04841oam 2200529 450 991078739030332120190911103511.01-4522-8402-41-4522-7971-31-4833-8770-4(OCoLC)900540518(MiFhGG)GVRL6PYE(EXLCZ)99371000000033361120111206h20122012 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrImproving student learning when budgets are tight /Allan R. OddenThousand Oaks, Calif. Corwinc2012Thousand Oaks, California :Corwin,[2012]�20121 online resource (xxi, 184 pages)Gale eBooksDescription based upon print version of record.1-4522-1708-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 CoursesUsing 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 ActionExample 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 DevelopmentExtra 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 CostsA 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; NotesCHAPTER 6: WHEN BUDGET CUTS ARE NECESSARYHow 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.School improvement programsUnited StatesSchool budgetsUnited StatesSchool improvement programsSchool budgets371.207Odden Allan923247MiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910787390303321Improving student learning when budgets are tight3823330UNINA