Table of Contents
Forward: Ken Leithwood.....................................................................................3
Acknowledgements............................................................................................8
Part I: Changing Context for School Development and Description of the Model..................10
Chapter 1: School Development Approaches Over Time: Strengths, Limitations, and the Need for a New Approach..............................................................................11
Chapter 2: A New Approach to School Development...............................................41
Part II: Lessons from the Arizona School Development Model.......................................68
Chapter 3: Values, Culture and Context...............................................................69
Chapter 4: Building and Sustaining School Leadership Capacity.................................84
Chapter 5: Using Data as a Source of Reflection in a Feedback Loop...........................94
Chapter 6: Going Deeper into Curriculum and Pedagogical Activity...........................105
Chapter 7: Strength-based Approaches to Meeting Culturally Diverse Student Needs.......115
Part III: Extending the Process to Other Contexts......................................................131
Chapter 8: School Development in South Carolina - Building Leadership Capacity for Evidence-Based School Development in South Carolina Schools by Peter Moyi, Suzy Hardie & Kathleen M.W. Cunningham, University of South Carolina.........................134
Chapter 9: The Swedish Context - Bringing Support Structures To Scale: The Role of the State and School Districts by Olof Johansson & Helene Ärlestig, Centre for Principal Development, Umeå University......................................................................170
Chapter 10: The Australian Context - National, State and School-level Efforts to Improve Schools in Australia by David Gurr, Daniela Acquaro & Lawrie Drysdale, The University of Melbourne............................................................................................193
Chapter 11: The German Context - School Turnaround in Ten Schools in Difficult Circumstances in Germany: The Need for Adaptive and Contextualized Approaches to Development and Change by Guri Skedsmo, Schwyz University of Teacher Education/University of Oslo and Stephan Huber, University of Teacher Education Zug...233
Part IV: Conclusions and Looking Ahead...............................................................259
Chapter 12: Concluding Comments and Looking Ahead.........................................260
