American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community

by Sam Chaltain, Sandra Day O'Connor (Foreword)

In American Schools , Sam Chaltain interweaves the leading ideas from the education, business, and scientific communities to outline a framework for leadership that helps educators and organizational leaders create the optimal conditions for transformational change. By pairing a rich theoretical framework with the stories of communities that have, over several years, tried to create more democratic learning communities, Chaltain does what any reader of this book will have to do - provide enough structure to empower people to do their best work, and enough freedom so that each person's inherent creativity can be unleashed.

Genres: Education

184 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Steve Coughlan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. Even as I was reading it, it gave me insights (and the all important good quotes) for a number of educational issues that are in the forefront for me at the moment. It made me wish I had that great facility that a dear friend has to recall pithy and appropriate quotes on any topic once she's read a book... and recall them long after my memory of a book has faded to the headline and outline. Everybody involved in education should read this book.

[Molly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Four stars because there need to be more books on the topic. It raises more questions than it answers, which might very well be the point.