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Making RTI work : how smart schools are reforming education through schoolwide response-to-intervention / by Sailor, Wayne.(CARDINAL)715660;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- The Author -- Preface -- Part I : The Origin and Design of Schoolwide RTI -- Part II : How Schoolwide RTI Works -- Part III : Seeing RTI in Action -- Sources and Additional Resources -- Index
Subjects: Remedial teaching.; School improvement programs.;
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Push has come to shove : getting our kids the education they deserve, even if it means picking a fight / by Perry, Steve(School principal)(CARDINAL)396545;
Inspiration. The promise ; The push -- Purpose. Why shoukld you care? ; Sue 'Em ; E-Organize -- School. What makes a good teacher? ; How to find great teachers ; Anatomy of a good lesson ; Thriller ; The principal -- Parenting. Dazed and confused ; Adults vs. parents ; "I have no idea where he learned that" ; Parents are like cars ; Daddy's kids ; Lemonade ; Audit your home! ; More than they can handle: a note to your teenager -- Gatekeepers. Teachers' unions: the worst thing that ever happened to education ; Evaluation frustration ; Life-and-death stakes of accountability -- Outdated. Strap up ; Of, for, and by the people ; Closing of the old school ; The intern and the senator -- Solutions. Leader of the new school ; New books, old books ; Cracking the AP myth ; Time keeps on slippin' ; It's not about the Benjamins ; Charters, magnets, and tradition ; Vouchers are a real solution ; We know what works ; Making a life, making a living -- American Federation of Teachers 2011 -- Connecticut Legislative Agenda -- We are Capital Prep!"a guide to saving America's schools"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: School improvement programs;
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50 ways to close the achievement gap / by Downey, Carolyn J.(CARDINAL)381990;
Includes bibliographical references and index.context, and cognitive type -- Select or modify instructional resources for lessons to ensure full alignment with system objectives and tested learning -- Place students in programs and activities in an equitable manner and with equal access to the curriculum -- Implement effective programs and strategies with English language learners -- Standard four : use a mastery learning approach and effective teaching strategies -- Implement a mastery learning model -- Align teaching to the curriculum -- Provide differentiated curriculum and instruction as well as differentiated time to learn -- Provide practice to master the curriculum -- Use effective teaching practices -- Use powerful vocabulary development strategies -- Establish ILPs for low achieving students -- Standard five : establish curriculum expectations, monitoring and accountability -- Provide for high expectations for achievement of each student -- Monitor the curriculum -- Visit classrooms and provide feedback -- Use disaggregated data in the decision-making process -- Focus staff appraisal on professional growth -- Standard six : institute effective district and school planning, staff development, resource allocations and provide a quality learning environment -- Develop a district planning process that is strategic in nature and provides guidance for the development of district and school long range plans -- Create and implement a singular, focused, multi-year district plan incorporating change strategies for higher student achievement -- Align school plans to the district plan -- Implement aligned teacher training to reach district and school goals -- Implement administrative training aligned to the curriculum and to assessment and district plan priorities -- Provide differentiated staff development -- Link resource allocation to goals, objectives, priorities, and diagnosed needs of the system -- Provide qualified and adequate personnel -- Remove or assist to satisfactory functioning incompetentstaff -- Provide a quality learning environment -- Provide quality facilities.Standard one : establish a well-crafted, focused, valid and clear curriculum to direct teaching -- Embed external assessment target objectives in the written content standards and link to state standards -- Have clear and precise district curriculum objectives -content, context, and cognitive type -- Deeply align objectives from external assessments -- Sequence objectives for mastery well before they are tested -- Provide a feasible number of objectives to be taught -- Identify specific objectives as benchmark standards -- Place objectives in a teaching sequence -- Provide access to written curriculum documents and direct the objectives to be taught -- Conduct staff development in curriculum and its delivery -- Standard two : provide assessments aligned to the curriculum -- Develop aligned district pre/post criterion referenced assessments -- Have a pool of unsecured test items by objective -- Establish secured performance benchmark assessments -- Conduct assessment training -- Use assessments diagnostically -- Teach students to be test wise -- Establish a reasonable testing schedule and environment -- Disaggregate assessment data -- Maintain student progress reports -- Standard three : align program and instructional resources to the curriculum and provide student equality and equity -- Align programs to the curriculum to ensure congruity -- Use research data the documents results to drive program selection, and validate the implementation of programs with action research -- Evaluate programs to determine effectiveness to strengthen student achievement of curriculum objectives -- Align textbooks and instructional resources to the district curriculum objectives and assessment in both content and context dimensions -- Use technology in design or selection procedures to ensure strong connections to system learning expectations and feedback -- Provide training in the use of instructional resources and their alignment with system curriculum objectives : content,
Subjects: Academic achievement.; School improvement programs.;
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What works in schools : translating research into action / by Marzano, Robert J.(CARDINAL)169215;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-207) and index.Introducing the best of times -- The school-level factors -- A guaranteed and viable curriculum -- Challenging goals and effective feedback -- Parent and community involvement -- Safe and orderly environment -- Collegiality and professionalism -- The teacher-level factors -- Instructional strategies -- Classroom management -- Classroom curriculum design -- The student-level factors -- Home environment -- Learned intelligence and background knowledge -- Student motivation -- Implementing the model -- Using the model -- The critical role of leadership.
