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Leadership
is a privilege, not a right. Teaching is a responsibility, not a contract.
DSM
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| Google Earth | Google Maps | ||
| What makes a good school? | ||
| Convicted Sex Offenders | ||
| Transformative Leadership Self-Assessment | ||
| The Waters Foundation | ||
| e-lead | ||
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A
magazine for K-12 administrators - FREE - online
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The Motivation Tool Box | |
| The Center for Visionary Leadership | ||
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Quality Leadership by Design They develop organizational capacity for change, learning and improvement in public education |
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The National School Network (NSN) Resource Exchange Designed as a research, support and information sharing facility, the Exchange is host to the contributions of NSN partners in the areas of collaborative projects, curriculum, discussions, and research. |
The Principals' Partnership The site contains a useful collection of leadership resources, articles and professional tools |
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| Wallace Foundation - Inside Leadership | ||
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Jim
Collins' web site
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http://cepm.uoregon.edu/publications/digests/digest110.html | |
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Leadership
DEFINED
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| 6 Traits of Effective Leadership | ||
| 14 Basic Traits of Effective Leadership | ||
| Leadership Qualities | ||
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Disability
laws, awareness...
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| Curriculum - on-line OPEN source | ||
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Change
Toolkit: Reinventing Education - Great tools:)
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Leader
to Leader (leadership - but Kotter has material on this site too)
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| Essential Schools | ||
| The Naitonal School Boards Association Toolkit | ||
| Portfolio on Change Process | ||
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Emotional
Intelligence: Innovative tools
for individual and organizational change
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| MPR Center for Curriculum and Professional Development: | ||
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A
Web site titled Tools for School-Improvement
Planning with a link to a section called Using Data describes types
and uses of data, selecting and analyzing data, and using results to
drive planning efforts
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| 11 Value Added Assessments for Teachers | ||
| Finding Time for Professional Development | ||
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http://www.dpi.state.nc/workforce_development/civil-rights/schoolsdo/pdf |
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| NARROWING THE ACHIEVMENT GAP | ||
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Decade of whole-school Reform - The
New American Schools Experience
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| National Staff Development | ||
| EdTrust | ||
| Fed World | ||
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The Aiming
High: High Schools for the 21st Century handbook is designed to help
California educators fully implement a standards-based curriculum at
the high school level.
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http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/gs/hs/ahgen.asp | |
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ASCD
SmartBrief
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www.smartbrief.ascd | |
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The
North Scott School District
Nice website with their strategic plan posted. Currently being "revised" to meet the new Iowa Comprehensive School Improvement Plan criteria. WONDERFUL SITE!!!! |
http://www.north-scott.k12.ia.us/ | |
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District
Administration
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www.districtadministration.com | |
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Perception
Surveys
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http://www.k12.wa.us/SchoolImprovement/PerceptionSurveys.aspx | |
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Tools for
School-Improvement Planning with a link to a section called Using Data
describes types and uses of data, selecting and analyzing data, and
using results to drive planning efforts.
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http://www.annenberginstitute.org/tools | |
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US
Department of Education
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FREE FEDERAL RESOURCES | |
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Clearinghouse
on Educational Policy and Management (CEPM)
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http://cepm.uoregon.edu | |
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Council
of Great City Schools
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www.cgcs.org | |
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Understanding
Authentic Assessment
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http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/litass/ | |
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American
Association of School Administrators
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www.aasa.org | |
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GREAT
REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS for School Improvement
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http://206.166.105.86/process/4_steps/shared_questions.asp | |
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The
CENTER for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement
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http://www.centerforcsri.org/ | |
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Daniel
Pink (author of A Whole New Mind)
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Infinite Thinking | |
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Joel
Barker: Five Regions
of the Future
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Electronic School | |
| PROFILER SITE: University of Kansas, allows visitors to create their own surveys or use one of more than 500 surveys from their library. Visitors can respond to a survey and quickly see the results. Surveys also can be downloaded for us by larger groups. There is no charge to any school district for their use | ||
| The 21st Century | ||
| Illinois Interactive School Report Card | ||
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SELF-ASSESSMENT
ON ABILITY TO USE DATA TO MAKE DECISIONS
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School Net - school data | |
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A
Web site managed by the North
Central Regional Educational Laboratory offers tools to help educators
collect data about their classroom, school district, professional practice,
and community
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PROFILER SITE: University of Kansas, allows visitors to create their own surveys or use one of more than 500 surveys from their library. Visitors can respond to a survey and quickly see the results. Surveys also can be downloaded for us by larger groups. There is no charge to any school district for their use | |
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School
Matters – data on every school
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| Iowa School Profies | ||
| Data driven decision-making | ||
| 3 D Decision-Making | ||
| Diversity DATA (current information on population...) | ||
| New Lenox - Curriculum | ||
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Staff
Development Self-assessment The National Staff Development Council
offers a self-assessment that districts can use to gauge their progress
toward implementing the NSDC Standards for Staff Development.
