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The Pyramid Approach

A Framework for Raising Student Academic Achievement

George Woodrow Jr.

This book explains why virtually all children can achieve proficiency or higher. And it gives educators the tools to help them achieve those levels of learning.

The notion that schools are “waiting for Superman” or Wonder Woman to rescue them is at best a fantasy and at worst, damaging to schools and school systems that advance this type of flawed thinking. This is why in this book the reader will be encouraged to embrace the concept that only through building effective teams (collective instructional leadership) will schools begin to realize their stated goal—educate “all” students. It may take a village to raise children but it takes collective instructional leadership to educate them.

This book takes great care to ask the questions that policymakers, educators, parents, students and the larger community want answered:

Can you handle the truth?
Why is team leadership needed?
How do campuses improve their team dynamics?
What methods do high performing nations use to excel?
What strategies really work in high poverty schools?
Where do American schools rank on the rigor scale?
What is trust and how is it developed?
What are campus learning disabilities?
How do beliefs about human capacity affect student achievement levels?
What methods motivate students to work hard?
What do we really mean when we say, “All children can learn”?

The Pyramid Approach was designed by Dr. George Woodrow, Jr. for use by educators. The Pyramid is research-based; it aligns theory with professional practice. In addition, it strives to take what we know and provide a practical framework to effectively apply that same knowledge in ways that promotes student achievement. The Pyramid Approach calls attention to the need for a systematic framework that recognizes the interconnectedness among research methods.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 228 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4758-1350-0 • Hardback • October 2014 • $81.00 • (£62.00)

978-1-4758-1351-7 • Paperback • October 2014 • $40.00 • (£31.00)

978-1-4758-1352-4 • eBook • October 2014 • $38.00 • (£29.00)

Subjects: Education / Administration / School Superintendents & Principals, Education / Aims & Objectives, Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Education / Student Life & Student Affairs

The Pyramid Approach

A Framework for Raising Student Academic Achievement

Hardback

Paperback

eBook

Summary

This book explains why virtually all children can achieve proficiency or higher. And it gives educators the tools to help them achieve those levels of learning.

The notion that schools are “waiting for Superman” or Wonder Woman to rescue them is at best a fantasy and at worst, damaging to schools and school systems that advance this type of flawed thinking. This is why in this book the reader will be encouraged to embrace the concept that only through building effective teams (collective instructional leadership) will schools begin to realize their stated goal—educate “all” students. It may take a village to raise children but it takes collective instructional leadership to educate them.

This book takes great care to ask the questions that policymakers, educators, parents, students and the larger community want answered:
- Can you handle the truth?
- Why is team leadership needed?
- How do campuses improve their team dynamics?
- What methods do high performing nations use to excel?
- What strategies really work in high poverty schools?
- Where do American schools rank on the rigor scale?
- What is trust and how is it developed?
- What are campus learning disabilities?
- How do beliefs about human capacity affect student achievement levels?
- What methods motivate students to work hard?
- What do we really mean when we say, “All children can learn”?
The Pyramid Approach was designed by Dr. George Woodrow, Jr. for use by educators. The Pyramid is research-based; it aligns theory with professional practice. In addition, it strives to take what we know and provide a practical framework to effectively apply that same knowledge in ways that promotes student achievement. The Pyramid Approach calls attention to the need for a systematic framework that recognizes the interconnectedness among research methods.

Details

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 228 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4758-1350-0 • Hardback • October 2014 • $81.00 • (£62.00)

978-1-4758-1351-7 • Paperback • October 2014 • $40.00 • (£31.00)

978-1-4758-1352-4 • eBook • October 2014 • $38.00 • (£29.00)

Subjects: Education / Administration / School Superintendents & Principals, Education / Aims & Objectives, Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Education / Student Life & Student Affairs

Author

Dr. George Woodrow is an adjunct professor and national educational consultant with particular expertise in improving schools by promoting a professional belief system that is strategically aligned with professional practice and campus achievement goals.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Instructional Leadership Pyramid
Transformational Experience
Systematic Framework and Instructional Leader
The Bare Facts
The Five Levels of The Instructional Leadership Pyramid
Can You Handle the Truth
Chapter 1 Culture of the Organization
Safe and Caring Culture
Safe and Orderly Organizational Environment
Significance and Elements of a Caring Culture
Trusting Team Culture
Culture Is the Organization’s Personality
Chapter 2 School-Wide Instructional Strategies
Developing School-Wide Instructional Strategies
Essential Components of School-Wide Instructional Strategies
Implementing and Monitoring
School-Wide Instructional Strategies
What Works Best
Chapter 3 Select Believers and Develop a Research-Based Belief System
Beliefs Matter! Rhetoric Doesn’t!
How to Transform One’s Belief System
Selecting and Hiring the Best
Develop Believing Teachers
We Have Had Our Fifty Years
Chapter 4 Increase All Students’
Efforts with E=mc2
Try Harder
Biography of E=mc2
Using E=mc2 as an Analogy in Education
Effectively Teaching Effort
Chapter 5 The Apex: Where All Students
Achieve at High Levels
Getting to the Fifth Level
A Theory of Action
How to Apply the Instructional Leadership Pyramid
You Are in Control of Your Destiny
Index
About the Author

The Pyramid Approach

A Framework for Raising Student Academic Achievement

George Woodrow Jr.

The Pyramid Approach

A Framework for Raising Student Academic Achievement

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