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    Introduction

    1. THE CROSSROAD
    Understanding Purpose
    The Effective Schools Statement Sheet
    A Sense of Belonging
    Define Leadership Capacity
    Establish Collaboration
    Utilize Data
    Celebrate Success
    Purposeful Planning
    Summary

    2. CREATING A SENSE OF BELONGING
    Defining the Purpose
    Ascertaining Values and Beliefs
    Ensuring Purpose Statements Are About
    Purpose
    Creating Standards of Behaviors
    Taking Stock
    The School-as-a-Whole
    Data Review
    Crediting the Past
    Purpose Keepers
    Visibility
    The Way We Do Business
    Summary

    3. DEFINE LEADERSHIP CAPACITY
    Placing the People
    Recruiting
    Hiring
    Training and Sustaining
    Building a Team
    Working with the People
    People Skills
    Personal Strengths
    Knowledge Base
    The Right Knowledge
    Participating in Action Research
    Sharing the Learning
    Shared Leadership
    Leading Student Groups
    Leading Peers
    Summary

    4. ESTABLISH COLLABORATION
    Defining Collaboration
    Deciding on a Structure
    Like Teams
    Vertical Teams
    Study Group Teams
    Community team
    The Plan
    Defining the Process
    Effective Meeting Management
    Creating an Agenda
    Designating a Facilitator
    Pre-Plan and Follow-up
    Supporting the Work
    Completing the Task
    Defining the Task
    Doing the Task
    Focusing on the Results
    Summary

    5. UTILIZE DATA
    Defining Data-Informing Decisions
    What Data are Important and Why?
    Data Types
    Demographic
    Perception
    School Process
    Student Achievement
    Who Uses the Data?
    Teachers Use Data
    Administrators Use Data
    Everyone Uses Data
    How Do You Use the Data?
    Data Goal Setting
    School-wide Data Decisions
    Classroom-Level Data Decisions
    Celebrate, Celebrate, Celebrate!
    Summary

    6. PURPOSEFUL CELEBRATIONS
    The Campbell Story
    (As written by the Principal)
    Defining Celebration
    School-Wide Efforts
    Themes
    Assemblies
    Vocal Rituals
    Classroom Efforts
    Student Recognitions
    Teacher Recognition
    Class Lessons
    Visual Displays
    Community Efforts
    Summary

    7. PLAN PURPOSEFULLY
    The Plan
    Vision, Mission, and Purpose Statement
    Implementation Structure
    Meeting Structures
    The Calendar
    Data Collection and Evaluation
    Goals
    Continuous Evaluation and Celebration
    Summary

    8. THE CONTINUOUS JOURNEY
    A Principal's Journey
    Living the Journey
    Learning from Others
    Conclusion

    References / Index / About the Author
    Index



New 2007! Just Published! Methods and practices you can use to make your school academically successful - and a place where students will want to be! Improving Student Achievement:
An Educational Leader's Guide For Developing Purposeful Schools

Terri Martin, Project Director for the Missouri Project of Professional Learning Communities and Accelerated Schools and Tim Brown, School Resource Specialist for the Missouri Project of Professional Learning Communities and Accelerated Schools

Foreword by Lawrence W. Lezotte

Here are practical ideas you can put in place to ensure your school environment is one where all children are successful and all adults are supported! This guide gives educational leaders a framework for working smarter towards improving student achievement by discussing six constants that every school needs - critical elements in our schools that research has proven to be effective over the past 40 years. A thorough, practical guide to school improvement, it illustrates real life dilemmas through vignettes that show the authors' method of improving not only school achievement, but also student engagement and success. Included are helpful activities and sample forms you can put to immediate use!

You see clearly:

  • how to work smarter, not harder, toward improving student achievement
  • how to create a culture that encourages, supports and celebrates student achievement
  • great ideas, strategies and activities to use as you create this environment
  • the importance of turning an effective school into a purposeful one for students
  • ways to define the purpose, values, beliefs, and standards of the school
  • the importance of choosing the right staff for the school
  • how to create collaborative teams and make sure they're successful
  • how to put together a plan that involves vision, mission, implementation, data collection, goals, and more.

    " . . . the greatest strength of this book is that the vision of school improvement outlined in the book is offered as a remedy to a thoughtless pursuit of better test scores. In this era of standards based accountability, it is very tempting for schools to seek quick fixes, to simply focus on improving test scores, without regard to the broader purposes of schooling. But this book encourages schools to develop deeper, more long lasting changes." - Eric Camburn, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    2007 Paperbound 208 pp ISBN: 1-929024-99-1 Order #2040 $29.95

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