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Recommended Reading
Motivation Matters: A Workbook for School Change
Margery B. Ginsberg
Jossey-Bass, 2004
ISBN: 0787964719Here is a timely book for school administrators, K-12 teachers, and teacher educators who are deeply involved in school change. Ginsberg is an independent researcher and consultant who has a background as a teacher on two Indian reservations, as a university professor, and as Title 1 technical assistance contact for the U.S. Department of Education. Her book is a practical tool for educators at all levels and offers coherent professional development plans that can be adapted for any setting and community.
Primary themes include:
- How to create a shared language for teaching ad learning
- Approaches to strengthen adult collaboration
- How to use data to strengthen motivation and learning
- Ways to strengthen parent and community participation, and
- How to create a school identity that goes beyond conventional vision statements.
Ginsberg notes that "this book provides concrete approaches to facilitate school renewal based on principles of intrinsic motivation--among students and educators. It describes strategies that award-winning high-poverty public schools have used to become not only more inclusive of but more relevant and challenging to students of diverse student groups. In these schools academic achievement has increased; disproportional rates of achievement among diverse student groups is being reduced, and incidents of school violence have sharply declined." This is a wonderful handbook for educational transformation!
This information is provided by:
Office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Special Education
P O Box 47200
Olympia, WA 98504-7200
(360) 725-6088
Fax (360)586-1631
E-mail: dgill@ospi.wednet.edu
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