Educating All Students Together How School Leaders Create Unified Systems [Paperback]

The authors establish a plan for unifying the separate and parallel systems of special and general education.

The authors establish a plan for unifying the separate and parallel systems of special and general education.

 "A convincing conceptualization of schools as complex adaptive systems. The authors recommendations that leaders must tinker at the margins and lead in the zone of complexity provide sound and practical advice for school leaders faced with creating unified educational systems that will be able to effectively support students with increasingly diverse learning needs."

 "Far too long we have failed to acknowledge the large number of students relegated to parallel educational systems. This thought-provoking book provides an important first step in helping us surface the mental models we hold of the teaching and learning of diverse student populations."

"An insightful, informative, and thought-provoking book that deals with a topic that concerns every educator." 

Preface
About the Authors
1. Students at the Margins
2. Reconceiving the Purposes of Schooling
3. A Transformational Leadership Strategy
Complex Adaptive Systems
4. Incentives as Attractors
Why Things Remain the Same and How to Change Them
5. The Transformation to Learner-Centered
6. The New Work of Leadership in Unified Schools
7. Organizing for Instruction in Unified Schools
8. Delivering Instruction in Unified Schools
9. Thinking Differently about Evaluation
Moving Beyond the Paradox
10. A Reflection on Leadership
Local Leadership Counts
Resource A
Resource B
References
Index