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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| Defining Effective Curriculum Leadership | |
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| What Is Curriculum? | |
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| Curriculum is the Essential Function | |
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| Dynamic Curriculum Leadership | |
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| School Leaders Must Also Be Curriculum Leaders | |
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| The Leader as Helper and Guide | |
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| Accepting the Challenge of Curriculum Leadership | |
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| Summary | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Basic Tasks of Curriculum Leadership | |
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| Defining the Program | |
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| Collarborating for Success | |
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| Providing the Path | |
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| Coordinating Activity | |
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| The Leader's Role | |
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| Summary | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Making Curriculum Purposeful | |
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| Finding Your School Philosophy | |
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| Techniques for Finding Consensus | |
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| If-Then Logic | |
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| The Role of Standards and Benchmarks | |
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| Clarifying Goals and Objectives | |
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| Pre-Assessing School Capacity | |
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| Establishing a Destination | |
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| Validation as a Critical Element | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sample Problems and Leader Actions | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Building the School Curriculum Team | |
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| Selecting the Team | |
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| Using Committees to Activate Change | |
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| Small Groups | |
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| Conducting Meetings | |
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| Conferencing | |
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| Other Methods of Effective Communication | |
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| Leadership Style and Climate Formation | |
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| Achieving Consensus for School Improvement | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sample Problems and Leader Actions | |
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| Constructing the Path for Curriculum Improvement | |
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| Visioning | |
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| Clarifying the Steps | |
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| The Use of Feedback in Curriculum Work | |
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| Management and Time-Dating Goals | |
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| Standards as Boundaries, Not Goals | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sample Problems and Leader Actions | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Detailed Planning to Implement Change | |
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| Curriculum Mapping | |
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| Alignment Criteria | |
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| Standards in the Curriculum | |
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| An Emerging Blueprint for School Improvement | |
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| Planning Tools That Empower | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sample Problems and Leader Actions | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Curriculum Improvement Means Staff Development | |
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| Teachers as the Critical Ingedient | |
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| Why Many Teachers Dislike Staff Development | |
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| Preferred Staff Development Designs | |
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| Assessing Staff Development Efforts | |
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| A Word About Adult Learners | |
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| Curriculum as the Rationale for Staff Development | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sample Problems and Leader Actions | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Closing the Circle Through Evaluation | |
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| General Functions | |
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| A Generic Design | |
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| Four Purposes of Evaluation | |
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| Eight Areas for Study | |
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| Using Technology in Evaluation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sample Problems and Leader Actions | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Coordinating Successful Curriculum Work | |
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| Some Reasons for Curriculum Failure | |
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| The Elements of a Comprehensive Plan | |
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| We're All in This Together | |
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| Planning Tools | |
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| Reporting to the Board and Superintendent | |
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| Timing Is Everything in School Improvement | |
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| Program Evaluation and Review | |
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| A Bath Tub Filling Up | |
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| Boosters That Can Accelerate Change | |
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| Summary | |
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| Sample Problems and Leader Actions | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Reproducible Planning Sheets | |
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| Standard Curriculum Planning Resources | |
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| Curriculum Resources Sites on the Internet | |
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| Recommended Resource for Keeping Up-to-Date | |
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| Glossary of Terms | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |