Lessons From High Performing Hispanic Schools

Author : Pedro Reyes
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807738306
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lessons from High-performing Hispanic Schools written by Pedro Reyes and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical volume provides school administrators and teachers with the information needed to convert ordinary schools into high performing schools. It offers practices for teachers and school principals to foster academic success, and strategies for involving parents in their child's education.

Author : Alicia Paredes Scribner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High-performing Schools Serving Mexican American Students written by Alicia Paredes Scribner and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Factors of Educational Effectiveness (EE) written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As major shifts in the U.S. population continue, Latinos have become the largest minority group. However, their expanding presence in U.S. schools has not translated into greater degree attainment in higher education. One educational concern that should be addressed is the lack of access to higher-level mathematics courses due to underperformance in algebra, an academic achievement gatekeeper. This mixed-methods case-study dissertation tested the Dynamic Model of Educational Effectiveness (DMEE) (Kyriakides & Creemers, 2008) in a high performing Hispanic middle and high school and compared school-wide factors to the High Performing Hispanic Student framework (Reyes, Scribner, and Paredes-Scribner, 1999). While the factorial and regression analyses of the pretests, posttest, and survey responses of 212 student participants provided classroom factors that correlated to math achievement, the interview responses from four school administrators and analysis of the Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) provided a deeper examination of school wide practices that contribute to the success of the schools. There were multiple key findings within this study. The first finding was expected, students showed growth in their mathematics learning. The factorial and regression analyses indicated that there are multiple factors that correlate to mathematics student achievement at the student and classroom level factors: aptitude, language and environment peer relationships. The analysis of the interviews and SPSA provided a school wide view of the practices that are related to the HPHS framework. One key finding was that both schools were at the continual and sustaining practice level within two themes of the framework: community and family involvement, and collaborative governance and leaderships. Most of the practices that were examples of the two themes involved relationship building amongst staff, students, and families. The study's findings suggest the combination of multiple factors have an important impact on student achievement. In addition, the findings indicate that language is a more influential factor in mathematics achievement than previously thought. Several policy implications are made including the potential benefits of using the HPHS rubric as a tool for Professional Learning Communities to self-evaluate their practices.

Author : Rosemary Papa
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1452237468
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leadership on Purpose written by Rosemary Papa and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2002-07-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With a wonderful mix of theory and practice, this volume is for professionals and for lay people, indeed for anyone interested in the crucial questions related to educational leadership in this country. The authors are to be congratulated, and the readers will be grateful for their efforts." Barry Munitz President and CEO JP Getty Trust Learn proven techniques to increase achievement in ethnically diverse classrooms! This compelling guide masterfully demonstrates how high achievement can exist in the midst of high minority enrollment and high poverty. By drawing upon the best practices of 13 exemplary schools, the book highlights the specific means by which ethnically diverse—namely African American and Latino—students can attain educational success. These "Promising Practices" are presented in a user-friendly, well-organized format, with real examples interwoven throughout. An invaluable resource, it shares school-tested methods that can be replicated readily, including: 7 strategies for principals to be effective leaders, creating a culture of equal learning opportunities for all students 8 tactics for successful curriculum and classroom instruction, from assessment to staff development 9 proven ways to make meaningful connections with parents, which promote higher student and teacher performance

Author : Samuel Casey Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Excuses written by Samuel Casey Carter and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All children can learn. The principals and schools profiled in this book have overcome the bureaucratic and cultural obstacles that keep low-income children behind in most public schools. No Excuses schools have created a culture of achievement among children whom most public schools would condemn to a life of failure."--Foreword, p. 1-2.

Author : William H. Parrett
Publisher : ASCD
ISBN 13 : 1416629025
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools written by William H. Parrett and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools across the United States and Canada are disrupting the adverse effects of poverty and supporting students in ways that enable them to succeed in school and in life. In this second edition, Parrett and Budge show you how your school can achieve similar results. Expanding on their original framework's still-critical concepts of actions and school culture, they incorporate new insights for addressing equity, trauma, and social-emotional learning. These fresh perspectives combine with lessons learned from 12 additional high-poverty, high-performing schools to form the updated and enhanced Framework for Collective Action. Emphasizing students' social, emotional, and academic learning as the hub for all action in high-performing, high-poverty schools, the authors describe how educators can work within the expanded Framework to address the needs of all students, but particularly those who live in poverty. Equipped with the Framework and a plethora of tools to build collective efficacy (self-assessments, high-leverage questions, action advice, and more), school and district leaders—as well as teachers, teacher leaders, instructional coaches, and other staff—can close persistent opportunity gaps and reverse longstanding patterns of low achievement.

Author : Linda L. Lyman
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 9781578860791
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Leadership Practices for High-poverty Schools written by Linda L. Lyman and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2004 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Leadership Practices for High-Poverty Schools presents both the practice and theory of best leadership practices in high-poverty schools. Authors Linda Lyman and Christine Villani take a unique approach by inviting readers into two high-poverty elementary schools where they will experience, through in-depth case studies, how two extraordinary principals model and practice their beliefs in the ability and worth of all children. Lyman and Villani demonstrate that a successful learning community for children of low-income families is based on the beliefs and attitudes of the school leader and the entire school community. Preparation programs for school principals typically do not provide for study of the complexity of poverty or the leadership practices that contribute to successful learning and achievement for children in high-poverty schools. The concluding questions that the authors pose provide a guide to developing best leadership practices that make a difference to the learning, achievement, and lives of children who live in poverty.This book offers: an insightful overview of research about leadership strategies and beliefs in high-poverty schools, causes and remedies for the achievement gap, evidence of continuing racial and ethnic prejudice, the widespread deficit thinking that limits learning. The authors challenge leaders, teachers, staff members, and others to examine their own attitudes and beliefs and then to commit to creating successful learning communities for all children from low-income families. This book is written as a resource for aspiring and practicing principals, or anyone interested in improving educational opportunities for children from families living in poverty.

