The Road to Open and Healthy Schools: A Handbook for Change, Elementary and Middle School Edition

by Wayne K. Hoy, C . John Tarter

Overview

This fieldbook provides comprehensive information for principals and teachers in elementary and middle schools to administer, score and interpret climate measures as they engage in organizational and professional development.

The authors present instruments to measure the climate of schools, a brief review of the conceptual underpinnings of each tool, scoring procedures, contemporary norms for climate assessment and strategies for change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803964174
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/12/1996
Series:	Change Strategies Series
Edition description:	Elementary and Middle School Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Wayne K. Hoy received his B. S. from Lock Haven State College in 1959 and then taught mathematics at Cheltenham High School in Pennsylvania. He received his D. Ed. from The Pennsylvania State University in 1965 and began his professorial career at Oklahoma State University. He moved to Rutgers University in 1968, where he was a distinguished professor, department chair, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. In 1994, he joined the faculty at The Ohio State University as an endowed professor, The Novice G. Fawcett Chair in Educational Administration. In January of 2013, he retired and is now a professor emeritus at The Ohio State University. In 1973, he received the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching from Rutgers University; in 1987, he received the Alumni Award for Professional Research from the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education; in 1991, he received the Excellence in Education Award from The Pennsylvania State University; in 1992, he received the Meritorious Research Award from the Eastern Educational Research Association; in 1996, he became an alumni fellow of The Pennsylvania State University; in 2001 he received the Research Award from the Ohio State College of Education. He is past secretary-treasurer of the National Conference of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA) and past president of the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA). In November 2003, he received the Roald Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award in Educational Administration and in 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of 24 books in the fields of research and theory, educational administration, decision making, leadership, and instructional supervision. Three of his recent books are Instructional Leadership: A Research-based Guide to Learning in Schools (2013), with his wife Anita Woolfolk Hoy; Educational Administration: Theory, Research and Practice (2013), with Cecil Miskel; and Improving Instruction Through Supervision, Evaluation, and Professional Development (2014), with Michael Di Paola.

Table of Contents

Culture or Climate
Openness in Elementary Schools
Health in Elementary Schools
Openness in Middle Schools
Health in Middle Schools
Improving School Climate