Download or read book Governance Training for California s Charter School Boards written by Jon Dale Kidder and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Curriculum 21 written by Heidi Hayes Jacobs and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What year are you preparing your students for? 1973? 1995? Can you honestly say that your school's curriculum and the program you use are preparing your students for 2015 or 2020? Are you even preparing them for today?" With those provocative questions, author and educator Heidi Hayes Jacobs launches a powerful case for overhauling, updating, and injecting life into the K-12 curriculum. Sharing her expertise as a world-renowned curriculum designer and calling upon the collective wisdom of 10 education thought leaders, Jacobs provides insight and inspiration in the following key areas: * Content and assessment: How to identify what to keep, what to cut, and what to create, and where portfolios and other new kinds of assessment fit into the picture. * Program structures: How to improve our use of time and space and groupings of students and staff. * Technology: How it's transforming teaching, and how to take advantage of students' natural facility with technology. * Media literacy: The essential issues to address, and the best resources for helping students become informed users of multiple forms of media. * Globalization: What steps to take to help students gain a global perspective. * Sustainability: How to instill enduring values and beliefs that will lead to healthier local, national, and global communities. * Habits of mind: The thinking habits that students, teachers, and administrators need to develop and practice to succeed in school, work, and life. The answers to these questions and many more make Curriculum 21 the ideal guide for transforming our schools into what they must become: learning organizations that match the times in which we live.
Download or read book The Governance Core written by Davis Campbell and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lead into the future effectively with the Governance Core approach! Designed to guide educational leadership past difficult and formidable challenges, the governance system outlined in this book will lead to school districts and schools operating at the highest levels of effectiveness. Davis Campbell and Michael Fullan call for school boards, superintendents and school leaders to work cohesively with the same mindset to raise clarity, status, and efficacy. Practical and authentic, the Governance Core is based upon: A governance mindset A shared moral imperative A unified, cohesive governance system A commitment to system-wide coherence A focus on continuous improvement in the district
Download or read book The Taking Action Guide for the Governance Core written by Davis Campbell and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical resources for building cohesive governance teams As a supplement to the best-selling The Governance Core, this practical guide will help trustees and superintendents adopt a governance mindset and partnership that creates coherence throughout the district. With a systems thinking approach, the authors provide readers with the strategies and tools needed to build cohesive teams and engage in deeper learning and decision making. The Taking Action Guide for the Governance Core offers readers: • a deeper understanding of core governance and how to build it • a planning guide to help new trustees get started • protocols and sample agendas for focusing on strategy and systems during open board meetings Educational leaders will find this guide offers them a foundation for building strong, flourishing school districts that are equipped to adapt to and meet the daunting challenges of our time.
Download or read book Effective Superintendent School Board Practices written by Rene S. Townsend and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superintendents and board members are provided real-life vignettes highlighting challenges and successes, information on building relationships and managing conflict, and reflective practice questions and self-assessment.
Download or read book Charter School Board University written by Brian L. Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charter School Board University was written so that charter school board leaders can increase their capacity for good governance.
Download or read book The Governance Core 2 0 written by Davis Campbell and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential strategies for school trustees and superintendents. Addressing the urgent challenges of school leadership in our divided, post-pandemic landscape, The Governance Core 2.0 is an essential guide for school trustees and superintendents dedicated to making a meaningful difference in their districts. Davis Campbell, Michael Fullan, and Babs Kavanaugh provide useful tools and techniques to improve local governance culture, emphasizing the importance of collaboration between board members, district leaders, and school staff to support the success and wellbeing of every student. This thoroughly updated edition is now structured around three pillars–Governance Mindset, Governance Culture, and Governance Infrastructure–providing a comprehensive framework that addresses the core principles and responsibilities of effective school governance. Additional features include: Practical strategies for fostering collaboration, onboarding new trustees, and leading transformative change in a school district New real-world examples of effective board governance A board planning calendar and self-evaluation tools A new "Suggestions for Implementation" section to support the application of lessons from the book Offering guidance on developing a shared moral imperative and systems thinking and establishing clear norms and protocols, this book is a necessary resource for both new and experienced trustees, superintendents, and district leaders.