Author : Nina Bascia
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402032013
Total Pages : 1129 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Handbook of Educational Policy written by Nina Bascia and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-05-14 with total page 1129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nina Bascia, Alister Cumming, Amanda Datnow, Kenneth Leithwood and David Livingstone This Handbook presents contemporary and emergent trends in educational policy research, in over ?fty chapters written by nearly ninety leading researchers from a number of countries. It is organized into ?ve broad sections which capture many of the current dominant educational policy foci and at the same time situate current understandings historically, in terms of both how they are conceptualized and in terms of past policy practice. The chapters themselves are empirically grounded, providing illustrations of the conceptual implications c- tained within them as well as allowing for comparisons across them. The se- re?exivity within chapters with respect to jurisdictional particularities and c- trasts allows readers to consider not only a range of approaches to policy analysis but also the ways in which policies and policy ideas play out in di?erent times and places. The sections move from a focus on prevailing policy tendencies through increasingly critical and ‘‘outsider’’ perspectives on policy. They address, in turn, the contemporary strategic emphasis on large-scale reform; substantive emphases at several levels – on leadership and governance, improving teacher quality and conceptualizing learning in various domains around the notion of literacies and concluding, ?nally, with a contrasting topic, workplace learning, which has had less policy attention and thus allows readers to consider both the advantages and disadvantages of learning and teaching under the bright gaze of policy.

Author : Linda C. Tillman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113512843X
Total Pages : 773 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversity written by Linda C. Tillman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid growth of diversity within U.S. schooling and the heightened attention to the lack of equity in student achievement, school completion, and postsecondary attendance has made equity and diversity two of the principle issues in education, educational leadership, and educational leadership research. The Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversity is the first research-based handbook that comprehensively addresses the broad diversity in U.S. schools by race, ethnicity, culture, language, gender, disability, sexual identity, and class. The Handbook both highly values the critically important strengths and assets that diversity brings to the United States and its schools, yet at the same time candidly critiques the destructive deficit thinking, biases, and prejudices that undermine school success for many groups of students. Well-known chapter authors explore diversity and related inequities in schools and the achievement problems these issues present to school leaders. Each chapter reviews theoretical and empirical evidence of these inequities and provides research-based recommendations for practice and for future research. Celebrating the broad diversity in U.S. schools, the Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversity critiques the inequities connected to that diversity, and provides evidence-based practices to promote student success for all children.

Author : Patrick M. Jenlink (Ed)
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1607091062
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for Identity in Today's Schools written by Patrick M. Jenlink (Ed) and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Struggle for Identity in Today's Schools" examines cultural recognition and the struggle for identity in America's schools. In particular, the contributing authors focus on the recognition and misrecognition as antagonistic cultural forces that work to shape, and at times distort identity. What surfaces throughout the chapters are two lessons to be learned in relation to identity. The first lesson is that identities and the acts attributed to them are always forming and re-forming in relation to historically specific contexts, and these contexts are political in nature, I.E., defined by issues of diversity such as race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, gender, and economics. The second lesson presented by the authors is that identity forms in and across intimate and social contexts, over long periods of time. The historical timing of identity formation cannot simply be dictated by discourse. The identities posited by any particular discourse become important and a part of everyday life based on the intersection of social histories and social actors. Importantly, the social-cultural use of identities leads to another way of conceptualizing histories, personhoods, cultures, and their distributions over social and political groups. Contents of this book include: (1) Cultural Identity--Discovering Authentic Voice; (2) Introduction: Cultural Identity and the Struggle for Recognition (Patrick M. Jenlink and Faye Hicks Townes), which includes: (a) Affirming Diversity, Politics of Recognition, and the Cultural Work of Schools (Patrick M. Jenlink); (b) Dialoguing Toward a Racialized Identity: a Necessary First Step in a Politics of Recognition (Kris Sloan); and (c) Misrecognition Compounded (Faye Hicks Townes); and (3) Struggle for Recognition--Embracing Cultural Politics, which includes: (a) Recognition, Identity Politics, and English Language Learners (Angela Crespo Cozart); (b) Identity Formation and Recognition in Asian-American Students (Kim Woo); (c) Curriculum and Recognition (Ray Horn); (d) Extracurricular Activities and Student Identity (Amanda Rudolph); (e) Recognition, Identity Politics, and the Special Needs Student (Sandra Stewart); (f) Athletes, Recognition, and the Formation of Identity (Vincent Mumford); (g) Administrator to Parent Recognition: Treat Me with Respect (Julia Ballenger); (h) Recognition and Parent Involvement (Betty Alford); (I) Student Identity and Cultural Communication (Sandy Harris); (j) Value-Added Community: Recognition, Induction-Year Teacher Diversity and the Shaping of Identity (John Leonard); and (k) Coda: Recognition, Difference, and the Future of America's Schools (Patrick M. Jenlink).