blends practical advice and research.

Action Research - Geoffrey E. Mills
The text includes many practical illustrations of the action research process that will help teacher researchers apply the process in their own school or classroom setting. Additional resources for students and teachers are provided.

Awakening the Sleeping Giant - Marilyn Katzenmeyer & Gayle Moller
Teacher leadership-helping teachers develop as leaders.

What Works in Schools - Robert J. Marzano
Thirty-five years of research provides remarkably clear guidance as to the steps schools can take to be highly effective in enhancing student achievement. The research is organized into three broad categories: school-level factors, teacher-level factors, and student-level factors.

Leadership Capacity for Lasting school Improvement - Linda Lambert
Throughout the book, Linda shows the varied means that principals use to control or open up participation, and how they can move along a continuum of enhanced learning and greater capacity.

Methods that Matter - Harvey Daniels & Marilyn Bizar
Six teaching practices and structures for Best Practice Classrooms.


Recommended Web Sites

Indiana High School Redesign

Education Trust
http://www2.edtrust.org/edtrust/dtm/p03Results.

MetLife Foundation Change in Education
www.ecs.org  or  www.metlife.org

Alliance for Excellent Education
http://www.all4ed.org

School Redesign Network from Stanford University
http://schoolredesign.net
Email: schoolredesign@stanford.edu

Coalition of Essential Schools
http://www.essentialschools.org

The Met
www.metcenter.org

Operation Public Education
www.operationpubliced.org

Harvard Education Press
www.harvardeducationpress.org