BOOK: Going to Scale with New School Designs: Reinventing High School
Going to Scale with New School Designs: Reinventing High School
Jospeph McDonald, Emily Klein, and Meg Riordan
Synopsis:
Americans have been trying to redesign the American high school since it was first invented. One of the latest approaches—funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation —is to find inventive high school designs that work well in one location and can be replicated in others. The authors of this book followed a design team from Big Picture Learning, recording the challenges it faced and the strategies it employed in pursuit of this goal. Their accessible and entertaining account of Big Picture’s work is laced with stories about “scaling up” by other school design teams and in other enterprises beyond high school, and includes commentary throughout by Greg Farrell, founder of Expeditionary Learning Schools Outward Bound and Howard Wollner, formerly senior vice president of Starbucks. Based on careful research, the book is both a practical guide to a new dimension of school reform and an engaging read for anyone interested in school change.
About the authors:
Joseph P. McDonald is professor of teaching and learning at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Emily J. Klein is an assistant professor at Montclair State University of New Jersey in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching. Meg Riordan is a school designer for Expeditionary Learning Schools, a national organization that conducts professional development for teachers and other school leaders.
Jospeph McDonald, Emily Klein, and Meg Riordan
Synopsis:
Americans have been trying to redesign the American high school since it was first invented. One of the latest approaches—funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation —is to find inventive high school designs that work well in one location and can be replicated in others. The authors of this book followed a design team from Big Picture Learning, recording the challenges it faced and the strategies it employed in pursuit of this goal. Their accessible and entertaining account of Big Picture’s work is laced with stories about “scaling up” by other school design teams and in other enterprises beyond high school, and includes commentary throughout by Greg Farrell, founder of Expeditionary Learning Schools Outward Bound and Howard Wollner, formerly senior vice president of Starbucks. Based on careful research, the book is both a practical guide to a new dimension of school reform and an engaging read for anyone interested in school change.
About the authors:
Joseph P. McDonald is professor of teaching and learning at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Emily J. Klein is an assistant professor at Montclair State University of New Jersey in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching. Meg Riordan is a school designer for Expeditionary Learning Schools, a national organization that conducts professional development for teachers and other school leaders.
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