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Getting the Schools You Want

A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting Your Own Curriculum Management Audit
Curriculum management audits are rapidly becoming powerful tools for school improvement in the United States. This book is a clear, step-by-step guide to conducting such an audit.

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9780803965447
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 1997
  • Page Count: 160
  • Publication date: June 24, 1997
Price: $39.95
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Getting the Schools You Want is a step-by-step guide to school improvement through the use of a curriculum management audit. Use the practitioner-oriented framework, reproducible forms, and survey instruments to save time, prevent headaches, and get results. Curriculum management audits are powerful tools for improving schools and supporting systematic change. At the district level, the curriculum management audit process can provide you with the findings, insight, and recommendations to make meaningful change. Individual schools can also use the internal audit to measure schoolwide efforts and effectiveness. The curriculum audit is organized around five standards: control, objectives, connectivity and equity, assessment, and productivity. These standards are the same regardless of the size, location, community, or history of the district. The audit provides a guide to planning, a vehicle to communicate with staff and the community, and a proven process for improving student achievement. Use this guide to +
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Improving America's Schools

The Challenge to Change

Understanding What the Audit Is and Is Not

Role of the Auditor

Key Principles

Developing Audit Basics

Key Concepts

Creating a Rational District

The Control Standard

Knowing What Everyone Does

The Objectives Standard

Knowing How Everyone Is Doing

The Assessment Standard

Organizing What Everyone Does

The Connectivity and Equity Standard

Making Everything Count

The Productivity Standard

Writing the Audit

Findings and Recommendations

Political Implications of the Audit

After the Audit

What Now?

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