The School Improvement Planning Handbook: Getting Focused for Turnaround and Transition
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781610486323 |
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Publisher: | R&L Education |
Publication date: | 12/27/2012 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 296 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d) |
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Table of Contents
IntroductionSection I: Paving the Way to Better School Improvement PlansChapter 1: Seven Steps to Good PlanningChapter 2: Finding Focus For School ImprovementChapter 3: Planning and Implementation ProblemsSection II: School Improvement Scenarios: Challenges, Planning, and ImplementationChapter 4: Reading Improvement: Following an Icon: Raising Reading Achievement at Lincoln ElementaryChapter 5: Math Improvement: Overcoming the Middle School Math DilemmaChapter 6: Improving CultureChapter 7: Improving InstructionChapter 8: Reaching English Language Learners: Ensuring Academic Achievement For AllChapter 9: Addressing the Special Needs of At-Risk StudentsChapter 10: Improving AttendanceSection III: The Importance of Differentiated PlanningChapter 11: Planning School TurnaroundsChapter 12: Planning to Sustain SuccessChapter 13: Planning for Educational ExcellenceWhat People are Saying About This
The School Improvement Planning Handbook provides great access to proven strategies that have transformed schools by strengthening leadership teams, empowering instructional leaders, and inspiring students to soar to new levels of learning. Learn how to promote meaningful conversations, target specific areas of need, and examine excellence within your faculty. Discover the secrets of the nation's best schools!
School turnaround is the most difficult and complex task for school leaders. Having a guide like The School Improvement Planning Handbook to provide concrete solutions for implementing change has already benefited my practice as a school leader. The tactics in this book create artifacts that truly measure improvements to student achievement and school climate.
Attaining genuine and meaningful school improvement is an exceedingly difficult process, and not for the faint of heart. Dan Duke, Marsha Carr, and Bill Sterrett have provided an instrument that all school leaders can relate to and appreciate. The thought provoking case-studies are immensely valuable and 'spot on' in terms of applying multiple data sources and a process orientation, to the heavy work associated with school improvement. School Improvement Planning Handbook is a breath of fresh air within a misguided environment that seeks quick fixes and easy solutions to very difficult problems.
This step-by-step guide for principals and their school leaderships teams is chocked full of specific strategies for developing a meaningful school improvement plan that can truly be a guiding document for the school. A distinguishing feature of this book is the acknowledgement of the importance of differentiated school improvement planning aligned to the need for school turnaround, school transformation or continuous improvement. Specific and authentic examples of real school scenarios and strategies are shared to address reading, math, English language learned, students with special needs and student indicators of success such as student attendance and school culture.
With authentic scenarios, intentional step-by-step guides, and high-quality planning tools, this handbook serves as a powerful reference for change-agents looking to root their school improvement plan in a balanced system of instruction, assessment and accountability.
The school improvement process is an annual necessity for schools, yet it often remains a difficult process for school leaders and staff. This book will help you get beyond the lengthy discussions about school problems, and enable teams to focus on actions that will lead to tangible improvements for students. This is a book that will help plans become meaningful actions.
From start to finish this book offers tangible ways for today’s leaders to improve their schools. This handbook is bound to be a must have in any leader’s toolbox for school improvement.
Education, like anything else, requires effective leadership to be successful. Schools need the high performance only planning can provide. This book uses effective leadership to guide schools in planning for success.
If developing a plan to school improvement has distressed your organization in the past, this book has The Roadmap to Success guiding the pathway to raising student achievement. I am recommending this book to every colleague who genuinely is in search of the cause of low performing schools in their communities.
In the age of many ideas on thoughts on educational reform this book could not have come at a more opportune time. This book provides invaluable information to school leaders by providing proven strategies and case studies from the practitioners in the field who are improving their schools and increasing achievement. These authors clearly articulate how school leaders can initiate and sustain meaningful change that will have a profound impact on school culture.
Despite calls for school improvement coming from nearly all directions, school leaders often struggle to find practical guidance for facilitating the process. Duke ,Carr and Sterrett have helped fill that important gap with this important, hands-on approach. Leaders truly committed to authentic, meaningful and sustainable school improvement will benefit from this practical and accessible book.