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Finnish Lessons 2.0

What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?, Second Edition

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Finnish Lessons 2.0

What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?, Second Edition

By: Pasi Sahlberg

Pasi Sahlberg has thoroughly updated his groundbreaking account of how Finland built a world-class education system during the past four decades. In this international bestseller, Sahlberg traces the evolution of Finnish education policies and highlights how they differ from the United States and much of the rest of the world. Featuring substantial additions throughout the text, Finnish Lessons 2.0 demonstrates how systematically focusing on teacher and leader professionalism, building trust between the society and its schools, and investing in educational equity rather than competition, choice, and other market-based reforms make Finnish schools an international model of success. This second edition details the complexity of meaningful change by examining Finlands educational performance in light of the most recent international assessment data and domestic changes.

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Teachers College Press

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0807755850

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9780807755853

In Teachers We Trust: The Finnish Way to World-Class Schools

By: Pasi Sahlberg,Timothy D. Walker

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In Teachers We Trust: The Finnish Way to World-Class Schools

By: Pasi Sahlberg,Timothy D. Walker

Seven key principles from Finland for building a culture of trust in schools around the world. In the spring of 2018, thousands of teachers across the United States—in states like Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona—walked off their jobs while calling for higher wages and better working conditions. Ultimately, these American educators trumpeted a simple request: treat us like professionals. Teachers in many other countries feel the same way as their US counterparts. In Teachers We Trust presents a compelling vision, offering practical ideas for educators and school leaders wishing to develop teacher-powered education systems. It reveals why teachers in Finland hold high status, and shows what the country’s trust- based school system looks like in action. Pasi Sahlberg and Timothy D. Walker suggest seven key principles for building a culture of trust in schools, from offering clinical training for future teachers to encouraging student agency to fostering a collaborative professionalism among educators. In Teachers We Trust is essential reading for all teachers, administrators, and parents who entrust their children to American schools.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393714012

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9780393714012

FinnishED Leadership

Four Big, Inexpensive Ideas to Transform Education

By: Pasi Sahlberg

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FinnishED Leadership

Four Big, Inexpensive Ideas to Transform Education

By: Pasi Sahlberg

Improve overall school performance from start to Finnish! Finland’s consistent performance in international student assessments has caused much curiosity in recent years. Educators around the world are exploring what Finland does well and how they remain at the top. Pasi Sahlberg has hosted multiple delegations of educators in Finland seeking ideas and tools to apply to their home districts, and has determined real change can begin with four uncomplicated ideas. Focusing on leading learners, this book considers topics like: Physical activity is crucial for substantial learning Enhancing equity is an essential component of success Embedding ideas into your current leadership practices takes perseverance Finland’s particular brand of leadership culture in education is an ideal model for improving educational performance anywhere

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Corwin Press

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1506325432

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9781506325439

Finnish Lessons 3.0

What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?

By: Pasi Sahlberg

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What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?

By: Pasi Sahlberg

The first two editions of Finnish Lessons described how a small Nordic nation built a school system that provided access to a world-class education for all of its young people. Now available in 30 languages, this Grawemeyer Award–winning book continues to influence education policies and school practices around the globe. In this Third Edition, Pasi Sahlberg updates the story of how Finland sustains its exemplary educational performance, including how it responds to turbulent changes at home and throughout the world. Finnish Lessons 3.0 includes important new material about: teachers and teacher educationteaching children with special needsthe role of play in high-quality educationFinland’s responses to growing inequality, slipping international test scores, and the global pandemic In the midst of national education reforms and global changes driven by public health crises and economic turbulence, Finnish Lessons 3.0 encourages teachers, students, and policymakers to think big and bold when they look for new solutions to improving their schools and entire education systems. This edition provides an even deeper dive into the present world of education in Finland in light of the most recent education statistics and international data, including PISA 2018, TIMSS 2016, and TALIS 2018. “Finland’s approach to education reform shows we must address student inequality before we can expect student excellence.” —The 2013 Grawemeyer Award Committee “The story of Finnish educational success as told in Finnish Lessons is remarkable . . . this is an important book and educators need to read it.” —Educational Researcher “Provides solid background on the historical context that allowed Finland’s education system to transform into a powerhouse.” —Education Review

