The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through: Changing School Supervisory Practice One Teacher at a Time » (1st Edition)

Carolyn J. Downey is the creator of the walk-through process. She is currently an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership in the College of Education at San Diego State University. Dr. Downey was formerly the Superintendent of Schools for the Kyrene School District, Phoenix-Tempe, Arizona. She is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer, and has assisted many of the nation's largest school systems in improving student achievement via the walk-through process. One such district is the Houston, Texas, Independent School District which has been recognized by the Council of Great City Schools as one of the nation's four urban school systems closing the achievement gap. Dr. Downey is the originator of the 50 Ways to Close the Achievement Gap training program and publication. She received her M.S. from the University of Southern California and her Ed.D. from Arizona State University.

Fenwick W. English is the R. Wendell Eaves Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. English is the "father" of the curriculum management audit, having directed the first such audit in Columbus, Ohio, in 1979. He also created the curriculum mapping process in the mid-seventies. He is the author or coauthor of over twenty books and one hundred journal articles. He has presented symposium papers at AERA and UCEA. He has held practitioner positions as principal, central office coordinator, assistant superintendent and superintendent of schools. In 1988 Executive Educator magazine named him one of the nation's top six in-service speakers. He earned his B.S. and M.S. at theUniversity of Southern California and his Ph.D. at Arizona State University.

Betty E. Steffy is a Clinical Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was formerly Dean of the School of Education at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. She has been a professor of educational leadership at Iowa State University where she coordinated the doctoral program. She has served as the Superintendent of Schools of Moorestown, New Jersey, and was Deputy Superintendent of Instruction in the Kentucky Department of Education during the first years of the implementation of the Kentucky Education Reform Act. She is the author or coauthor of ten books and has presented symposium papers at AERA and UCEA. She earned her B.A., M.A.T., and Ed.D. at the University of Pittsburgh.

Larry E. Frase is Professor of Organizational Psychology at San Diego State University. He has sixteen years of experience in school administration, including six years as assistant superinten­dent and eight as superintendent. He completed his M.A. and his Ph.D. at Arizona State University. He has published forty articles   About the Authors xix   in state and national journals and is currently working on articles ranging from school board reform to teacher motivation. School Management by Wandering Around (1990) is being used in graduate courses and by prac­ticing school administrators. He is co­author with Streshly of The Top Ten Myths in Education (2000). He has served as a speaker and/or consultant for more than seventy-five state and national conferences, school districts, and universities. He has received nu­merous honors and awards at profes­sional conferences. He was selected as one of the Top One Hundred School Administrators in the United States in 1985 by the National School Board Association and the American Associa­tion of School Administrators.

William K. Poston, Jr. is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership in the College of Education at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, and Executive Director of the Iowa School Business Academy. Dr. Poston has written nine books and over forty journal articles as well as presented symposium papers at UCEA. Dr. Poston is the originator of the curriculum-driven budgeting process. He served as a superintendent of schools for fifteen years in Tucson and Phoenix-Tempe, Arizona, and Billings, Montana. He is past international president of Phi Delta Kappa. He has led over sixty curriculum audits in the United States and in several foreign countries including Montgomery County, Maryland; Boise, Idaho; the State of Georgia for the Georgia State Board of Education; and the Government of Bermuda. He received his B.A. from the University of Northern Iowa and his Ed.D. from Arizona State University.

Downey (educational leadership, San Diego State University) describes an original approach to classroom walk-throughs that focuses on the relationships between teachers and principals and recognizes a different level of content analysis regarding classroom work. She first details the approach, from the development of the information collection process to the use of the information collected to engage in reflective dialogue with teachers, then explores the historical development of supervision, reviews the research base for the model, and shows how the model relates to the typical teacher's career cycle. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR