Making Schools Smarter: A System for Monitoring School and District Progress

Leithwood, Kenneth; Aitken, Robert; Jantzi, Doris

ISBN 10: 0761975055 / ISBN 13: 9780761975052

Published by Corwin, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Schools Smarter: A System for Monitoring School and District Progress
• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761975055
• ISBN 13: 9780761975052
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Updated Edition of Best Seller!

For years, this popular and important monitoring system has helped schools and districts acquire the information they need to achieve their strategic planning, accountability, and school restructuring goals. The book describes an ideal, achievable "model" school and district, including indicators of specific features of that school or district and ways of measuring comparable features of current schools and districts. Now, the Second Edition includes:

• Refined and improved school and district surveys
• A complete rewrite of guidelines with additional research data to ensure productive use of the monitoring information
• New insight on collecting, analyzing, and interpreting monitoring information
• A fresh examination of attitudes towards evaluation of schools and how the public understands these changes

More than ever, Making Schools Smarter is the resource for administrators and superintendents, as well as for students and teachers of educational leadership and school restructuring.

About the Author

Dr. Leithwood is Emeritus Professor at OISE/University of Toronto. His research and writing is about school leadership, educational policy and organizational change. He has published extensively on these topics. For example, he is the senior editor of both the first and second International Handbooks on Educational Leadership and Administration (Kluwer Publishers, 1996, 2003). His most recent books include How School Leaders Contribute to Student Success (2017, Springer), Linking Leadership to Student Learning (2012, Jossey Bass), Leading School Turnaround (2010, Jossey Bass), Distributed leadership: The state of the evidence (2009, Routledge), Leading with Teachers’ Emotions in Mind (2008, Corwin), Making Schools Smarter (Corwin, 3^rd edition, 2006) and Teaching for Deep Understanding (Corwin, 2006). Among his awards, Professor Leithwood is the inaugural recipient of the University of Toronto’s Impact on Public Policy award, AERA (Division A) 2011 Outstanding Leadership Researcher Award, the 2012 Roald F.  Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award from the University Council for Educational Administration and the Ontario Principal Councils’ Outstanding Contributions to Education Award for 2016. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. With colleagues, he has completed one of the largest studies of its kind about how state, district and school-level leadership influences student learning.