| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I. The Problem : -- -- 1. Dropouts -- Who's Dropping Out? -- What Do Dropouts Say? -- What Have We Learned? -- -- 2. A Condition of Benign Neglect -- Decoupling -- School Design Descriptions -- Curriculum & Instruction -- Continuation School History -- Student Performance Expectations -- Institutional Train Wreck -- Lack of Research -- Part II. Adopting Change : -- -- 3. Pathways to Change -- Cultural Mind-sets: Central to School Change -- Changing School Culture: A Principal's Role -- Addressing Teacher Adversity -- A Teacher's Explanatory Style -- Teacher Concerns -- Creating Key Relationships -- Changing Staff Relationships -- Creating Community Relationships -- -- 4. Adapting Change Components and Innovations -- Synthesizing Practitioners with Innovations -- External Change Interventions -- School Aims: Happiness in Schools and Classrooms -- Evaluating Change -- -- 5. Diffusing Teacher Change Resistance -- Change Agents -- Teacher Resistance Themes -- Teacher Resistance: External Barriers -- Distributive Leadership -- Diffusing Resistance Through Communication -- Beyond Resistance: What if Change Succeeds? -- Part III. Acquiring Resiliency : -- -- 6. Building a Resiliency-based Paradigm -- Educational Resiliency Defined -- Four Theories -- Resiliency Theory -- School Connectedness -- Beginning a Trust-Building Process: Listening -- A Sense of Autonomy -- Altruism -- Building High Internal Expectations -- Choice, Trust, and Accountability -- Consequences of Choice -- Believing in Student Resilience -- Effective Teacher Preparation Constructs -- Protective Factor Descriptors -- Limitations of Resiliency Theory -- Self-Efficacy Theory -- Life Satisfaction Findings -- Home Life Satisfaction Factors -- -- 7. School-wide Corrective Factors -- Effects of Supportive Relationships -- Gratitude -- Social-Cognitive Theory -- Bonding: An Essential Change Agent -- Hope Theory -- Measuring Hope -- -- 8. Q & A: Resiliency-Based Change Concerns |
| Summary |
From Risk to Resiliency offers continuation school developers and classroom teachers a wide range of in-depth choices in which to create resilient, school-wide change. It offers educational leaders research-based evidence in which to overcome common, closely-held beliefs as to the incapacities of continuation school stakeholders and students. Finally, it provides theoretical foundations in which to identify, construct, and measure data-based, educational criteria, necessary for growing program effectiveness |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Evening and continuation schools -- United States
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EDUCATION -- Adult & Continuing Education.
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EDUCATION -- Non-Formal Education.
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Evening and continuation schools
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781475820980 |
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1475820984 |
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