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School Report Card (England)
http://tr.im/uHO4 The new School Report Card, to be introduced from 2011, will provide the (UK) Government’s key statement on the outcomes expected from schools and the balance of priorities between them, ensuring more intelligent accountability across schools’ full range of responsibilities. It will report on outcomes across the breadth of school performance: pupil attainment, progress, and wellbeing; a school’s success in reducing the impact of disadvantage; and parents’ and pupils’ views of the school and the support they are receiving. |
 
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Turning Around Chronically Low-Performing Schools
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/publications/practiceguides/ Turning Around Chronically Low-Performing Schools This guide identifies practices that can improve the performance of chronically low-performing schools—a process commonly referred to as creating "turnaround schools." The four recommendations in this guide work together to help failing schools make adequate yearly progress. |
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Turning On the Lights
http://tinyurl.com/3qn4c8 Turning On the Lights by Marc Prensky Compared with students' technology-infused lives outside of school, the traditional classroom is a somber place. One of the key purposes of school was to lead as many kids as possible out of the intellectual darkness into the intellectual light. That is what made being an educator a truly noble calling: We were the people who showed the kids the light. There's one big problem with this noble thought today: Today's kids grow up in the light. They're deeply immersed in it long before educators ever see them. Prensky's Principles for Principals |
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Sustainable Schools: Discussion Group
http://isenet.ning.com/group/sustainableschools Sustainable Schools Group The purpose of this group is to share and exchange ideas relating to effective sustainability practices. Conversations to range from curriculum discussions to innovative plant policies/practices and beyond! This group is part of the (UK) Independent School Educators Network (ISEN), a social network (Ning) at http://isenet.ning.com |
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Schools and Sustainability (UK)
http://tinyurl.com/4y7rhx Schools and Sustainability The Government wants all schools to become 'sustainable schools' by 2020. Inspectors visited a selection of primary and secondary schools to assess teaching about sustainability and progress towards meeting the expectations of the National framework for sustainable schools. In the best lessons, teachers used a range of imaginative activities to help pupils develop and test out their views on complex ethical issues. However, most of the schools visited had limited knowledge of sustainability and work in this area tended to be uncoordinated, often confined to special events rather than being an integral part of the curriculum. |
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Planning a Sustainable School (free publication)
http://tinyurl.com/58pcge Planning a Sustainable School - Driving school improvement through sustainable development This document contains thirteen participatory activities that help bridge the gap between the recommendations of the National Framework for Sustainable Schools and school improvement planning. The activities are intended to help schools plan, implement, monitor and evaluate their progress towards becoming a sustainable school. The activities can be used individually, in combination, or in their intended sequence, depending on where schools are starting from, and what best meets their needs. |
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50 Signs Your School Is a Great School
http://www.nea.org/teachexperience/ifc070206.html 50 Signs Your School Is a Great School With so much emphasis on failing schools, Education World thought this would be an appropriate time to focus on the good news in our schools. So we invited our Principal Files principals to share the great things that are happening in their schools -- and share they did! |
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Success and Sustainability
http://tinyurl.com/j46dl Success and Sustainability; By, With and Across Our Schools Online video presentation by Andy Hargreaves, The Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College ... SETT Sept 2006 Drawing on long term studies of educational change over 30 years, and his co-authored book, Sustainable Leadership, Andy Hargreaves addresses what kinds and patterns of leadership make improvement sustainable in ways that matter, spread and last. |
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Sustainable Schools
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainableschools/ Sustainable Schools The Sustainable Schools area of Teachernet is designed to support schools on their journey to sustainability, introducing the principles of sustainable development and offering guidance on how to embed these principles into the heart of school life. The site provides useful information for all sectors of the school community, including the leadership team, the management team, teachers and parents, and offers a number of excellent online and downloadable tools (auditing, benchmarking, environmental assessment) to help schools identify the best route to becoming more sustainable. The Sustainable Schools site is designed to help school managers and teachers to assess current practice, and to decide where to go next. In the Tools section you can access a number of school improvement tools. These help schools assess current practice, identify areas for improvement, and begin the process of change. | S3: Sustainable School Self-evaluation Tool | Chronos for Schools e-Learning Tool | Think Leadership Auditing & Benchmarking Tool | Leading for the future Professional Development Course | WWF Wholeschool Pathway Tool | LTL Schools Grounds Evaluation Toolkit | Waste Watch School Auditing Tool | |
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Use a MATRIX ... to review your school effectiveness
