Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education

809 Pages·2012·5.93 MB·English

by  Peter M. Senge

Schools
That Learn
Schools
That Learn
A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook
for Educators, Parents, and
Everyone Who Cares About
Education
PETER SENGE
NELDA CAMBRON-McCABE
TIMOTHY LUCAS
BRYAN SMITH
JANIS DUTTON
ART KLEINER
This revised edition first published in the UK by
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© Peter Senge, Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Timothy Lucas, Bryan Smith, Janis
Dutton, Art Kleiner, 2000, 2012
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1988.
ISBN: 978-1-85788-594-1
eISBN: 978-1-85788-941-3
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Book design by Chris Welsh
Cover design by Jean Traina
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Contents

Getting Started
I Orientation
1 The Remembered Moment
2 The Idea of a School That Learns
3 Core Concepts About Learning in Organizations
4 How to Read This Book
5 What’s New in the New Edition
6 The Industrial Age System of Education
Peter Senge

II A Primer on the Five Disciplines
1 Creating a Context for Organizational Learning
2 Personal Mastery
3 Shared Vision
4 Mental Models
5 Team Learning
6 Systems Thinking
7 Are You Smarter Than a Thermostat?
Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Janis Dutton

Classroom
III Opening the Classroom Door
1 Creating Classrooms That Learn
2 Designing a Learning Classroom
Nelda Cambron-McCabe
3 “Legal, Safe, and Something You Want to Learn”
Carol Ann Kenerson

IV Seeing the Learner
1 The Dignity of the Child
Tim Lucas
2 Revealing the Learner
Tim Lucas
3 Overcoming Absurdity
Terry O’Connor, Deirdre Bangham
4 We Dance Together
Candee Basford
5 What Signals Are You Sending?
Janis Dutton, Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Tim Lucas, Art Kleiner

V Practices
1 Teaching Structural Tension
Robert Fritz
2 A Shared Vision Process for the Classroom
Tim Lucas
3 Homework: The Beast
Betty Quantz
4 Assessment as Learning
Bena Kallick
5 Assessment and Accountability
Steve Price
6 Intelligent Behaviors
Art Costa
7 Knowledge and Power
Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Janis Dutton

VI Productive Conversation
1 Check-In
Carol Kenerson, Micah Fierstein, Janis Dutton
2 Opening Day
Nelda Cambron-McCabe
3 Reframing the Parent-Teacher Conference
Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Janis Dutton, Tim Lucas, Betty Quantz, Art
Kleiner
4 “Don’t eat the pizza…”
Bryan Smith, Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Tim Lucas, Art Kleiner, Janis
Dutton

VII Systems Thinking in the Classroom
1 Systems Study for the Long Term
Jay W. Forrester
2 A Guide to Practice for Systems Thinking in the Classroom
Assembled and edited by Lees Stuntz and Nina Kruschwitz
3 Context and Engagement
Peter Senge
4 Pitfalls and Skills
Michael Goodman
5 Learning to Connect the Dots
Linda Booth Sweeney

School
VIII Entering School
1 Creating Schools That Learn
2 Schooling as an Ethical Endeavor
Nelda Cambron-McCabe

IX School Vision
1 A Shared Vision for Your School
Bryan Smith, Tim Lucas
2 Renewing Educational Leadership
Nelda Cambron-McCabe
X Current Reality
1 Predetermined Uncertainty
Art Kleiner
2 The $19,000 Question
As told to Micah Fierstein
3 Success to the Successful
Michael Goodman, Janis Dutton
4 Shifting the Burden
Michael Goodman, Janis Dutton, Art Kleiner
5 The Great Game of High School
Nathan Dutton, Rick Quantz, Nolan Dutton
6 The Youth Leadership Forum
Joyce Bisso

XI Development
1 No More “Drive-By Staff Development”
Edward T. Joyner
2 The Cognitive Studies Group
Faith Florer
3 Learning to Teach
Nancy Hoffmann

XII Leadership
1 Leading Without Control
Charlotte Roberts
2 Peer Partners
3 “Lone Ranger” to Lead Learner: One Superintendent’s Journey
Peter Negroni
4 No Throw-Away Children
Mary Leiker
5 Creating a Core Learning Group
Les Omotani
6 “You Can’t Do That!”
Ann Marie Gallo

Community
XIII Moving Into Community
1 Fostering Communities That Learn

XIV Identity
1 Taking Stock of Community Connections
Tim Lucas, Janis Dutton, Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Bryan Smith
2 “Expression is the First Step Out of Oppression”
Bonnie Neumeier
3 Reclaiming Citizenship through Conversations
Peter Block
4 Sharing a Vision, Nationwide
Tan Soon Yong

XV Connections
1 Parent to Parent
Roland Chevalier
2 The Over-the-Rhine Residency Program
Thomas A. Dutton
3 The “Systems Basketball Coach”
Nancy W. Lippe
4 Improving Business-Education Partnerships
Andrea Gabor

XVI Sustainability
1 The Rainmakers
Katharine Briar-Lawson
2 Public Engagement