Leadership for Educational Renewal

WILMA F. SMITH is an educational consultant, a senior associate of the Institute for Educational Inquiry, and former superintAndent of schools for the Mercer Island School District in Washington. GARY D FENSTERMACHER is professor of education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a senior fellow of the Institute for Educational Inquiry.[NOTE: There should be NO period after his middle initial.]

• Introduction (J. Goodlad). BACKGROUND AND MISSION. Agenda for Education in a Democracy (G. Fenstermacher). Developing Leadership for Educational Renewal (W. Smith). ADVANCING THE AGENDA: THE CORE CURRICULUM. "To Ourselves and Our Posterity": Enculturating the Young into aDemocracy (R. Soder). On Knowledge and Its Place in the Human Conversation (G.Fenstermacher). Access to Knowledge (M. Bailey). Voicing Democracy in an Imperfect World: Toward a Public Pedagogyof Nurture (D. Kerr). Serving as Moral Stewards of the Schools (W. Smith). DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP: CASE STUDIES. The Hawaii School University Partnership (A. Port). The Metropolitan St. Louis Consortium for Educational Renewal (K.Rasch). The Nebraska Network for Educational Renewal (M. Hadley & J.Surface). Montclair University and the New Jersey Network for EducationalRenewal (T. Jacobowitz & N. Michelli). The South Carolina Summer Institute of Leaders (B.Gottesman). The Utah Associates Program for Leaders (R. Patterson & K.Hughes). LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT. What Changed over Time and Why (W. Smith). The Impact of the Leadership Program (W. Smith).

"This collection of engaging essays on developing leadership forrenewal reveals that compelling ideas, self-reflection, moralcommitment, and democratic ideals are keys to success. This bookprovides the foundation for developing this leadership and showshow to get there. A must read for anyone interested in leadershipdevelopment." (Thomas J. Sergiovanni, Lillian Radford Professor ofEducation and Administration and senior fellow, Center forEducational Leadership, Trinity University) "This book is a bulletin from the frontiers of educational renewal.The authors not only report their thoughts and efforts, but showhow to sustain moral and compassionate education for democracy atall levels. Leadership for Educational Renewal makes a forcefulcase for rebuilding democracy from the schools up." (Stanley N.Katz, professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and InternationalAffairs, Princeton University) "Without the strength of public schools, this experiment ofdemocracy would not have Andured as long as it has. It is thisnotion--the democratic purposes of public education--that has beencaptured and explained in Leadership for Educational Renewal.Educators and politicians should read this book. It is a thoughtfuland clear blueprint for the educational renewal necessary tostrengthen our public schools." (Julie Underwood, general counsel,National School Boards Association) "This book makes a compelling case for the increasingly criticalneed to prepare students for democracy and includes powerfulexamples of how to meet this challenge in our public schools."(Janice M. Reeder, codirector, Northwest Center, Coalition ofEssential Schools)