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1.11 Allocating Resources, Monitoring Progress Leadership promotes and sustains continuous school improvement by allocating resources (e.g., fiscal, human, physical, time), monitoring progress and resource use, and providing organizational structure. 
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Related Resources Tools AIMS Website This website provides Arizona teachers, administrators, students, and parents access to the AIMS Hotline phone number for tutoring help, an overview of the AIMS test, sample tests, study guides, and information about tuition waivers. Publisher: Arizona Department of Education Defining Current Reality: Analysis of Resources, Identifying a Starting Point (8th of 9) The Analysis of Resources work pages will help you honestly and precisely define your current reality in terms of time, money, people, capacity of individuals, and capacity of the system. You are invited to interview leaders and colleagues to gain information and insight into the standards-based elements prior to assigning them a performance rating. 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Author: Joellen Killion and Cynthia Harrison Publication Date: 2005 Publisher: National Staff Development Council (NSDC) 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! High Quality Professional Development for All Teachers: Effectively Allocating Resources This article discusses current research and policy related to high-quality professional development, factors that decision makers need to consider when making resource allocation decisions, and a description of evaluation methods for professional learning activities. Author: Sarah Archibald, Jane Coggshall, Andrew Croft, and Laura Goe Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality 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! 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! Job-Embedded Professional Development: What It Is, Who Is Responsible, and How to Get It Done Well This article emphasizes the importance of school-based learning and job-embedded coaching as necessary components of effective professional development. Author: Andrew Croft, Jane G. Coggshall, Megan Dolan, Elizabeth Powers, and Joellen Killion Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality NEW! School Funding Systems: Equity, Transparency, Flexibility This guide helps district leaders use existing resources more effectively through shifting spending, targeting cuts, and laying the groundwork for long-term change. 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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 Hard Questions about Practice The author believes that educators need to look closely at the organizational and instructional practices in schools that affect the learning of students and adults, in order to effectively change practices and improve student learning. Instructional practice and the improvement of instructional practice are complex and require high levels of knowledge and skills across a number of important domains. 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Fuchs, Ph.D. Publication Date: Retrieved November 2008 Publisher: RTI Action Network Principal Leadership in New Teacher Induction: Becoming Agents of Change This article discusses the principal's role in lowering the high attrition rate among beginning teachers. Author: Finney Cherian and Yvette Daniel Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: International Journal of Educational Policy and Leadership 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 School Design: Leveraging Talent, Time, and Money This guide offers research on the effective allocation of talent, time, and money and the causes of misalignment between resource allocation and strategic goals. Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Education Resource Strategies 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 Teacher Recruitment and Retention: A Review of the Recent Empirical Literature This article examines the characteristics of teachers who remain in the profession, the characteristics of schools and districts that successfully recruit and retain teachers, and the types of policies that show success in recruiting and retaining teachers. Author: Glenn A. Daley, Cassandra M. Guarino, and Lucrecia Santibañez Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: Review of Educational Research The Three Stories of Educational Reform: Inside; Inside/Out; Outside/In Fullan seeks to enhance discussion of educational reform by moving beyond the top-down vs. bottom-up debate to an analysis of differing perspectives of change based on internal dynamics (inside), recognition of outside forces (inside-outside), and roles of external agencies (outside-in). Author: Michael Fullan Publisher: Center for Development & Learning Three Simple Secrets of School-Based Coaching The author gives some anecdotal pointers she has learned over her 15 years as a school-based literacy coach. Author: Juli Kendall Publication Date: November 29, 2006 Publisher: Teacher Magazine Time & Attention in Urban High Schools This publication provided ways to improve time and attention practices across whole systems of urban high schools. 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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 AZ Response to Intervention (RTI) The Response to Intervention (RTI) process is a multi-tiered approach to providing services and interventions to all learners at increasing levels of intensity. This page offers resources to Arizona educators regarding the academic and behavioral system of support. 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Publication Date: Retrieved November 2008 Publisher: RTI Action Network Other Resources NEW! Highlights from PISA 2009: Performance of U.S. 15 - Year Old Students in Reading, Math and Science Literacy in an International Context This report provides international comparisons of average performance in reading literacy and three reading literacy subscales and in mathematics literacy and science literacy. It includes the percentages of students reaching PISA proficiency levels, for the United States and the OECD countries on average, and trends in U.S. performance over time. Author: Howard Fleischman, Paul Hopstock, Marisa Pelczar, and Brooke Shelley Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: U.S. Department of Education Dr. Archer Video Series “Dr. Anita Archer is a talented author and beloved teacher of teachers. This video series is one of her many gifts to the educational community. Produced with support from the Sonoma County Office of Education, it is made available at no cost thanks to her generous spirit. The series addresses strategic literacy instruction in grades K-8 using a research to practice approach grounded in pragmatic real-world application. Each video is 4 to 8 minutes long, has a particular strategic focus, and was shot unrehearsed in real time. A short viewing guide is included for each video, providing guidance for viewing and feedback for post-viewing applications.” Sonoma County Office of Education Author: Dr. Anita Archer Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: Sonoma County Office of Education ©2005 WestEd. All rights reserved. |
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