Solutions Tools and Strategies for Schools

by Salowe, Allen; Lessinger, Leon

ISBN13: 9780810842854

ISBN10: 0810842858

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Pub. Date: 2002-05-14

Publisher(s): R&L Education

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This easy-to-read book integrates research and performance-based concepts in order to demystify and debunk the conventional wisdom about education. For many years, education has been beset by myths -- myths that it can't be fixed with new concepts, that it takes specialists to diagnose what's wrong, that research doesn't reflect the real world, that the lessons of business cannot be generalized to education. This book takes on these misunderstandings and shows precisely what educators may do in order to overcome them.

Foreword	p. xi
It Integrates What Is Known--Research-and Performance-Based Concepts and Tools--To Define and Make Education in the United States Work	p. xi
It Is Easy to Read	p. xii
If Followed, One Could Transform Schools from Places Where Kids Simply Go to Places Where Kids Learn and Perform	p. xiii
The First Day of School: From the Business World into the Classroom	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Through the Looking Glass	p. 1
Quality: An Idea Whose Time Has Finally Come	p. 2
Framing the Issues	p. 4
Solutions for Our Time	p. 7
Why This Dismal Picture?	p. 8
Talk--A Solutions Tool	p. 12
A Case Study: The Florida Governor's Commission	p. 14
A Historical Perspective	p. 15
Putting the Focus on Schools	p. 16
Can Schools Change?	p. 17
What's Coming?	p. 18
Notes	p. 19
Follow the Money Trail	p. 20
The Illusion of a Monopoly	p. 24
Finding New Approaches to Financing Schools	p. 27
How Does the School District Follow the Money?	p. 29
Putting School Results on the Line	p. 30
From the Desk of the Principal	p. 32
Toward Actions	p. 32
Notes	p. 33
Student-Centered School Management and Technology	p. 34
Teacher Education for K--12 Student-Centered Classrooms	p. 36
Problem-Based Learning	p. 36
What Is Problem-Based Learning?	p. 37
The Payoffs?	p. 38
Where Does Technology Fit in Student-Centered Schools?	p. 39
Logistical Support for the Teaching and Learning Process	p. 41
Data Drives School Improvement	p. 45
The Stage Is Set	p. 46
Notes	p. 47
Why Student-Center the School?	p. 48
Focus on School Accountability	p. 49
To Achieve System Improvement	p. 50
To Gauge Reliability	p. 52
Why Are We So Sure Classroom Teaching Is Often Unreliable?	p. 53
General Measurement Considerations	p. 54
Performance Measurement	p. 54
The Nature of Measurement	p. 54
Why We Find Unreliable Classroom Teaching Distressing	p. 56
Student-Centered Schools Where Unreliability Is Not a Problem	p. 57
Can "Expert Instruction" Be Clearly Defined?	p. 57
Stakeholders Know Reliable Classroom Teaching When They See It	p. 58
To Strengthen Educational Systems	p. 59
To Reinforce Instructional Systems	p. 60
To Remove System Constraints	p. 60
To Clear up Perplexing Systems	p. 63
Fostering Student-Centered Improvement	p. 64
Notes	p. 65
Performance Management	p. 66
The Backdrop to Change	p. 66
Parents Are Running out of Patience	p. 67
The Likely Future Scenario	p. 72
Good Practice, Poor Practice, and Malpractice in Education	p. 73
Using the Right Tools to Do the Right Job	p. 75
The Meaning of Tools	p. 76
Tools for Teamwork	p. 76
Starting with the Balanced Scorecard	p. 78
Measurement-Based Performance Management	p. 79
Outcome Metrics	p. 80
Management by Fact	p. 81
Processes Lead the Way	p. 83
The Measurement Processes	p. 84
Responses to Objections for Deploying the BSC and Quality Processes	p. 84
Dealing with Common Mistakes	p. 87
A Short Story Worth Repeating	p. 88
Summing up the BSC	p. 89
Notes	p. 90
Customer Relationship Management in Education	p. 92
Who Is the School Customer?	p. 92
Breaking down Barriers and Building Relationships	p. 93