Download or read book Vanishing School Boards written by Patrick Rice and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Nation at Risk, NCLB and RTT, the once thought sacred institution of school boards as catalysts to ensure local control of schools is being redefined and are under heavy attack. Increasingly, school boards are disappearing from the discussion of promoting student achievement and their role as educational decision-makers have significantly declined. The aims of public education are gradually being federalized and privatized. In Vanishing School Boards, author Patrick Rice give various reasons for the descent of school boards, reasons why school boards are vital, the importance of board training and how the superintendent can assist the board in their mission of delivering a quality education to all students.
Download or read book The Trustee Handbook written by Joe Ross and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trustee Handbook is a guide to shared governance. It is intended to assist California's 341 county boards of education members as they seek to contribute to the education of Californians in each county and throughout the state. Specifically, the purpose of the Handbook is to provide county trustees with an understanding of the purpose of the county office of education, guidance on the authority of county board members and the county board, insight into the roles and responsibilities of the county board in connection with governance of the county office of education as well as the roles and responsibilities of the county superintendent of schools, and guidance on how a county board can best fulfill its roles and meet its responsibilities in collaboration with the county superintendent of schools. The Trustee Handbook is not a mere update of prior volumes on governance. Instead, it represents the first edition of a new approach to the topic, with new content and commentary focused on the contemporary questions facing county board members and superintendents.What's inside? The historical narrative in Chapter 1 provides an entirely fresh account of the origin story of the county board. The listing of board member duties in Chapter 2 is fully updated, summarizing - in less than two pages - all the Education Code provisions that vest the county board with its various powers, some discretionary and others mandatory. Chapter 3 provides a new perspective on the urgency of collaboration. Chapter 4 offers a set of newly authored FAQs focusing on contemporary questions of law and governance. Based on interviews conducted this year with county board members and superintendents, Chapter 5 presents case studies of successful shared governance. Finally, Chapter 6 provides a listing of available resources and tools.Good governance requires trustees to possess a solid understanding of the issues that come before county boards, an appreciation for the power of system-wide coherence, and a commitment to establishing and pursuing strategic goals. With the Trustee Handbook in hand, county board trustees will be better equipped to work collaboratively with county superintendents to accomplish significant system improvements.
Download or read book Smarter Choices Better Education written by Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Boards Governance Training written by William Powell and published by John Catt Educational Ltd. This book was released on 2001 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of case studies is designed to assist school boards and administrators in international schools to further develop their governance skills. The premise that underlies it is that they will be more efficient and effective if they take time out of their busy schedules to reflect upon the nature of school governance.
Download or read book The Charter Movement written by Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Governing for Greatness written by Brian Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Governance Working Group Final Report written by California. Legislature. Joint Committee to Develop a Master Plan for Education-Kindergarten Through University. Governance Working Group and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Time for Curriculum written by Henry M. Brickell and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Charter School Governance written by David Mark Silver and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The charter school movement has been at the forefront of educational reform since the 1990s. The majority of charter school research has focused on academic achievement and issues of access, equity, and funding. Less attention has focused on charter school governance, yet evidence suggests that governance challenges represent a significant impediment to the long-term sustainability of this movement. This qualitative case study examined the operations of a board of directors in a conversion charter school. The study included observations of monthly board of directors meetings over a 16-month period (February 2008–June 2009), interviews with members of the board of directors and representatives from other key internal and external constituent groups, and document analysis of official charter school materials, including minutes, agendas, and historical documents. The period proved to be a turbulent one, with the resignation of the founding executive director, a failed search for her replacement, the dissolution of the university partnership, and the resignation of nearly half the board at the end of the period. The findings reveal three tensions at the heart of the conversion charter school governance structure—governance v management, transparency v confidentiality, and representation v trusteeship. Exploration of these tensions, and the ways they manifested themselves during the 16-month period, suggest several areas for continuing focus for both charter school researchers and practitioners: building the leadership capacity of boards and executive directors; analyzing Sunshine Laws, such as the Brown Act, with an eye toward helping boards more effectively manage these complex requirements; and finding ways to proactively and more effectively manage partnerships, particularly university partnerships.
Download or read book Facing the Challenge written by Jacqueline Danzberger and published by Century Foundation Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining school governance in the US, this book debates the role of politics in school boards, the board-superintendent relationship, the desirability of providing board members with on-the-job training, and possibilities for eliminating school boards in favour of new forms of governance.
