Building to Impact
Autor Arran Hamilton, Douglas B Reeves, Janet May Clinton, John Hattieen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 mai 2022
Analizând bazele de date privind eficiența în educație și metodologiile de reformă școlară, observăm că principala barieră nu este lipsa ideilor bune, ci dificultatea transpunerii lor în rezultate măsurabile. Building to Impact, publicată de SAGE Publications, propune o soluție riguroasă, fundamentată pe cercetare și testată în mediul școlar, pentru a ghida echipele de conducere și comunitățile de învățare profesională către un impact sistematic. Structura cărții este organizată logic în jurul modelului celor „5D”: Discover (Descoperire), Design (Proiectare), Deliver (Livrare), Double-Back (Evaluare/Revenire) și Double-Up (Scalare/Consolidare). Această progresie asigură că nicio etapă a procesului de schimbare nu este omisă, de la identificarea nevoilor până la sustenabilitatea pe termen lung. Subliniem importanța anexelor tehnice, unde autorii mapează 50 de metodologii de implementare diferite, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra punctelor de divergență și a activităților comune în managementul educațional. Cartea acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum Great Teaching by Design de Douglas Fisher, dar cu o abordare mult mai axată pe nivelul sistemic și pe leadership-ul instituțional, spre deosebire de focalizarea lui Fisher pe practica directă la clasă. În contextul operei autorului Arran Hamilton, acest titlu reprezintă o evoluție firească de la Making Room for Impact, unde accentul era pus pe eliminarea practicilor ineficiente; aici, Hamilton și colegii săi, inclusiv John Hattie, oferă cadrul constructiv pentru ceea ce trebuie pus în loc.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1071880756
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 176 x 252 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această lucrare liderilor școlari și decidenților din educație care s-au confruntat cu eșecul unor inițiative bine intenționate. Cititorul câștigă un model de implementare validat, care elimină presupunerile din procesul de schimbare. Este un instrument esențial pentru a transforma succesul izolat într-o cultură a impactului sistemic, oferind claritate într-un domeniu adesea aglomerat de teorii abstracte.
Despre autor
Echipa de autori reunește unii dintre cei mai influenți cercetători în educație la nivel global. John Hattie este recunoscut pentru studiile sale revoluționare despre „Visible Learning”, care au sintetizat mii de meta-analize despre performanța elevilor. Arran Hamilton este un expert în designul sistemelor educaționale și director de cercetare, preocupat de eficiența implementării la scară largă. Douglas B Reeves este o autoritate în leadership și schimbare organizațională, în timp ce Janet May Clinton aduce o expertiză vastă în evaluare și psihologie educațională. Împreună, aceștia combină rigoarea academică cu pragmatismul necesar în școlile contemporane.
Recenzii
Maintaining focus for sustained implementation and delivery of improvement amongst the whirlwind of competing priorities is challenging and often exhausting. To have alignment from the ‘boardroom to the classroom’ through the iterative process of change was and continues to be a deep inquiry process.
It’s wonderful to have the processes and implementation strategies articulated in such an accessible manner. It also validates the complexity of the process and just how hard it can be to remain on track and to sustain when key personnel and context change. What a wonderfully useful resource Arran, Douglas, Janet, and John have delivered. As an educator and/or system leader who wants to see student progress accelerate, you will find real value in engaging with this book, and it will help as you talk with others to gain their input and support as you build for impact."
"Building to Impact seeks to address one of the most perplexing issues currently facing education. That is, despite the best efforts of thousands of educationalists across the world, the long-term effects of educational underperformance, currently being highlighted and exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, continues to disproportionately affect and marginalize the poor and those from ethnic and cultural minorities. The authors attribute this problem to the ‘implementation gap'—the profound gap between the empirical wisdom locked in the research and the translation of those pearls into impact in schools and classrooms at scale.
Enough of grand ideas and theories, say the authors. This playbook identifies how crucially necessary immediate, deep, effective, and practical education reform can be implemented. What makes this book so potentially powerful in the right hands is that its model of change is based on evidence from an intensive meta-analysis of 50+ effective implementation methodologies. This model, carefully detailed, provides a sound base for rigorous, impactful education reform."
"Educational research and books on teaching and learning are filled with advice on effective practices, but research shows that very little of that advice translates into a positive impact on student achievement. Hamilton, Reeves, Clinton, and Hattie propose that it’s an implementation issue, and in this book, they clearly lay out how schools can effectively improve on that."
"Building to Impact is an extensive field manual for achieving quality implementation of evidence-based practices in schools. Readers are guided through a process that will help them think through the complexities involved in making what’s supposed to work actually work in their schools and districts. The authors have done an excellent job synthesizing and distilling key concepts from implementation science literature. The Appendices are a huge added bonus."
"The mystery of implementation has been solved. We can take ideas and innovations and ensure that they are taken to scale. The processes outlined in this book take us from the discovery phase through design and delivery, but it doesn't stop there. The authors provide systems that allow educators to double-back and double-up, which allow us to monitor our progress and determine impact. Imagine if we all used the tools in this book to take effective practices to scale, in every classroom and school. The impact would be astonishing, with students learning more and educators knowing that they had an impact."
"This book is an excellent tool for analyzing ways to identify and overcome seemingly intractable problems in education. Five rigorous and compelling stages of designing, implementing, and evaluating systematic school improvement are offered. The focus on methodology regardless of educational priority is refreshing and will provide teams with a powerful route map. Building to Impact is not to be missed."
"Did your educational improvement project run into the sand? Here’s why, and how to succeed next time. This book provides bottled wisdom you can’t afford to ignore. I so wish I'd had this impressive book 30 years ago."
"It would be tempting to dumb down the complexity of implementation. Through clear concepts, superb diagrams, and multiple tools, these authors avoid oversimplification and show how to achieve results through a systematic and thorough approach."
"The authors present a rigorous approach that I believe represents the state-of-the-art in school improvement...Right now, I know of no better guide to this process than the book you have in your hands."
Cuprins
List of Figures
Glossary
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
D1 Discover
D2 Design
D3 Deliver
D4 Double-Back
D5 Double-Up
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Mapping 50 Implementation Methodologies
Appendix 2: Key Areas of Divergence Across 50 Implementation Models
Appendix 3: 23 (Relatively) Common Implementation Activities
Appendix 4: Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis of Implementation
Notă biografică
Descriere
This book offers a carefully researched, field-tested methodology that takes leadership teams, professional learning communities, and educators all the way from good ideas to systematic impact. Following the five Ds, you’ll:
- Discover goals worth pursuing and problems worth addressing
- Design instruments and actions that generate deep impact
- Deliver interventions and collect data
- Double-back to monitor your progress and evaluate the impact
- Double-up to enhance, sustain, and scale your success