When Treating All the Kids the SAME Is the REAL Problem: Educational Leadership and the 21st Century Dilemma of Difference - Softcover

Johnson, Kendra V.; Williams, Lisa N. Jefferson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452286965 ISBN 13: 9781452286969

Publisher: Corwin, 2014

Synopsis

Empowered solutions to close the achievement gap start here!

This original, solution-oriented guide for school leaders helps to serve children of color, children from low-income families, and other marginalized student groups. Practical implementation strategies and tools assist school leaders to methodically tackle the challenges of equity-driven reform and:

• Understand the root cause of the racial-achievement gap
• Take concrete actions to transform the educational process 
• Use daily, real-time data to determine effective teaching and learning practices
  
  

Includes reflective-discussion questions and case studies. Accelerate the achievement of underserved students with this transformative book!

 

About this title

About the Author:

Kendra Johnson recently assumed the role of chief academic officer for Trenton Public Schools in New Jersey (July 2014). While she also is a licensed attorney in the states of Maryland and New Jersey, she considers herself a career educator, having served as classroom teacher, department chairperson, assistant principal, principal, director of Title I, instructional director, chief academic and innovation officer, and adjunct college professor over a seventeen-year career in public education. She has expertise in the areas of school reform and transformation and school improvement. Furthermore, she provided legal advocacy for the parents of students with disabilities and those facing inequitable disciplinary consequences. To that end, she sees herself as a visionary leader in urban education because she is convinced that education is the vehicle by which many underserved student groups will realize social mobility. She also believes that education will enable those same students to claim a productive and influential role in making their future―and their children’s future―a better one. Her personal journey growing up in a small, racially divided, and socioeconomically challenged midwestern town where there were seven elementary schools, three middle schools, and one high school significantly shapes her outlook today. The idea that daily high-quality instruction is the pathway out of poverty only for urban school students is an idea she challenges. Instead, she contends that daily high-quality instruction is the pathway out of poverty for any rural, suburban, and/or urban student.

Review:

"For those who are unsure where to begin the process, or lack a context for why they need to undergo the transformation of changing their instructional practices to align with the need to respond to America′s changing public school population, the contents are arranged in a manner to provide the necessary support to guide the audience through the process." Author: Dr. Kandice W. Taylor, Principal Published On: 2014-09-05

"This book provides school leaders with practical tools and a practical model to implement drastic change in any school climate. The PACE Framework perfectly outlines strategies and activities to implement an effective, quality first-instruction program at schools that serve students who are normally underserved. School leaders and district leaders, who serve as change agents in multi-faceted school communities, can use this book.  I highly recommend it for any school leader needing a framework to shift the culture, instructional practices, the mindset of staff, and community members alike." Author: Tara A. Minter, Elementary School Principal Published On: 2014-09-08

About this edition

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1452286965
• ISBN 13: 9781452286969
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192