Handbook On Restructuring And Substantial School Improvement

Author : Herbert J. Walberg
Publisher : IAP
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607526520

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Handbook on Restructuring and Substantial School Improvement by Herbert J. Walberg Pdf

(Published in cooperation with The Center on Innovation & Improvement) As suggested by the title, the purpose of this Handbook on Restructuring and Substantial School Improvement is to provide principles for restructuring and substantially improving schools. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the Center on Innovation & Improvement (CII) engaged leading experts on restructuring and school improvement to prepare modules for this handbook to assist states, districts, and schools in establishing policies, procedures, and support to successfully restructure schools. The Handbook is organized into three sections. The topic of the Handbook’s modules – restructuring with a focus on the district as the impetus for dramatic improvement – is relatively new in the nation’s education history. For this reason, the module authors were selected because they are highly experienced experts in their fields and can be counted on to judiciously weigh the less than definitive evidence and to state useful guiding principles.

Author : Joseph Blase,Dana Yon Phillips
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412979979

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Handbook of School Improvement by Joseph Blase,Dana Yon Phillips Pdf

Capturing insights from 20 successful principals, this illuminating book presents real-world strategies that help school leaders refine their administrative skills and generate dramatic improvements in schoolwide achievement.

Author : Joseph A. Durlak,Celene E. Domitrovich,Roger P. Weissberg,Thomas P. Gullotta
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781462527915

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Handbook of Social and Emotional Learning by Joseph A. Durlak,Celene E. Domitrovich,Roger P. Weissberg,Thomas P. Gullotta Pdf

The burgeoning multidisciplinary field of social and emotional learning (SEL) now has a comprehensive and definitive handbook covering all aspects of research, practice, and policy. The prominent editors and contributors describe state-of-the-art intervention and prevention programs designed to build students' skills for managing emotions, showing concern for others, making responsible decisions, and forming positive relationships. Conceptual and scientific underpinnings of SEL are explored and its relationship to children's and adolescents' academic success and mental health examined. Issues in implementing and assessing SEL programs in diverse educational settings are analyzed in depth, including the roles of school- and district-level leadership, teacher training, and school-family partnerships.

Author : Herbert J. Walberg
Publisher : Information Age Pub Incorporated
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 1617352128

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Improving Student Learning by Herbert J. Walberg Pdf

This book summarizes the major research findings that show how to substantially increase student achievement. This book draws on a number of investigators who have statistically synthesized many studies. A new education method showing superior results in 90% of the studies concerning it has more credibility than a method that shows results in only 60% of the cases. Research synthesis of many studies can also test the possibility that the new method works with a variety of students and circumstances. A robust method shown to work well at many grade levels with boys and girls in cities and suburbs is more desirable than one that only works well in special cases. Subsequent chapters weigh these considerations. Obviously policymakers and educators must also consider the costs and difficulties of implementing new policies and practices. Some innovations, however, are not only more effective but less costly. Teachers well prepared in their subject matter are usually a better investment than small classes, and, despite conventional beliefs, the Internet and other distance instruction delivery can be both more effective and cheaper than traditional classroom teaching. Thus, both old and new methods should be viewed in terms of efficacy, frugality, ethics, and other considerations. The remaining chapters begin with the most fundamental, well-established principles of academic learning within and outside schools. Because children spend approximately 92% of the total hours in the first 18 years of life outside school and under the responsibility of parents, the features of home conditions and parents' behaviors that foster learning before and during the school years are described. In successive chapters, the book describes the most effective classroom practices and school, district, and state policies.

Author : Marilyn Murphy,Sam Redding,Janet Twyman
Publisher : IAP
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623966096

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The Handbook on Innovations in Learning by Marilyn Murphy,Sam Redding,Janet Twyman Pdf

An innovation in learning improves upon the implementation of the standard practice or introduces a new practice, thus achieving greater learning outcomes. The Handbook on Innovations in Learning, developed by the Center on Innovations in Learning, presents commissioned chapters describing current best practices of instruction before embarking on descriptions of selected innovative practices which promise better methods of engaging and teaching students. Written by a diverse and talented field of experts, chapters in the Handbook seek to facilitate the adoption of the innovative practices they describe by suggesting implementation policies and procedures to leaders of state and local education agencies.

