Doubling Student Performance

. . . And Finding the Resources to Do It
Allan R. Odden - University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
Sarah J. Archibald - Consortium on Policy and Research in Education
Doubling Student Performance
January 2009 | 184 pages | Corwin
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"In my work, I see the power of good schools to change young lives for the better almost every day. This book takes us behind the doors of unusually high-performing high-poverty schools to show us how they do it and where they get the funding. The book is a valuable tool for educators who want to improve their results and a reminder to parents and policy makers that we should never expect less."
—Kati Haycock, President
The Education Trust

Radically reform your school and improve academic achievement using readily accessible resources!

At a time when the United States is struggling with far-reaching educational reform, school leaders need a blueprint for dramatically improving student success and supporting those efforts by effectively reallocating and managing available resources.

Doubling Student Performance combines the latest research with the authors' national study of diverse schools that were able to significantly boost student achievement. Strategies focus on reducing class size, promoting professional development, locating necessary funding, and providing academic support to struggling students. School leaders will find:

  • Examples and case studies that include high-minority and high-poverty schools
  • 10 key strategies for dramatically increasing student achievement, such as setting ambitious goals and emphasizing a collaborative culture
  • Clear steps and specific tools to successfully reallocate resources

This book is a valuable tool for educators and policy makers who understand that reform is only possible when schools have the human and financial resources to do it.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Preface

  • 1. Places That Have Doubled Student Performance
  • Rural Districts and Schools that have Doubled Perfo
  • Rosalia, Washington
  • Abbotsford, Wisconsin
  • Doubling Student Performance at the Advanced Level: Monroe, Wisconsin
  • Monroe school district improvement process
  • Other Rural Examples
  • Medium Sized Districts
  • The Madison, Wisconsin Story
  • Kennewick, Washington
  • LaCrosse, Wisconsin
  • Columbus School in Appleton, Wisconsin
  • Doubling Performance in High Minority, High Poverty Schools
  • 2. The Stimulus for Change and the Educational Change Process
  • Pressure from Multiple Sources to Improve Student Achievement
  • Pressure from State-Standards Based Reform
  • Pressure from District Administrators
  • Pressure from Within the School
  • Pressure from the Federal Government
  • The Large-Scale Organizational Change Process
  • Laying the Foundation for Change
  • Creating a New Educational Strategy
  • Implementation, Monitoring and Continuous Improvement
  • 3. Ten Steps to Double Student Performance
  • Step 1: Understanding the Performance Problem and Challenge
  • Step 2: Set Ambitious Goals
  • Step 3: Change the Curriculum Program and Create a New Instructional Vision
  • Step 4: Formative Assessments and Data-Based Decision-Making
  • Step 5: Ongoing, Intensive Professional Development
  • Step 6: Using Time Efficiently and Effectively
  • Step 7: Extending Learning Time for Struggling Students
  • Step 8: Collaborative, Professional Culture
  • Step 9: Widespread and Distributed Instructional Leadership
  • Step 10: Professional and Best Practices
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • 4. Reducing Class Size
  • Resources at School Sites
  • Reallocating Resources to Reduce Elementary Class Size
  • School-Wide Strategies to Reduce Class Sizes
  • A District wide Strategy to Reduce Class Size in Early Elementary Grades
  • Summary
  • 5. Finding Resources for Professional Development
  • Resources Needed for an Effective Professional Development Program
  • A Professional Development Fiscal and Program Audit
  • Doubling Performance Districts
  • Using Extant Professional Development Days Effectively
  • Planning and Professional Development Time
  • Summary
  • 6. Funding Extra-Help Strategies
  • Individual and Small-Group Tutoring for Struggling Students
  • Extended Time for Struggling Students to Learn the Core Curriculum
  • Summer School Program Focused on Core Instruction
  • 7. Linking Resources Needed to Double Performance
  • Finance Adequacy
  • Approaches to School Finance Adequacy
  • Evidence-Based Approach to School Finance Adequacy

References

References

Index

Index

Additional materials

Description

"In my work, I see the power of good schools to change young lives for the better almost every day. This book takes us behind the doors of unusually high-performing high-poverty schools to show us how they do it and where they get the funding. The book is a valuable tool for educators who want to improve their results and a reminder to parents and policy makers that we should never expect less."
—Kati Haycock, President
The Education Trust

Radically reform your school and improve academic achievement using readily accessible resources!

