Statement of BeliefsVision

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Statement of Beliefs/Vision

• Tyree N. Clark
• EACS 5233
• Spring 2003

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High Achieving Classroom

• Challenging
• Newmann and Wehlage (1995)
• Rewarding
• Newmann and Wehlage (1995)
• NELS88 study
• Interesting and thought-provoking
• Ernest Boyers (1982) Eight Commonalities
• Habits of Mind (Meier Schwarz, 1995)
• Enjoyable

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High Achieving School

• Leadership
• Building Leadership Capacity (Lambert, 1998)
• Teamwork
• CPESS (Meier Schwarz, 1995)
• Steven Levy, Disney Teacher of the Year
• Cause beyond oneself (Glickman, 1990)
• Communication
• Key to collaborative inquiry (OHair, McLaughlin,
  Reitzug, 2000)
• Achievement
• IDEALS (OHair, McLaughlin, Reitzug, 2000)

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Leaders in High Achieving Schools

• Building Leadership Capacity (Lambert, 1998)
• Leadership Capacity Matrix
• Broad-based participation
• Skillfulness
• Rules of Governance (Glickman, 1993)
• Everyone can be involved in decision making
• No one has to be involved
• Everyone must support the decision made

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Leaders in High Achieving Schools

• Bearing
• Courage
• Decisiveness
• Dependability
• Endurance
• Enthusiasm
• Initiative

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Leaders in High Achieving Schools

• Integrity
• Judgment
• Justice
• Knowledge
• Loyalty
• Tact
• Unselfishness