Roland Barth believes that there is a way to create a school which, instead of insisting upon uniformity, builds upon diversity among students, teachers, and teaching styles. Unlike many educational theorists, Barth has had ample opportunity to test his beliefs during his many years as an elementary school principal. Run School Run is the chronicle of his theory in action, a nuts-and-bolts study of one school’s rocky but ultimately quite successful transition toward pluralist education.
For Barth, the case against an elementary education that is uniform in content and method is clear-cut: teacher abilities differ radically, and so do student needs. In the pluralist school, the problem is to find ways to put this variety to good use. Barth shows that the solution is essentially a matter of organization; he sets up a principal’s blueprint that offers teachers more control over curriculum content, teaching materials and methods, and composition of classes, in a way that ensures an educational coherence for each student.
Run School Run is a rich, readable account, a how-to book as well as a personal reminiscence on the initiation and administration of an environment in which teaching and learning are allowed to take on shapes of their own design.

Run School Run

Education & Teaching

Barth, Roland S.

Schools & Teaching

Harvard University Press

Lessons Learned: Shaping Relationships and the Culture of the Workplace

Barth shares his often whimsical, but always thoughtful reflections on relationships at sea and in the workplace.

Business & Money

Business Culture

Corwin

Barth shares his often whimsical, but always thoughtful reflections on relationships at sea and in the workplace.

A decade after publication of his best-selling book, Barth returns to the schoolhouse. Drawing from a career committed to building schools rich in community, learning, and leadership, he shows how to accomplish the most difficult task of school reform-transforming a school's culture so that it will be hospitable to human learning. In an engaging conversational style, he suggests how school people can become the architects, engineers, and designers of their own schools-and of their own destinies.

Learning by Heart

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

Open education and the American school,

The author, an elementary school principal, describes his own experiences in an urban open school program that fell far short of its goals despite ample funding and the enthusiastic participation of a group of young teachers committed to the approach. After reviewing assumptions about learning and knowledge and about the role of the teacher in the open school, he presents a case study based on his own experience. He concludes that the open educators were in large part at fault in the failure of the school because they tried to impose their own ideas about education on a quite different culture; also, they did not give parents enough time to accept the premises of open education. The central message of the case study is that the forms, the intensity, and the extent of resistance to change of public schools in the direction of open education are educational constants. Most parents' concepts of quality education are along the lines of the traditional, rigorous, transmission-of-knowledge model. They want the schools to help their child succeed (get a job, or get into a good college). They prefer not to risk that goal for an experiment in open education. An annotated bibliography is included.

Schocken Books

Open education and the American school, [Jan 01, 1972] Barth, Roland S

Agathon Press; distributed by Schocken Books

"Cruising Rules" is a playful, engaging collection of stories about relationships at sea. These richly illustrated tales come from the author's years of experience sailing along the coast of Maine. The accompanying "rules" highlight the norms of personal behavior necessary for individuals to stay on speaking, even friendly, terms while confined in close quarters for an indefinite period. The perfect companion for anyone on a boat, in a relationship, or both.

Cruising rules: Relationships at sea

Self-Help

Relationships

Head Tide Press

"A humane blueprint for school reform that--instead of starting with a 'deficiency' model of what teachers can't do and giving them 'inservice' workshops ad infinitum--would build on the educational staff's existing strengths." —The New York Times Book Review 
Barth hows how communication, collegiality, and risk-taking among adults can create an atmosphere of learning and leadership for all.

Improving Schools from Within: Teachers, Parents, and Principals Can Make the Difference (Jossey Bass Education Series)

Jossey-Bass

"A humane blueprint for school reform that--instead of startingwith a 'deficiency' model of what teachers can't do and giving them'inservice' workshops ad infinitum--would build on the educationalstaff's existing strengths." --The New York Times BookReview Barth hows how communication, collegiality, and risk-takingamong adults can create an atmosphere of learning and leadershipfor all.

Improving Schools from Within: Teachers, Parents, and Principals Can Make the Difference

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Run School Run

Lessons Learned: Shaping Relationships and the Culture of the Workplace

Lessons Learned: Shaping Relationships and the Culture of the Workplace

Learning by Heart

Learning by Heart

Open education and the American school,

Open education and the American school,

Cruising rules: Relationships at sea

Improving Schools from Within: Teachers, Parents, and Principals Can Make the Difference (Jossey Bass Education Series)

Improving Schools from Within: Teachers, Parents, and Principals Can Make the Difference