Author : Cornelia M. Ashby
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781437903423

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No Child Left Behind Act by Cornelia M. Ashby Pdf

Author : Sam Redding,Herbert J. Walberg
Publisher : IAP
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607526155

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Handbook on Statewide Systems of Support by Sam Redding,Herbert J. Walberg Pdf

(published in co-operation with The Center on Innovation & Improvement) As subsequent chapters point out, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires states to provide assistance to districts in improving the schools within their purview. Of course, the U.S. Constitution and federal laws leave the control of education largely to the states, and states have long provided support to school districts. In return for federal monies, however, NCLB requires states to provide such help under the statewide systems of support (SSOS) provision of the Act. The purposes of this Handbook are to survey the research related to statewide systems of support, to present the experience and insights of educational leaders in how such support can best be conducted, and to derive actionable principles for improving schools. It is intended for use not only by the staff of the U.S. Department of Education-sponsored Regional Centers that serve state department staff but also by the staff of school districts and schools. Also sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the Center on Innovation & Improvement (CII) previously developed the Handbook on Restructuring and Substantial School Improvement (Walberg, 2007) that became the basis of CII’s technical assistance to Regional Centers on this topic. CII made available for downloading Power Point presentations and web-based seminars (“webinars”) based on the previous Handbook. CII’s intended audiences widely employed the previous Handbook on Restructuring and Substantial School Improvement and auxiliary materials and found them useful in their technical assistance efforts to disseminate and encourage evidence-based ideas for restructuring and improving schools. With advice from the U.S. Department of Education, scholarly experts, and experienced educators in the Regional Centers, state departments of education, and school districts, the CII staff concluded that what it envisioned as the present Handbook would be similarly useful.

Author : Herbert J. Walberg
Publisher : IAP
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781617352140

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Improving Student Learning by Herbert J. Walberg Pdf

Improving Schools to Promote Learning is a concise and common-sense examination of all the moving parts that drive student learning. The book ties together the research, policies, and practices relative to the state, district, school, classroom, and family, and explains their effects on student learning. The author covers an array of topics, including technology, charter schools, turnaround initiatives, and instruction in specific subject areas. Herbert J. Walberg’s book continues the work of previous publications from the Center on Innovation & Improvement (Handbook on Restructuring and Substantial School Improvement and Handbook on the Statewide Systems of Support) that connect research to practice at various levels of the education system. The book is accessible to a wide audience, including educators, school board members, parents, and policy makers. Walberg includes action steps in every chapter, providing practical recommendations for improved student achievement. The author also offers select references for additional material on the best research and most effective practices.

Author : Michael Fullan
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992-06-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335231577

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EBOOK: SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT by Michael Fullan Pdf

This book examines the powerful concept of implementation - or what actually happens in practice when innovations or reforms are attempted - by demonstrating its uses in a variety of policy and programme applications.

Author : Nele McElvany,Heinz Günter Holtappels,Fani Lauermann,Aileen Edele,Annika Ohle-Peters
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783830991519

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Against the Odds - (In)Equity in Education and Educational Systems by Nele McElvany,Heinz Günter Holtappels,Fani Lauermann,Aileen Edele,Annika Ohle-Peters Pdf

(In)Equity in education and educational systems is a topic of outstanding relevance. Factors, like, for example, students' socio-economic status or migration background have been found to be strongly related to academic achievement in various studies and this is a constant finding in large-scale assessment studies - especially for Germany. Does educational inequity accumulate over a child's life span or what compensating factors can be identified? Not least because of the topics' timeless meaning the 5th Dortmund Symposium on Empirical Educational Research was focused on questions pertaining to (in)equity. Factors of influence and approaches to overcome (in)equity were discussed by an international and interdisciplinary expert panel, with contributions from Cyprus, Ireland, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Germany.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050583272

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Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2012 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : Coby V. Meyers,Marlene J. Darwin
Publisher : IAP
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781641138758

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School Turnaround in Secondary Schools by Coby V. Meyers,Marlene J. Darwin Pdf

In the continuing quest to turnaround the lowest performing schools, rapid and sustainable reform, or school turnaround, seems most elusive for secondary schools. Secondary schools are rife with challenges due to their wide-ranging mission and organizational complexity. With the continued emphasis on college and career readiness and the vast learning possibilities enhanced by technology, our third book in this series, Contemporary Perspectives on School Turnaround and Reform, focuses on rapid school turnaround and reform in secondary schools. In this edited volume, researchers and scholars consider the doubly perplexing challenge of school turnaround or the rapid improvement of the lowest-performing secondary schools. Although there is some evidence that school turnaround policy can impact student achievement scores, research across international contexts seldom identifies schools that substantially changed student learning trajectories and sustained them. Separately, many societies have found improving secondary schools a relatively intractable problem for multiple reasons, including school size and complexity, the micropolitics of teaching and leading within them, and cumulative widening student achievement gaps. In combination, there are almost no examples of low-performing secondary schools turning around. The chapters in this book begin to offer some hope about how policymakers, practitioners, and researchers might begin to reconceptualize how they engage in and undertake the work of rapidly improving low-performing secondary schools. The authors provide theoretical and conceptual advancements, offer lessons learned from both successful and unsuccessful initiatives, and address practical issues with potentially accessible ways forward.

Author : Wafa Hozien
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475836455

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Improving Instructional Practice by Wafa Hozien Pdf

This book constitutes a collection of case studies that explore issues faced by school principals as is related to instructional leadership. The scenarios presented here allow students to gain a more thorough understanding of the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL, 2015) and their performance competencies. These scenarios are designed to develop new school leaders. These cases provide opportunities to create meaningful learning experiences for courses, professional development programs, and the mentoring of new school principals, giving them exposure to the kinds of dilemmas they will encounter as they take on their leadership roles or start out on supervisory positions. The cases are based on real life dilemmas, reflect contemporary issues in our school buildings, and are designed to be easily used or adapted across all school types. The cases are taken from many years of experience as an educator, administrator consultant and researcher in rural, suburban and urban school districts.

Author : Leonidas Kyriakides,Bert P.M. Creemers,Anastasia Panayiotou,Evi Charalambous
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351401173

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Quality and Equity in Education by Leonidas Kyriakides,Bert P.M. Creemers,Anastasia Panayiotou,Evi Charalambous Pdf

Quality and Equity in Education draws attention to the importance of developing and testing theories of educational effectiveness and using these theories for improvement purposes. It makes a major contribution to knowledge and theory building in research on promoting quality and equity in education. The book presents an improved version of the dynamic model of educational effectiveness based on the empirical data emerged from studies testing its validity, claiming that the proposed theory can be used for establishing links between educational effectiveness research and school improvement. Towards that end, the book presents the Dynamic Approach to teacher and school improvement, demonstrating its impact on quality and equity in education. The book not only proposes an agenda for further research on developing and testing the dynamic theory of educational effectiveness but also refers to research methods that can be used to test the assumptions of this theory and search for relevant cause and effect relations. The agenda also refers to the need of identifying the conditions under which the dynamic approach to teacher and school improvement can have an effect on student learning outcomes. This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and postgraduate students working in education research and the area of quality and equity in education. It will also be of interest to policymakers, school advisors and other stakeholders in education.

Author : D'Ette Cowan,Stacey L. Joyner,Shirley B. Beckwith
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452205113

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Getting Serious About the System by D'Ette Cowan,Stacey L. Joyner,Shirley B. Beckwith Pdf

A focused approach to raising student achievement For many districts, the improvement process can seem like trying to nail Jello to the wall. This fieldbook shows how to avoid a haphazard approach by focusing on all aspects of the system and specific issues that have most impact upon student achievement. This multidimensional process also entails increasing the competencies of everyone involved and implementing solutions districtwide. The authors outline a proven framework and offer step-by-step guidance for addressing the essential components and competencies of the local educational system. Key strategies include: Concentrating on aligning curriculum, instruction, and assessment to state and Common Core State Standards Working on the underlying issues and people that impact the system Garnering support from all staff members to maximize time, resources, and energy Included are vignettes for each phase that illustrate how the work might play out in typical districts and schools. Hands- on tools include an extensive Facilitator Guide with PowerPoint slides, handouts, and a companion website with online resources. A separate volume provides a brief overview of the process for staff and teachers that provides a brief rationale based on research, explains what it means to work systemically, and outlines the phases. There is no "quick fix" for boosting school performance, but Getting Serious About the System will help district and school leaders set priorities, break the gridlock, and reap sustainable results.