{ "item_title" : "Making Educational Changes Sustainable", "item_author" : [" David Baine "], "item_description" : "Billions of dollars are wasted on unsuccessful educational innovations. The results: failure to improve student outcomes, discouraged teachers, and wasted hope, time and money This Guide demonstrates how to introduce positive and sustainable educational improvements - based on leading research. Practical step-by-step methods demonstrate: -preplanning: analysis of influential social, political, educational, financial, and policy characteristics of contexts into which changes will be introduced - make contextually-valid decisions; -how to identify and prevent impediments to change; -Implementation: use systematic strategies for introducing change; -how to create a culture of collaboration, collegiality, and authenticity - united in the focus: We can improve student achievements -how to team with stakeholders: the government, school boards, teachers, students, parents and the community;-how to deliver effective, classroom-valid, professional development;-how to establish active and engaged communication for mutual feedback, mentoring and reinforcement; -Evaluation: how to select valid and reliable methods of program evaluation; -how to make data-based decisions for program; -Sustainment: how to make durable educational changes. Written by an award-winning author, David Baine, academic and practitioner. If you want to improve student achievements, this is a must have Guide.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/96/887/016/0968870163_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "16.50", "online_price" : "16.50", "our_price" : "16.50", "club_price" : "16.50", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

Overview

Customers Also Bought

Details