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What Brain Research Can Teach About Cutting School Budgets de Karen D. Olsen

What Brain Research Can Teach About Cutting School Budgets

Editat de Karen D. Olsen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 apr 2010
Karen Olsen's What Brain Research Can Teach About Cutting School Budgets is a practical guide for school leaders who are charged with the painstaking task of making budget cuts—a task typically driven by emotion, tradition, and the power of social leaders, followed by disagreements and dissatisfaction. This book offers an alternative—a way to use brain research to create powerful but politically neutral decision-making criteria. The author offers clear action items, brain research summaries, and checklists to guide leaders through the budget cutting process, and to ensure that they reinvest money into the key programmes that will truly impact student achievement.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781412980494
ISBN-10: 1412980496
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Recenzii

"Karen Olsen has put budget topics into perspective so that school administrators can make decisions based on what is best for children, not what is easiest and most efficient for adults. We used this book in our district with all our principals and it was a powerful guide in helping them see through the fog of mandates, policies, and red tape and get to the priority of students!"
"I’m very pleased to see a book bold enough to assert that the realm of brain research should be applied to wherever human brains are working and whatever challenges we face. Not only can and should brain research inform how and what we teach in the classroom, but it should be brought to bear in boardrooms and the school budgeting process. This book is brilliant and groundbreaking. Every school in America should have a copy in its professional library."
"Olsen addresses a current national issue with a focus on budget deficits and identifying a process for making decisions about budget cuts. This is definitely a different and unusual approach to budget cutting—a compelling contribution to the field."
"The entire nation is struggling with budget cuts, and this book is a very practical guide, a guide that has longevity and can be used time and time again with the same profound results. I would recommend this text as a must-read for anyone affected by budget cuts in education."

Cuprins

Foreword by Susan Kovalik
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Where to $tart
Attitude Is Important
Action Items
Resources
Endnotes
Action Summary Checklist
2. Instruction: Tools
A Brief Summary
Action Items
Brain Research
Resources
Endnotes
Action Summary Checklist
3. Instruction: Organization and Use of Time
Optimizing Organization and Use of Time
Action Items
Brain Research
Resources
Endnotes
Action Summary Checklist
4. Staffing
Action Items
Brain Research
Resources
Endnotes
Action Summary Checklist
5. Professional Development
Professional Development Is a Survival Imperative
Action Items
Brain Research
Resources
Endnotes
Action Summary Checklist
6. The Inseparable Bodybrain Learning Partnership: Movement and Aerobic Exercise
Movement to Enhance Learning
Action Items
Resources
Myths Versus Brain Facts
Endotes
Action Summary Checklist
7. The Inseparable Bodybrain Learning Partnership: Emotion
Impact of Emotion as Gatekeeper to Learning and Performance
Action Items
Resources
Endnotes
Action Summary Checklist
8. Double-Link Curriculum for Two-Step Learning: Link One
A Context for Content
Content for Link-One Curriculum
Action Task 1: Analyze Your Curriculum for Age Appropriateness
Action Task 2: Analyze How Well Your Standards Enhance Pattern Seeking
Resources
Endnotes
Action Summary Checklist
9. Double-Link Curriculum for Two-Step Learning: Link Two
Link-Two Content
Action Items
Resources
Endnotes
Action Summary Checklist
10. Testing: Does the Emperor Wear Clothes?
What Do Tests Test?
Standardized Tests Don't Test Learning
Where and What to Cut
Homegrown Isn't Necessarily Better
Action Items
Resources
Endotes
Action Summary Checklist
Appendix A: Pattern Seeking
Appendix B: Developing Programs
Appendix C: Age Appropriateness
Glossary
List of Figures
About the Author
References
Index

Descriere

Suggesting an alternative to traditional criteria used when considering budget cuts, this guide shows school leaders how to draw on brain research in their decision-making process.