LEADER 05145nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910480228003321 005 20170822113455.0 010 $a1-4522-8402-4 010 $a1-4522-7971-3 010 $a1-4833-8770-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000333611 035 $a(EBL)1107896 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001400480 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12629046 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001400480 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11338194 035 $a(PQKB)11288396 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1107896 035 $a(OCoLC)900540518 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000996524 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000333611 100 $a20141202d2012 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImproving student learning when budgets are tight$b[electronic resource] /$fAllan R. Odden 210 $aThousand Oaks, Calif. $cCorwin$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4522-1708-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFRONT 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 327 $aUsing 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 327 $aExample 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 327 $aExtra 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 327 $aA 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 327 $aCHAPTER 6: WHEN BUDGET CUTS ARE NECESSARY 330 8 $aHow 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. 606 $aSchool improvement programs$zUnited States 606 $aSchool budgets$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSchool improvement programs 615 0$aSchool budgets 676 $a371.207 700 $aOdden$b Allan$0923247 702 $aDymond$b Wendy Jo 702 $aStorey$b Rose 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480228003321 996 $aImproving student learning when budgets are tight$92486906 997 $aUNINA