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318 pages, Paperback
First published May 15, 2015
John Hattie is perhaps the foremost authority on education in the world.
In his new book, Visible Learning Into Action: International Case Studies of Impact, Hattie moves beyond revealing which factors have the largest impact on students’ achievement levels, to illustrate what it takes to successfully lead school-wide improvement.
He shares the stories of 15 schools from across the globe who have used his earlier research to drive school reform – reform focused on helping students make greater progress than they already are.
The natures of the schools are wide and varied. Some are dominated by struggling students, while others are full of high achievers. In Hattie’s mind, it doesn’t matter where the school starts at – school improvement as all about helping them move forward from there. In this way, preventing a straight-A student from just coasting along, is just as important as helping a failing student to pass. It is all about ‘growth’ not only ‘attainment’.
The book gives you concrete examples of how different schools have grappled with the challenge of ‘growth’ in their own circumstances. And it exposes what they had to do in order to bring that growth about.
I recommend this book for any educator who wants to lead school-wide, growth-focused improvement.