Turning Your School Around
Auteur : Robert D. Barr, Debra L. Yates
Date de publication : 2010
Éditeur : Solution Tree Press
Nombre de pages : 208
Résumé du livre
No Child Left Behind has created an increasing sense of urgency, especially among high-poverty, low-performing schools, which face severe sanctions if they fail to improve. Research over the past decade has identified specific factors and tools that work to significantly improve achievement specifically in these struggling schools. Turning Your School Around examines how one of these tools, the school improvement audit, can be used to achieve dramatic gains. This self-guided audit provides a step-by-step protocol for both low-performing and moderately successful schools, focusing on the most crucial areas of school improvement.
The school improvement audit is a top-to-bottom look at every aspect of an individual school or district. A careful assessment of personnel, students, finances, achievement, professional development, and demographics results in solid, evidence-based conclusions about what is needed to improve education for children of poverty and minority students.
This is a challenging task, requiring complete openness and transparency. Turning Your School Around gives readers a realistic perception of the work involved while providing research to support the audit's effectiveness. Schools that use the audit no longer have to respond to low report cards intuitively or out of fear. Because the audit requires the rigorous and active participation of the entire community, it also builds trust, consensus, and dialogue, in addition to higher levels of student achievement.Turning Your School Around is based on rubrics found in The Kids Left Behind, the nationally recognized book by Robert D. Barr and William H. Parrett.