Making Schools Smarter

Leading With Evidence

By: Kenneth Leithwood, Robert Aitken, Doris Jantzi

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Paperback | 6 January 2006 | Edition Number 3

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Proven tools for data-driven school improvement!

From strategic planning and accountability to restructuring goals, school leaders face myriad organizational tasks, each one vying for immediate action. Where to begin and where best to allocate resources become critical questions as the issue of organization becomes more prevalent. In the third edition of a powerful bestseller, Making Schools Smarter provides the refined and updated tools to create a workable model for reshaping today's school districts for positive outcomes.

This practical guide addresses and helps resolve significant issues in district and school leadership, including

Determining a comprehensive and real image of future schools and districts as professional learning communities

Highlighting needed critical changes for achieving missions and goals

Providing school leaders with much-needed tools to demonstrate and improve accountability

With No Child Left Behind and increased accountability as powerful reminders of what's at stake, Making Schools Smarter gets to the heart of the argument that smarter schools mean enhanced learning for all.

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"The suggested monitoring system is designed to help acquire information needed for improvement and accountability. Both practical and easy to read, this guide includes refined and updated tools and provides support for professional communities." -- Curriculum Connections, Fall 2006

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Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Basic Assumptions About Schools and Districts
Clarifying Assumptions: Three Perspectives
What Is a Professional Learning Community?
Educational Inputs and Outcomes
What Are Schools Given to Work With?
What Ought to Be Accomplished?
Critical Processes and Conditions: A Systems Orientation to the Core Technology of Schooling
Leadership and Management
Mission and Goals, Culture and Community
Planning and Instructional Services
Structure and Organization, and Data-Driven Decision Making
Policies and Procedures, and Community Partnerships
Gathering and Using School and District Monitoring Information
Collecting, Analyzing, and Interpreting Monitoring Information
Using School and District Monitoring Information
The School Surveys
The District Surveys
References
Index
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Leading With Evidence

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