Leading With Data: Pathways to Improve Your School - Rilegato

Goldring, Ellen; Berends, Mark

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0761988335 ISBN 13: 9780761988335

Casa editrice: Corwin Pr, 2008

Riassunto

A comprehensive, practical guide to using data effectively for school improvement!

This hands-on guidebook explains essential statistical and assessment information to help principals make critical and sustainable choices to promote student learning. Broad-based strategies include collecting and analyzing various types of data about student achievement, professional development, allocation of resources, family involvement, and community standards. Part of theLeadership for Learning series, this resource:

• Supports school leaders in developing and sustaining continuous improvement 
• Links data-based decision making with issues of accountability and shared mission and goals 
• Includes numerous examples and cases, a glossary, school improvement template, sample forms, and data tools

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Recensione:

"Goldring and Berends provide practical and strategic counsel on what data should be collected, how data can be productively analyzed, and who should be involved. Their book positions this advice deftly in research on leadership and organizational change. As school leaders confront the challenges of meeting the needs of all students through continuous school improvement, they will find this book an essential resource." (Willis D. Hawley, Professor of Education and Public Policy 2007-12-11)

"Dives headfirst into the murky waters of data and provides the site administrator with a clear, succinct view and practical ideas to obtain the real positive change in student outcomes desired by all.” (Cathy Patterson, Elementary Learning Specialist 2008-04-21)

"Truly a magnificent piece of work! The discussion questions are ideal for study groups and team meetings. This is the new administrator’s bible. Keep it by your bedside, especially when the scores come in." (Roxanne Cardona, Principal 2008-05-12)

"The book covers a complex process, connects it to the requirements of NCLB, and defines many aspects of data analysis so that a lay person can understand it." (Margarete Couture, Principal 2008-05-12)

L'autore:

Ellen B. Goldring is professor of education policy and leadership at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, where she won the Alexander Heard Distinguished Professor award. Her areas of expertise and research focus on improving schools, with particular attention to educational leadership and access and equity in schools of choice. She is the immediate past coeditor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. She serves on numerous editorial boards, technical panels, and policy forums, and is the coauthor of three books, including Principals of Dynamic Schools (Corwin Press), as well as hundreds of book chapters and articles. Goldring is currently working on a project funded by the Wallace Foundation to develop and field-test an education leadership assessment system and establish its psychometric properties. She is also conducting experiments to study professional development and performance feedback for school leaders. She is an investigator at the National Center on School Choice and the Learning Sciences Institute at Vanderbilt. Goldring received her PhD from the University of Chicago.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Corwin Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0761988335
• ISBN 13: 9780761988335
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 205