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Foster a schoolwide learning environment with this action research model! This resource takes a close look at how schoolwide action research can support school change and improved student achievement. The authors discuss steps for implementing the schoolwide action research process, describe what the approach looks like in action, and show readers how: the schoolwide action-research process works in primary, middle or secondary schools; study groups move from discussion to action that improves teacher practice; head teachers and district leaders can support schoolwide action research. Karl H. Clauset is director of the National Whole-Faculty Study Groups Center. He is an experienced school improvement coach and Whole-Faculty Study Group (WFSG)trainer. Since 1999, he has helped more than fifty elementary, middle, and high schools launch WFSG and has supported the schools through the implementation phase. He is also a senior consultant with Focus on Results and works with district offices in school systems to help them align and support reform efforts in schools. Previously, he worked as a site developer with ATLAS Learning Communities, a nationally recognized school reform program, and in standards-based reform and international education development at the Education Development Center. In his earlier careers in education, he worked as a teacher and administrator at the Jakarta International School in Indonesia and taught in secondary schools in Philadelphia, Zambia, and Tanzania. He received a national award from ASCD for the outstanding dissertation in supervision in 1983 for his doctoral dissertation on the dynamics of effective schooling. As a faculty member at the Boston University School of Education, he taught graduate courses in educational policy analysis, organizational analysis, and planning. Before moving to western Washington in 2003, he served as an elected school board member and board chair for six years in his Massachusetts community. List of Tables and Figures Foreword Preface About the Author 1. Introduction 2. A Schoolwide Approach to Action Research 3. Creating Learning Teams and Professional Learning Communities 4. Conducting Schoolwide Action Research 5. Putting Action Into Action Research: Improving Teacher Practice 6. Putting Action Into Action Research: Improving Student Learning 7. Supporting Schoolwide Action Research: The Principal’s Role 8. Supporting Schools in Schoolwide Action Research 9. Taking Schoolwide Action Research to the Next Level Epilogue Resources References Index
