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The Process-Centered School

Sustaining a Renaissance Community

By: Arthur L. Costa, Rosemarie M. Liebmann

This book details the steps that need to be taken to move from a traditional school system to a true learning organization.

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780803963146
Published By: Corwin
Year: 1997
Page Count: 264
Publication date: January 24, 1997

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Staff Development: A Process Approach; Fred H. Wood 6.

Author(s)

Arthur L. Costa

Arthur L. Costa, Ed.D., is an Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University, Sacramento. He is Co-Founder of the Institute for Habits of Mind and Co-founder of the Center for Cognitive Coaching. He served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, and an assistant superintendent for instruction in the Office of the Sacramento County Superintendent of Schools and as the director of educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He has made presentations and conducted workshops in all 50 states as well as on six of the seven continents
Active in many professional organizations, Art served as president of the California Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and was the National President of Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, from 1988 to 1989. He was the recipient of the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Urban Alliance in 2010.

Rosemarie M. Liebmann

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Constructing the Metaphors for Process

Spreading the Good Word

Communicating with the School Community to Support Change

Organizational Learning

The Essential Journey

Designing Learning for a New Work Environment

Key Values and Skills

Staff Development

A Process Approach

Preparing New Teachers

A Process Approach

Developing Adaptive Schools in a Quantum Universe

The Norms of Collaboration

Attaining Communicative Competence

The Process of Coaching

Mediating Growth toward Holonomy

Developing a Scoring Rubric for a Process School

Capturing the Spirit

Process Pervades the Organization

Searching for Evidence

Toward a Renaissance Community

Change

The Journey Begins

Afterword: The Essence

Process as Content

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