Stop Doing What Doesn't Work: Creating meaningful partnerships with today's families (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781987698497)

Dr. Lisa Riegel has extensive and varied educational experience. Over the past twenty years, she has taught at the high school, undergraduate and graduate level. She has effectively brokered partnerships at the local and state level between business and education leaders. She has also helped schools improve their student performance by developing parent partnerships, improving internal and external communication, empowering staff, and delivering high quality and sustained professional development. Her strategic counsel on program improvement, communication, and evaluation has been sought internationally. Her customized approach to school improvement includes the identification of key values in the organization, clear expectations for all stakeholders, and an evaluation system to ensure continuous improvement and focus. She is passionate about helping schools understand and develop positive contextual and organizational factors that lead to student achievement, job satisfaction and teacher retention. She especially enjoys helping schools set up policies and systems to develop collaborative leadership and to embed practices that motivate and celebrate all students and their families. Her leadership coaching focuses on the reduction of training, attitude or logistics gaps that prevent positive school reform. In all aspects of her work, she strives to help organizations transition from a compliance mentality to a collaborative commitment to reform. She forms long term relationships with schools and educational organizations, develops and delivers high quality professional development and support on implementing policies, and creates implementation strategy to help leaders navigate change management. Dr. Riegel earned dual bachelor's degrees in English and Secondary Education from Kent State University. She holds a Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Otterbein University and a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from The Ohio State University. Her work on community-school partnerships and value-added data has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and she has authored two other books: No Parent Left Behind and It's Not About the Test, available at Amazon.com.