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The Big Picture: Education Is Everyone's Business

by Dennis Littky, Samantha Grabelle
$8.90
The Big Picture: Education Is Everyone's Business
The Big Picture: Education Is Everyone's Business

Rethinking education for meaningful, personalized learning

If you're invested in educational reform or involved in any facet of teaching, "The Big Picture" might resonate with you deeply. Dennis Littky invites you to imagine a system where education is tailored to individual students, where schools foster a passion for learning, and the community plays an active role. The practical examples from The Met school in Rhode Island are particularly inspiring—showcasing real success and offering a blueprint for those who want to see change in the educational landscape.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Big Picture: Education Is Everyone's Business

by Dennis Littky, Samantha Grabelle
$8.90
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ISBN: 9780871209719
Authors: Dennis Littky, Samantha Grabelle
Publisher: ASCD
Date of Publication: 2004-09-15
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Personal Development
Related Topics: Leadership, Personal Development
Goodreads rating: 4.16
(rated by 235 readers)

Description

What is the purpose of education? What kind of people do we want our children to grow up to be? How can we design schools so that students will acquire the skills they'll need to live fulfilled and productive lives? These are just a few of the questions that renowned educator Dennis Littky explores in this book. The schools Littky has created and led over the past 35 years are models for reformers: small, public schools where the curriculum is rich and meaningful, expectations are high, student progress is measured against real-world standards, and families and communities are actively engaged in the educational process. This book is for both big "E" and small "e" educators, principals, district administrators, teachers, college admissions officers, business leaders, parents, and students who care about kids. Here, you'll find a moving account of just what is possible in education, with many examples drawn from the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center ("The Met") in Providence, Rhode Island—a diverse public high school with the highest rates of attendance and college acceptance in the state. The Met exemplifies personalized learning, one student at a time. The Big Picture is a book to reenergize educators, inspire teachers in training, and start a new conversation about kids and schools, what we want for both, and how to make it happen.
 

Rethinking education for meaningful, personalized learning

If you're invested in educational reform or involved in any facet of teaching, "The Big Picture" might resonate with you deeply. Dennis Littky invites you to imagine a system where education is tailored to individual students, where schools foster a passion for learning, and the community plays an active role. The practical examples from The Met school in Rhode Island are particularly inspiring—showcasing real success and offering a blueprint for those who want to see change in the educational landscape.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.