At a time when the United States is struggling with far-reaching educational reform, school leaders need a blueprint for dramatically improving student success and supporting those efforts by effectively reallocating and managing available resources.

Doubling Student Performance combines the latest research with the authors' national study of diverse schools that were able to significantly boost student achievement. Strategies focus on reducing class size, promoting professional development, locating necessary funding, and providing academic support to struggling students. School leaders will find:

  • Examples and case studies that include high-minority and high-poverty schools
  • 10 key strategies for dramatically increasing student achievement, such as setting ambitious goals and emphasizing a collaborative culture
  • Clear steps and specific tools to successfully reallocate resources

This book is a valuable tool for educators and policy makers who understand that reform is only possible when schools have the human and financial resources to do it.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Preface

  • 1. Places That Have Doubled Student Performance
  • Rural Districts and Schools that have Doubled Perfo
  • Rosalia, Washington
  • Abbotsford, Wisconsin
  • Doubling Student Performance at the Advanced Level: Monroe, Wisconsin
  • Monroe school district improvement process
  • Other Rural Examples
  • Medium Sized Districts
  • The Madison, Wisconsin Story
  • Kennewick, Washington
  • LaCrosse, Wisconsin
  • Columbus School in Appleton, Wisconsin
  • Doubling Performance in High Minority, High Poverty Schools
  • 2. The Stimulus for Change and the Educational Change Process
  • Pressure from Multiple Sources to Improve Student Achievement
  • Pressure from State-Standards Based Reform
  • Pressure from District Administrators
  • Pressure from Within the School
  • Pressure from the Federal Government
  • The Large-Scale Organizational Change Process
  • Laying the Foundation for Change
  • Creating a New Educational Strategy
  • Implementation, Monitoring and Continuous Improvement
  • 3. Ten Steps to Double Student Performance
  • Step 1: Understanding the Performance Problem and Challenge
  • Step 2: Set Ambitious Goals
  • Step 3: Change the Curriculum Program and Create a New Instructional Vision
  • Step 4: Formative Assessments and Data-Based Decision-Making
  • Step 5: Ongoing, Intensive Professional Development
  • Step 6: Using Time Efficiently and Effectively
  • Step 7: Extending Learning Time for Struggling Students
  • Step 8: Collaborative, Professional Culture
  • Step 9: Widespread and Distributed Instructional Leadership
  • Step 10: Professional and Best Practices
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • 4. Reducing Class Size
  • Resources at School Sites
  • Reallocating Resources to Reduce Elementary Class Size
  • School-Wide Strategies to Reduce Class Sizes
  • A District wide Strategy to Reduce Class Size in Early Elementary Grades
  • Summary
  • 5. Finding Resources for Professional Development
  • Resources Needed for an Effective Professional Development Program
  • A Professional Development Fiscal and Program Audit
  • Doubling Performance Districts
  • Using Extant Professional Development Days Effectively
  • Planning and Professional Development Time
  • Summary
  • 6. Funding Extra-Help Strategies
  • Individual and Small-Group Tutoring for Struggling Students
  • Extended Time for Struggling Students to Learn the Core Curriculum
  • Summer School Program Focused on Core Instruction
  • 7. Linking Resources Needed to Double Performance
  • Finance Adequacy
  • Approaches to School Finance Adequacy
  • Evidence-Based Approach to School Finance Adequacy

References

References

Index

Index

Additional materials

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"In my work, I see the power of good schools to change young lives for the better almost every day. This book takes us behind the doors of unusually high-performing high-poverty schools to show us how they do it and where they get the funding. The book is a valuable tool for educators who want to improve their results and a reminder to parents and policy makers that we should never expect less."
—Kati Haycock, President
The Education Trust

Radically reform your school and improve academic achievement using readily accessible resources!

At a time when the United States is struggling with far-reaching educational reform, school leaders need a blueprint for dramatically improving student success and supporting those efforts by effectively reallocating and managing available resources.

