Sustainable School Transformation An Inside-Out School Led Approach [Hardcover]

Sustainable School Transformation: An Inside-Out School Led Approachexplores how we can best build a truly world class education system. It presents a theoretical and practical case for an alternative approach that combines the rigour of traditional top-down' accountability models with the engagement and buy-in of school led inside-out' approaches  a combination which can be applied to any school in any context internationally.
David Crossley and a range of practitioners and academics draw on their extensive experience of past approaches to school improvement in the UK and US. Rather than reject 'top-down' accountability models, they explore new ways of developing them alongside 'inside-out' school led approaches that really do motivate those in our schools who in the final analysis have to deliver the aspirations of politicians and our wider societies for all our young people. The book is based on the premise that Peter Drucker's notion of addictive achievement, discussed in relation to students inPost Capitalist Society, applies to staff and schools too, and if we want to build a truly world class system it will only be achieved through the motivation and resultant efforts of all those in our schools.

David Crossleyis an independent education consultant. His proven, yet innovative ideas derive from leading four very different schools, design of a major internationally validated raising achievement program and work with many other outstanding school leaders and academics in countries including the UK and the USA.

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Becoming World Class,David Crossley (Education Consultant, UK)
1. From Theory to Practice
2. Leadership and Collaboration
3. What should a world class curriculum look like?
Part II: Ideas into Action
4. Innovative Examples from English Schools: Whose curriculum is it anyway?Judith Judd (Times EdlÓe