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Design-Based School Improvement: A Practical Guide for Education Leaders
At the heart of the effort to enact and scale up successful school reforms is the need for more robust links between research and practice. One promising approach is design development, a methodology widely used in other fields and only recently adapted to education, which offers a disciplined process for identifying practical problems, assessing evidence of outcomes, accounting for variability in implementation and results, and establishing a foundation for broader understanding of the problem and proposed solutions.
This exciting new book provides a practical guide for education leaders who are seeking to address issues of equity in their schools and want to pursue this approach. The book provides a step-by-step description of the process, augmented by case studies of four education
The book follows each of these leaders as they formulate and refine interventions to address these problems.
Design-Based School Improvement also includes a series of “excursions into theory” that discuss the research basis for design-based improvement.
The author—a leading thinker about policy implementation and school reform—shows a profound appreciation for the complexity of work in schools and the deep and sustained thinking entailed in undertaking productive change. By bringing theory to life and putting it in the hands of skilled practitioners, this book promises to become an invaluable resource for education leaders seeking to solve problems of equity and social justice in schools.
This exciting new book provides a practical guide for education leaders who are seeking to address issues of equity in their schools and want to pursue this approach. The book provides a step-by-step description of the process, augmented by case studies of four education
The book follows each of these leaders as they formulate and refine interventions to address these problems.
Design-Based School Improvement also includes a series of “excursions into theory” that discuss the research basis for design-based improvement.
The author—a leading thinker about policy implementation and school reform—shows a profound appreciation for the complexity of work in schools and the deep and sustained thinking entailed in undertaking productive change. By bringing theory to life and putting it in the hands of skilled practitioners, this book promises to become an invaluable resource for education leaders seeking to solve problems of equity and social justice in schools.
280 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 12, 2020
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December 19, 2022
This was a textbook for one of my classes this semester. It reads, predictably, like a textbook; however, the use of factionalized case studies does help the reader to imagine and operationalize the ideas. I have begun to loosely practice some of the design-based models d have found it to be a useful tool to ground some of my aspirations in practice and data. One of my favorite quotes, and a good reminder for me to keep at the forefront of my thinking: “adults, not unlike the children in their care, want to be respected, stimulated, and satisfied in their need for competence, autonomy, and belonging.”
July 14, 2022
I wish the case studies were together. Splicing them up makes it more confusing to move through.
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