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Leveraging Resources for Student Success

How School Leaders Build Equity

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By: Mary Ann Burke, Editor, Reynaldo Baca, Lawrence O. Picus, Cathy E. Jones

Proven tactics for embracing diversity and effacing inequity!

This user-friendly guide presents pointed, practical solutions for ensuring equitable access to quality education for all students, regardless of socioeconomic status and cultural heritage. It offers visionary yet realistic techniques for building a school culture that caters to and empowers diverse students—resulting in enhanced student and teacher performance.

Special features include:

Work sheets and sample plans for easy implementation
"Survival Strategies" and other real-life examples of principal and teacher practices that have been successful in urban schools
Tips for cultivating and maximizing community relationships to obtain resources
Straightforward assessment methods to authentically measure change

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761945468
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2002
Page Count: 120
Publication date: November 19, 2002

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Description

"Here is a book that challenges educators to put aside outmoded images of what is unlikely to push education far or fast enough to make a difference. Underlying each chapter is the belief and the 'how to' that allows for the development of a community culture that matches the changing condition of a changing society and student success."
Lee Mahon, Professor/Mentor, Doctoral Studies
The Fielding Institute, Santa Barbara, CA

Proven tactics for embracing diversity and effacing inequity!

Meeting the unique educational needs of increasingly multicultural and economically diverse student populations has become a serious challenge that afflicts countless schools across the country. This guide, grounded in more than 30 years of field research, presents pointed, practical solutions for ensuring equitable access to quality education for all students, regardless of socioeconomic status and cultural heritage.

Written in a user-friendly format, Leveraging Resources for Student Success highlights effective leadership strategies for decision makers and educators at all levels. It offers visionary yet realistic techniques for building a school culture, as well as policies and procedures that cater to and empower diverse students—resulting in enhanced student and teacher performance.

Special features of this definitive book include

Invaluable work sheets and sample plans for easy self-evaluation and implementation
Specific "Survival Strategies" that have been successfully utilized in urban schools
Tips for cultivating and maximizing community relationships to obtain resources
Straightforward assessment methods to authentically measure change
Real-life examples of principal and teacher practices that have worked

Author(s)

Mary Ann Burke, Editor

Mary Ann Burke is the co-founder of the Generational Parenting Blog at genparenting.com. Dr. Burke presents effective parenting and school engagement strategies at numerous state and national parent engagement events. She creates Common Core State Standards kits and S.T.E.A.M. activities for parents to use at home and in their child’s classroom to support children’s literacy and academic readiness skills. Dr. Burke is an author or editor of four Corwin Press Books on parent and community engagement in schools. Mary Ann is an active grandmother of five grandchildren that include seven month old twin granddaughters, a four year old preschool grandson, a six-year-old kindergarten granddaughter, and a nine year old third grade grandson. She supports her grandchildren’s literacy and academic development activity play at home and at their schools. Mary Ann is a credentialed parent educator for over thirty years in California’s schools and a former adjunct professor. Dr. Burke previously led the Santa Clara County Office of Education’s Parent Engagement Initiative that is a state model for best practices in parent engagement for culturally diverse families.

Reynaldo Baca

Lawrence O. Picus

Lawrence O. Picus is professor of education finance and policy at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. His current research interests focus on adequacy and equity in school finance as well as efficiency and productivity in the provision of educational programs for K-12 school children. Picus is past president of the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) and is the president of the board of EdSource, a California-based education research organization. Picus is the coauthor of School Finance: A Policy Perspective (5th edition) with Allan R. Odden. He has authored, coauthored, or edited several other books including Where Does the Money Go? Resource
Allocation in Elementary and Secondary Schools (1995), In Search of More Productive Schools: A Guide to Resource Allocation in Education (2001), Developing Community-Empowered Schools (2001) coauthored with Mary Ann Burke, and Principles of School Business Administration (1995) with R. Craig Wood, David Thompson, and Don I. Tharpe. He has also published numerous articles in professional journals. Picus studies how educational resources are allocated and used in schools across the United States. He has conducted studies of the impact of incentives
on school district performance. Picus maintains close contact with the superintendents and chief business officers of school districts throughout California and the nation and is a member of a number of professional organizations dedicated to improving school district management. He is a former member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of the Association of School Business Officials International, and he has served as a consultant to the National Education Association, American Federation of Teachers, the National Center for Education Statistics, and WestEd. He served as the principal consultant for the design of school funding systems in Wyoming and Arkansas and has conducted equity, adequacy, and resource allocation studies in Arizona, Arkansas, Washington, Vermont, Oregon, South Carolina, Louisiana, Kansas,
Kentucky, Montana, New Jersey, Nebraska, Texas, North Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Maine. Picus holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Reed College and master’s degrees from the University of Chicago and the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He received his PhD in public policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

Cathy E. Jones

Table of Contents

Preface

Organization of This Book

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

1. Principal and Teacher Leadership Strategies

2. Social Justice for Diverse Students

3. Building Partnerships for Educational Equity

4. Shortcuts for Accessing Critical Resources

5. Evaluation Measurements That Ensure Equality

6. Summary of Culturally Proficient Urban School Practices

References

Index

Reviews

"Here is a book that challenges educators to put aside outmoded images of what is unlikely to push education far or fast enough to make a difference. Underlying each chapter is the belief and the 'how to' that allows for the development of a community culture that matches the changing condition of a changing society and student success."

Lee Mahon, Professor
The Fielding Institute, Santa Barbara, CA

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