The Strategic School

1st Edition

Making the Most of People, Time, and Money

Karen Hawley Miles; Stephen Frank
eISBN-13: 9781452293042

eBook Features

Already purchased in store?
or
Rent or Buy from $ 38.00 USD
Note: We do not guarantee supplemental material with textbooks (e.g. CD's, Music, DVD's, Access Code, or Lab Manuals)

Additional Book Details

<p>"How you spend your resources really does speak to the ethics, morals, and values about what is important. I use these ideas each day to help schools leverage their resources in strategic and creative ways to meet students′ needs." <br/>—Mary Nash, Assistant Superintendent<br/>Boston Public Schools, MA</p><p>"A powerful new lens for looking at school resources by fundamentally changing the question from ′How much money do schools need to succeed?′ to ′How well are resources being used to ensure student success?′"<br/>—Richard Murnane, Economist and Professor<br/>Harvard Graduate School of Education</p><p>Strategically reorganize school resources to support instructional and performance priorities! </p><p>How can schools best use the resources they already have? That question is at the heart of this inspiring book for school and district administrators challenged with increasing student performance without additional funding. Exploring the link between purposeful resource allocation and academic achievement, Karen Hawley Miles and Stephen Frank demonstrate how educational leaders can develop successful and strategic schools by assessing how well they use all available resources—people, time, and money—and by creating effective alternatives to meet goals. </p><p>The authors use their extensive research with urban schools and districts to present case studies of schools that successfully reorganized resources to implement the "Big 3 Guiding Resource Strategies": improving teaching quality, creating individual attention, and maximizing academic time. The Strategic School offers planning guides, checklists, worksheets, and strategies aligned with ISLLC standards to help leaders:<br/></p>Assess current resource use in new ways that go beyond the typical budget review Organize resources more creatively and flexiblyCraft a master schedule that worksConnect resource allocation to student and school performance

Sold By SAGE Publications
ISBNs 145229304X, 9781452293042, 9781412904179, 9781412904179
Language eng
Number of Pages 232
Edition 1st