Models
School Effectiveness Framework-Wales
Ontario
ASCD Whole Child/Georgia
Chicago Public Schools
Specialized Model (Faithbased School)
Theories unique to field
School Effects Research - the study of the scientific properties of school effects, including the existence, magnitude, consistency, and stability.
Rutter, M. (1983). School effects on pupil progress: Research findings and policy implications. Child Development, 1-29.
Effective Schools Research- focuses upon the processes of effective schooling using outlier schools and case studies.
Purkey, S. C., & Smith, M. S. (1983). Effective schools: A review. The Elementary School Journal, 83(4), 427-452.
Scheerens, J., & Creemers, B. P. (1989). Conceptualizing school effectiveness. International Journal of Educational Research, 13(7), 691-706. READ HERE
School Improvement Research - examines the processes by which schools can be changed, including and extending to increasingly sophisticated models.
Joyce, B. R. (1991). The Doors to School Improvement. Educational leadership, 48(8), 59-62.
Fink, D., & Stoll, L. (2005). Educational change: Easier said than done. In A. Hargreaves, A. Lieberman,M. Fullan, & D. Hopkins (Eds.), Extending educational change: International handbook of educational change (pp. 17–41). Dordrecht: Springer.
See Teddlie, C. (2009). The legacy of the school effectiveness research tradition. Second International Handbook of Educational Change, 23(3), 523–554.
Five phases of school & system improvement
PHASE 1-Understanding the organizational culture of the school
Organizational Development tradition
School culture inherent to change
PHASE 2-Action research and research initiatives at the school level
School review
Teacher research
PHASE 3-Managing change and comprehensive approaches to school reform
Centralized policy change
Comprehensive school reform
PHASE 4-Building cpacity for student learning at the local level and continuing emphasis on leadership
PLCs
Leadership and student achievement
PHASE 5-Towards systemic improvement
Benchcmarking
Differentiated approaches
Hopkins, D., Stringfield, S., Harris, A., Stoll, L., & Mackay, T. (2014). School and system improvement: A narrative state-of-the-art review. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 25(2), 257-281.
What Makes Good System Leaders?
Kirtman & Fullan
Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning
Preparing leaders for deeper learning
New Pedagogies for Deeper Learning
Great Teachers in Latin America
Video-Coherence-Fullan