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http://www.nsdc.org/assessment.pdf Issues facing educators | |
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Values
Audit - do they match your company's
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| Child Development information | ||
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The
Data Connection: Improving
School Board Decision-making:
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National School Boards: Key WORKS | |
| What's happening in the "big world" | ||
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Information
resources for people who plan,
design, build, and maintain K-12 schools. NCEF is part of the U.S.
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The Safety Zone | |
| School Safety | ||
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ToolBelt
designed to help collect data about classrooms, professional practices
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Implementing
schoolwide programs: An
Idea Book on Planning
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ED312774 1989-00—00 Within the field of education, the act of planning implies that the schools are more than passive pawns in the ands of socioeconomic forces | |
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School
Management and Planning This is an online magazine for people interested
in school planning… from curriculum to facilities management
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Phi Delta Kappa is pleased to make available the Strategic Planning process to enable districts to better meet the needs of their community. | |
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The
Cambridge Group
Helps school districts implement strategic planning for better school systems. Read about programs, view a client list, and get contacts. Possible classes that can be taken for new administrators or people within a school district looking to begin the change process |
PMR
- School
Planning Overview Site that tells you about strategic planning. Has MS WORD TEMPLATES that can be downloaded as formats to some types of strategic plans |
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Strategic
Planning and School-Based Management Systems This document will
provide an overview of strategic planning and its relationship to school-based
management systems. Although, the content of this article relates strategic
planning and school-based management systems to an educational environment
many of the processes are applicable to business and government organizations.
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TECHNOLOGY
and Leadership (National School Boards tech toolkit
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Strategic
Planning for Education in New Mexico - Technology This is a draft
plan for education in New Mexico. The plan was developed by a 30-member
team "to develop and reach consensus on a statewide strategic plan
for New Mexico public schools that makes New Mexico preeminent in education
in the nation." Interesting model followed: connecting each action
to their strategic plan
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The Community Tool Box contains thousands of pages of how-to material and tools on community health and development. There are sections on everything from strategic planning to writing brochures. Each of the over 100 sections contains information on the topic, checklists, links to useful information, examples, and information that can be transferred to overheads for training purposes. In addition, links to related websites included | |
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Construction
Education. Com Offers list of resources (sites) in Educational
Planning - P-12 and higher education
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Planning tools for high performance | |
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site
full of theory and research of WHY
strategic planning is important. Very good for background information
to use especially before a board meeting. Heading includes step by step
process of how to plan.
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CSU
Dynamic Environmental
Scan
This site gives a link to assorted strategic planning resources…from books to ideas of the future from educational institutions. |
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The
Substitute Teaching Institute publishes
resources for substitute teachers including the Substitute Teacher Handbook
and the SubInstructor CD Training program. You can order these materials
at the STI web site.
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"TQ
Source" looks to boost teacher
quality in America's schools by disseminating information about new
approaches to teacher preparation, recruitment, and retention in schools
nationwide
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EXCELLENT Training
material -
video clips - handouts! FREE from DOE
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Improving America's Schools: Newsletter on Issues in School Reform | |
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Schools
Moving Up - Great Sites for Training Materials
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Teacher
Mentoring site - good materials and research
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| PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES | ||
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Audit
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Motivation | |
| School Climate Survey | ||
| The study of school climate | ||
| Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) | ||
| Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) | ||
| SchwabLearning.org | ||
| Code of fair testing practices in education prepared by the joint committee on testing practices | ||
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Consolidation
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School District Reorganization | |
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Site
for
information about on consolidation
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| Rural Trust Links | ||
| National Rural Education Association | ||
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Education
Policy Studies Lab (EPSL) at Arizona State University
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | |
| Economic Policy Inc. | ||
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The
Quality School Portfolio, a
Web-based decision-making tool developed by the National Center for
Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, is available
in desktop and Web versions. The Web version has expanded capabilities
and greater flexibility to help educators understand and use data to
improve student achievement
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GREAT
SITE 4 Teacher Leaders - free monthly newsletter
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| Class and Schools (2004) | ||