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A Culture in the Making: Leadership in Learner-Centered Schools by Ann Lieberman, Beverly Falk & Leslie Alexander - 1995How do values of "learner-centeredness" get
played out in schools? How do leaders work within their schools to
build community? How are norms and structures built and sustained
that keep a school focused on students' lives and their learning? What
does it take to build commitment and motivate teachers to become an
inquiring community? How do leaders think about and act on their
own individual interests and concerns while dealing with the collective
work of running a school? How do they cope with the distractions of
daily problems as they struggle to improve the quality of life and
learning in the school?
To find answers to these questions we held individual and group
interviews with both the current and past school directors, made a series
of observations in their schools, and studied the documents produced by
the schools. These research efforts provided us with an opportunity to
learn not only about issues of leadership, but also about how these
schools were created, and how norms, values, and practices have been
maintained through successions of leadership and variations in style. To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below: | This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 94, No. 1. |
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- Ann Lieberman
Teachers College, Columbia University
ANN LIEBERMAN is Professor of Education and Co-director of the National Center
for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching (NCREST) at Teachers College,
Columbia University.
- Beverly Falk
Teachers College, Columbia University
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BEVERLY FALK, a former teacher-director, is a researcher and educator at NCREST.
- Leslie Alexander
Independent
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LESLIE ALEXANDER is a founding director of a newly formed learner-centered school in New York City.
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