Bold Moves for Schools: How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments by Heidi Hayes Jacobs


Bold Moves for Schools: How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments
Title : Bold Moves for Schools: How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments
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ISBN : 1416623051
ISBN-10 : 9781416623052
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 210
Publication : Published March 10, 2017

What will it take to create truly contemporary learning environments that meet the demands of 21st-century society, engage learners, and produce graduates who are prepared to succeed in the world? What skills and capacities do teachers and leaders need to create and sustain such schools? What actions are necessary? Bold Moves for Schools offers a compelling vision that answers these questions—and action steps to make the vision a reality. Looking through the lenses of three pedagogies—antiquated, classical, and contemporary—authors Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Marie Hubley Alcock examine every aspect of K–12 education, including curriculum, instruction, assessment, and the program structures of space (both physical and virtual), time, and grouping of learners and professionals. In a new job description for teachers, Jacobs and Alcock highlight and expound on the following With thought-provoking proposals and practical strategies for change, Bold Moves for Schools sets educators on the path to redefining their profession and creating exciting new learning environments. The challenge is unprecedented. The possibilities are unlimited.

Bold Moves for Schools: How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments Reviews

  • Randy Fielding

    When Shakespeare wrote "Boldness be my friend! Arm me, audacity, from head to foot!" he was foreshadowing Jacobs and Alcock's transformational roadmap for change in our schools. At the district and network level, the book provide the research, reasons and framework for change. For teachers, it's filled with links to resources on curriculum and systems that you can use now, and also references that explain where we came from and where we are going. Bold Moves gives us a vision for a holistic, integrated learning community, and then proceeds to tell us how to make it happen now!

  • Matt

    This book provides an essential vision and pathway for what schools should strive to become in this century. I'm using this resource as the primary text for a graduate course I'm teaching in curriculum and instruction.

  • Jennifer Clark

    This book was thought provoking while at the same time giving ideas on how to make such “bold moves”. I’m using it as a staff resource for my school.

  • Jenika Herron

    I love the ideas; however, implementation has to occur at a district or state level.