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    Building Engaged Schools: Getting the Most Out of America's Classrooms
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    Building Engaged Schools: Getting the Most Out of America's Classrooms
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    Building Engaged Schools: Getting the Most Out of America's Classrooms

    Written by Gary Gordon and Steve Crabtree

    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner

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    Can America's public schools, long resistant to change, meet the challenges of globalization and new educational alternatives? Not by doing what they're doing today. So argues Building Engaged Schools, a book that challenges the faulty assumptions that guide American public education.

    In our efforts to create the best possible schools for America's kids, we've allowed process concerns such as standards, curriculum, and testing to overshadow the importance of people. But the fact is, what we've come to think of as the "soft" aspects of education are actually what make truly effective learning possible. Building relationships, nurturing student and teacher talents, fostering engagement ... these are what motivate great teachers and inspire students.

    Indeed, if schools can learn anything from the business world, it's this: The "soft" stuff drives results. Corporate leaders have realized that the best way to improve productivity is to tap the talents and motivation of their human assets. This approach is even more critical in the classroom. An overemphasis on process reforms has set the education system at odds with both teachers and students. Too many students are lethargic or alienated; too many teachers have become disillusioned and cynical. We must find a way to bring public schools back to life, and to tap the enormous potential that exists in America's classrooms.

    Drawing on decades of Gallup research, Building Engaged Schools offers a fresh approach: Leverage student and teacher talent, on a school-by-school basis. Focusing on talent may lack the political appeal of process reforms, which can be implemented in broad strokes. This approach is surely more complex. But the return on the time and effort invested is far greater. In fact, that return is no less than a more fully engaged society, and a better future for America's children.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 3, 2017
    ISBN9781531865702
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    Building Engaged Schools: Getting the Most Out of America's Classrooms

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      Gallup's work in the area of strengths is well known and widely used in both the world of business and in many colleges. See, e.g., Now, Discover Your Strengths. This book makes a compelling case for reconciling the competing agendas of No Child Left Behind and the school, student, and teacher-centered approaches by rallying around engagement, for both students and teachers. As usual with Gallup's products, this one is backed up with the surveys and research Gallup has conducted over the years. Neither "engagement" nor "strengths" are left as "soft", unmeasurable terms. Those who want real, measurable improvement in schools and those who want schools to be a great place for teachers and students will find much to like, and perhaps a way to talk to each other in this book. In fact, the three elements that polls in 1995 and 2004 identified as things the public thinks are very important, but not likely to be happening in schools, could be the basis of a great vision statement: * Students challenged to develop themselves to their full potential * Motivated students * Emphasizing the strengths of each student (pp. 62-67). If you're interested in education policy, you need to be conversant with the information and policy recommendations in this book.