Overview

Programs and policies that can hurt students and learning abound. School accountability plans, educator evaluation programs, standardization of curriculum and assessment, contradictory policy-maker expectations, and influences from international testing programs are just some of the current issues that exert pressure on public school leaders via rhetoric and education reform policy proposals. School leaders need to be able to make accurate judgments about the ethics and efficacy of education reforms so they can decide whether they must defend students and educators from practices and policies built on nothing more than rhetoric, junk-science, and anti-intellectual ideology, or whether they should support a proposal or program founded on evidence of positive outcomes.

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Author:   Christopher H. Tienken (Seton Hall University, Associate Professor)
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   Corwin Press Inc
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9781544368214

ISBN 10:   1544368216
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   07 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Joshua Starr Acknowledgments About the Author INTRODUCTION Creatively Comply! Reform Defined Purposes Audience Framing the Issues Organization of the Book Features of the Book Why I Wrote This Book Part I. Reform Critique CHAPTER 1. ETHICAL CONTEXT OF EDUCATION REFORM AND COMPLIANCE Reform Ethics Within the Context of Education Reform The Ethical Dilemma Ethical Responsibility Leadership Take-Away: Ethics CHAPTER 2. CREATIVE COMPLIANCE Creative Leadership Pathways Seven Creative Compliance Strategies Compliance Entrepreneur Failure Is an Option Leadership Take-Away: Creative Compliance CHAPTER 3. REFRAMING REFORM Reframe It! Framing Reform A Framework for Critique Ethical Evidence Now What? and Creative Compliance Leadership Take-Away: Framing Reform Part II. Reform Case Studies CHAPTER 4. CASE STUDY 1: REFRAMING RIGOR Origins of Rigor What Is Rigor? Redefining Rigor Complexity Versus Difficulty Goldilocks View of Rigor Complex Curriculum Standards Rigor in the Context of Democracy Functional Fixedness and Knowledge Reproduction So What? Understanding the Big Picture of Rigor Ethical Considerations Creative Compliance and Now What? Leadership Take-Away: Rigor CHAPTER 5. CASE STUDY 2: USING OR ABUSING STANDARDIZED TEST RESULTS? Large-Scale Use Three-Legged Stool of Validity Standards of Testing So What? Understanding the Big Picture of Assessment Use Ethical Considerations Creative Compliance: Now What? Leadership Take-Away: Testing Use CHAPTER 6. CASE STUDY 3: MERIT PAY Money for Merit Theoretical Frameworks for Merit Pay Previous Experience With Merit Pay in Education Profit Over People So What? Understanding the Big Picture of Merit Pay Ethical Considerations Creative Compliance: Now What? Leadership Take-Away: Merit Pay Part III. Promising Practices CHAPTER 7. CASE STUDY 4: RECESS OF THE MIND Walking in Their Shoes Options for Recess of the Mind Move It! Recess of the Mind at Work S.W.A.G Mindfulness in Nanuet Well-Being in White Plains Charting a Course in Pennsylvania So What? Understanding the Big Picture of Recess of the Mind Creative Compliance Leadership Take-Away: Recess of the Mind CHAPTER 8. CASE STUDY 5: PROBLEM- AND PROJECT-BASED LEARNING Importance of Active Learning So What? Understanding the Big Picture of PBL Creative Compliance Leadership Take-Away: PBL CHAPTER 9. FINAL ISSUES Spencer Returns Top 10 Crack the Code and Act! References Index

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"In Cracking the Code of Education Reform Creative Compliance and Ethical Leadership Chris Tienken offers the reader an action plan for how to stay true to core values and ethics and still implement education reform on behalf of all students. Even in the era of ""accountability"" Tienken reminds us all that the student, not any test or reform is our ""why"" as educational leaders. Throughout the book, the ""Try This"" features offer in the moment professional learning opportunities. This is a must read for anyone interested in education! -- Michael Lubelfeld, EdD, Author & Public School Superintendent"

In Cracking the Code of Education Reform Creative Compliance and Ethical Leadership Chris Tienken offers the reader an action plan for how to stay true to core values and ethics and still implement education reform on behalf of all students. Even in the era of accountability Tienken reminds us all that the student, not any test or reform is our why as educational leaders. Throughout the book, the Try This features offer in the moment professional learning opportunities. This is a must read for anyone interested in education! -- Michael Lubelfeld, EdD, Author & Public School Superintendent

Author Information

Christopher Tienken, Ed.D. is an associate professor of leadership, management, and policy and education consultant. He has public school administration experience as a PK-12 assistant superintendent, middle school principal, director of curriculum and instruction, and elementary school assistant principal. He began his career in education as an elementary school teacher. Tienken is the former editor of the American Association of School Administrators Journal of Scholarship and Practice and the current editor of the Kappa Delta Pi Record. Tienken’s research interests focus on curriculum and assessment policy and practice at the local, state, national, and international levels. He was selected in 2019 as the Lead Author and Principal Investigator for the AASA Decennial Study of the Superintendent  and was invited to be a member of the Professors of Curriculum organization in 2015.  The Seton Hall College of Education and Human Services named him Researcher of the Year in 2014 and Tienken received the Truman Kelley Award for Outstanding Scholarship from Kappa Delta Pi in 2013. The Institute of Education Sciences recognized his research about the effects of professional development on student achievement and the National Staff Development Council (Learning Forward) awarded him the Best Research Award in 2008. Tienken has authored over 80 publications including book chapters and articles. His third book is Defying Standardization: Creating Curriculum for an Uncertain Future was awarded Outstanding Book by the Society of Professors of Education in 2019. His co-authored books include, The School Reform Landscape : Fraud, Myth, and Lies with Don Orlich and Education Policy Perils: Tackling the Tough Issues with Carol Mullen. He presents papers regularly at state, national, international, and private venues. Tienken has ongoing research collaborations with colleagues at the Universita` degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, the University of Catania, Sicily, and he was named as a visiting professor at both universities.

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