Personalized Instruction ─ The Key to Student Achievement

Educational consultants Keefe and Jenkins examine the types of school environments and the organizational, pedagogical, and evaluative strategies that can support the personalization of instruction and learning in schools. Many of the programs they describe have been operating successfully in schools for over 30 years. This second edition includes additional discussion about the nature of personalization, and updated chapters on strategies and tactics, assessment and progress reporting, and personalizing the disciplines. Keefe is former director of research for the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Jenkins is former director of the P. K. Yonge Development Research School at the University of Florida. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

James W. Keefe, former director of research for the National Association of Secondary School Principals, is an educational consultant and writer, and president of the Learning Environments Consortium International (LEC), a non-profit forum of professors and practitioners committed to systemic school design and the personalization of learning and instruction. He was a high school assistant principal and principal in Downey, California and taught at the University of Southern California and Loyola Marymount University, both in Los Angeles. John M. Jenkins is vice president of the Learning Environments Consortium International (LEC). He was a high school principal for more than four decades and served as the director of the P.K. Yonge Development Research School on the campus of the University of Florida where he also taught graduate courses in school leadership.