Dynamic Instructional Leadership to Support Student Learning and Development
The Field Guide to Comer Schools in Action

Edited by:

Edward T. Joyner - Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT
Michael Ben-Avie - Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT
James P. Comer - Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT

Other Titles in:
Curriculum Leadership | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles | Teaching in Inner Cities

June 2004 | 288 pages | Corwin

`Meets "the highest standard of evidence" for comprehensive school reforms that improve student achievement' - View of Educational Research

`This handbook will help enormously to keep alive what James Comer and his colleagues have so carefully crafted over the years' - John I, Goodlad, President, Institute for Educational Inquiry

Schools are the only universally accessible institutions where there are enough adults to provide continuous support for children's growth, development, and success in life. Using the process pioneered by renowned child psychiatrist Dr James P Comer and his colleagues at the Yale School Development Program (SDP), this unique field guide offers school leaders, school staff, and teachers a comprehensive and effective framework for providing curriculum and instruction that help all children grow and develop along the pathways that support success both in school and in life.

Michael Fullan

Foreword

Edward T. Joyner

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Edward T. Joyner

1. The Comer Process: Tried, Tested, and True

Michael Ben-Avie, Edward T. Joyner, and James P. Comer

2. Essential Understandings of the Yale School Development Program: A Reference Guide to the Comer Process

Edward T. Joyner and Christine L. Emmons

3. Systemic Reform: The School Development Program's Answer to Fragmentation

Alice Hart, Miriam McLaughlin, Everol Ennis, and Steve Stone

4. Systemic Reform: We Started with One School

David A. Squires and Camille J. Cooper

5. Curriculum Structure and Teacher Planning: Balancing, Aligning, and Assessing Students in the Standards-Based Curriculum

Fay E. Brown and Valerie Maholmes

6. "Comer-in-the-Classroom": Linking the Essential Elements of the Comer Process to Classroom Practices

Carol Pickett Ray

7. A Demonstration of Comer-in-the-Classroom

Edward T. Joyner

8. Mobilizing Schools for Instructional Excellence: Instructional Leadership Is a System Responsibility

Marie B. Chauvet-Monchik

9. Maintaining Student Momentum Through Instructional Leadership: "And We Will Do It Again"

The Comer Club Ambassadors of P.S. 138, Brooklyn, NY

10. "And This Is How We Will Do It": Comer Youth Voice Their Opinions About the Comer Process

M. Ann Levett-Lowe

11. Performance Management: The Principal's First Priority

J. Patrick Howley and Dawn K. Kelley

12. Teachers Helping Teachers: A Process That Honors and Supports Teacher Development

Fay E. Brown

13. Turning Nonreaders into Readers Through Essentials of Literacy

Michael Ben-Avie

14. Student Learning in Math and Science: Youth Development Matters

Francis Roberts

15. Guidelines for University-School Collaborations: A Report of Experience

Constance Clark

16. Implementation of Systemic Reform: Step by Step From Vision to Reality

Christine L. Emmons

17. Assessing Systemic Reform: How Do You Know That the Comer Process Is Making a Difference in Your School or District?

Edward T. Joyner

18. The Best Education for All Our Children

Index

Meets “the highest standard of evidence” for comprehensive school reforms that improve student achievement.

Review of Educational Research, 2003

"This Field Guide to Comer Schools in Action provides exactly what its title offers: guidelines to curricula, instruction, and educational development necessary to implementing the Comer process. . . . This handbook will help enormously to keep alive what James Comer and his colleagues have so carefully crafted over the years."

John I. Goodlad, President

Institute for Educational Inquiry