Subjects: School improvement programs.; Teaching.; Academic achievement.;
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Making schools work : a revolutionary plan to get your children the education they need / by Ouchi, William G.(CARDINAL)517040; Segal, Lydia G.,1962-(CARDINAL)462148;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index.Pt. 1 What Makes a School Great? -- 1 The Best Schools in America - Problems and Solutions -- 2 Three School Districts That Have Won the Revolution -- Pt. 2 The Seven Keys to Success -- 3 Key #1: Every Principal Is an Entrepreneur -- 4 Key #2: Every School Controls Its Own Budget -- 5 Key #3: Everyone Is Accountable for Student Performance and for Budgets -- 6 Key #4: Everyone Delegates Authority to Those Below -- 7 Key #5: There Is a Burning Focus on Student Achievement -- 8 Key #6: Every School Is a Community of Learners -- 9 Key #7: Families Have Real Choices Among a Variety of Unique Schools -- Pt. 3 A Parent's Guide to School Improvement -- 10 How Good Is Your School? -- 11 What You Can Do to Improve Your School"This program has produced significant, lasting improvements in the school districts where it has already been implemented. Drawing on the results of a landmark study of 223 schools in six cities, a project that Ouchi supervised and that was funded in part by the National Science Foundation, Making Schools Work shows that a school's educational performance may be most directly affected by how the school is managed."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: School improvement programs;
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Project evaluation of study clubs : a family literacy program / by Jaynes, Beverly,author.(CARDINAL)337753; Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute,issuing body.(CARDINAL)170665;
Subjects: Family literacy programs; School improvement programs;
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Family literacy projects : special report to NC Department of Community Colleges / by Harper, Diane K.,author.(CARDINAL)337754; Wilkes Community College,issuing body.(CARDINAL)200816;
Sponsored by Wilkes Community College, Wilkes County Board of Education, Wilkse County Department of Social Services, Women's Resource Center.
Subjects: Family literacy programs; School improvement programs;
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Top ten myths in education : fantasies Americans love to believe / by Frase, Larry E.(CARDINAL)782526; Streshly, William A.(CARDINAL)368569;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Public schools; School improvement programs;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The daily disciplines of leadership : how to improve student achievement, staff motivation, and personal organization / by Reeves, Douglas B.,1953-(CARDINAL)705969;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228) and index.Part 1: Leadership essentials -- Students are not customers: the unique elements of educational leadership -- The leadership dilemma: building consensus or creating change? -- The leadership and learning matrix -- Leadership matters: how leaders improve the lives of students, staff, and communities -- Part 2: Strategic leadership -- Initiative fatigue: when good intentions fail -- Saving strategic planning from strategic plans -- Strategic leadership in action -- Part 3: Leadership in action -- The daily disciplines of leadership -- Accountability: from autopsy to physical -- Building the next generation of leaders -- Conclusion: the enduring values of the leader: the key to surviving the disappointments and disasters of the leadership life.
Subjects: Educational leadership.; School management and organization.; School improvement programs.;
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Rigorous schools and classrooms : leading the way / by Williamson, Ronald D.(CARDINAL)536458; Blackburn, Barbara R.,1961-(CARDINAL)474749;
Subjects: School improvement programs; Educational leadership;
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