Improving Achievement in Low-Performing Schools
Key Results for School Leaders
Randolph E. Ward
- Compton Unified School District
Mary Ann Burke
- Santa Clara County Office of Education
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"I find here nothing less than a blueprint for transforming a failing urban school district with abysmal levels of student and adult performance into one of fiscal and academic respectability. No small feat!"
Roland S. Barth
Author, Lessons Learned
How can multi-stressed, low-performing schools overcome obstacles to respond to the unique learning needs of students?
As accountability in schools becomes more crucial, educators are looking for comprehensive and innovative management practices that respond to challenges and realities of student academic achievement. In order to improve academic performance and the quality of instruction, the entire school community needs to be involved.
Improving Achievement in Low-Performing Schools provides six steps to overcome low performance. School principals and teacher leaders can create a school culture that supports the goals for student achievement and expects the same standards for all students. This excellent new resource focuses on:
Roland S. Barth
Author, Lessons Learned
How can multi-stressed, low-performing schools overcome obstacles to respond to the unique learning needs of students?
As accountability in schools becomes more crucial, educators are looking for comprehensive and innovative management practices that respond to challenges and realities of student academic achievement. In order to improve academic performance and the quality of instruction, the entire school community needs to be involved.
Improving Achievement in Low-Performing Schools provides six steps to overcome low performance. School principals and teacher leaders can create a school culture that supports the goals for student achievement and expects the same standards for all students. This excellent new resource focuses on:
- Improving student achievement in the core subjects
- Aligning teaching and learning with student performance
- Linking professional development for all staff to the goals for students
- Creating safe, clean, and secure school facilities
- Forging stronger links with parents, families, and the community
- Increasing management effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability
The student is the chief client served by the educational profession. As students and their families become more confident that educators are dedicated to meeting students' individualized needs, they become committed to supporting the key results accountability process.
Contents
Introduction
- Organization of Book
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
About the Author
About the Author
About the Editor
About the Editor
Step 1. Defining the School's Culture
- Understanding Attitude Defined by Actions
- Scheduling Effective Communication Mechanisms
Step 2. Gatekeeping by Central Office: Administrators and Principals Teaming Together
- Defining a School's Culture to Supports Achievement Goals
- Creating Visibility Through Facility Management
- Working With Legislators
- Receiving Support for Implementing Program Reform Initiatives
Step 3: Creating a Key Results Accountability Process
- Understanding How Assessment Indicators Can Increase Student Achievement
- Integrating Key Results Into Corrective Action Plans
- Identifying School-Site Visitation Lessons
Step 4: Developing Trailblazing Initiatives That Guarantee Student Success
- Creating Motivational Attendance Programs
- Organizing an Accelerated Learning Program
- Providing an Extended School-Year Program
- Backloading for Curriculum Alignment
Step 5: Expanding Parent and Community Involvement Activities
- Developing Responsive Parent Committees for Critical Feedback
- Organizing Community Forums with Diverse Stakeholders
- Mobilizing Community Partners to Support Reform Initiatives
Step 6: Enforcing Effective Business Practices
- Securing Resources for School Sites
- Identifying and Seeking Alternative Program Funding Solutions
- Creating a Strategic Plan for Aggressive Grant Development
Conclusion
Conclusion
Resource A: The Results-Based Intervention for School Efficacy (RISE) Project
Resource A: The Results-Based Intervention for School Efficacy (RISE) Project
References
References
Suggested Reading
Suggested Reading
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
"I find here nothing less than a blueprint for transforming a failing urban school district with abysmal levels of student and adult performance into one of fiscal and academic respectability. No small feat!"
Roland S. Barth
Author, Lessons Learned
How can multi-stressed, low-performing schools overcome obstacles to respond to the unique learning needs of students?
As accountability in schools becomes more crucial, educators are looking for comprehensive and innovative management practices that respond to challenges and realities of student academic achievement. In order to improve academic performance and the quality of instruction, the entire school community needs to be involved.
Improving Achievement in Low-Performing Schools provides six steps to overcome low performance. School principals and teacher leaders can create a school culture that supports the goals for student achievement and expects the same standards for all students. This excellent new resource focuses on:
Roland S. Barth
Author, Lessons Learned
How can multi-stressed, low-performing schools overcome obstacles to respond to the unique learning needs of students?
As accountability in schools becomes more crucial, educators are looking for comprehensive and innovative management practices that respond to challenges and realities of student academic achievement. In order to improve academic performance and the quality of instruction, the entire school community needs to be involved.
Improving Achievement in Low-Performing Schools provides six steps to overcome low performance. School principals and teacher leaders can create a school culture that supports the goals for student achievement and expects the same standards for all students. This excellent new resource focuses on:
- Improving student achievement in the core subjects
- Aligning teaching and learning with student performance
- Linking professional development for all staff to the goals for students
- Creating safe, clean, and secure school facilities
- Forging stronger links with parents, families, and the community
- Increasing management effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability
The student is the chief client served by the educational profession. As students and their families become more confident that educators are dedicated to meeting students' individualized needs, they become committed to supporting the key results accountability process.
