Product Description

What is the single, most important event of the school year that affects school improvement? How do you measure school improvement? How can simple tools--already at your fingertips--work more effectively to improve student achievement in reading, math, and more?

The Results Fieldbook answers these questions and describes in abundant, practical detail how five school systems overcame obstacles and achieved exceptional results for all their students. These schools focused on the proven core concepts that Mike Schmoker described in both editions of his first ASCD book, Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement. Supplementing the five case studies, brief vignettes written by practitioners show how core practices--teamwork, the use of achievement data, and planning for measurable goals--made an immediate and profound difference in student learning at their respective schools.

A close look at these school systems reveals the simplicity of school improvement efforts built around the still-overlooked and most potent force in improvement--collective, organized teacher intelligence. This book contains easily adapted processes and refinements that result from such teacher collaboration and all but guarantee measurable improvement. Tables, figures, and appendixes illustrate effective data-collection processes; and at the conclusion, a three-part synthesis of the best of these systems provides practical steps toward implementing this radically more effective approach to school improvement, starting with preservice education.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33305 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 150 pages

From the Back Cover
In clear, persuasive language, Mike Schmoker tells how schools across the United States are getting the RESULTS they plan for. Keep it simple, he emphasizes, and make it possible for teachers to share what they know. --Ron Brandt

In The Results Fieldbook, Schmoker focuses on real schools where teachers are actively collaborating to improve students' learning. A truly inspiring piece of work, this book should be read by anyone ready to improve their school. --James Stigler

Readers should beware: This is a potentially dangerous book. Anyone who reads it no longer has an excuse for low student achievement. Schmoker provides practical, insightful, and specific suggestions for school leaders to develop and apply the collective intelligence of teachers. --Douglas Reeves

Partner this book with Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement, and you have everything you need to know about how to create an effective school. --Harry K. Wong

In this Fieldbook, Schmoker presents powerful ideas and practical strategies with a wit that few educational reformers can equal. I recommend this work most highly. --Robert J. Marzano

The Results Fieldbook is the most specific and helpful volume to come from ASCD or any other publisher in several years. --Douglas Reeves

Mike Schmoker not only presents powerful concepts of collaborative cultures, continuous improvement, and data-driven decisions--but he brings those concepts to life in this book and thus offers something educators are hungry for--reason for hope. --Rick DuFour

In this deeply practical book, Mike Schmoker clearly shows how any school can achieve dramatic gains in teaching and learning. --Michael Fullan