Building the World's Greatest High School Student Leader
Author: Guy E. White
Publisher:
Published: 2015-06-01
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780984089550
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Using Equity Audits to Create Equitable and Excellent Schools
Author: Linda Skrla
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2009-05-05
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 145220831X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUse the power of equity audits to help eliminate achievement gaps and educational bias! Grounded solidly in theory and the use of data, this resource provides practical, easy-to-implement strategies for effectively using equity audits to ensure a high-quality education for all students, regardless of socio-economic class. Readers will discover how to increase equity awareness at school and district levels and remedy inequalities in teacher quality, program design, and student achievement by using: A set of “inequity indicators” for evaluating schools, generating essential data, and identifying problem areas Nine skill sets for improved equity-oriented teaching Charts, graphs, and support materials that can be customized for specific settings
The High School Survival Guide: Your Roadmap to Studying, Socializing & Succeeding (Graduation Gift, Gift for Teenage Girl)
Author: Jessica Holsman
Publisher: Mango
Published: 2021-09-14
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781642507546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 4.1 million kids enter public high school a year - most of whom are clueless as to what awaits. Study with Jess, her YouTube channel, demystifies everything students need to succeed from effective study tips, test taking techniques, and how to navigate all too harrowing social dynamics. Includes workbook exercises, self evaluation goals, and progress timelines. Perfect parent purchase.
What Every Principal Needs to Know to Create Equitable and Excellent Schools
Author: George Theoharis
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2015-04-25
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0807772267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSchool leaders who succeed at creating a high-achieving learning community must also be committed to creating an equitable environment for all students. In this new book, key scholars across the content areas show how to put into practice a commitment to equity and excellence across the Pre-K12 spectrum. Readers learn directly from experts in each of the content domains (literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, music, early childhood, special education, English language learners, world languages, and physical education) how a commitment to social justice and equity can be grounded in core subject areas, why each has a place in the school, and what they need to know and do in each subject area. This book is a critical instructional leadership resource for new and veteran principals who want to see all students succeed. Contributors: Antonio J. Castro, Julie Causton-Theoharis, Virginia Collier, Katherine Delaney, Catherine Ennis, Virginia Goatley, Beth Graue, Rochelle Gutirrez, Kathleen A. Hinchman, Anne Karabon, Christi Kasa, Dave McAlpine, Mitchell Robinson, Victor Sampson, Sherry A. Southerland, and Wayne Thomas
In Schools We Trust
Author: Deborah Meier
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2003-08-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780807031513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe are in an era of radical distrust of public education. Increasingly, we turn to standardized tests and standardized curricula-now adopted by all fifty states-as our national surrogates for trust. Legendary school founder and reformer Deborah Meier believes fiercely that schools have to win our faith by showing they can do their job. But she argues just as fiercely that standardized testing is precisely the wrong way to that end. The tests themselves, she argues, cannot give the results they claim. And in the meantime, they undermine the kind of education we actually want. In this multilayered exploration of trust and schools, Meier critiques the ideology of testing and puts forward a different vision, forged in the success stories of small public schools she and her colleagues have created in Boston and New York. These nationally acclaimed schools are built, famously, around trusting teachers-and students and parents-to use their own judgment. Meier traces the enormous educational value of trust; the crucial and complicated trust between parents and teachers; how teachers need to become better judges of each others' work; how race and class complicate trust at all levels; and how we can begin to 'scale up' from the kinds of successes she has created.
This We Believe
Author: National Middle School Association
Publisher: National Middle School Assn
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9781560902324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding the World's Greatest High School
Author: Richard Parkhouse
Publisher: Triumphant Heart Internatio
Published: 2013-02
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780984089529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"For educators and school leaders who long for a positive school culture, the numerous, time-saving, cost-effective methods of identifying and celebrating student success are found in this book." - Trevor Greene, 2013 MetLife/NASSP National High School Principal of the Year WHAT IF YOU AND YOUR SCHOOL COULD BECOME YOUR WORLD'S GREATEST IN ONE YEAR OR LESS? Building the World's Greatest High School isn't about a new program for your school. It's about a way of being that will unalterably change lives and impact futures of you, your students, your colleagues, and your community. Building the World's Greatest High School will show you: - Five shifts to enhance the potentials of all students and staff. - Six World's Greatest Values that will forever change your school. - Seven building blocks for improving student and staff success. - How to start your journey to become your World's Greatest Me. "I have had the privilege of knowing Richard Parkhouse for over 25 years. His passion for creating positive school cultures is second to none. When he's on your campus, lives change, students and staff understand the vision while school pride can be seen and felt. His heart and passion are infectious." - Janet Roberts, CADA President, California Associate of Directors of Activities (2013), Activities Director - Chino Hills High School
Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools
Author: Joseph F. Johnson, Jr.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-02-03
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1317412397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeadership in America’s Best Urban Schools describes and demystifies the qualities that successful leaders rely on to make a difference at all levels of urban school leadership. Grounded in research, this volume reveals the multiple challenges that real urban elementary, middle, and high schools face as well as the catalysts for improvement. This insightful resource explores the critical leadership characteristics found in high-performing urban schools and gives leaders the tools to move their schools to higher levels of achievement for all students—but especially for those who are low-income, English-language learners, and from various racial and ethnic backgrounds. In shining a light on the essential qualities for exceptional leadership at all levels of urban schools, this book is a valuable guide for all educators and administrators to nurture, influence, support, and sustain excellence and equity at their schools.
The Making of an American High School
Author: David F. Labaree
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780300054699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn analysis of the origins and development of Central High School, the first public high school in Philadelphia. Using Central as a case study, Labaree argues that the public high school is the product of the struggle between egalitarianism and meritocracy that is endemic to a democratic society.
Shaping School Culture
Author: Terrence E. Deal
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-08-29
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1119210194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most trusted guide to school culture, updated with current challenges and new solutions Shaping School Culture is the classic guide to exceptional school leadership, featuring concrete guidance on influencing the subtle symbolic features of schools that provide meaning, belief, and faith. Written by renowned experts in the area of school culture, this book tackles the increasing challenges facing public schools and provides clear, candid suggestions for more effective symbolic leadership. This new third edition has been revised to reflect the reality of schools today, including the increased emphasis on high-stakes testing, federal reforms such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), state sponsored improvement programs, and other major issues that impact organizational culture and the role of school leaders. Each chapter features new examples and cases that illustrate persistent problems, spelling out key cultural implications and offering concrete examples of overcoming the challenges while maintaining a meaningful learning environment. The chapter on toxic schools continues to provide the field's most trusted advice on navigating this rocky terrain, and the discussion's focus on how to manage negativity remains especially integral to besieged school administrators across the U.S. Recent years have jolted the nation's school system with a number of new developments that spell problems for the cultural tapestry of schools. This book provides expert perspective and sage, doable advice for administrators tending to external pressures while sustainingor evolvinga more positive school culture. Navigate new challenges including Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and waning confidence and faith Turn around a toxic school culture with confidence and success Foster a culture of passion, purpose, and meaning Adopt a more active form of symbolic leadership to support students, faculty, staff, parents, and community Test scores as the primary metric, relentless reforms, waning public support, and timid initiatives wrapped in bureaucratic packaging: while among the most prominent issues administrators face are only the tip of the iceberg. Shaping School Culture charts a route through competing pressures to help educational leaders hew a positive learning environment for schools.