Contents
Introduction
- Organization of Book
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
About the Author
About the Author
About the Editor
About the Editor
Step 1. Defining the School's Culture
- Understanding Attitude Defined by Actions
- Scheduling Effective Communication Mechanisms
Step 2. Gatekeeping by Central Office: Administrators and Principals Teaming Together
- Defining a School's Culture to Supports Achievement Goals
- Creating Visibility Through Facility Management
- Working With Legislators
- Receiving Support for Implementing Program Reform Initiatives
Step 3: Creating a Key Results Accountability Process
- Understanding How Assessment Indicators Can Increase Student Achievement
- Integrating Key Results Into Corrective Action Plans
- Identifying School-Site Visitation Lessons
Step 4: Developing Trailblazing Initiatives That Guarantee Student Success
- Creating Motivational Attendance Programs
- Organizing an Accelerated Learning Program
- Providing an Extended School-Year Program
- Backloading for Curriculum Alignment
Step 5: Expanding Parent and Community Involvement Activities
- Developing Responsive Parent Committees for Critical Feedback
- Organizing Community Forums with Diverse Stakeholders
- Mobilizing Community Partners to Support Reform Initiatives
Step 6: Enforcing Effective Business Practices
- Securing Resources for School Sites
- Identifying and Seeking Alternative Program Funding Solutions
- Creating a Strategic Plan for Aggressive Grant Development
Conclusion
Conclusion
Resource A: The Results-Based Intervention for School Efficacy (RISE) Project
Resource A: The Results-Based Intervention for School Efficacy (RISE) Project
References
References
Suggested Reading
Suggested Reading
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
Improving Achievement in Low-Performing Schools
Key Results for School Leaders
February 2004 | 144 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9780761931744 | $37.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781483360362 | $35.00 |
"I find here nothing less than a blueprint for transforming a failing urban school district with abysmal levels of student and adult performance into one of fiscal and academic respectability. No small feat!"
Roland S. Barth
Author, Lessons Learned
How can multi-stressed, low-performing schools overcome obstacles to respond to the unique learning needs of students?
As accountability in schools becomes more crucial, educators are looking for comprehensive and innovative management practices that respond to challenges and realities of student academic achievement. In order to improve academic performance and the quality of instruction, the entire school community needs to be involved.
Improving Achievement in Low-Performing Schools provides six steps to overcome low performance. School principals and teacher leaders can create a school culture that supports the goals for student achievement and expects the same standards for all students. This excellent new resource focuses on:
Roland S. Barth
Author, Lessons Learned
How can multi-stressed, low-performing schools overcome obstacles to respond to the unique learning needs of students?
As accountability in schools becomes more crucial, educators are looking for comprehensive and innovative management practices that respond to challenges and realities of student academic achievement. In order to improve academic performance and the quality of instruction, the entire school community needs to be involved.
Improving Achievement in Low-Performing Schools provides six steps to overcome low performance. School principals and teacher leaders can create a school culture that supports the goals for student achievement and expects the same standards for all students. This excellent new resource focuses on:
- Improving student achievement in the core subjects
- Aligning teaching and learning with student performance
- Linking professional development for all staff to the goals for students
- Creating safe, clean, and secure school facilities
- Forging stronger links with parents, families, and the community
- Increasing management effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability
The student is the chief client served by the educational profession. As students and their families become more confident that educators are dedicated to meeting students' individualized needs, they become committed to supporting the key results accountability process.
Table Of Contents:
- Introduction
- Organization of Book
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- About the Editor
- Step 1. Defining the School's Culture
- Understanding Attitude Defined by Actions
- Scheduling Effective Communication Mechanisms
- Step 2. Gatekeeping by Central Office: Administrators and Principals Teaming Together
- Defining a School's Culture to Supports Achievement Goals
- Creating Visibility Through Facility Management
- Working With Legislators
- Receiving Support for Implementing Program Reform Initiatives
- Step 3: Creating a Key Results Accountability Process
- Understanding How Assessment Indicators Can Increase Student Achievement
- Integrating Key Results Into Corrective Action Plans
- Identifying School-Site Visitation Lessons
- Step 4: Developing Trailblazing Initiatives That Guarantee Student Success
- Creating Motivational Attendance Programs
- Organizing an Accelerated Learning Program
- Providing an Extended School-Year Program
- Backloading for Curriculum Alignment
- Step 5: Expanding Parent and Community Involvement Activities
- Developing Responsive Parent Committees for Critical Feedback
- Organizing Community Forums with Diverse Stakeholders
- Mobilizing Community Partners to Support Reform Initiatives
- Step 6: Enforcing Effective Business Practices
- Securing Resources for School Sites
- Identifying and Seeking Alternative Program Funding Solutions
- Creating a Strategic Plan for Aggressive Grant Development
- Conclusion
- Resource A: The Results-Based Intervention for School Efficacy (RISE) Project
- References
- Suggested Reading
- Index
Recent Product Reviews:
"I find here nothing less than a blueprint for transforming a failing urban school district with abysmal levels of student and adult performance into one of fiscal and academic respectability. No small feat! This compact little volume offers countless aids for systemic reform, from six giant steps to many small forms. There is much to be gleaned from the Compton Story, which will be applicable to others who would turn their districts around."
Roland S. Barth, Author, Lessons Learned
"[This] is a valuable book for anyone seriously interested in having more effective schools. This is not a one-shot panacea, but a detailed recipe of what can be done to improve student academic improvement."
Education News, Spring 2004