The A-Z of School Improvement: Principles and Practice

by David Woods, Tim Brighouse

Overview

School improvement is an increasingly complex field with developments in policy, research, practice and language making it difficult to get a complete picture. Leading authors David Woods and Tim Brighouse pull together the approaches, characteristics and technical terms needed for busy school leaders, teachers, governors and parents to quickly get to grips with current approaches and best practice. Combining their extensive experience of school improvement in action, they provide an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the field and easy access to the wide range of information, ideas and practices on making schools the best they can be. A comprehensive A-Z introduces the characteristics, approaches and language of school improvement ranging from appreciative enquiry to zero tolerance. Quotations, case studies and 'butterflies' (little ideas with big impact) illustrate the entries and bring them to life through the experiences of real schools. They include discussion of key debates and controversies to stimulate discussion and guided reading by topic to help with further research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441151377
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/28/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Tim Brighouse has spent his entire career working in education. He has served as London Schools Commissioner, working to improve education in the city, and has held the positions of Professor of Education at Keele University, as well as Chief Education Officer in both Oxfordshire and Birmingham Local Authorities.
David Woods, CBE, was formerly the Principle National Challenge Adviser for England and Chief Adviser for London Schools. He has written and spoken extensively on school improvement and is Visiting Professor of Education at Warwick and at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction\Appreciative Enquiry\Assessment for Learning\Accelerated Learning\Ambition/aspirations\Attendance\Attainment\Achievement\Advanced Skills Teachers\Action Research\Anticipation\Butterflies\Benchmarking\Behaviour for Learning\Buildings\Challenge\Curriculum\Collective Review\Creativity\Core purpose\Continuous Professional Development\Coaching\Critical Friends\Community\Citizenship\Case Studies\Closing the Gap\Celebration\Communication\Classroom management\Development plans\Data\Display\Discipline\Differentiation\Environment\Evaluation\Excellence\Enterprise\Ethos\Enrichment\Energy\Examinations\Equity\English as an additional language provision\Failure\Future Thinking\Flair, flow and flexibility\Floor Standards\Formative assessment\Federations\Governance\Good to Great Schools\ Growing the top\Gifted&Talented\Grammar of School Improvement\Hope\High order thinking skills\Inspirations\Inquiry\ICT\Inspection\Interventions\Independent Learning\In school variation\Inclusion\Innovation\Interim Executive Boards\Induction (staff and students)\Judgement\Knowledge\Leadership\Learning\Literacy\Local Leaders of Education\Language of school improvement\Moral purpose\Management information systems\Monitoring\Mentoring\Motivation\Mindset\Marking\National Leaders of Education\National Support Schools\Notice to Improve\Opportunity\Outstanding Schools\Optimism\Outcomes\Outreach work\Pedagogy\Pupil Tracking\Progress\Personalised Learning\Partnerships\Performance\Professional Learning Community\Parents\Pastoral systems\Quality Assurance\Questioning\Quotations\Recruitment\Relationships\Reporting\Reading\Raising Attainment Plans\Raising Attainment Group\Re-culturing\Re-focusing\Research engaged\Student Leaders\Student Voice\Student Council\Self evaluation\Specialist Leaders of Education\Special Educational Needs\Standards\Setting\School to School Support\Special Measures\System leadership\Support staff\Teaching\Teaching schools\Tests\Technology\Trust\Transformation\Tutoring\Target setting\Underperformance\Unique contribution\Uniform\Vision\Value Added\Values\Virtual Learning Environment\Venn diagrams\World Class\X Factor\EXtra-Curricular\Young leaders\Year Managers (now teaching)\Zero tolerance\Zero sum game\Conclusion\References