Process-Centered School

Arthur L.  Costa, Ed.D., is an Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University, Sacramento.  He is Co-Founder of the Institute for Habits of Mind and Co-founder of the Center for Cognitive Coaching. He served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, and an assistant superintendent for instruction in the Office of the Sacramento County Superintendent of Schools and as the director of educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He has made presentations and conducted workshops in all 50 states as well as on six of the seven continents             Active in many professional organizations, Art served as president of the California Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and was the National President of Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development,  from 1988 to 1989.  He was the recipient of the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Urban Alliance in 2010.

• Foreword - Peter M SengePreface - Arthur L Costa and Rosemarie M LiebmannConstructing the Metaphors for Process - Diane P ZimmermanSpreading the Good Word - Alison PreeceCommunicating with the School Community to Support ChangeOrganizational Learning - Laura Lipton and Robert MelamedeThe Essential JourneyDesigning Learning for a New Work Environment - Michael PennellaKey Values and SkillsStaff Development - Fred H WoodA Process ApproachPreparing New Teachers - Gloria A SlickA Process ApproachDeveloping Adaptive Schools in a Quantum Universe - Robert J Garmston and Bruce WellmanThe Norms of Collaboration - Arthur L Costa, William Baker, and Stanley ShalitAttaining Communicative CompetenceThe Process of Coaching - Arthur L Costa and Robert J GarmstonMediating Growth toward HolonomyDeveloping a Scoring Rubric for a Process School - Charles LavaroniCapturing the Spirit - Jospeh H SabanProcess Pervades the OrganizationSearching for Evidence - Rosemarie M Liebmann and Arthur L CostaToward a Renaissance CommunityChange - Anthony Colella, Arthur L Costa, and Rosemarie M LiebmannThe Journey BeginsAfterword: The Essence - Lou RubinProcess as Content