Turning Your School Around

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A Self-Guided Audit for School Improvement

“Barr and Yates have provided a valuable tool to support two critical components of a school or district improvement process: using data and selecting strategies that will address identified needs. . . . The audit process in Turning Your School Around respects the realities of school contexts. It does not require a sophisticated technology system, and it describes modifications that can be made to keep the process manageable within local constraints.” —Edie L. Holcomb, author of Students Are Stakeholders Too and Asking the Right Questions “Finally, a step-by-step guide for conducting a school improvement audit that is compatible with state audit tools. Authors Barr and Yates give readers a tool that removes the guess work from identifying root causes of low student achievement and replaces it with improvement findings and evidence. Turning Your School Around offers new hope to those educators who have tried everything with no success.” —Rhonda Caldwell, deputy director, Kentucky Association of School Administrators The far-reaching consequences of academic failure are now well known. High-poverty, low-performing schools in particular face an urgent need to transform in order to meet the needs of all their students. The school improvement audit—a research-proven process of self-evaluation that looks at every aspect of a school or district—yields evidence-based conclusions that can significantly enhance education for children at risk. Turning Your School Around: A Self-Guided Audit to School Improvement follows a step-by-step process with tips and practical examples that can help all schools become high-performing learning communities. This resource addresses the following critical areas:

TURNING

Your School

AROUND

Eliminating practices that manufacture low achievement Ensuring effective leadership Engaging parents, community, and schools to work together Holding high expectations for children of poverty and culturally diverse students Targeting low-performing students and schools, particularly in reading Creating a culture of data and assessment literacy Building and sustaining instructional capacity Reorganizing time, space, and transitions

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A complete practice exercise is included, along with reproducibles. Visit www.go.solution-tree.com/schoolimprovement to view this book’s online resources.

A Self-Guided Audit for School Improvement Robert D. BARR

Aligning, monitoring, and managing the curriculum

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TURNING Your School AROUND

TURNING Your School AROUND

Debra L. YATES


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