Lessons from New American Schools' scale-up phase :
Bodilly, Susan J.
Lessons from New American Schools' scale-up phase : prospects for bringing designs to multiple schools / Susan J. Bodilly with Brent Keltner [and others]. - Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 1998. - 1 online resource (xxi, 140 pages) : illustrations
"MR-942-NAS"--Page 4 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-140).
Figures Tables History of NAS and the Scale-Up Strategy Research Approach and Methods Findings on Progress Towards Implementation The Influence of the Selection Process and School Climate Influence of Design and Team Factors Influence of School Structural and Site Factors Influence of Jurisdictional and Institutional Factors Caveats and Conclusions A Backgroound History of New American Schools Descriptions and Designs ix -- xi -- Chapter 2 7 -- Chapter 3 21 -- Chapter 4 35 -- Chapter 5 43 -- Chapter 6 59 -- Chapter 7 79 -- Chapter 8 85 -- Chapter 9 107 -- Appendix 115 -- Appendix B 119.
New American Schools was established in 1991 to help schools transform themselves into high-performing organizations. This report is a formative assessment of the first two years (1995-1997) of the scale-up phase, during which NAS partnered with 10 jurisdictions to implement design-based programs for improving student performance. A series of lessons emerged from this analysis: (1) The effort at school reform is complex because of the multiple actors involved. (2) Design teams do not accomplish implementation by themselves but only with the cooperation of schools and districts. (3) Teachers found stable school and district leadership and clear signals about the effort's priority to be important. Perhaps the most important lesson is that there still are no silver bullets for ensuring the implementation of reforms, but several districts have made significant progress in the two-year period.
English.
0585354391 9780585354392 0833026321 9780833026323
RAND/MR-942-NAS
$20.00 paperback
98020629
New American Schools (Organization)
New American Schools (Organization)
School improvement programs--United States--Case studies.
School management and organization--United States--Case studies.
School districts--United States--Case studies.
School environment--United States--Case studies.
EDUCATION--Administration--General.
School districts.
School environment.
School improvement programs.
School management and organization.
Education.
Social Sciences.
Theory & Practice of Education.
United States.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Electronic book.
LB2822.82 / .B636 1998eb
371.2/00973
Lessons from New American Schools' scale-up phase : prospects for bringing designs to multiple schools / Susan J. Bodilly with Brent Keltner [and others]. - Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 1998. - 1 online resource (xxi, 140 pages) : illustrations
"MR-942-NAS"--Page 4 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-140).
Figures Tables History of NAS and the Scale-Up Strategy Research Approach and Methods Findings on Progress Towards Implementation The Influence of the Selection Process and School Climate Influence of Design and Team Factors Influence of School Structural and Site Factors Influence of Jurisdictional and Institutional Factors Caveats and Conclusions A Backgroound History of New American Schools Descriptions and Designs ix -- xi -- Chapter 2 7 -- Chapter 3 21 -- Chapter 4 35 -- Chapter 5 43 -- Chapter 6 59 -- Chapter 7 79 -- Chapter 8 85 -- Chapter 9 107 -- Appendix 115 -- Appendix B 119.
New American Schools was established in 1991 to help schools transform themselves into high-performing organizations. This report is a formative assessment of the first two years (1995-1997) of the scale-up phase, during which NAS partnered with 10 jurisdictions to implement design-based programs for improving student performance. A series of lessons emerged from this analysis: (1) The effort at school reform is complex because of the multiple actors involved. (2) Design teams do not accomplish implementation by themselves but only with the cooperation of schools and districts. (3) Teachers found stable school and district leadership and clear signals about the effort's priority to be important. Perhaps the most important lesson is that there still are no silver bullets for ensuring the implementation of reforms, but several districts have made significant progress in the two-year period.
English.
0585354391 9780585354392 0833026321 9780833026323
RAND/MR-942-NAS
$20.00 paperback
98020629
New American Schools (Organization)
New American Schools (Organization)
School improvement programs--United States--Case studies.
School management and organization--United States--Case studies.
School districts--United States--Case studies.
School environment--United States--Case studies.
EDUCATION--Administration--General.
School districts.
School environment.
School improvement programs.
School management and organization.
Education.
Social Sciences.
Theory & Practice of Education.
United States.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Electronic book.
LB2822.82 / .B636 1998eb
371.2/00973