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Strategically reorganize school resources to support instructional and performance priorities!

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.

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:

Assess current resource use in new ways that go beyond the typical budget review
Organize resources more creatively and flexibly
Craft a master schedule that works
Connect resource allocation to student and school performance

Grades:

K-12

Author(s):

Karen Hawley Miles & Stephen Frank

Publisher:

Corwin

Year:

2008

Pages:

232 pp

Media/Binding:

Softcover

iSBN:

9781412904179