Leadership, Governance and Management

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    Student Outcomes Focused Governance: A Continuous Improvement Framework
     
    The framework is built around six research-informed competencies that describe school board behaviors and the degree to which they create the conditions for improvements in student outcomes: Vision & Goals, Values & Guardrails, Monitoring & Accountability, Communication &Collaboration, Unity & Trust, and Continuous Improvement.
    32 pages
    October 2021
     
     
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    Advancing Instruction and Leadership in the Nation’s Great City Schools:A Framework for Developing, Implementing,and Sustaining High-Quality Professional Development
     
    This guide aims to present district instructional leaders and staff with a core set of criteria for what high-quality professional development entails. It focuses on practical issues of district-level implementation in multiple teaching and learning environments and provides clear, concrete guidance for district leaders in selecting, designing, implementing, and sustaining high quality professional development.
    34 pages
    April 2021
     
     
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    Managing for Results in America's Great City Schools, 2018, Results from Fiscal Year 2016-17
     
    In 2002 the Council of the Great City Schools and its members set out to develop performance measures that could be used to improve business operations in urban public school districts.
    190 pages
    October 2018
     
     
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    Managing for Results in America's Great City Schools, 2017, Results from Fiscal Year 2015-2016
     
    In 2002 the Council of the Great City Schools and its members set out to develop performance measures that could be used to improve business operations in urban public school districts.
    190 pages
    October 2017
     
     
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    Managing for Results in America's Great City Schools 2016, Results from Fiscal Year 2014-15
     
    Managing for Results in America’s Great City Schools are components of the Performance Management and Benchmarking Project, an initiative created by the Council to define, gather, and report data on key performance indicators (KPIs) in various non-academic operations of school district management.
    190 pages
    October 2016
     
     
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    Managing for Results in America's Great City Schools: 2015
     
    Managing for Results in America’s Great City Schools are components of the Performance Management and Benchmarking Project, an initiative created by the Council to define, gather, and report data on key performance indicators (KPIs) in various non-academic operations of school district management.
    192 pages
    October 2015
     
     
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    Managing for Results in America's Great City Schools, 2014
     
    Managing for Results in America’s Great City Schools are components of the Performance Management and Benchmarking Project, an initiative created by the Council to define, gather, and report data on key performance indicators (KPIs) in various non-academic operations of school district management.
    178 pages
    October 2014
     
     
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    Reversing the Cycle of Deterioration in the Nation's Public School Buildings
     
    This report describes how school districts, financially squeezed over long periods of time, made economic decisions that reduced the most cost-effective types of maintenance work: preventive and predictive maintenance.
    78 pages
    October 2014