It\'s Not Rocket Science - A Guide to the School Improvement Cycle: With Examples from New Zealand and Australian Schools presents an easy-to-read, practical Guide to effectively leading School improvement.
Perfect for courses such as: Educational Leadership, Professional Development.
The book is perfect for a variety of courses in Education Leadership, Professional Development, and any other curriculum devoted to improving Schools and student performance.
The book is entitled It\'s Not Rocket Science because this is the common reaction from leaders once they understand the Improvement cycle process.
A range of evidence from international research and the authors\' own research and development work in Schools explains the cycle and illustrate it.
If implemented properly, the cycles become self-propelling, thus reducing the cognitive load involved in planning how to improve.
They do this by describing and illustrating Improvement steps that they have found to work in practice, providing Examples from their work in Schools to show the application of these ideas.
The authors show how to make the complex work of improving student learning and outcomes at least somewhat simpler.
While the book uses Examples from Australian and New Zealand schools, the lessons that the book teaches can be applied to School leaders everywhere.
Schools and system leaders will benefit greatly from this practical guide, in which Bendikson and Meyer demonstrate that implementing Improvement cycles is not a difficult process.
The book will support School leaders in implementing Improvement cycles without making the classic mistakes of failing to develop measures of Improvement and test change actions before scaling up.
It walks leaders through each step of \'The School Improvement Cycle\' developed by Bendikson and Meyer, providing case studies, examples, and helpful tools from primary and secondary Schools for the implementation of each step.
It\'s Not Rocket Science - A Guide to the School Improvement Cycle: With Examples from New Zealand and Australian Schools presents an easy-to-read, practical Guide to effectively leading School improvement