http://matrix.ncsl.org.uk The matrix is an online tool, developed by NCSL and Becta, which facilitates self-evaluation and action planning. Use the matrix to review your current position against a set of levelled statements. There are exemplars available that place the statements into helpful scenarios and context. The matrices cover a range of subjects and can be used as powerful planning and self-evaluation tools for school leaders, teachers, managers and others involved in education. As a registered user, you can save your results and return to them at a later date. |
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International Education Indicators
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/international/IntlIndicators/ International Education Indicators With the emergence and growth of the global economy, policymakers and educators have turned to international comparisons to assess how well national systems of education are performing. These comparisons shed light on a host of policy issues, from access to education and equity of resources to the quality of school outputs. They provide policymakers with benchmarks to assess their systems' performances, and to identify potential strategies to improve student achievement and system outputs. Education Indicators: An International Perspective is a compilation of indicators from a multitude of data sources which provides a rich array of information on the current state of education internationally. They are intended to provide snapshots of the U.S. education system in comparison to systems in countries around the world. The indicators are organized by subject areas: Context of Education | Preprimary and Primary Education | Secondary Education | Higher Education | Education and the Labor Force | |
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The effect of schools on HE achievement - UK
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/hefce/2003/schools.htm The effect of schools on HE achievement Eighteen year old entrants to full-time degree courses from state schools and colleges are more likely to get a good degree than similar students, with similar entry qualifications, from independent schools. This is the conclusion of a paper written by HEFCE? data analysts (HEFCE 2003/32). John Thompson, who leads the data analysis team, explained: ?or some years we have been building a longitudinal database of student records, and linking data from a variety of sources, to enable us to carry out this kind of investigation.?Following an invitation to contribute to the Universities UK? ?air Enough?conference in January 2003, HEFCE brought forward its plans to investigate schooling effects on HE achievement. |
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Higher degrees for state school pupils - UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3094023.stm Higher degrees for state school pupils - UK Analysis by the body which funds universities for the government found that 18 year olds from state schools and colleges were more likely to get a good degree than similar students, with similar A-level grades, from independent schools. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) carried out the study after previous investigations suggested students from independent schools seemed to do less well than those from state schools. |
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Pathways to School Improvement
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs Pathways to School Improvement Pathways was designed to help school improvement teams as they progress through four phases of the School Improvement Cycle by synthesizing research on issues relevant to them in Critical Issues documents and offering a survey tool (Trip Planner) to navigate those issues in a sequence that is relevant to their scores. READ original and timely Critical Issue documents. Pathways currently offers more than 75 Critical Issues, with many more in development. USE a survey tool (Trip Planner), in conjunction with Critical Issues, to pinpoint your school's improvement progress. DIRECT a search tool to investigate North Central Regional Educational Laboratory's rich reservoir of resources and related Web sites on hundreds of educational topics |
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Educational Indicators. ERIC Digest.
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed457536.html Educational Indicators. ERIC Digest. The hectic pace of school life makes it difficult for teachers and administrators to step back and objectively assess the validity of their operating assumptions. In addition, educators tend to judge success anecdotally rather than through formal assessment. A small sign of progress from a recalcitrant student may outweigh months of low performance. Although these victories may be highly satisfying in human terms, today's accountability environment demands that educators collect and analyze objective data before making decisions. Schools collect a large amount of data, but much of it is simply filed and forgotten (Theodore Creighton 2001). In recent years, policymakers and school officials have begun to recognize that these numbers can be turned into "performance indicators" that not only satisfy the demands of accountability but serve as a tool for school improvement. This Digest examines the nature and purpose of educational-indicator systems, and it discusses the design of report cards by which schools can inform the public of their performance. school | quality | indicators | performance | evaluation | |
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School Effectiveness | Kent CC | UK |
http://www.kented.org.uk/school-effectiveness/ School Effectiveness : Kent County Council The purpose of the Kent Advisory Service, within the School Effectiveness Division, is to raise standards by providing support, advice and training on all aspects of the school curriculum, school leadership and management. Our work is directly linked to the LEA's Educational Development Plan (EDP), focused on national and local priorities. The highest priority for the LEA is to promote high standards of education. Key to this is its support for self improvement in all schools.....and the sharing of best practice among local schools and more widely school | effectiveness | School Effectiveness Teams | Leadership Development | Learning & Teaching | School Management | Good Practice | Key Skills | Assessment | UK | England | |
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