Introduction to the Series - Stephanie Hirsh
The Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning
The Leadership Standard
About the Authors
1. Introduction - Karen Seashore Louis
Foundations: Leadership is Important – In New Ways
Integration: Organizing a School Around Learning for All
The Human Dimension of Professional Learning
Caring and Emotional Intelligence
Learning to be a Learning Organization
References
2. Learning Together for Leading Together - Shirley M. Hord
Change Makers – Change Leaders
Who Are Change Leaders
The Role of Leaders for Professional Learning and Change
Changing Larvae Into Butterflies
Alignment of Standards, Implementation Strategies, and Cycle of
Continuous Improvement
Loosely or Tightly Coupled: Does It Matter
Conclusion
Readings of the Leadership Standard
References
3. Case Study - Valerie von Frank
Using this Case Study
The LaMura Report Catalyzes Change
Changing Classroom Practice Requires Changing the Working
Culture
Professional Learning is Pushed to the Forefront
Changing Student Performance Required Changing Classroom
Practice
Additional Instruction for Students
The Result is Improvement
Backlash and Reinvestment
Lexington Faces the Future
View from Three Seats
References
Discussion Questions
Index
Karen Seashore Louis is the Rodney Wallace Professor
of Educational Policy and Administration at the University of
Minnesota–Twin Cities. Her area of expertise includes improvement
in K–12 leadership and policy over the last 30 years, particularly
in urban secondary schools. Louis also conducts research on
organizational changes within higher education, with particular
attention to faculty roles, and on international comparative policy
in educational reform. A past president of Division A of the
American Educational Research Association (AERA), she is a widely
published author in the field. Recent books include Organizing for
School Change, Leadership for Change and School Improvement:
International Perspectives, Handbook of Educational Administration,
Second Edition, and Organizational Learning in Schools. Louis
earned a bachelor′s degree in History from Swarthmore College and a
doctorate in sociology from Columbia University. Shirley M. Hord,
PhD, is the scholar laureate of Learning Forward (previously
National Staff Development Council), following her retirement as
Scholar Emerita at the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
in Austin, Texas. There she directed the Strategies for Increasing
Student Success Program. She continues to design and coordinate
professional development activities related to educational change
and improvement, school leadership, and the creation of
professional learning communities.
Her early roles as elementary school classroom teacher and
university science education faculty at The University of Texas at
Austin were followed by her appointment as co-director of Research
on the Improvement Process at the Research and Development Center
for Teacher Education at The University of Texas at Austin. There
she administered and conducted research on school improvement and
the role of school leaders in school change.
She served as a fellow of the National Center for Effective Schools
Research and Development and was U.S. representative to the
Foundation for the International School Improvement Project, an
international effort that develops research, training, and policy
initiatives to support local school improvement practices.
In addition to working with educators at all levels across the U.S.
and Canada, Hord makes presentations and consults in Asia, Europe,
Australia, Africa, and Mexico.
Her current interests focus on the creation and functioning of
educational organizations as learning communities and the role of
leaders who serve such organizations. Dr. Hord is the author of
numerous articles and books, of which a selection of the most
recent are: Implementing Change: Patterns, Principles, and
Potholes, 3rd ed (with Gene E. Hall, 2011); Reclaiming Our Teaching
Profession: The Power of Educators Learning in Community (with
Edward F. Tobia, 2012); A Playbook for Professional Learning:
Putting the Standards Into Action (with Stephanie Hirsh, 2012).
Valerie von Frank has written extensively about education over
several decades as a daily newspaper reporter in multiple states
covering public schools and, over the last decade, for NSDC
publications, including JSD, Tools for Schools, The Learning
System, The Learning Principal, and T3. She is a former editor of
JSD, worked as a daily newspaper editor, served as communications
director in an urban public school district, and was communications
director for a Michigan nonprofit school reform organization. She
is co-author with Ann Delehant of Making Meetings Work: How to Get
Started, Get Going, and Get It Done (Corwin Press, 2007). She is
currently NSDC’s book editor and a freelance writer and editor.
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