The Extreme Principle is to do what matters most and to do what works best. When educational decisions and actions are guided by The Extreme Principle, results improve. The Extreme Principle helps teachers, school administrators, superintendents, school board members, and politicians make decisions and take actions that improve schools because the decisions and actions are based on what matters most and what works best. This book gives the reader a critique of the typical, bureaucratic, mandated education reform efforts which often fail and which often lead to another education reform effort which also is likely to fail. This book shows a better way to improve what is done in classrooms, throughout a school, in an entire school district, and at the state or national levels of education policy development. The better way is guided by application of The Extreme Principle. The reader of this book_teacher, school administrator, political leader, citizen_will find that the common sense ideas and real world examples from this book lead to a very obvious conclusion: that the way to improve education is to do what matters most and to do what works best.
Dr. Keen J. Babbage has 26 years of experience as a middle school and high school teacher and school administrator. He is the author of 12 books about teaching or school administration.
Chapter 1: The Best Answers Are Within, Not WithoutChapter 2: Listen, Listen More, Keep ListeningChapter 3: The Extreme Principal Uses the Extreme PrincipleChapter 4: The Extreme Principle In The ClassroomChapter 5: The Extreme Principle Throughout A School DistrictChapter 6: The Extreme Principle For State And National Education OfficialsChapter 7: A Simple Way To Solve ProblemsChapter 8: The Extreme Principle Beyond Schools
