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1.12 Use of Resources The school is organized to maximize equitable use of all available fiscal resources to support high student and staff performance. 
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Related Resources Tools NEW! Middle Grades Playbook: Leading a Full-Court Press on Student Achievement This hands-on guide highlights specific practices that are intensely implemented in higher-performing middle schools. Author: Susan Frey, Mary Perry, Matthew Rosin and Trish Williams Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: EdSource Articles NEW! A System Approach to Building a World-Class Teaching Profession: The Role of Induction This article discusses how a comprehensive teacher induction system can assist schools and districts in delivering the high-quality content of the Common Core Standards. Author: Mariana Haynes Publication Date: 2011 Publisher: Alliance for Excellent Education 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! 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. Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Education Resource Strategies A Reader’s Guide to Scientifically Based Research Slavin argues why it is importance for educators to look at reforms and educational practices through the lens of a researcher. He introduces readers to concepts that familiarize them with the terminology that researchers use, and cautions against types of research to avoid. Author: Robert E. Slavin Publication Date: 2003, February Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Attributes of Professional Learning Communities An in-depth look at the five characteristics a professional learning community possesses and how they are used to support student achievement. Author: Shirley M. Hord Publication Date: 1997 Publisher: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) Comparing The Research on Best Practices This article compares the research on best practices from leading educators like Robert Marzano, Jay McTighe, Michael Fullan, and Deborah Pickering and looks for common components. Author: Carol Rolheiser, Ph.D. and Michael Fullan, Ph.D. Publication Date: 2002 Publisher: Center for Development and Learning Developing Strategies for Increasing Student Success This site describes two field-based research projects conducted by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory; the first focused on professional learning communities (PLCs), while the second assessed how low-performing schools engage in comprehensive school reform. Publication Date: 2001 Publisher: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, SEDL 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. Author: Richard F. Elmore Publication Date: 2002, May Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Results from the Second Year of a Randomized Controlled Study The report compares outcomes of teachers offered intensive induction activities with full-time mentors to those of teachers with less intensive, less structured induction activities using an experimental study design. Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education Implementing Performance Assessment in the Classroom This article defines the purpose of performance-based assessment, and explains how to choose an activity, define criteria, create rubrics, and assess performance. While intended for classroom teachers, it provides good background information for principals to share with staff. Author: Amy Brualdi Publication Date: 1998 Publisher: Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation Preschool Instruction and Children’s Emergent Literacy Growth This article argues that designing effective preschool language and literacy instruction has the potential to improve short-term and long-term academic achievement for all children. Author: Carol McDonald Connor, Frederick J. Morrison, and Lisa Slominski Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: Journal of Educational Psychology 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 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 Change Leader Fullan is an advocate for leaders to create a fundamental transformation in the learning cultures of schools and of the teaching profession itself. He explores two ideas: the principals who lead cultural change, and leaders and sustainability. Author: Michael Fullan Publisher: Center for Development and Learning The Real Causes of Higher Achievement Author Mike Schmoker discusses the importance of teacher collaboration and curriculum alignment in creating an improved educational institution. Author: Mike Schmoker Publication Date: 2002, May Publisher: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory What Works in the Middle: Results-based Staff Development This book presents an interesting look at longitudinal trends to provide a picture of educational progress. Chapter 5 identifies conclusions drawn from similarities found in the programs selected for inclusion in this guide. These similarities represent the current staff development practices in the content areas. Author: Joellen Killion Publisher: National Staff Development Council (NSDC) Other Resources Connecting Character to Conduct; Helping Students Do the Right Things Developed using insights gained from student responses about the myriad issues about which they are forced to make decisions everyday, this book presents a system using four guiding principles to help all children learn well: respect, impulse control, compassion, and equity. All chapters available individually online. Note: The book is available for purchase from the ASCD Web site. Use the URL above to locate the book. Author: Rita Stein, Roberta Richin, Richard Banyon, Francine Banyon and Marc Stein Publication Date: 2000 Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) ©2005 WestEd. All rights reserved. |
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