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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. Publication Date: June 2002 Publisher: California School Leadership Academy Defining Current Reality: Analysis of Resources, Identifying the Important Elements (7th of 9) This tool will help you use data to describe your current reality and inform your action planning. Publication Date: June 2002 Publisher: California School Leadership Academy Examining Resources: Capacity of Individuals (5th of 9) This section of CSLA's Time, Money, People, and Capacity: Allocating and Aligning Resources in a Standards-Based System helps you analyze the following topics: Publication Date: June 2002 Publisher: California School Leadership Academy Examining Resources: Capacity of the System (4th of 9) This section of CSLA's Time, Money, People, and Capacity: Allocating and Aligning Resources in a Standards-Based System helps you analyze the following topics: Publication Date: June 2002 Publisher: California School Leadership Academy Examining Resources: Money (3rd of 9) This section of CSLA's Time, Money, People, and Capacity: Allocating and Aligning Resources in a Standards-Based System helps you analyze the following topics: Publication Date: June 2002 Publisher: California School Leadership Academy Examining Resources: People (2nd of 9) This section of CSLA's Time, Money, People, and Capacity: Allocating and Aligning Resources in a Standards-Based System helps you analyze the following topics: Publication Date: June 2002 Publisher: California School Leadership Academy Examining Resources: Time (1st of 9) This section of CSLA's Time, Money, People, and Capacity: Allocating and Aligning Resources in a Standards-Based System helps you analyze the following topics: Publication Date: June 2002 Publisher: California School Leadership Academy Articles NEW! 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 NEW! 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 NEW! What Keeps Good Teachers in the Classroom? Understanding and Reducing Teacher Turnover This article discusses the costs associated with teachers leaving, the characteristics of those most likely to leave, and what can be done to prevent turnover. Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: Alliance for Excellent Education NEW! Classroom Walkthroughs: Learning to see the trees and the forest Pilter and Goodwin discuss how to effectively use walkthroughs to collect data and provide useful feedback to educators to improve instruction. Author: Howard Pitler with Bryan Goodwin Publication Date: Summer 2008 Publisher: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) NEW! 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 NEW! Mathematics Intervention at the Secondary Prevention Level of a Multi-Tier Prevention System: Six Key Principles The author lists and describes six principles necessary for RtI in mathematics at a secondary level. Author: Lynn S. Fuchs, Ph.D. Publication Date: Retrieved November 2008 Publisher: RTI Action Network NEW! 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 Affiliate Community This article describes how using a professional learning community at his school allowed a principal in a few years to transform his school from one that no one wanted to attend to one of the most successful and publicized schools in the country. Author: John Franklin Publication Date: 2002, June Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Bullying Among Young Adolescents: The Strong, the Weak, and the Troubled This article presents findings of a study using peer, teacher, and self-reports to better understand the social and psychological problems exhibited by bullies and victims. Author: Jaana Juvonen, Sandra Graham, and Mark A. Schuster Publication Date: 2003, December Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics Developing Leadership Through the School Improvement Process The authors discuss the idea that school improvement is no longer an option- schools are either improving or declining. The article focuses on various factors that should be taken into consideration when discussing school improvement. Author: Larry K. Kelly and Lawrence W. Lezotte Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: NCA Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement Eight Questions about Implementing Standards-Based Education This article, written by Robert Marzano, presents eight questions that are relevant to how standards-based education affects classroom instruction and assessment at the local level. Author: Robert Marzano Publication Date: 1996 Publisher: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) 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. Success requires that schools have structures that develop the knowledge and skills of administrators and teachers. Note: The full-text article may be read for free on the ASCD Web site. Use the URL above to locate the article by date in the Archived Issues section of the Educational Leadership area. Author: Richard F. Elmore Publication Date: 2002, May Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Instructional Coaching This article provides eight factors for realizing better classroom teaching through support, feedback and intensive, individualized professional learning. Author: Jim Knight Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: American Association of School Administrators Interview with Michael Fullan: Change Agent In this interview, Fullan discusses the need for professional learning communities and stresses the importance of a school culture to shape professional learning and student achievement. Author: Dennis Sparks Publication Date: Winter 2003 Publisher: National Staff Development Council (NSDC) Is This School A Learning Organization? 10 Ways to Tell Brandt argues that schools must function as flexible and responsive learning organizations. He presents 10 characteristics which educators can use to assess whether their school is in fact functioning as a learning organization. Author: Ron Brandt Publication Date: Winter 2003 Publisher: California Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development 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 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 Useful Links NEW! 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 NEW! Tiered Instruction/Intervention The site offers details and information on the RtI process and articles as well as descriptions of the three tiers. Publication Date: Retrieved November 2008 Publisher: RTI Action Network Meeting the Challenge: All Students Achieving Proficiency by 2014 The Southwest Comprehensive Center held a regional conference for SEA leadership teams on April 4-5, 2006. As the centerpiece of the conference, CC staff worked with Content Centers to identify research studies. This page contains the summaries of the findings. Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: Southwest Comprehensive Center Other Resources The School-Level Factors (Chapter 2) This chapter introduces five school-level factors (curriculum, feedback, parent/community involvement, environment, and professionalism) and how they impact student achievement. Marzano also provides a rationale for his rank ordering of the factors and their impact on student achievement. Note: The book is available for purchase from the ASCD Web site. Use the URL above to locate the book. The full-text of Chapter 2 may be read for free on the ASCD Web site. Use the URL above to locate the chapter. Author: Robert J. Marzano Publication Date: 2003, January Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) ©2005 WestEd. All rights reserved.  |
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