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Overview
In writing The Intelligent School, the authors offer a practical resource to schools to help them maximize their improvement efforts. The aim is to help schools to be intelligent organizations; to be the type of school that can synthesize different kinds of knowledge, experience and ideas in order to be confident about current achievements, and be able to decide what to do next.
Synopsis
MacGilchrist (education, U. of London, UK), Myers (senior associate, The Leadership for Learning Network, U. of Cambridge, UK), and Reed (education, U. of London) define the "intelligent school" as an organization that "can synthesize different kinds of knowledge, experience and ideas" in order to guide improvement efforts. They bring together observations from four interrelated areas of education research—school effectiveness, school improvement, effective learning, and effective teaching—in order to identify and describe nine "intelligences" that, used in combination, they believe will aid school improvement efforts. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR