Improving Schools from Within: Teachers, Parents, and Principals Can Make the Difference

by Roland S. Barth

Book Overview

"A humane blueprint for school reform that--instead of startingwith a 'deficiency' model of what teachers can't do and giving them'inservice' workshops ad infinitum--would build on the educationalstaff's existing strengths." --The New York Times BookReview

Barth hows how communication, collegiality, and risk-takingamong adults can create an atmosphere of learning and leadershipfor all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155542368X
• ISBN13: 9781555423681
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Improving Schools from Within

This is a good book so far. No markings, new condition and arrived on time. Thank you.

Improving Schools from within

The book was in excellent condition. The information was wonderful and the insight that it gave was excellent. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to understand the administration point of view. Anyone looking to develop their leadership skills or a better work environment should read this book.

Timeless advice

Wonderfully practical and relevant advice for making schools as effective as they can be. Written from the viewpoint of both principal and professor. Sensitive to the issues of both teacher and administrator.

The catalyst for change

Several of our Site Based Council members read this book a few years ago in planning for a staff-wide summer retreat. This book changed the way we looked at staff development and helped us bring everyone (well almost everyone) on board with whole school change. We continue to use quotes from this book during current staff development opportunities. We've shared this at numerous national conventions and at workshops that we put on in our own school. We now see many of the same excerpts (the bee story!)that we've shared at other conferences that we go to.

A personal trainer for principals.

The role of school principal can be very isolated (and isolating) and Roland Barth's book, 'Improving schools from within', is a personal trainer/ coach that all principals need. Barth (like Boyer in 'The Basic School') describes benchmarks of excellent practice and offers collegial advice on how to get there. The thing I liked about the book was that I could personally identify with the issues and the writer's point of view. The book is easy to read, relevant to today's education and it has an heuristic quality even though it was published in 1990. Neil MacNeill Principal March 1997