Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education | 
 enlarge | Authors: Peter M. Senge, Nelda H. Cambron Mccabe, Timothy Lucas, Art Kleiner, Janis Dutton, Bryan Smith
Publisher: Doubleday Business
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Pages: 608
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.4 x 1.8
ISBN: 0385493231
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.207
EAN: 9780385493239
ASIN: 0385493231
Publication Date: September 12, 2000
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Created by bestselling author and MIT senior lecturer Peter Senge and a team of educators and organizational change leaders, this new addition to the bFifth Discipline Resource Book/b series offers practical advice for educators, administrators, and parents on how to strengthen and rebuild our schools.brbrFew would argue that schools today are in trouble. The problems are sparking a national debate as educators, school boards, administrators, and parents search for ways to strengthen our school system at all levels, more effectively respond to the rapidly changing world around us, and better educate our children.brbrBestselling author Peter Senge and his Fifth Discipline team have written bSchools That Learn/b because educators?who have made up a sizable percentage of the audience for the popular Fifth Discipline books?have asked for a book that focuses specifically on schools and education, to help reclaim schools even in economically depressed or turbulent districts. One of the great strengths of bSchools That Learn/b is its description of practices that are meeting success across the country and around the world, as schools attempt to learn, grow, and reinvent themselves using the principles of organizational learning. Featuring articles, case studies, and anecdotes from prominent educators such as Howard Gardner, Jay Forrester, and 1999 U.S. Superintendent of the Year Gerry House, as well as from impassioned teachers, administrators, parents, and students, the book offers a wealth of practical tools, anecdotes, and advice that people can use to help schools (and the classrooms in them and communities around them) learn to learn.brbrYou'll read about schools, for instance, where principals introduce themselves to parents new to the school as "entering a nine-year conversation" about their children's education; where teachers use computer modeling to galvanize student insight into everything from Romeo and Juliet to the extinction of the mammoths; and where teachers' training is not just bureaucratic ritual but an opportunity to recharge and rethink the classroom.brbrIn a fast-changing world where school violence is a growing concern, where standardized tests are applied as simplistic "quick fixes," where rapid advances in science and technology threaten to outpace schools' effectiveness, where the average tenure of a school district superintendent is less than three years, and where students, parents, and teachers feel weighed down by increasing pressures, bSchools That Learn/b offers much-needed material for the dialogue about the educating of children in the twenty-first century.
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Schools that Learn September 22, 2008
Sheila M. Krause
The product came in good condition. It also was delivered in the amount of time that was suggested. I am very pleased with my book.
Schools That Learn July 23, 2008
Susan J. Barnett
Excellent resource for educators and people who want to be involved with changing the educational system in our society.
Schools should all be learning organizations August 6, 2004
Christopher Davis (Flint, MI USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Senge became famous for his book on learning organizations. In this book, he and his co-authors apply those concepts and ideas specifically to educational institutions. While much of their focus is on K12, the ideas and process are applicable to higher education as well. So many management books are really fads with superficial value, but Senge's books are very practical and valuable. This book in particular demonstrates a great deal of passion on the part of the author's for their topic.
Length appeared overwhelming--but well worth it March 14, 2004
Sally Austin Hundley (Canton, North Carolina United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Having been given the instructions to select a book of vision for a reading group in a graduate class, I didn't expect to choose one of over 500 pages. The length, however, is indicative of the power this book has for changing minds about schools and the way to structure them for learning. I found myself often reading passages aloud to other educators and anyone who would listen. Instead of stifling my curiosity, the book inspired me to dig deeper on the five disciplines. A great book for creating a vision of education that includes schools where students are learning. I may purchase another one to loan out!
A great resource book for educators August 31, 2001
George Zee (www.frzee.org, Hong Kong)
38 out of 39 found this review helpful
This is an essential book for anyone interested in education. Its comprehensive coverage gives much background, even at the risk of being distracting when you want to follow-up on the leads to so many interesting source-books and links. Though you are told to dip in anywhere, you must read the first section, esp. The Industrial Age System of Education by Senge and A Primer to the Five Disciplines (Personal Mastery, Mental Models, Shared Vision, Team Learning and Systems Thinking) (pp. 27-93).brpThe authors consider this book a prequel to their other books about learning organizations (p.7). That's true. Though this is the most recent book, you can start with this one and go on to the others for further depth. Some repetitions may only serve well for mastery.brpThe whole book is very readable and informative. Concepts are clearly explained. It follows the same excellent editing format as The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook and The Dance of Change.brpWhen you get too enthused by so many ideas and success stories of innovations, heed the advice for The Strategy of Organizational Change. Focus on one or two new priorities for change, not twelve. Most school systems are already overwhelmed with change. They don't need a new initiative; they need an approach that consolidates existing initiatives, eliminates turf battles, and makes it easier for people to work together toward common ends. (p.25)brpThere are just too many passages that you wish to quote. The book is a treasure mine. However, for those (esp. busy administrators) who find the volume too daunting or verbose (592 pages!) and still want to get a handle on launching into transforming their schools into learning organisations, I would recommend, Ten Steps to a Learning Organization and start with the simple questionnaire given there.
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