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Living Faithfully

The Transformation of Washington School

By: Frances Schoonmaker

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Living Faithfully

The Transformation of Washington School

By: Frances Schoonmaker

Living Faithfully is for anyone interested in education and education policy, whether parent, community member, teacher, student of leadership or policy maker. It looks at school leadership and reform in an alternative way, following the story of change at Washington School, a troubled grades 5-6 center in a small town in Western Oklahoma. Not only does the book address a neglected population, the more than 1/3 of the nation’s children who go to school in small towns and rural areas, it uses the occasion to invert thinking about school reform. It argues that in today's policy climate where guaranteed, standard outcomes are touted as goals of education, leadership schemes, even those designed to challenge topdown, bureaucratic models, are quickly co-opted to produce the appearance of learning. Prevailing leadership theories beg the question of who is being transformed and to what end, failing to challenge assumptions and dominant ideas of contemporary education and leadership thinking. Drawing on Philip Phenix’s idea of the faithful life, the book proposes an alternative way forward. Phenix talks about connections between school and life. According to Phenix, the faithful life is concerned with the normative question of what is good, true, right, just, beautiful, and holy. This is not the vocabulary of current education policy. But it describes the kind of community created at Washington School despite its history of failure. And it describes what most families want for their children whether they live in the city or country, America or elsewhere: an education that matters.

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IAP

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161735709X

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9781617357091

"Growing Up" Teaching

From Personal Knowledge to Professional Practice

By: Frances Schoonmaker

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"Growing Up" Teaching

From Personal Knowledge to Professional Practice

By: Frances Schoonmaker

Focusing on personal knowledge and how it influences teacher development, this book follows one teacher, "Kay," from her years of teacher preparation through her time as a seasoned veteran. What emerges from this intense 10-year study is a more complete picture of teacher development that will help us to better prepare and support our pre- and in-service teachers. This book offers a holistic view of learning to teach that challenges traditional boundaries and provides insight into many important issues, such as the link between theory and practice, teacher retention, and how to get teachers to change timeworn pedagogical practices.

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161

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Teachers College Press

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0807742708

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9780807742709

A Basic Guide to Evaluation for Development Workers

By: Frances Rubin

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A Basic Guide to Evaluation for Development Workers

By: Frances Rubin

Focuses on the principles underlying evaluation, and deals with issues to be considered at the planning stage, the steps involved in carrying out evaluations and the importance of involving people in the evaluation process throughout.

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Oxfam

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0855982756

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9780855982751

Once They Were Hats

In Search of the Mighty Beaver

By: Frances Backhouse

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Once They Were Hats

In Search of the Mighty Beaver

By: Frances Backhouse

“Unexpectedly delightful reading—there is much to learn from the buck-toothed rodents of yore” (National Post). Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. Once one of the continent’s most ubiquitous mammals, they ranged from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Rio Grande to the edge of the northern tundra. Wherever there was wood and water, there were beavers—sixty million, or more—and wherever there were beavers, there were intricate natural communities that depended on their activities. Then the European fur traders arrived. Once They Were Hats examines humanity’s fifteen-thousand–year relationship with Castor canadensis, and the beaver’s even older relationship with North American landscapes and ecosystems. From the waterlogged environs of the Beaver Capital of Canada to the wilderness cabin that controversial conservationist Grey Owl shared with pet beavers; from a bustling workshop where craftsmen make beaver-felt cowboy hats using century-old tools to a tidal marsh where an almost-lost link between beavers and salmon was recently found, it’s a journey of discovery to find out what happened after we nearly wiped this essential animal off the map, and how we can learn to live with beavers now that they’re returning. “Fascinating and smartly written.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

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ECW/ORIM

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1770907556

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9781770907553

"Growing Up" Teaching

From Personal Knowledge to Professional Practice

By: Frances Schoonmaker

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"Growing Up" Teaching

From Personal Knowledge to Professional Practice

By: Frances Schoonmaker

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Living Faithfully

The Transformation of Washington School

By: Frances Schoonmaker

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The Transformation of Washington School

By: Frances Schoonmaker

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Living Faithfully

Living Faithfully

"Growing Up" Teaching

"Growing Up" Teaching

A Basic Guide to Evaluation for Development Workers

A Basic Guide to Evaluation for Development Workers

Once They Were Hats

Once They Were Hats

"Growing Up" Teaching

"Growing Up" Teaching

Living Faithfully

Living Faithfully

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