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The Cage-Busting Teacher: (Educational Innovations Series)

The Cage-Busting Teacher: (Educational Innovations Series)


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The Cage-Busting Teacher adopts the logic of Cage-Busting Leadership and applies it to the unique challenges and opportunities of classroom teachers. Detailed, accessible, and thoroughly engaging, it uncovers the many ways in which teachers can break out of familiar constraints in order to influence school and classroom practice, education policy, and school reform. “Cage-busting is concrete, precise, and practical,” writes Frederick M. Hess. This invaluable book helps teachers understand why and how to revisit their assumptions and enables them to have greater impacts upon their schools and beyond.

Based on interviews with hundreds of teachers, teacher advocates, union leaders, and others, Hess identifies the challenges teachers face, seeks concrete and workable solutions, and offers recommendations to put those solutions in place. A uniquely practical and inspiring book, The Cage-Busting Teacher is for educators who want to shape the schools and systems in which they work.

Table of Contents:
CONTENTS

Preface xiii

  1. The Classroom Cage 1

  2. Choose to Be a Problem Solver 35

  3. Managing Up 59

  4. Millions of Registered Voters—and Their Kids 87

  5. Tackling Everyday Problems 111

  6. The Union Question 139

  7. Square Pegs and Round Holes 167

  8. You Are Braver Than You Believe 191
     

APPENDIX A 
Cage-Busting for Beginners 215

APPENDIX B
Glossary of Terms 237

APPENDIX C
Teacher Voice Organizations 241

APPENDIX D
Fellowships and Leadership Opportunities 247

APPENDIX E
Resources for Rethinking the Profession 253

APPENDIX F
AFT and NEA Initiatives 257

APPENDIX G
Questions for Further Thought and Exploration 261

Notes 273
Acknowledgments 283
About the Author 285
Index 287




About the Author :
Frederick M. Hess is a resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, USA. He is the author of Cage-Busting Leadership (Harvard Education Press, 2013).

Review :
The Cage-Busting Teacher provides practical advice for teachers wishing to find the space to make creative improvements from within their profession. --Eric Wearne, Education Review "In light of the increasing number of policy directives handed down to teachers, Hess' message is a welcome one--teachers can and should find the initiative, resources, strategies, and power to enact educational change on their own terms and in their own ways.The book, written as somewhat of a journalistic account with anecdotal evidence, stories, and with some references to educational research, is an accessible read that will interest teachers, administrators, parents, teacher educators, and policymakers." --Daniel Meier, Teachers College Review "This book needed to be written. We can see internationally how a desire to improve education has led to fruits and weeds in equal measure. The key voice that has been forgotten in all this has been the notso-humble educator. I can't agree with Hess enough: we need to stop waiting for Superman to come and fix everything, and start thinking about how we can fix things from the bottom up and inside out. Maybe then we can call ourselves a profession again." --Tom Bennett, Times Education Supplement "This book suggests something revolutionary: that teachers might be the best instigators of their own re-invention rather than waiting for Superman to fix it all." --Tom Bennett, Times Education Supplement


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781612507774
  • Publisher: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Series Title: Educational Innovations Series
  • Weight: 531 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1612507778
  • Publisher Date: 30 Apr 2015
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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