A practical account of the current state-of-the art in school reform and improvement.

The Self-Organizing School provides ground-breaking insights and guidance about how schools can fulfill their aspirations for quality and productivity in learning and teaching. The book describes a comprehensive decade long school design process and effort that improves teaching quality and student outcomes. The practical guidance and examples employed throughout the book are supported by one of the most extensive longitudinal studies of a school reform process, including data from over 1600 classroom observations, 12,000 student evaluations and research studies of school change, technology use, student achievement, collaboration, and teacher effectiveness.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 – A Reset for School Reform and Improvement

Chapter 2 – Theory

Chapter 3 – Simple Rules: Committing to Quality

Chapter 4 – Embedded Design

Chapter 5 – Emergent Feedback

Chapter 6 – Similarity at Scale: Students in the SOS

Chapter 7 – Dispersed Control Through Collaboration

Chapter 8 – Educational Technology for Reform and Improvement

Chapter 9 – Organizational Design, Leadership, and Agency

Chapter 10 – Implementation: The Harsh Realities of Getting to Scale

Chapter 11 – Takeaways and Conclusions

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