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The Productive High School: Creating Personalized Academic Communities
The Productive High School Creating Personalized Academic Communities Author:Joseph Murphy, Lynn G. Beck, Marilyn Crawford, Amy Hodges, Charis L. McGaughy A groundbreaking, research-based discussion on high school reform!Murphy and his colleagues discuss how reformbased onempirical evidence and a robust set of theories can create productive high schools for all students. Focus is on core technologies of learning and teaching, organiz... more »ational systems, and institutional linkages between schools and their environments. Using current research and case studies from successful schools, they show how to construct models of learning-driven school communities that encourage excellence. Key concepts cover:
Defining the learning imperative
Developing humanized and intellectual relationships for learning
Laying the groundwork for dynamic, adaptive change