| Unlocking Group Potential to Improve Schools Contributor(s): Garmston, Robert John (Author), Von Frank, Valerie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1412998891 ISBN-13: 9781412998895 Publisher: Corwin Publishers OUR PRICE: $39.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Leadership |
| Dewey: 371.395 |
| LCCN: 2012007492 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.97 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How great groups make great schools This field book shows educators how to develop group culture, enhance facilitators' skills, and optimize the group's most precious resource--its members. The authors describe how to form working committees, task forces, grade-level, and department teams, and faculties that are more effective and better equipped to resolve complex issues around student learning. Specific topics include:
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Contributor Bio(s): Von Frank, Valerie: - 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.Garmston, Robert J.: - Robert J. Garmston is Emeritus Professor of Educational Administration at California State University, Sacramento. He is co-developer of Cognitive Coaching with Art Costa and co-developer of Adaptive Schools with Bruce Wellman. He has worked as an educational consultant and made presentations and conducted workshops for teachers, administrators, and staff developers on leadership, learning, and personal and organizational development in twenty-four countries on five continents. Formerly an administrator and teacher in Saudi Arabia and the United States, his work has been translated into Arabic, Dutch, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish. Bob lives in El Dorado Hills, California, near his five children and five (bright and cute) grandchildren. |