How do you stay focused on increasing student learning when budget cuts threaten everything you are striving for? This book offers a comprehensive framework to enhance student achievement in good times and in bad. School reform expert Allan R. Odden outlines a school improvement action plan focused sharply on student learning and then shows how to target resources to implement each strategy in that plan. More than just a "theory" book, this text describes concrete, specific actions that can be taken immediately.
Key strategies include: using data to support boosting student performance; focusing on effective instruction; setting goals to drive resource allocation priorities; establishing priorities for situations that require budget cuts; hiring top teachers and providing ongoing professional development; providing needed technology resources.
Educators will find a wide range of real-life examples of schools and districts that have implemented these strategies and significantly improved student learning. Also included is research-based guidance for optimizing teacher and principal talent, teacher recuriting and hiring, online learning, and more.
