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Recommended Reading
Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents and Everyone Who Cares About Education
by Peter Senge
Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 2000
ISBN 0-385-49323-1Schools that Learn, Peter Senge (et al), is an essential addition to your professional resources collection. This is the fourth book in the Fifth Discipline series, but prior knowledge of the other books is not necessary to benefit from this book. This book focuses on the five disciplines of personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning, and systems thinking Four chapters of this book are dedicated to bridging the gap between schools and the community. Senge breaks down the long-standing industrial model of education and replaces it with a strategic approach to organizational change through use of whole systems design.
Schools that Learn is incredibly user friendly and designed so you can start reading at any section within the book. The user inundated with web links, exercises, and recommended books and articles. Senge incorporates in the viewpoints and research of authors and researchers across the field of education.
This incredible resource really is, as the cover states, for "Educators, parents, and everyone who cares about education." Check out their website for even more ideas http://www.fieldbook.com.
Reviewed by
Lori Armstrong, teacher
phun4me@hotmail.com
College Place Middle School
Edmonds School District
Edmonds, Washington
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