Models

School Effectiveness Framework-Wales

Ontario

ASCD Whole Child/Georgia

Chicago Public Schools

Specialized Model (Faithbased School)

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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.

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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.

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