Transforming Ice Age Schools: A Practical Guide for School Leaders - Softcover

Brady, Leighangela; Johnson, Lisbeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475807767 ISBN 13: 9781475807769

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

Today’s educational system is frozen in time, stuck in traditions of the past. Transforming Ice Age Schools: A Practical Guide for School Leaders will resonate with educational leaders, especially site principals, who are looking to transform their schools to reflect the educational world needed for today. Unlike the many theoretical books on this topic, this book offers insights about the discreet steps leaders might take to transform learning. A metaphor of a glacier is carried throughout the book to provide guiding principles of how to chip away at the mammoth educational system we have inherited and prepare students to be globally competent. Noteworthy features of this book include:

• Research-based strategies
• Practical ideas for immediate use
• In time reflection in every chapter and application of ideas presented
• A user-friendly guide to personalize the work
• Spotlights on real-time success
• An appendix for continued application
• Authors currently in the field conducting this work

About this title

About the Author

Leighangela Brady, PhD, serves as an assistant superintendent of educational services. With experience as a site administrator, educational consultant, and instructional leader, she is passionate about quality education and effective leadership. She is a coauthor of Test Less, Assess More: A K-8 Guide to Formative Assessment, and presents regularly at national and international conferences.
Lisbeth Johnson is inspired to coach schools that are attempting to instruct students in the digital and twenty-first century environment. She has been a teacher, reading resource support instructor, principal, director and assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction and a superintendent.

Review

Lisbeth Johnson and Leighangela Brady not only make a compelling case for why schools need to change, but they provide a clear and concise framework for how that transformation can be accomplished under the guidance of a motivated leader. Any educator who understands that the preparation of our students for the complex challenges that await them will benefit from this timely resource to ensure that they are doing what’s most necessary—placing the levers of learning squarely into the eager and capable hands of their students. (Dr. John Glaser, Senior partner of Glaser and Associates, Retired Superintendent NAPA Valley Unified School District, K-12)

Transforming Ice Age Schools is a practical, accessible, idea-filled guide for leading the kind of change needed to get 'break-through' results for 21st century schools. The metaphor of a glacier-like school culture reinforces the importance of using new strategies and a variety of tools the authors suggest to melt the immobile mindsets that have frozen reform efforts of many school leaders. This book is a call to action for school leaders who are committed to influence the future and deliver a promising new vision of student success. (Dr. Patricia White, Ed.D, Associate Dean, Doctoral Program in Organizational Leadership, Brandman University)

As leaders, we have many resources to help us initiate change, but what is unique
about Transforming Ice Age Schools are the resources to recalibrate mindsets.
The TCOI and TWP tools are great ways to build thinking frames for principals.
The tools act as engines that empower leaders with a collective mindset to keep
pushing on the educational glacier in hopes of getting a new transformed
landscape. (Sharmila Kraft, Ed.D., Director Curriculum and Instruction, English Learner Support Vista Unified School District)

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1475807767
• ISBN 13: 9781475807769
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 188