{"product_id":"2940012847904","title":"The Perfect School","description":"Everybody wants a perfect school, but what does that really mean? If you could start over with a clean slate, what could you do to create the perfect school? That is what three experienced educators asked each other, then dug into their respective areas of strength to answer. The result is The Perfect School, a no-nonsense look at perfect teachers, perfect staff, perfect parents, and perfect principals, plus the features and steps required to spread that perfection throughout any school or system. This book is a roadmap for every teacher, principal, superintendent, guidance counselor, school bus driver, school board member, parent, tax payer, or interested citizen who wants the best for children and society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first chapter asks \"A Perfect School?\" and begs the authors to reply. That there are 12 more chapters suggests that their replies are positive!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs there or will there ever be a \"perfect\" school? Probably not, they say, but some are close, we have the tools and knowledge to move in that direction, the quest really is the journey, and a better word is \"excellence,\" which is attainable and lies along that path to perfection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnyway, if perfection were attainable, would it be absolute or malleable, and if the latter, wouldn't we just keep reforming it to be even more perfect?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe chapters that follow are less philosophical or esoteric. They say that if we want to climb that path of excellence toward perfection, here‚s what we might think or do. Practical, tangible things. Whether discussing parents, teachers, staff, principals, service, character, perception, teaching, data, finances, or curriculum, the vision of what a perfect school would look like and what we can do to race or tiptoe up that glorious rise to see and live it are shared, for discussion and action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd who dares even address perfection in education? Jim Rosborg, Max McGee, and Jim Burgett aren't long-bearded gods pronouncing from on high but rather roll-up-your-sleeves mortals with 100+ years of highly successful, much heralded labors in the fields of learning: all were teachers, principals, and superintendents, and much more. Their biographies near the back of the book will fill in the gaps.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Perfect School is a perfect roadmap to success and excellence. A must read.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's contents?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Perfect School?\u003cbr\u003eThe Perfect Teacher and Perfect Staff(McGee)\u003cbr\u003eThe Perfect Parent (McGee)\u003cbr\u003eThe Perfect Principal (McGee)\u003cbr\u003eService Makes or Breaks the Perfect School (Burgett)\u003cbr\u003eInfuse Character, Build Characters (Burgett)\u003cbr\u003ePerception is Reality (Burgett)\u003cbr\u003eEliminate the Weakest Link (Burgett)\u003cbr\u003eThe Devil is in the Details (Rosborg)\u003cbr\u003eGathering Data to Help Improve Student Success (Rosborg)\u003cbr\u003eBridging the Academic Gap (McGee\/Rosborg)\u003cbr\u003eFinancing Education (Rosborg)\u003cbr\u003eTotal Curriculum (Rosborg)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlus, of course, an Introduction, Footnotes, Dedications, Acknowledgements, Author Biographies, and an Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho is interested? Graduate education classes nationwide use this book as a text, and education associations buy it as the core of conferences and workshops.","brand":"Communication Unlimited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069621027056,"sku":"2940012847904","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012847904_p0.jpg?v=1763573133","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012847904","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}