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0807779296

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Finnish Lessons 2.0

What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?, Second Edition

By: Pasi Sahlberg

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What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?, Second Edition

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FinnishED Leadership

Four Big, Inexpensive Ideas to Transform Education

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Four Big, Inexpensive Ideas to Transform Education

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Improve overall school performance from start to Finnish! Exploring and analyzing how Finland consistently places at or near the top of international student assessments, especially PISA, has become popular in recent years. Pasi Sahlberg now explores this phenomenon from the perspective of the educational leader. With the culture of general and educational leadership in Finland as a backdrop, this resource is packed with strategies and tools that travel well. Rooted in four main ideas, this book covers topics such as: Enhancing equity is an essential component of success Physical activity is crucial for substantial learning Embedding ideas into your current leadership practices takes perseverance

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1506325416

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In Teachers We Trust: The Finnish Way to World-Class Schools

By: Pasi Sahlberg,Timothy D. Walker

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In Teachers We Trust: The Finnish Way to World-Class Schools

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Empowered Educators in Finland

How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality

By: Karen Hammerness,Raisa Ahtiainen,Pasi Sahlberg

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Empowered Educators in Finland

How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality

By: Karen Hammerness,Raisa Ahtiainen,Pasi Sahlberg

BEST PRACTICES FROM FINLAND'S HIGH-PERFORMING SCHOOL SYSTEM Empowered Educators in Finland is one volume in a series that explores how high- performing educational systems from around the world achieve strong results. The anchor book, Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World, is written by Linda Darling-Hammond and colleagues, with contributions from the authors of this volume. Empowered Educators in Finland explores Finland's unique approach to teacher training that, combined with a national focus on equity and children, has led to strong student results on the OECD PISA and other international tests. Since the 1930s, every child born in Finland has been provided with a box of clothes, sheets, toys, diapers, and even a small mattress; the box itself can—and often does—serve as a simple crib. Intended to ensure that all Finnish children begin with the essentials, this box also serves as a clear symbol of the nation's emphasis on equality and opportunity. This book describes how what is commonly thought to be "just a part of Finnish culture" is actually the result of strong support for educators at all levels of government. From the Ministry of Education and Culture, to the Finnish National Board of Education, to regional and local policy makers, Finland has made deliberate choices to create and support a strong educational system. While there are unique political, cultural, and societal features of Finland—as with all countries—there are many lessons to be learned and practical ideas to be implemented across the world.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119372186

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9781119372189

Let the Children Play

How More Play Will Save Our Schools and Help Children Thrive

By: Pasi Sahlberg,William Doyle

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Let the Children Play

How More Play Will Save Our Schools and Help Children Thrive

By: Pasi Sahlberg,William Doyle

Play is how children explore, discover, fail, succeed, socialize, and flourish. It is a fundamental element of the human condition. It's the key to giving schoolchildren skills they need to succeed--skills like creativity, innovation, teamwork, focus, resilience, expressiveness, empathy, concentration, and executive function. Expert organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Centers for Disease Control agree that play and physical activity are critical foundations of childhood, academics, and future skills--yet politicians are destroying play in childhood education and replacing it with standardization, stress, and forcible physical restraint, which are damaging to learning and corrosive to society. But this is not the case for hundreds of thousands of lucky children who are enjoying the power of play in schools in China, Texas, Oklahoma, Long Island, Scotland, and in the entire nation of Finland. In Let the Children Play, Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish educator and scholar, and Fulbright Scholar William Doyle make the case for helping schools and children thrive by unleashing the power of play and giving more physical and intellectual play to all schoolchildren. In the course of writing this book, Sahlberg and Doyle traveled worldwide, reviewed over 700 research studies, and conducted interviews with over 50 of the world's leading authorities on education. Most intriguingly, Let the Children Play provides a glimpse into the play-based experiments ongoing now all over the world, from rural China, Singapore, and Scotland to North Texas and Oklahoma, as well as the promising results of these bold new approaches. Readers will find the book to be both a call for change and a guide for making that change happen in their own communities.

