A Guide to Renewing Your School: Lessons from the League of Professional Schools

"Understanding school reform is a daunting task. A Guide toRenewing Your School goes a long way in communicating essentialinformation about reform in a clear-cut manner, with little jargon,making it easily understood by parents, teachers, andadministrators.... A Guide to Renewing Your School is not aprescription for practice, but rather a systemic format that isapplicable to every school. The book contains numerousillustrations and self-monitoring guides to facilitate theassessment of a school's implementation efforts." (ChildhoodEducation)

"What my colleagues have done in this book is write a guide andcompanion--not a prescription--for all those educational leaders(principals, teachers, staff, parents, community members, districtand union personnel) who are committed to the promise of educationand a fully functioning democracy." (Carl D. Glickman, UniversityProfessor of Social Foundations of Education and chair, Program forSchool Improvement, The University of Georgia, Athens)

"This book is more than a practical guide; it is an inspiration.Underlying the numerous strategies and examples for implementingthe League's framework for school improvement are the democraticvalues that inform and sustain the effort. It is a guide for bothheart and mind." (Charles A. Ott, assistant superintAndent,Portsmouth School District, New Hampshire)

"A Guide to Renewing Your School connects ideas and makes abstractconcepts concrete in a way that will help schools new and oldcreate or modify a plan for implementing change and reform."(Gwendolyn M. Mayfield, principal, Leonora P. Miles ElementarySchool, Atlanta, Georgia)

"An essential and valuable guide to how the framework of the Leagueof Professional Schools works. Key lessons about what it means toimplement the three core requirements of the model--sharedgovernance, covenant, and action research." (Michael Fullan, dean,Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto)