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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480228003321

Autore

Odden Allan

Titolo

Improving student learning when budgets are tight [[electronic resource] /] / Allan R. Odden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Corwin, c2012

ISBN

1-4522-8402-4

1-4522-7971-3

1-4833-8770-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

371.207

Soggetti

School improvement programs - United States

School budgets - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

FRONT COVER; IMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING WHEN BUDGETS ARE TIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; Purpose; Audience; Organization; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Publisher's Acknowledgments; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; CHAPTER 1: A PLAN OF ACTION: TURNING AROUND LOW-PERFORMING AND ENHANCING HIGH-PERFORMING SCHOOLS; A Strategic Approach to Using the Education Dollar; A Plan of Action for Dramatically Improving Student Performance; Analyzing the Current Performance Situation; Setting High Goals; Changing Curriculum and Defining Effective Instructional Practices; Being Strategic About Core Versus Elective Courses

Using Data to Improve InstructionOrganizing Teachers Into Collaborative Groups; Investing in Ongoing, Comprehensive, and Intensive Professional Development; Extra Help for Students Struggling to Meet Rigorous Performance Standards; Distributing Leadership Across All Levels and All Roles; Creating a Professional Culture; Taking Teacher and Principal Talent Seriously; Embracing a Performance Culture of Accountability for Student Achievement Results; Summary; Note; CHAPTER 2: THE RESOURCE NEEDS OF THE PLAN OF ACTION; Details of the Resource Needs of the Plan of Action



Example of a High-Spending District That Could Cut SpendingLinking Table 2.1 to School Finance Adequacy; Summary; Note; CHAPTER 3: TARGETING RESOURCES TO STUDENT LEARNING WHEN BUDGETS ARE TIGHT; Understand and Resist the Cost Increase Pressures on Schools; Smaller Classes; More Electives; Automatic Pay Increases; Growing Benefit Costs; Increased Costs and Flat Performance; How to Move Forward; An Example of Strategic Resource Reallocation for a Midwestern Middle School; More Detail on Strategic Budgeting; Class Size; School Schedules and Core Versus Elective Teachers; Professional Development

Extra Help Programs for Struggling StudentsInterim Assessments; Other School Resources; Summary; Notes; CHAPTER 4: RECRUITING, DEVELOPING, AND COMPENSATING TOP EDUCATOR TALENT: LOCAL PRACTICES AND SUPPORTING STATE POLICIES; Acquiring, Developing, and Retaining Teacher Talent; Recruiting; Teacher Professional Development; Evaluation; State Policy Implications; Summary; Teacher Salary Structures; Summary and State Policy Implications; Educator Pensions; Three Major Pension Structures and the Typical Educator Pension; Impacts of Typical Educator Pensions on Teacher Behavior and Pension Costs

A Proposal for Improving Educator PensionsSummary; CHAPTER 5: COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION: COSTS AND ONLINE OPTIONS; Costs of Technology Software and Hardware; Cost Overview; Computer Hardware; Operating System, Productivity, and Noninstructional Software; Network Equipment, Printers, and Copiers; Instructional Software and Hardware; Sources of Funding; Using Information Technologies for Instruction; Virtual Schools; K-12 Programs From Private Companies; Blended Instructional Programs; Effectiveness of Online Learning; Costs of Online Learning; Summary; Notes

CHAPTER 6: WHEN BUDGET CUTS ARE NECESSARY

Sommario/riassunto

How do you stay focused on increasing student learning when budget cuts threaten everything you are striving for? This book offers a comprehensive framework to enhance student achievement in good times and in bad. School reform expert Allan R. Odden outlines a school improvement action plan focused sharply on student learning and then shows how to target resources to implement each strategy in that plan.



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Record Nr.

UNIORUON00124026

Autore

TOD, James

Titolo

Travels in Western India, embracing a visit to the sacred mounts of the Jains, ...Rajpootana and the Indus / James Tod

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : H. Allen, 1839

Descrizione fisica

LX, 518 p., c. di tav. ; 32 cm

Classificazione

SI VIII B

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia