EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS CORRELATES

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EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS CORRELATES

• Strong instructional leadership
• Clear-focused mission
• Safe and orderly environment
• Climate of high expectations
• Frequent monitoring of student progress
• Positive Home/School relations
• Opportunity to learn and student time on task
• Ron Edmunds Effective Schools for the
  Urban Poor
• (Educational Leadership, October,
  1979)

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WHAT WORKS IN SCHOOLS

• The School-Level Factors
• Guaranteed viable curriculum
• Challenging goals effective feedback
• Parent community involvement
• Safe orderly environment
• Collegiality professionalism
• What Works in Schools Translating Research into
  Action Marzano
• ASCD 2003

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ORGANIZING SCHOOLS FOR IMPROVEMENT THE
ESSENTIAL SUPPORTS

• School Leadership
• Professional Capacity
• Parent-Community Ties
• Student-Centered Learning Climate
• Instructional Guidance
• Contextual Resources Relational Trust
• Local School Community Context

Organizing Schools for Improvement Lessons from
Chicago University of Chicago Press December
2009
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ORGANIZING SCHOOLS FOR IMPROVEMENT THE
ESSENTIAL SUPPORTS

• Impact of the Essential Supports
• We found that schools strong in at least
• three of the five essential supports were
• ten times more likely than schools weak
• in the essential supports to show
• substantial gains in both reading and
• mathematics.

The Essential Supports for School Improvement
Consortium on Chicago School Research
University of Chicago September 2006
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ONTARIO, CANADASCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS FRAMEWORK

• Student Learning and Achievement
• Instructional Leadership
• Assessment and Evaluation
• Curriculum and Instruction

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ALASKA SELF-STUDYINSTRUCTIONAL AUDIT TOOL

• Domains of the Tool
• Curriculum
• Assessment
• Instruction
• Learning Environment
• Professional Development
• Leadership
• Prepared in collaboration wit Alaskas Department
  of Education
• and Early Development and by Alaska Comprehensive
  Center