00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-1685594773861312566 Buklod 20070906151046.0 i|||||||||||||| | ta 170510s1995 caua rb |||1 u|eng d 0803962924 (pbk. : alk. paper) (iLib)UPBAG-00000016964 BC-32416 Php1,223.25 DLC BAG rda eng LB 2822.75 L45 Leithwood, Kenneth A. author. Making schools smarter a system for monitoring school and district progress Kenneth Leithwood, Robert Aitken. Thousand Oaks, California Corwin Press, Inc. ©1995. xv, 198 pages illustrations 28 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-193) and indexes. 1. Introduction: making schools smarter -- 2. Clarifying assumptions: three perspectives -- 3. What is a learning organization? -- 4. What are schools given to work with? -- 5. What ought to be accomplished? -- 6. Mission and goals, organizational culture -- 7. The core tasks of planning, managing, leading, and instructing -- 8. Structure and organization, information collection, and decision making -- 9. Policies and procedures, community partnerships -- 10. Guidelines for ensuring productive use of monitoring information -- 11. Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting monitoring information -- 12. The district surveys -- 13. The school surveys. Leithwood and Aitken have created a handbook for developing a system of collaborative assessment, strategic planning, and accountability in schools and districts. This book supplies not only the instruments to obtain data on how well schools and districts are achieving their purposes but also a means by which to establish achievable standards of expectation. The authors' research included studies of Canadian and American schools and involved the participation of district personnel, teachers, students, parents, and board members. The authors used a real school to help them develop their model of an "ideal school" for the year 2000. Using this experimental model as a basis, they describe specific features to be found in an ideal school and present ways to measure comparable features of existing schools and districts. They provide guidelines for using data generated in these assessments to help move schools toward the ideal. Making Schools Smarter presents a comprehensive process by which a district or a school can learn about its entire operation in order to initiate change based on solid data. Because the authors' ideal school is a "learning organization," movement toward the ideal helps schools "get smarter" and enhance their collective capacities to serve students better. This is an excellent resource for administrators and superintendents, as well as for students and teachers of educational leadership and school restructuring. Educational evaluation United States. Educational indicators United States. Educational accountability United States. School districts United States Evaluation. Aitken, Robert 1934- author. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN LB 2822.75 L45 Book