Designing High Performance Schools

Author : Francis Duffy
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1574440101

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Designing High Performance Schools by Francis Duffy Pdf

When so much is being said about restructuring schools and so little is actually being done successfully, it is a pleasant breath of fresh air to read Designing High Performance Schools. There is outcome-based education, year-round schools, alternative assessment, and site-based management. There are new methods for student evaluation, a return to nongraded schools, a redesigning of grouping, and attempts to connect classroom experiences with community-based activities. Wading through this maze of possibilities and unresolved solutions comes an answer for the critical decade of the 90s. If you are a school practitioner or a consultant working with schools, here is the most practical, step-by-step guidance available on how to plan, conduct, and evaluate a comprehensive and complex restructuring. Using a model derived from the fields of socio-technical systems design, business process reengineering, knowledge work, quality improvement, and organization development, this book lays out every aspect needed for restructuring.

Author : Marc Tucker
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416627029

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Leading High-Performance School Systems by Marc Tucker Pdf

WITH A FOREWORD BY LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND Did you know that close to half of today's jobs in the U.S. could be done by robots and that proportion is rapidly increasing? It is quite possible that about half of today's high school graduates will not have the knowledge or skills needed to get a decent job when they graduate. Tomorrow's high school graduates will be able to thrive in this environment, but only if school superintendents, central office executives, and principals use the strategies employed by the world's top-performing education systems to build the high-performance education systems today's students will need to succeed tomorrow. In Leading High-Performance School Systems: Lessons from the World's Best, Marc Tucker, a leading expert on top-performing school systems with more than 30 years of experience studying the global economy and education systems worldwide, details how top-performing school systems have met head-on the challenges facing school leaders today. You'll learn why our current system is obsolete, explore the knowledge and skills needed to design and build first-rate education systems, and gain a solid understanding of the key elements of high-performance school systems, including the following: A powerful, coherent instructional system with school-leaving certifications that mean much more than today's high school diploma. Partnerships with first-rate universities to ensure a steady supply of highly capable, well-educated, and well-trained teachers. Schools reorganized around highly qualified professional teachers with a career ladder they can climb. High expectations and personalized support to ensure that children arrive at each grade level ready to learn. An equitable system that closes the gaps in student performance. Vocational education for talented youth seeking an applied, academically rigorous education. Leading High-Performance School Systems is an invaluable resource for school leaders preparing today's students for tomorrow's world. This book is a copublication of ASCD and NCEE.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Energy conservation
ISBN : UIUC:30112110792584

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Energy Design Guidelines for High Performance Schools by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Air quality management
ISBN : UCAL:B5139087

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Green Schools by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works Pdf

Author : Deborah Eyre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317379270

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High Performance Learning by Deborah Eyre Pdf

Schools that want to be world class are now paying attention to the findings from neuroscience and psychology that tell us we can build better brains. They are changing their mindset, expecting success for far more students and no longer being constrained by ideas of genetic potential. High Performance Learning provides readers with a ground-breaking and approachable model for achieving high levels of academic performance for all students and schools. It takes what is known about how people reach advanced cognitive performance and translates it into a practical and user-friendly framework, which can be used with all students to systematically build the cognitive thinking skills and learner behaviours that will deliver success in school, in the workplace and in later life. Flexible and adaptable, High Performance Learning can be used in any context, with any curriculum and at any age. It does not require separate lessons but rather becomes the underpinning pedagogy of the school. Drawing on the author’s 40 years of research into how the most able students think and learn, this book provides a framework that has been extensively trialled in schools in eleven countries. . Themes include: Creating world class schools The High Performance Learning environment The High Performance Learning framework Advanced Cognitive Performance characteristics (ACPs) Values, Attitudes and Attributes (VAAs) Creating and leading a High Performance Learning school The role of parents, universities and employers. This invaluable resource will help schools make the move from good to world class and will be essential reading for school leaders, teachers and those with an interest in outstanding academic performance.

Author : Schleicher Andreas
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264300002

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Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education World Class How to Build a 21st-Century School System by Schleicher Andreas Pdf

Andreas Schleicher - initiator of PISA and an international authority on education policy - offers a unique perspective on education reform.

Author : Mardale Dunsworth,Dawn Billings
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781936764945

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The High-Performing School by Mardale Dunsworth,Dawn Billings Pdf

Get three books in one! First, learn what research has identified as the 10 indicators of high-performing schools. Then, use rubrics to track how closely your school reflects those practices and learn what you can do to improve. Finally, use tools and strategies to create buy-in and involve all stakeholders, as well as monitor and report progress along the way.

