Transforming Sanchez School : shared leadership, equity, and evidence /
Transforming Sanchez School vividly documents the power of educators to promote academic achievement by closing opportunity gaps faced by low-income linguistically and culturally diverse students. Rooted in a philosophy of shared leadership, over a thirteen-year period the school developed and imple...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Caslon Publishing,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Transforming Sanchez School vividly documents the power of educators to promote academic achievement by closing opportunity gaps faced by low-income linguistically and culturally diverse students. Rooted in a philosophy of shared leadership, over a thirteen-year period the school developed and implemented evidence-based systems, structures and policies that generated teacher agency, affirmed students' identities and expanded parent and community engagement. Unlike many schools across the nation pressured to raise standardized test scores, Sanchez School refused to narrow the curriculum, instead focusing on enrichment through the arts, literacy engagement, and expansion of students' bilingual skills. In this detailed analysis of the Sanchez School, Isola and Cummins describe the processes and strategies employed by educators to transform this school into one capable of addressing the varied and complex needs of its students. Educators will appreciate the detailed nature of the analysis presented. Instead of simply offering platitudes and "research-based" practices, the authors take a practical approach in describing the obstacles the school encountered on its journey toward progress and how these were addressed. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781934000410 1934000418 |