Improving Schools for Latinos

Creating Better Learning Environments

AvLeonard A. Valverde

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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As a result of multiple unfavorable circumstances, public schools have been unable to effectively educate America's most disadvantaged student population—Latinos. In this book, author Leonard Valverde contends that it is imperative to reinvent schools in order to provide a viable education for these students. Improving Schools for Latinos starts with the past, points out the present, and speaks to the future. It exposes the negative mental models and practices that must be discarded and proposes what favorable elements need to be put into place. Features:·An outline of what future Latino schools must look like·A focus on organizing, leading, and governing schools to create equitable relationships and democratic institutions·A comprehensive view and understanding about school and classrooms·Helpful resources for program assistance, community-based organizations, funding sources, and moreThis book will be of interest to all educators who want to create a bright future for Latino students, their families, and their communities.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-06-29
Mått:161 x 240 x 21 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:184
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781578864898

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Leonard A. Valverde is a second-generation Mexican American whose education career spans 30 years, with experience in teaching and administration from middle school to the university. He is the executive director of the Hispanic Border Leadership Institute and a professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Arizona State University.

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Valverde (Arizona State Univ.) draws on his extensive experience working with Latino schools, as well as relevant research on school change, to clearly articulate the components needed for improving schools serving Latino students. The author focuses particularly on those of Mexican descent. After providing a compelling argument for the reasons change is necessary, he presents a thorough discussion of the steps required to bring about the desired changes. Valverde provides specific suggestions for ways to build capacity and create flexibility through continual professional development, the incorporation of technology, and the formation of a variety of partnerships in order to create schools of hopefulness, purpose, and positive results. The extensive list of resources identified in the final chapter is extremely helpful. This book would be a useful tool for the many groups Valverde believes should be included in the process of school improvement for Latinos. These include teachers and parents, as well as school, community, and business leaders. Recommended.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 Why We Must Start Now to Create New Schools for Mexican LatinosChapter 3 It Takes an Entire VillageChapter 4 Engendering New Hope, Si se puede!Chapter 5 Building Capacity and Creating FlexibilityChapter 6 Schools as True Places of Learning for Human GrowthChapter 7 Organizing Schools for Latino Learners and Fostering CreativityChapter 8 Assessment for Human Development and ReinventionChapter 9 Holding True to Democratic PrinciplesChapter 10 A Call to Join the Action