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You Can't Do It Alone: A Communications and Engagement Manual for School Leaders Committed to Reform
Author(s): Jean Johnson (Author)
- Publisher: R&L Education (UK)
- Publication Date: 16 Dec. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 184 pages
- ISBN-10: 1610483006
- ISBN-13: 9781610483001
Book Description
You Can’t Do It Alone provides school leaders with a crisp summary of opinion research among teachers, parents, and the public conducted by Public Agenda, Education Sector and other respected analysts. It offers tips on what leaders can do to more successfully engage these groups in areas such as reforming teacher evaluation, turning around low-performing schools, and building support for world-class standards. The book also introduces a theory of change and public learning developed by social scientist Daniel Yankelovich, along with some practical rules of the road for promoting the kind of dialogue that leads to consensus and action.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Jean Johnson has written a wise and important book (as well as a mercifully short one). . . .
One of her most useful contributions is to draw upon the toolkit that the Public Agenda has developed over its 35-year history to bring creative listening, dialogue and engagement into reasonably simple everyday practice in the interest of successful school reform.”
“School leaders won’t be able to sustain the reforms public education so badly needs unless teachers, parents, and students are on board as well. It just won’t happen. You Can’t Do It Alone offers fresh and remarkably level-headed advice on reaching out to these key stakeholders.”
This book is pleasantly surprising filled with practical information, strategies, and advice culled mostly from 20 years of survey and focus group data collected by the Public Agenda, a non-profit research and engagement organization. . . . This book is a communication manual for school leaders committed to reform, and lives up to its billing. You Can’t Do It Alone is recommended to practicing administrators and to faculty teaching in school leadership preparation programs.
