Download or read book Small Schools Big Ideas written by Mara Benitez and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Schools, Big Ideas shows how the principle-based and equity-focused model from the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) can be used to redesign existing schools and create new schools that prepare students for this century's challenges and opportunities. Filled with inspirational stories and illustrative examples from schools that have successfully implemented CES principles and practices, Small Schools, Big Ideas offers information and inspiration needed to: Transform schools in order to achieve equitable outcomes for all students Understand various school design options Establish school vision, mission, and goals to raise educational expectations and results Develop transformational leadership Cultivate a professional learning community Implement student-centered teaching, learning, and curricula Build productive relationships with families and communities Establish strategies for sustainability These recommendations and proven strategies can help educators transform their schools to become truly equitable, personalized, and academically challenging.
Download or read book School community Relations in Small Rural School Districts written by Steve Toy and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Plan for Advancing Quality and Excellence by the Organization and Management of Public Education written by Massachusetts. Governor's Commission on School District Organization and Collaboration and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... "This Commission was charged by the Governor with reviewing the way elementary and secondary education is organized in the Commonwealth."; "Key points of the charge to the Commission cite the needs to: a. Prepare and recommend a comprehensive plan for school district organization, collaboration, cooperation and state assistance. ... b. Review the present status of school district organization and delivery of educational services in the Commonwealth with particular attention to the authority of the Board of Education to achieve improvement in school district organization ... c. Assure that the process of developing the plan includes extensive participation of citizens from communities of all sizes and locations in the Commonwealth in such a manner as to present to them a variety of alternatives to achieve satisfactory and economical educational programs and to elicit from them their preferences and ideas for possible new approaches to school districting. d. Recommend the necessary processes and resources for assuring the implementation of the provisions of the plan ... e. Give careful consideration to ways and means of bringing urban and suburban children and youth together for common education experiences."; sections include: What is a School District? // The Present Organizational Dilemma of School Districts // School District Consolidation // The Structure, Enrollment and Finance of Public Elementary and Secondary Education // Measures of School District Inequality // Fiscal Crisis in Local School Districts // How Many School Districts are "Too Small?" // Urban and Metropolitan Organizations // Occupational Education // Proliferation of Inadequate Programs // Vocational Offerings, Alternatives and the Student (Limited Choices for Girls, Admission to Regional Vocational-Technical School) // Management Problems in Small School Districts // Citizen Involvement and the Management of School Districts // The Changing Department of Education // Other Reports Related to the Commission's Work // The Commission's
Download or read book The Essential Guide to School Facility Planning written by Denny Hill and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like any other smoothly-run operation, school districts must operate under a strategic plan - a foundation upon which to build - and one that provides a way to prepare for inevitable changes. Over the last 30 years, author Denny Hill has lived and breathed school district planning, first in the hot seat as a staff member of one of the fastest growing school districts in the nation, and then as a consultant to districts throughout Colorado and neighboring states. School districts have worked with Hill for decades because of his thorough understanding of large and small districts with expanding and contracting enrollment concerns.This book is a compilation of lessons learned over those many years, culminating in a concise strategic planning methodology called The Capital Facility Planning Process(tm). It takes both the new and seasoned planner through the seven concise steps of planning, from the situation audit through managing and monitoring the plan. Hill's thoughtfully-developed, step-by-step process is illustrated through actual examples of good decisions as well as wrong turns to avoid. The Essential Guide to School Facility Planning shows school boards, superintendents and CFOs how to use a strategic process to save time and money. It is filled with informative charts and graphs, case studies, examples of specific tools a planner can use in the process, things to consider along the way, and sage advice. This is truly a school district planner's go-to guide for continuous planning.Denny Hill, self-proclaimed "Schoolonomist", has spent over 30 years fine-tuning a proven approach to strategic and facility master planning. His comprehensive Capital Facility Planning Process(tm) balances immediate needs and future challenges for school districts, with an eye on the optimal long-term solutions. Denny has been responsible for projects involving local government services, growth management, socioeconomic impact analysis and fiscal impact assessment, to name a few. He continues to work as Advising Consultant, helping school boards, superintendents, CFOs and other key personnel navigate school districts through big picture facility and site planning issues.
