ERIC Number: EJ833440
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Feb
Pages: 3
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1784
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How Book Groups Bring Change
Hoerr, Thomas R.
Educational Leadership, v66 n5 p80-82 Feb 2009
Teachers and administrators need opportunities to share perceptions, consider possibilities, and forge solutions. Faculty book groups are a powerful tool to create organic solutions with wide ownership. They are great for spurring true professional development. In this article, the author shares how the teachers at New City School have met voluntarily in book groups for 20 years. They began in 1988 after the author read Howard Gardner's seminal work on multiple intelligences, "Frames of Mind". Today, New City is considered a multiple intelligences school, thanks to its successful faculty book groups.
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Books, Discussion Groups, Elementary School Teachers, Organizational Development, Participative Decision Making, School Based Management, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Teacher Participation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Missouri
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