Getting the Schools You Want

A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting Your Own Curriculum Management Audit
Getting the Schools You Want
July 1997 | 160 pages | Corwin
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Getting the Schools You Want is a step-by-step guide to school improvement through the use of a curriculum management audit. Use the practitioner-oriented framework, reproducible forms, and survey instruments to save time, prevent headaches, and get results. Curriculum management audits are powerful tools for improving schools and supporting systematic change. At the district level, the curriculum management audit process can provide you with the findings, insight, and recommendations to make meaningful change. Individual schools can also use the internal audit to measure schoolwide efforts and effectiveness. The curriculum audit is organized around five standards: control, objectives, connectivity and equity, assessment, and productivity. These standards are the same regardless of the size, location, community, or history of the district. The audit provides a guide to planning, a vehicle to communicate with staff and the community, and a proven process for improving student achievement. Use this guide to +

Contents

Foreword

Foreword

Preface

Preface

Improving America's Schools

  • The Challenge to Change

Understanding What the Audit Is and Is Not

Understanding What the Audit Is and Is Not

Role of the Auditor

  • Key Principles

Developing Audit Basics

  • Key Concepts

Creating a Rational District

  • The Control Standard

Knowing What Everyone Does

  • The Objectives Standard

Knowing How Everyone Is Doing

  • The Assessment Standard

Organizing What Everyone Does

  • The Connectivity and Equity Standard

Making Everything Count

  • The Productivity Standard

Writing the Audit

  • Findings and Recommendations

Political Implications of the Audit

Political Implications of the Audit

After the Audit

  • What Now?

Description

Getting the Schools You Want is a step-by-step guide to school improvement through the use of a curriculum management audit. Use the practitioner-oriented framework, reproducible forms, and survey instruments to save time, prevent headaches, and get results. Curriculum management audits are powerful tools for improving schools and supporting systematic change. At the district level, the curriculum management audit process can provide you with the findings, insight, and recommendations to make meaningful change. Individual schools can also use the internal audit to measure schoolwide efforts and effectiveness. The curriculum audit is organized around five standards: control, objectives, connectivity and equity, assessment, and productivity. These standards are the same regardless of the size, location, community, or history of the district. The audit provides a guide to planning, a vehicle to communicate with staff and the community, and a proven process for improving student achievement. Use this guide to +

Contents

Foreword

Foreword

Preface

Preface

Improving America's Schools

  • The Challenge to Change

Understanding What the Audit Is and Is Not

Understanding What the Audit Is and Is Not

Role of the Auditor

  • Key Principles

Developing Audit Basics

  • Key Concepts

Creating a Rational District

  • The Control Standard

Knowing What Everyone Does

  • The Objectives Standard

Knowing How Everyone Is Doing

  • The Assessment Standard

Organizing What Everyone Does

  • The Connectivity and Equity Standard

Making Everything Count

  • The Productivity Standard

Writing the Audit

  • Findings and Recommendations

Political Implications of the Audit

Political Implications of the Audit

After the Audit

  • What Now?
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Getting the Schools You Want

A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting Your Own Curriculum Management Audit


July 1997 | 160 pages | Corwin

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Paperback 28/04/2023 9780803965447 $39.95

Getting the Schools You Want is a step-by-step guide to school improvement through the use of a curriculum management audit. Use the practitioner-oriented framework, reproducible forms, and survey instruments to save time, prevent headaches, and get results. Curriculum management audits are powerful tools for improving schools and supporting systematic change. At the district level, the curriculum management audit process can provide you with the findings, insight, and recommendations to make meaningful change. Individual schools can also use the internal audit to measure schoolwide efforts and effectiveness. The curriculum audit is organized around five standards: control, objectives, connectivity and equity, assessment, and productivity. These standards are the same regardless of the size, location, community, or history of the district. The audit provides a guide to planning, a vehicle to communicate with staff and the community, and a proven process for improving student achievement. Use this guide to +

Table Of Contents:

  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Improving America's Schools
  • The Challenge to Change
  • Understanding What the Audit Is and Is Not
  • Role of the Auditor
  • Key Principles
  • Developing Audit Basics
  • Key Concepts
  • Creating a Rational District
  • The Control Standard
  • Knowing What Everyone Does
  • The Objectives Standard
  • Knowing How Everyone Is Doing
  • The Assessment Standard
  • Organizing What Everyone Does
  • The Connectivity and Equity Standard
  • Making Everything Count
  • The Productivity Standard
  • Writing the Audit
  • Findings and Recommendations
  • Political Implications of the Audit
  • After the Audit
  • What Now?

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