HOLDING SACRED GROUND：ESSAYS ON LEADERSHIP, COURAGE, AND ENDURANCE IN OUR SCHOOLS

Carl Glickman draws from his more than fifteen years of experience as director of a nationally validated school improvement program with more than one hundred diverse K-12 schools, and more recently, his two years spent examining some of the most successful progressive schools in the United States. He offers proven advice on leadership formats, approaches, and strategies for enhancing teacher thinking and collective action-- and provides specific examples of curriculum, methods and strategies for improving student achievement while building citizen capabilities. He explains the types of standards and policies that can protect unique schools and document success for students. And he shows how sustaining progressive schools over the long haul offers the greatest hope for reinvigorating an informed and caring citizenry.

Carl D. Glickman holds the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Endowed Chair in School Improvement in the College of Education at Southwest Texas State University. He is also president of the Institute for Schools, Education, and Democracy, and university professor emeritus of education at the University of Georgia. Glickman is the author of many books on school leadership, educational renewal, and the moral imperative of education, including Revolutionizing America's Schools (1998) and Renewing America's Schools (1993), both from Jossey-Bass.