New Challenges Need a Proven Approach	p. 94
Relying on the Experts	p. 94
What Is Not CRM?	p. 95
Lessons Learned in CRM	p. 97
CRM Case Studies	p. 98
Using Technology	p. 103
A Monopoly Agency Restores the Trust	p. 105
Serving the Public Can Only Get Tougher	p. 109
Notes	p. 111
The Right Data Guides Student-Centered Decision Making	p. 112
Data Warehousing for School Improvement	p. 112
Raise the Ceiling Not Lower the Floor--Data Expectations for Students	p. 113
Clear and Explicit Goals	p. 113
What Is Data Warehouse and What Are Its Intentions?	p. 114
Summary of DW Benefits	p. 114
DW Components	p. 115
The Enterprise-Wide Strategic Data Approach	p. 119
User Needs	p. 122
Concerns for Security	p. 122
User Interfaces	p. 123
Implementing the DW	p. 124
Blueprints for Building a DW	p. 124
Notes	p. 125
The College of Engineering Helps Bring Education into the Twenty-First Century	p. 126
Applying Engineering Principles to Classroom Teaching	p. 126
Insights into the Nature of Engineering	p. 128
The Engineering Way of Thinking	p. 128
Changing Toxic Assumptions about Schooling	p. 129
An Engineering Mind-Set Approach to Aptitude	p. 130
Modifying Educator Expectations through the Engineering Mind-Set	p. 132
Changing Student Expectations	p. 135
Changing Public Expectations	p. 135
Engineering for Greater Capability in the Public Schools	p. 136
Benefits of an Educational Engineering Mind-Set	p. 137
Student Benefits	p. 137
Teacher Benefits	p. 138
Benefits for School Administrators	p. 139
Benefits of the Educational Engineering Frame of Reference	p. 140
Case Studies in Engineering and Education Collaboration	p. 141
The Challenge to Public Education	p. 144
School Performance Management through Engineering Thinking	p. 145
Notes	p. 146
Quality and Performance Management Initiatives around the Globe	p. 148
The Pros and Cons of ISO 9000 for Schools	p. 150
American Schools Follow Gradually	p. 151
Tangible Benefits	p. 151
A Matter of Judgment--True Story	p. 153
Maybe We're Starting the ISO Campaign at the Wrong End	p. 154
A Whole Town Earns ISO 9000 Certification	p. 155
Quality Starts with Caring	p. 158
Notes	p. 159
Benchmarking for World-Class Schools	p. 160
What Is Benchmarking for Schools?	p. 160
Why Benchmark a School?	p. 161
What School Benchmarking Is	p. 161
What School Benchmarking Is Not	p. 163
Details of the Benchmarking Process	p. 165
Where to Look for Benchmark Models	p. 167
Possibilities for Improving Education	p. 168
On the Subject of Change	p. 168
Conducting the Benchmarking Site Visit	p. 169
Benchmark: Good Research	p. 170
Benchmark: Reliable Teaching and School Effectiveness	p. 171
Benchmark: Processes That drive Performance	p. 172
Benchmark: Essentials of Effective Schools	p. 172
The Spirit of Organizational Change	p. 173
Identifying Low-Performing Schools	p. 175
Benchmark Principles for Reliable Schools	p. 177
Benchmarking Case Studies	p. 178
U.S. Schools Accept Singapore Math Books	p. 180
Policy Voids Blocking School Improvement	p. 181
Notes	p. 187
Conclusion: Education and the Future of the Nation	p. 188
Precipitating Change: Starting an Epidemic	p. 190
Notes	p. 191
Afterword	p. 192
Benchmarking the Comer School Improvement Process	p. 197
State of Hawaii Act 272 Student-Centered Schools: Summary	p. 212
Minneapolis Public Schools' School-Based Management and School Improvement Plans	p. 215
The School Benchmark Principles	p. 231
New Jersey Permanent Statutes Title 18A 7A14.4: Level I District May Apply for Alternative Program of Monitoring, Evaluation	p. 236
State of Washington Quality Initiative 97-03 Executive Order: Quality Improvement	p. 238
State of Washington Balanced Scorecard Application: Department of Personnel Scorecard--Overall Priorities FY 2001	p. 241
Eighth-Grade Final Exam--1895	p. 244
Bibliography	p. 247
About the Authors	p. 252
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