Doubling Student Performance combines the latest research with the authors' national study of diverse schools that were able to significantly boost student achievement. Strategies focus on reducing class size, promoting professional development, locating necessary funding, and providing academic support to struggling students. School leaders will find:

  • Examples and case studies that include high-minority and high-poverty schools
  • 10 key strategies for dramatically increasing student achievement, such as setting ambitious goals and emphasizing a collaborative culture
  • Clear steps and specific tools to successfully reallocate resources

This book is a valuable tool for educators and policy makers who understand that reform is only possible when schools have the human and financial resources to do it.


Table Of Contents:

  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1. Places That Have Doubled Student Performance
  • Rural Districts and Schools that have Doubled Perfo
  • Rosalia, Washington
  • Abbotsford, Wisconsin
  • Doubling Student Performance at the Advanced Level: Monroe, Wisconsin
  • Monroe school district improvement process
  • Other Rural Examples
  • Medium Sized Districts
  • The Madison, Wisconsin Story
  • Kennewick, Washington
  • LaCrosse, Wisconsin
  • Columbus School in Appleton, Wisconsin
  • Doubling Performance in High Minority, High Poverty Schools
  • 2. The Stimulus for Change and the Educational Change Process
  • Pressure from Multiple Sources to Improve Student Achievement
  • Pressure from State-Standards Based Reform
  • Pressure from District Administrators
  • Pressure from Within the School
  • Pressure from the Federal Government
  • The Large-Scale Organizational Change Process
  • Laying the Foundation for Change
  • Creating a New Educational Strategy
  • Implementation, Monitoring and Continuous Improvement
  • 3. Ten Steps to Double Student Performance
  • Step 1: Understanding the Performance Problem and Challenge
  • Step 2: Set Ambitious Goals
  • Step 3: Change the Curriculum Program and Create a New Instructional Vision
  • Step 4: Formative Assessments and Data-Based Decision-Making
  • Step 5: Ongoing, Intensive Professional Development
  • Step 6: Using Time Efficiently and Effectively
  • Step 7: Extending Learning Time for Struggling Students
  • Step 8: Collaborative, Professional Culture
  • Step 9: Widespread and Distributed Instructional Leadership
  • Step 10: Professional and Best Practices
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • 4. Reducing Class Size
  • Resources at School Sites
  • Reallocating Resources to Reduce Elementary Class Size
  • School-Wide Strategies to Reduce Class Sizes
  • A District wide Strategy to Reduce Class Size in Early Elementary Grades
  • Summary
  • 5. Finding Resources for Professional Development
  • Resources Needed for an Effective Professional Development Program
  • A Professional Development Fiscal and Program Audit
  • Doubling Performance Districts
  • Using Extant Professional Development Days Effectively
  • Planning and Professional Development Time
  • Summary
  • 6. Funding Extra-Help Strategies
  • Individual and Small-Group Tutoring for Struggling Students
  • Extended Time for Struggling Students to Learn the Core Curriculum
  • Summer School Program Focused on Core Instruction
  • 7. Linking Resources Needed to Double Performance
  • Finance Adequacy
  • Approaches to School Finance Adequacy
  • Evidence-Based Approach to School Finance Adequacy
  • References
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"The authors strike a balance between research-based practices and evidence from real schools. The chapter outlining the 10 steps was especially useful because it allows the reader to take a mental inventory of what he or she already has under way and what may come next. Three additional chapters—on smaller class size, professional development and extra help for students—serve as case studies with the key concept that funding possibilities are endless when you look for them."
The School Administrator, September 2010, Vol. 67(8), American Association of School Administrators
"This book provides examples of urban, suburban, and rural schools and districts that have doubled student performance. These district and school best practices are chronicled throughout this book and accompanied by a series of ten steps to doubling student performance. The authors detail how the reallocation of time and resources contributed to the doubling of student performance."
Gerald N. Tirozzi, Executive Director, National Association of Secondary School Principals
"This is a must-read book for state, district, and school leaders. It reaffirms the good work that is happening in many, many places in our country and describes the strategies and use of resources that make a significant difference in student achievement."
Paul Rosier, Executive Director, Washington Association of School Administrators, Former Superintendent, Kennewick (WA) School District
"In my work, I see evidence of the power of good schools to change young lives for the better almost every day. This book takes us behind the doors of unusually high-performing, high-poverty schools to show us how they do that, and where they get the funding to support their programs. The book is a valuable tool for educators who want to improve their results and a reminder to parents and policy makers that we should never expect less."
Kati Haycock, President, The Education Trust

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