Ten Traits of Highly Effective Schools

Raising the Achievement Bar for All Students
Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins - The McEwan-Adkins Group
Ten Traits of Highly Effective Schools
July 2008 | 248 pages | Corwin
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"This book is filled with strategies to assist school leaders in assessing and monitoring many of the important elements that must be in place for kids to be successful. There are excellent tools that savvy leaders have been searching for—tools that will help them achieve their strategic vision of continuous improvement."
—Gina Marx, Assistant Superintendent
USD 262 Valley Center Schools, KS

Increase your school's effectiveness and ensure academic excellence for all students!

Written by best-selling author Elaine K. McEwan, this invaluable resource identifies the distinguishing qualities and unique characteristics of schools that help all students make outstanding gains in performance. Each chapter offers a comprehensive description of a research-based trait and examines its impact on student achievement. Featuring a "10 Traits Audit" for use by schools or districts, this book provides principals and administrators with:

  • Tools and processes to facilitate the development of each trait
  • Snapshots of each trait in actual schools and districts
  • Reflections from teachers and administrators who have helped create effective schools
  • Observations on the school improvement process from noted thinkers, theorists, and scholars
  • Examples of documents, forms, and resources used in effective schools

By nurturing these traits in their schools, educational leaders can build coherent instructional programs and create schools of equity and excellence.

Contents

List of Figures and Forms

List of Figures and Forms

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction: Do Schools Matter?

  • 1. Strong Instructional Leadership
  • 2. Research-Based Instruction
  • 3. Focus
  • 4. Relational Trust
  • 5. Collaboration
  • 6. High Expectations
  • 7. Opportunities to Learn
  • 8. Alignment
  • 9. Results
  • 10. Accountability

Conclusion: Using the Ten Traits to Improve Your School

Conclusion: Using the Ten Traits to Improve Your School

References

References

Index

Index

Description

"This book is filled with strategies to assist school leaders in assessing and monitoring many of the important elements that must be in place for kids to be successful. There are excellent tools that savvy leaders have been searching for—tools that will help them achieve their strategic vision of continuous improvement."
—Gina Marx, Assistant Superintendent
USD 262 Valley Center Schools, KS

Increase your school's effectiveness and ensure academic excellence for all students!

Written by best-selling author Elaine K. McEwan, this invaluable resource identifies the distinguishing qualities and unique characteristics of schools that help all students make outstanding gains in performance. Each chapter offers a comprehensive description of a research-based trait and examines its impact on student achievement. Featuring a "10 Traits Audit" for use by schools or districts, this book provides principals and administrators with:

  • Tools and processes to facilitate the development of each trait
  • Snapshots of each trait in actual schools and districts
  • Reflections from teachers and administrators who have helped create effective schools
  • Observations on the school improvement process from noted thinkers, theorists, and scholars
  • Examples of documents, forms, and resources used in effective schools

By nurturing these traits in their schools, educational leaders can build coherent instructional programs and create schools of equity and excellence.

Contents

List of Figures and Forms

List of Figures and Forms

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction: Do Schools Matter?

  • 1. Strong Instructional Leadership
  • 2. Research-Based Instruction
  • 3. Focus
  • 4. Relational Trust
  • 5. Collaboration
  • 6. High Expectations
  • 7. Opportunities to Learn
  • 8. Alignment
  • 9. Results
  • 10. Accountability

Conclusion: Using the Ten Traits to Improve Your School

Conclusion: Using the Ten Traits to Improve Your School

References

References

Index

Index

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Ten Traits of Highly Effective Schools

Raising the Achievement Bar for All Students


July 2008 | 248 pages | Corwin

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Paperback 27/02/2023 9781412905282 $40.95
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"This book is filled with strategies to assist school leaders in assessing and monitoring many of the important elements that must be in place for kids to be successful. There are excellent tools that savvy leaders have been searching for—tools that will help them achieve their strategic vision of continuous improvement."
—Gina Marx, Assistant Superintendent
USD 262 Valley Center Schools, KS

Increase your school's effectiveness and ensure academic excellence for all students!

Written by best-selling author Elaine K. McEwan, this invaluable resource identifies the distinguishing qualities and unique characteristics of schools that help all students make outstanding gains in performance. Each chapter offers a comprehensive description of a research-based trait and examines its impact on student achievement. Featuring a "10 Traits Audit" for use by schools or districts, this book provides principals and administrators with:

  • Tools and processes to facilitate the development of each trait
  • Snapshots of each trait in actual schools and districts
  • Reflections from teachers and administrators who have helped create effective schools
  • Observations on the school improvement process from noted thinkers, theorists, and scholars
  • Examples of documents, forms, and resources used in effective schools

By nurturing these traits in their schools, educational leaders can build coherent instructional programs and create schools of equity and excellence.


Table Of Contents:

  • List of Figures and Forms
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Introduction: Do Schools Matter?
  • 1. Strong Instructional Leadership
  • 2. Research-Based Instruction
  • 3. Focus
  • 4. Relational Trust
  • 5. Collaboration
  • 6. High Expectations
  • 7. Opportunities to Learn
  • 8. Alignment
  • 9. Results
  • 10. Accountability
  • Conclusion: Using the Ten Traits to Improve Your School
  • References
  • Index

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"Thank you, thank you, thank you for writing such a great book! You’re knocking my socks off! I know this boook wasn't written for school board members, but occasionally literature written for administrators or teachers helps me understand how I can do a better job as a school board member—and this book definitely falls into that category! I’ve probably underlined more of your sentences and written more notes to myself in the margin than I have in a very long time when reading a good book."
Fred Deutsch, President, Watertown School Board, SD
"This is a great book for teaching a class of future leaders. It offers ideas for beginners and affirms best practice for veterans. I have already engaged in discussions with my colleagues about what I have read."
Margarete Couture, Principal, South Seneca Elementary School, Interlaken, NY
"Provides detailed information on the essential themes in effective education. The book gives educational leaders encouragement as well as practical tools."
Sara Johnson, Principal, Grandhaven Elementary School, McMinnville, OR
“This book is filled with strategies to assist school leaders in assessing and monitoring many of the important elements that must be in place for kids to be successful: the leadership of the principal, the culture of the school, the health of the school, and more. There are excellent tools that savvy leaders have been searching for—tools that will help them achieve their strategic vision of continuous improvement.”
Gina Marx, Assistant Superintendent, USD 262 Valley Center Schools, KS
"Offers rich, authentic descriptions of the hard, complex job of providing pressure and support to change cultures within ineffective schools."
Jill Shackelford, Superintendent, Kansas City Public Schools, KS

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