Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-1-4758-5756-6 • Hardback • August 2020 • $59.00 • (£45.00)
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Rebecca Shore, Ed.D., is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a former high school principals, and former charter school board member.
Maria Leahy, Ed.D., is an administrator in a Catholic school in Charlotte, North Carolina, adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and former charter school board member.
Joel Medley, Ph.D., serves as the Director of Leadership Development for school and academic leaders at K12, Inc., and former Director of the North Carolina Office of Charter Schools.
PART I
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Charter Schools Defined
Chapter 2 - Why Change to Charter?
PART II
Chapter 3 - New Kids on the Block
Chapter 4 - New Leaders on the Block
Chapter 5 - Clawing Your Way
Chapter 6 - Success is a Journey, not a Destination
Chapter 7- A District School
Chapter 8 - Strengthening Unlikely Partnerships
Chapter 9 - Shared Pain: The Story of Orange Grove Elementary
Chapter 10 - A 100 Year Love Story
Chapter 11 - What If? A History of The Learning Center! Charter School
Chapter 12 - An Island Story
Chapter 13 - Legacy of Leadership: The Key of Conversion
About the Authors
Changing to Charter delivers much more than an examination of the demands, risks, and rewards of converting K-12 schools to charter status. Through the biographies of charter conversion pioneers and their conversion schools, the authors convincingly portray two seemingly contradictory findings: (1) the backgrounds of conversion pioneers are as varied as the circumstances surrounding each conversion; (2) successful school conversions, like the pioneers that led them, share a common core of leadership, indeed human, characteristics critical for successful school conversion and operation.
— Guilbert C. Hentschke, Dean Emeritus, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
Shore, Leahy, and Medley have written the book that every person interested in better schools for our children must read. It is hard to make a school great, but it can be done with excellent leadership and dedication.
— Bill Siart, Founder & Chairman of ExED
For any aspiring group of educational leaders wanting to retain the tangible or intangible values of a district or private school and merge them with the inherent benefits of a charter structure, here is your book.
— Eddie Goodall, North Carolina State Senator; founder and director, NC Association of Public Charter Schools; 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award winner for his extensive work with charter schools