Download or read book Local Planning for Better School Districts written by Charles Ocelus Fitzwater and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Promoting Guiding and Surviving Change in School Districts written by Terrence E. Deal and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Planning for School District Organization written by Great Plains School District Organization Project and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Successful Site Based Management written by Larry J. Reynolds and published by Corwin. This book was released on 1997-02-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you seeking to improve your school or district's educational programs and services? Are you trying to raise the quality of the work environment for all staff? Then Successful Site-Based Management is for you. Your team will learn the 9 essential skills required to support site-based management, the 25 steps to implementation, how to make it through the first few difficult weeks, how to recognize a school's progress (or lack of it), how to find the time to have a site-based management team, and what site-based management has to do with student achievement. Reynolds defines new roles and responsibilities for principals, central office personnel, and the site team. He explains the difference between leadership and management and shows how to develop leadership at every level. The book includes 50 worksheets to customize for school management teams in any school or district setting. It offers questions and activities to help identify your school's particular issues, circumstances, and needs - so the school's team can better serve the school.
Download or read book An Introductory Planning Guide for Local School Districts written by Wisconsin. Section for Educational Planning and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Schoolhousing written by Flora Ida Ortiz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schoolhousing presents a theoretical and practical portrayal of how, when, and why public school districts build new schools. Based on extensive data analysis and a comprehensive review of the literature, the book specifies school district reorganization and subsequent steps necessary to implement plans. The book discusses and considers how school districts relate to state agencies on regulatory, fiscal, and support bases. It also addresses questions important to school district officials, principals, architects, contractors, and others engaged in projects which require long-term management. The work is unique in that both organizational points of view and individual roles are presented.
Download or read book School District Master Planning written by Kelley D. Carey and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is school district master planning? This book explains how this planning is done, using a proven process, not theories. The process helps you avoid cost overruns, public outrage, repeated redistricting, and classrooms built in wrong places that all represent poor planning. Planning tools, steps and process check lists are discussed in rich detail, using actual case studies and the planning triangle of programs, demographics and facilities. Process roles are explained for district staff, consultants,and the public at each step. Steps are clearly explained for acquiring, analyzing, and applying critical data to drive planning to redistrict, build, close, renovate or expand schools. Steps are carefully explained for developing the comprehensive masterplan and getting it implemented on time and within budget. This book pulls no punches as to what usually goes wrong and why, along with what must be done, step by step, to avoid such mistakes. It is a guide to developing a district master plan that will work out for the long term and promote public support for public education.
Download or read book School Family and Community Partnerships written by Joyce L. Epstein and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
Download or read book Districtwide Implementation of Small Learning Communities written by Temple University, Urban Education Collaborative and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 10 to 15 years, a variety of efforts to transform American high schools have gained both public and private support. Significant among these are initiatives to implement Small Learning Communities (SLCs), part of a larger school reform and restructuring effort designed to address a variety of goals, including "downsizing large schools, meeting the needs of at-risk students, solving the problem of failing schools, modeling the process of school restructuring, personalizing education for all students, empowering teachers and extending their roles, preventing dropping out, and finding an equitable substitute for tracking" (Raywid, 1996a, p. 9). In 2004, the Christina School District (CSD) in Wilmington, Delaware, was awarded a three-year federal grant to implement secondary school reform as outlined in the district's Transformation Plan, which called for the implementation of small learning communities (via theme-based academies) in district high schools. The SLC grant was designed to "substantially improve the academic achievement, climate and potential for success for CSD's high school students." The effort would build on the Ninth-Grade Learning Community (Academy) piloted in 2003-2004 at Christiana High School (CHS) and would, by the end of the grant period, include SLCs, including 9th-grade and career-themed academies at all three district high schools; interdisciplinary teams of core subject teachers across all grade levels ("wall-to-wall" implementation) to foster personalized and continuous relationships between the team of teachers and their students; rigorous curriculum to meet the needs of all children; and provision of high-quality, sustained, intensive professional development in core academic subjects and SLC implementation. The three goals agreed upon by the school teams were to increase academic achievement, create a positive school climate, and increase parent and community involvement and engagement. Glasgow High School (GHS) and CHS added a fourth goal: to decrease the achievement gap. During Year 1 of the grant, each of the high schools developed its own set of three-year goals and annual measurable objectives. This report on the evaluation of the CSD's SLC implementation provides an overview of the SLC implementation both at the district level and at the three schools--CHS, Newark High School (NHS), and GHS--over the full grant period. Special attention is given to describing efforts to meet goals and their alignment to best practices in SLC implementation and how these best practices may be used to implement SLCs elsewhere. Appended are: (1) School Goals; (2) Research-based Practices in SLCs (by Oxley's Domains); (3) Delaware Student Testing Program Summary Results; and (4) Delaware Highly Qualified Teachers & Staffing Ratios. (Contains 1 figure, 2 tables and 2 footnotes.) [For "A Research Brief: Small Learning Communities--Recommendations for Success," see ED532061.].
Download or read book Great Expectations for Small Schools written by William A. Firestone and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1980 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gifted Programs in Small School Districts written by Juanita S. Sorenson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Planning for America s Schools written by William J. Cook and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
