The Pyramid Approach

George Woodrow

doi:10.5771/9781475813524

Summary

This book explains why virtually all children can achieve proficiency or higher. And it gives educators the tools to help them achieve those levels of learning.

The notion that schools are “waiting for Superman” or Wonder Woman to rescue them is at best a fantasy and at worst, damaging to schools and school systems that advance this type of flawed thinking. This is why in this book the reader will be encouraged to embrace the concept that only through building effective teams (collective instructional leadership) will schools begin to realize their stated goal—educate “all” students. It may take a village to raise children but it takes collective instructional leadership to educate them.

This book takes great care to ask the questions that policymakers, educators, parents, students and the larger community want answered:

Can you handle the truth?
Why is team leadership needed?
How do campuses improve their team dynamics?
What methods do high performing nations use to excel?
What strategies really work in high poverty schools?
Where do American schools rank on the rigor scale?
What is trust and how is it developed?
What are campus learning disabilities?
How do beliefs about human capacity affect student achievement levels?
What methods motivate students to work hard?
What do we really mean when we say, “All children can learn”?

The Pyramid Approach was designed by Dr. George Woodrow, Jr. for use by educators. The Pyramid is research-based; it aligns theory with professional practice. In addition, it strives to take what we know and provide a practical framework to effectively apply that same knowledge in ways that promotes student achievement. The Pyramid Approach calls attention to the need for a systematic framework that recognizes the interconnectedness among research methods.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-1351-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-1352-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 219
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. 1. Can You handle the truth? No access
  2. Reflective Thoughts No access
  3. Bare Facts No access
  4. References No access
  5. Reflective Thoughts No access
1. Systematic Framework and Key Terms No access
2. The Bare Facts No access
3. The Five Levels of the Pyramid No access
4. Safe and Caring Culture No access
5. Performance at the Group Level No access
6. Employing Active Listening Skills No access
7. Safe and Orderly Organizational Environment No access
8. Significance and Elements of a Caring Culture No access
9. Perceptions About Poverty and Learning No access
10. Trusting Team Culture No access
11. Culture is the Organization’s Personality No access
12. Reflective Thoughts No access
13. Bare Facts No access
14. References No access
15. Reflective Thoughts No access
1. Developing School-wide Instructional Strategies No access
2. Essential Components of School-wide Instructional Strategies No access
3. Implementing and Monitoring School-wide Instructional Strategies No access
4. What Works Best No access
5. Reflective Thoughts No access
6. Bare Facts No access
7. References No access
8. Reflective Thoughts No access
1. Beliefs Matter! Rhetoric Doesn’t No access
2. Instructional Leader’s Belief Statement No access
3. How to Transform One’s Belief System No access
4. Selecting and Hiring the Best No access
5. Develop Believing Teachers No access
6. Collaboration vs. Merit Pay No access
7. We Have Had Our Fifty Years No access
8. Reflective Thoughts No access
9. Bare Facts No access
10. References No access
11. Reflective Thoughts No access
1. Try Harder No access
2. Biography of E=mc2 No access
3. Using E=mc2 as an Analogy in Education No access
4. Rigor on Steroids No access
5. The Affluenza Mindset No access
6. Rigor and Hard Work No access
7. Effectively Teaching Effort No access
8. Reflective Thoughts No access
9. Bare Facts No access
10. References No access
11. Reflective Thoughts No access
1. Getting to the Fifth Level No access
2. A Theory of Action No access
3. How to Apply the Instructional Leadership Pyramid No access
4. You are in Control of Your Destiny No access
5. Reflective Thoughts No access
6. Bare Facts No access
7. References No access
8. Reflective Thoughts No access
Index No access Pages 207 - 218
About the author No access Pages 219 - 219