Author : Alan Ford,The Images Publishing Group
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781864702378

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Designing the Sustainable School by Alan Ford,The Images Publishing Group Pdf

Having designed more than 75 K-12 school projects, and with a long-standing commitment to sustainability and a passion for architecture, Alan Ford is perfectly positioned to present this illuminating collection of sustainable school projects from around the world. Designing the Sustainable School is a compendium of ideas illustrating how some very talented architects and committed facility planners are meeting the challenge of creating better schools for the 21st century. They are creating schools that are eco-friendly, embody high-performance design principles, are rich in architectural character, and enhance the health and well-being of students and teachers. The projects represent a wide range of design solutions, aesthetics, location, and scale, ranging in size from the Aga Khan Award-winning three-room schoolhouse in Burkina Faso by Diebedo Francis Kere, to the 2500-student, 260,000-square-foot high school in Santa Ana, California by LPA Architects. Each of the 45 featured projects is presented with an overview of the components of the high-performance "tool kit" employed by architects to achieve sustainable design goals. Collectively, these demonstrate the breadth of tools that today's architects can employ to build a sustainable future for our children.

Author : Kim Farris-Berg,Edward J. Dirkswager,Amy Junge
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781610485104

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Trusting Teachers with School Success by Kim Farris-Berg,Edward J. Dirkswager,Amy Junge Pdf

Lately, our nation's strategy for improving our schools is mostly limited to "getting tough" with teachers. Blaming teachers for poor outcomes, we spend almost all of our energy trying to control teachers' behavior and school operations. But what if all of this is exactly the opposite of what is needed? What if teachers are the answer and not the problem? What if trusting teachers, and not controlling them, is the key to school success? Examining the experiences of teachers who are already trusted to call the shots, this book answers: What would teachers do if they had the autonomy not just to make classroom decisions, but to collectively--with their colleagues--make the decisions influencing whole school success? Decisions such as school curriculum, how to allocate the school budget, and whom to hire. Teachers with decision-making authority create the schools that many of us profess to want. They individualize learning. Their students are active (not passive) learners who gain academic and life skills. The teachers create school cultures that are the same as those in high-performing organizations. They accept accountability and innovate, and make efficient use of resources. These promising results suggest: it's time to trust teachers.

Author : Howard Frumkin,Robert J. Geller,I. Leslie Rubin,Janice Nodvin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780195179477

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Safe and Healthy School Environments by Howard Frumkin,Robert J. Geller,I. Leslie Rubin,Janice Nodvin Pdf

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Author : Lisa M. Tucker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781609014797

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Designing Sustainable Residential and Commercial Interiors by Lisa M. Tucker Pdf

"Designing Sustainable Commercial Interiors: Applying Concepts and Practices is a core text that teaches students and designers how to apply sustainable principles to all stages of the design process for residential and commercial interiors. An overview of the types of design projects emphasizes a three-pronged approach to sustainability: equity, economy and ecology. Through case studies for a range of project types - including retail, healthcare, hospitality, corporate, adaptive reuse, civic and institutional, and residential - readers will learn how to use a sustainable concept as the foundation for well-designed projects."--

Author : Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416600350

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Understanding by Design by Grant P. Wiggins,Jay McTighe Pdf

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.

Author : Francis M. Duffy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475822731

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Reimagining Instructional Supervision by Francis M. Duffy Pdf

The history of instructional supervision has been relatively constant. From the days when the first colonists arrived and established schools for their children until today instructional supervision has consistently focused on the critical examination of a teacher’s classroom behavior with the assumption that supervising individual teachers could significantly improve teaching and learning throughout a school system. That assumption has proven to be flawed. The author believes that the focus of instructional supervision needs to shift off of individual teachers to focus on transforming the organization design and functioning of entire school systems. Instead of observing teachers working in their classrooms a re-imagined instructional supervision process would focus on transforming three sets of key system variables: Transform the system’s environmental relationships, transform the system’s core and support work processes, and transform the system’s internal social infrastructure. Supervising Knowledge Work describes the salient features of a re-imagined supervision process called Knowledge Work Supervision that is designed to transform entire school systems.

Author : David P. Hanna
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015015290284

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Designing Organizations for High Performance by David P. Hanna Pdf

A practical guide to developing higher levels of performance in large organizations through changes in strategy, organization design, and culture. This guide presents detailed descriptions of ways in which individuals intervened in their organizations, how they arrived at their plans, and how it resulted in improved effectiveness and better business results for the organization.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822037823226

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Green Buildings by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works Pdf