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1.7 "Reculturing" Around Accountability Systems Leadership works to build coherency and alignment by "reculturing" around state and federal accountability systems. 
Level of Performance: Exceeds Standards
Related Resources Tools NEW! Common Core Implementation Workbook This tool provides information, case stories of good practice, key questions and hands-on exercises to assist in the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: Achieve Alignment Analysis This site describes how alignment analysis helps educational leaders make informed decisions about how to measure alignment of assessments with their respective content standards or curriculum. Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: Council of Chief State School Officers Building an Interim Assessment System: A Workbook for School Districts This workbook contains the vision, infrastructure, and resource questions critical to a thorough, district-level self-examination of readiness for an interim assessment system. Author: Eric Crane Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Council of Chief State School Officers Early Warning Systems Software The National High School Center's Early Warning System (EWS) Tool v2.0, a free Microsoft Excel-based program, identifies students who show early warning signs that they are at risk for dropping out of high school and relies on readily available student-level data. Publisher: National High School Center No Child Left Behind Overview This overiew of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) provides select Department of Education guidance, regulations, legislation, and announcements. For easy reference, resources are organized by key NCLB topics. Publisher: Southwest Comprehensive Center Articles NEW! Eight Elements of High School Improvement: A Mapping Framework This framework provides a lens for mapping school, district, and state high school improvement efforts. This framework, updated from the original July 2008 version, incorporates new language and ideas from the U.S. Department of Education’s current education reform priorities. Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: National High School Center NEW! Learning from Leadership Project “Learning from Leadership” was a 5-year, $3.5 million research project funded by the Wallace Foundation that examined the effect of educational leadership on student achievement. The results of this study describe the nature of successful leadership practices at the state, district and school levels. The study also identifies how those practices shape instructional behaviors of teachers which ultimately lead to improved student learning. Author: Kyla Wahlstrom, Karen Seashore Louis, Kenneth Leithwood and Stephen Anderson Publication Date: July 2010 Publisher: Wallace Foundation NEW! The Teaching Job: Restructuring for Effectiveness This publication states that districts need to fundamentally restructure the job of teachers –changes the working conditions, requirements, expectations, and rewards- for a school transformation to take place. Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Education Resource Strategies NEW! Turnaround Schools: District Strategies for Success and Sustainability This guide offers tools to help a district make the best short-term budget decisions, leverage the opportunity of federal funding, and lay the foundation for long-term success. Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Education Resource Strategies NEW! Seven Strategies for District Transformation This guide outlines seven key strategies for districts to improve student performance. Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Education Resource Strategies A Framework for Operational Quality: A Report from the National Consensus Panel on Charter School Operational Quality This report is designed as a guide for charter school leaders and support organizations as they establish schools that are prepared to achieve and sustain success. Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: National Alliance for Public Charter Schools Achieving Dramatic Improvement: An Exploratory Study This sub-study report, by researchers from WestEd and its CSR evaluation partner, American Institutes for Research, includes in-depth, retrospective case studies of 11 schools. Drawing from those case studies, it identifies reform-related approaches and themes that were common across both types of school. But it also describes how these schools, both as types and as individual organizations, differed in the specifics of their improvement efforts. Author: Daniel K. Aladjem, Beatrice F. Birman, Martin Orland, Jenifer J. Harr-Robins, Alberto Heredia, Thoma Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: U.S. Department of Education Adolescent Literacy Walk-throughs for Principals: A Guide for Instructional Leaders This guide is designed to help principals monitor and support adolescent literacy instruction in their schools more effectively. It provides a scaffold to build principals' understanding of scientifically based reading instruction, as a means for a principal to gather information about the quality of literacy and reading intervention instruction in a school, and as a data collection guide for planning targeted professional development and resource allocation. Author: Debra Miller, Lila Rissman, and Joseph Torgesen Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: Center on Instruction Benchmark Assessments for Improved Learning This article discusses the role of benchmark assessment in a balanced assessment system. Author: Joan L. 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Author: Rebecca Crawford Burns Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Education Leadership: A Bridge to School Reform Education leadership has been called the “critical bridge” that can unite the many different school reform approaches in ways that practically nothing else can. This was the central theme of The Wallace Foundation’s national education conference held in October of 2007. This report shares lessons and experiences about how states, districts and universities are going about ensuring that all schools have well-trained, well-supported leadership. Author: M. Christine DeVita, Richard L. Colvin, Linda Darling-Hammond, Kati Haycock Publication Date: 2007, December Publisher: Wallace Foundation Foundations for Success: Case Studies of How Urban School Systems Improve Student Achievement This report examines the experiences of three large urban school districts that have raised academic performance for their district as a whole while also reducing racial differences in achievement. Author: Jason Snipes, Fred Doolittle, and Corinne Herlihy Publication Date: 2002 Publisher: MDRC Foundations for Success: Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel On March 13, 2008, the National Mathematics Advisory Panel presented its Final Report to the President of the United States and the Secretary of Education. This report contains information for parents, teachers, policy makers, the research community. Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: U.S. Department of Education Gaining Traction, Gaining Ground: How Some High Schools Accelerate Learning for Struggling Students This report investigates four high-impact high schools where previously underperforming students made unusually large achievement gains, and notes 21 differences between the orientation and practices of high impact schools compared to average schools. Publication Date: 2005 Publisher: Ed Trust Improving Teaching and Learning with Data-Based Decisions: Asking the Right Questions and Acting on the Answers This article discusses the importance of developing questions, collecting and analyzing data, and providing staff support to make effective use of the data when using a data-based assessment. Author: Nancy Protheroe Publication Date: 2001 Publisher: Educational Research Service Leading in Tough Times: New Lessons for Districtwide Reform This article discusses 10 components the authors feel are crucial components in the success of large-scale systemic improvement. Author: Michael Fullan, Al Bertani, and Joanne Quinn Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: Center for Development and Learning New and Experienced Teachers in a School Reform Initiative: The Example of Reading First This study compares the experiences and perceptions of new and experienced teachers in 235 schools in six western states (Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Washington, and Wyoming) that have adopted the Reading First school reform initiative. 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Morrison, and Lisa Slominski Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: Journal of Educational Psychology Reducing Behavior Problems in the Elementary School Classroom This guide offers strategies to reduce problematic behavior in elementary schools. Author: Michael Epstein, Marc Atkins, Douglas Cullinan, Krista Kutash, and Robin Weaver Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education Rethinking Issues of Alignment under No Child Left Behind This knowledge brief, intended for designers and users of alignment studies, describes different ways of thinking about alignment, particularly in relation to the requirements of No Child Left Behind. Alignment is defined and compared to related concepts. Key issues that states and districts must now address are discussed and examples of different ways to achieve alignment are provided. Author: Sri Ananda Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: WestEd RTI in a Middle School Culture: Fitting and Tailoring the Approach Through Leadership This article shows how leadership is needed to successfully implement an RTI model. Author: Michelina Manzi, Elizabeth Alderton, and Jean Erdmann Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Academic Leadership Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small High Schools Based on a three-year effort aimed at building understanding and tools that would support districts in creating cost-effective systems of high-performing urban high schools, Education Resource Strategies (ERS) created the following report and tools to support district leaders. Author: Karen Hawley Miles and Regis Anne Shields Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: Education Resource Strategies The Instructional Demands of Standards-Based Reforms This article addresses how the goals in standards-based reforms of what students should know and be able to do influences changes in practice at the school and classroom level,and discusses issues including planning backwards from demonstrations of achievement, judging performance, and giving feedback in a standards-based system. Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Time & Attention in Urban High Schools This publication provided ways to improve time and attention practices across whole systems of urban high schools. Author: Stephen Frank Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Education Resource Strategies Useful Links NEW! The Common Core State Standards Initiative The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a state-led effort coordinated by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). Governors and state commissioners of education from 48 states, 2 territories and the District of Columbia committed to developing a common core of state standards in English-language arts and mathematics for grades K-12. NEW! Arizona Department of Education's A-F Accountability Page This webpage provides information that explains the new A-F Accountability System, the implementation process, and the criteria upon which each grade designation has been based. Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: Arizona Department of Education NEW! Arizona Teacher/Principal Evaluation Information On April 25, 2011, the State Board of Education (SBE) unanimously passed the proposed Arizona Framework for Measuring Educator Effectiveness. This action resulted from the passage of SB 1040 that directed the SBE to adopt and maintain a model framework for teacher and principal evaluation that includes quantitative data on student academic progress. ADE will continue to update this page in order to provide the most current information and resources to assist all Local Education Agencies (LEA) with the successful implementation of the framework in the 2012-2013 school year. Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: Arizona Department of Education AIMS Support Materials AIMS Support Materials are provided to support students in the understanding of the Arizona Academic Standards and to improve student performance on AIMS. Publisher: Arizona Department of Education The Benefits of Curriculum Alignment A brief discussion of the benefits of curriculum alignment and the roles that various stakeholders can play to achieve this. The Turnaround Challenge This report identifies factors that help schools succeed against the odds. Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Mass Insight Education & Research Institute Thomas Guskey's 5 Levels of Professional Development Evaluation This webpage provides a brief description of Guskey's 5 levels of professional development evaluation. Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: Education Minnesota Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success This report focuses on standards and assessments, data systems, great teachers and leaders, and re-engineering struggling schools. Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: Carnegie Council for Advancing Adolescent Literacy Other Resources Accountability Dialogues: School Communities Creating Demand from Within Jamentz discusses how public engagement in what a school should be accountable for and what instruments are trusted for assessment can help build capacity by strengthening relationships among teachers, parents, and the community at large. Book available for purchase at WestEd site. Author: Kate Jamentz Publisher: Western Assessment Collaborative, WestEd ©2005 WestEd. All rights reserved. |
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