Moving the Rock : Seven Levers WE Can Press to Transform Education

the Rock is an inspiring call to action for all educators." Yong Zhao, Ph.D., Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of Kansas "If you have children, or teach children, or want our children to succeed, this is a must-read book. Grant Lichtman throws down the challenge for all of us; that WE can change education, and he shows us just how successful schools everywhere are overcoming change-killing inertia in our schools." Todd Rose, best-selling author ofThe End of Average ; Harvard University Moving the Rock: Seven Levers WE Can Press to Transform Education gives educators, parents, administrators, students, and other stakeholders a clear paradigm for transforming our outmoded schools into schools that will help our children to meet the challenges of tomorrow. It's no secret that our educational system is stuck.Moving the Rock shows the important roles all of us can play in un-sticking it by moving seven specific levers that will change the focus of education fromwhat we teach

tohow we learn .Importantly, moving the levers is completely possible today, and in fact is already happening now in many schools. Drawing on research and extensive experience in the education community, Grant Lichtman outlines the seven essential levers that can profoundly change our schools so that we are teaching all our children how to learn, including Creating the Demand for Better Schools Building School-Community Learning Laboratories Encouraging Open Access to Knowledge Fixing How We Measure Student Success Teaching the Teachers what They Really Need to Know and more At the end of each ofeach chapter there areone or more challenges, ways that all of us can collectively turn the pioneering work of others into transformation for all our schools. [Publisher's Text]

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