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

• Autore: Odden Allan
• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Corwin, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.207
• Soggetto topico: School improvement programs - United States; School budgets - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): DymondWendy Jo; StoreyRose
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Improving student learning when budgets are tight
• ISBN: 1-4522-8402-4; 1-4522-7971-3; 1-4833-8770-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480228003321
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