Scaling Up Success : Lessons Learned from Technology-Based Educational Improvement - Hardcover

Chris Dede; James P. Honan; Laurence C. Peters

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787976598 ISBN 13: 9780787976590

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Synopsis

Drawing from the information presented at conference sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Technology in Education Consortium, leading educators, researchers, and policymakers, Scaling Up Success translate, theory into practice and provide, a hands-on resource that clearly describes different models for “scaling up” success. This important resource is filled with illustrative examples of best practices that are grounded in real-life case studies of technology-based educational innovation¾from networking a failing school district in New Jersey to using computer visualization to teach scientific inquiry in Chicago. Scaling Up Success show how the lessons learned from technology-based educational innovation can be applied to other school improvement efforts.

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From the Inside Flap

In education, there is no shortage of extraordinary teaching, innovative programs, and successful schools. The big challenge lies in spreading these "best practices" beyond the local scene—in "scaling up" success. Technology has the potential to influence a broad spectrum of educators and students beyond the walls of an individual classroom, but its role in seeding larger change has not been well documented up to now. This book focuses on the challenge of integrating technology as part of larger school improvement efforts. It offers valuable insights that will help those trying to scale up any form of improved educational policy or practice.

Drawing from the information presented at a conference sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Technology in Education Consortium, leading educators, researchers, and policymakers, Scaling Up Success translates theory into practice and provides a hands-on resource that clearly describes different models for "scaling up" success. This important resource is filled with illustrative examples of best practices that are grounded in real-life case studies of technology-based educational innovation—from networking a failing school district in New Jersey to using computer visualization to teach scientific inquiry in Chicago. Scaling Up Success shows how the lessons learned from technology-based educational innovation can be applied to other school improvement efforts. The authors address key themes such as

• Coping with change
• Constituent support
• Building human capacity
• Effective decision making

Scaling Up Success offers a much-needed resource for educators, policymakers, and leaders who must comply with the mandate to enact research-based practice and will serve as a guide to benefit present and future efforts to strengthening American education.

From the Back Cover

PRAISE FOR SCALING UP SUCCESS

"Scaling Up Success tackles one of the greatest challenges facing school districts: How do we take successful programs and best practices serving a few classrooms or students and scale them up to serve schools throughout the district? Using innovations in technology as an example, the essays take a thoughtful and well-documented look at the issues facing districts and the ways in which scaling up can be accomplished. This book brings together some of the best education authors and researchers and provides a compelling study on how districts can scale up technology-based educational innovations as well as for how any innovation or policy might be spread to every student and school."
—Thomas W. Payzant, superintendent, Boston Public Schools

"A thoughtful and important update on the power and potential of information technology in education, and a must-read for anyone wondering if the computer revolution can and should make it to our nation's classrooms."
—Michael J. Feuer, executive director, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, The National Academics

"Scaling Up Success offers two important benefits. First, the authors provide very useful and interesting examples of technology-based innovations. Second, the authors' discussions of the challenges involved in taking improvements to scale have relevance beyond technology."
—Susan Fuhrman, dean, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania

"Scaling Up Success includes an impressive array of authors in one volume and provides key lessons learned on the reform scale up process, and on the transfer of technological innovations in particular."
—Amanda Datnow, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0787976598
• ISBN 13: 9780787976590
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294