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Oxford University Press

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0190932163

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9780190932169

Hard Questions on Global Educational Change

Policies, Practices, and the Future of Education

By: Pasi Sahlberg,Jonathan Hasak,Vanessa Rodriguez

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Hard Questions on Global Educational Change

Policies, Practices, and the Future of Education

By: Pasi Sahlberg,Jonathan Hasak,Vanessa Rodriguez

This new book, from internationally renowned education scholar Pasi Sahlberg and his colleagues, focuses on some of the most controversial issues in contemporary education reform around the world. The authors devote a chapter to each of these “hard questions”: Does parental choice improve education systems?Is there a future for teacher unions?What is the right answer to the standardized testing questionCan schools prepare children for the 21st-century workplace?Will technology save schools?Can anyone be a teacher?Should higher education be for the public good?What knowledge and skills should an educator have? Each educational change question sheds much-needed light on today’s large-scale education policies and related reforms around the world. The authors focus on what makes each question globally significant, what we know from international research, and what can be inferred from benchmark evidence. The final chapter offers a model for policymakers with implications for teaching, learning, and schooling overall. “This is an impressive and engaging book. If you care about the impacts of technology, testing, and teacher education designs, then this book will stretch your thinking and challenge your assumptions.” —Andy Hargreaves, Boston College “Fascinating case studies open up our imaginations and provide clues for the most sustainable pathways forward for educators in the years to come.” —Dennis Shirley, Boston College “Features enlightening chapters with an international perspective for educators and teacher educators alike. Highly recommended.” —David C. Berliner, Arizona State University

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0807775592

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Let the Children Play

For the Learning, Well-Being, and Life Success of Every Child

By: Pasi (Professor of Education Policy Sahlberg, Professor of Education Policy Gonski Institute for Education University of New South Wales Australia),William (University of Eastern Finland Doyle, Finland)

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Let the Children Play

For the Learning, Well-Being, and Life Success of Every Child

With research breakthroughs and case histories the authors reveal how intellectual and physical play is the ultimate engine of transforming education -- the key to giving our children the well-being, happiness, and skills they need to thrive in the 21st century.

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0192894161

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9780192894168

Finnish Lessons 3.0

What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?

By: Pasi Sahlberg

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What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?

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0807779296

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Hard Questions on Global Educational Change

Policies, Practices, and the Future of Education

By: Pasi Sahlberg,Jonathan Hasak,Vanessa Rodriguez

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Policies, Practices, and the Future of Education

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Empowered Educators in Finland

How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality

By: Karen Hammerness,Raisa Ahtiainen,Pasi Sahlberg

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How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality

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The Best School in the World

By: Maija Kasvio

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The Best School in the World

By: Maija Kasvio

The catalogue of the MFA exhibition The Best School in the World is designed especially for international audiences. Featuring a rich accompaniment of visual material it includes a detailed presentation of seven Finnish schools built in the 2000s and three expert essays. Architect Kaisa Nuikkinen discusses the various challenges of designing a school in her article Learning Spaces: How They Meet Evolving Educational Needs. Finland's PISA performance is the main focus of Educational Progress in Finland and What We Can Learn from It, an expert article contributed by Pasi Sahlberg, Director General of the Finnish Centre for International Mobility (CIMO). Sirkka-Liisa Jetsonen, an architect at the National Board of Antiquities, provides an historical outline of the Finnish education system and its buildings in her article Setting the Scene for Learning.

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