Cleveland Schools that are Making a Difference
Author: Institute for Student Achievement and the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and T
Publisher: George Gund Foundation
Full text available online at: http://www.gundfdn.org/NEWS_AND_PUBLICATIONS/NEWS/cleveland_schools_making_diiference.asp
Description (written by WestEd)
Several key elements recur in the profiles:
- The schools are mission-driven.
- The principal provides effective leadership.
- Principals model and reinforce a strong, positive school culture.
- Principals provide strong support for teaching staff.
- Relationships among the staff, students, and parents are proactively built and maintained.
- Principals interacted with students.
- Curriculum and instruction is innovative.
- There is an emphasis on teachers’ professional development.
- Students report that the curriculum is challenging and that they are interested in the course work.
- Students report that they feel safe and secure at school.
- Parents are involved in the school.
The curriculum and instruction section of each profile names and identifies specific materials and strategies, including reading curricula and writing methods; instructional strategies, including learning teams and looping; specific grading programs; and supportive activities, including after-school programs, parent-initiated clubs, and work-study programs.
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Isolation Is the Enemy of Improvement: Instructional Leadership to Support Standards-Based Practice
This book is intended to help instructional leaders replace old norms of isolationism that have kept instructional decision-making the private domain of individual teachers. It will help instructional leaders to recognize the characteristics of effective standards-based instruction and to help their colleagues incorporate these characteristics into their own practice and the collective practice of their schools.
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