Creating and Administering an Effective School- Miami 2008 docs

• "How the world's best-performing school systems come out on top", September 2007, Mckinsey & Company http://mckinsey.com/clientservice/socialsector/resources/pdf/Worlds_School_Systems_Final.pdf

• Correlates of Effective Schools

• From Plagues to Practice

• Getting Reform Right

• Grading a School

• Leaders as Creators

• Leading Edge

• Recovering from HSPS

• School Teacher and Leadership Impacts

• Small Learning Communities that Actually Learn

• The Roar of Complexity

Additional Resources

U of Minn. Ctr for Applied Research http://education.umn.edu/CAREI/Projects.html Interactive Case Simulations in Ed Lead. http://cnx.org/content/m14100/latest

Journal of Cases in Ed. Leadership www.ucea.org/html/cases/index.html

Education World www.educationworld.com/a_admin/archives/p_files.shtml

Discovery Learning www.discoverylearning.com/

The Edu Project Asia (Shambles in S.E. Asia) www.shambles.net/headteacher/

Tools for School Improv. Planning: www.annenberginstitute.org/tools/index.html

American Assoc. of School Administrators www.aasa.org

Assoc. of California School Administrators http://acsa.org (see Leadership Educators)

Assoc. of Supervision & Curriculum Dev www.ascd.org/educationnews.html

Education Leadership Tool Kit www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/

International Leadership Association www.academy.umd.edu/ila/

Institute for Educational Leadership www.iel.org/pubs.html

Leadership Resources at Questia www.questia.com/ (see Online Lib. of Books)

Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning www.mcrel.org

Nat'l. Assoc. Elementary School Principals www.naesp.org

Nat'l Governors' Assoc. www.nga.org

Nat'l Middle School Assoc. www.nmsa.org

Nat'l Staff Development Council www.nsdc.org

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory www.ncrel.org

Performance Learning Systems, Inc. www.plsweb.com/sec01.htm

PHI DELTA KAPPA Int'l  www.pdkintl.org

Regional Edu Laboratory Network  www.relnetwork.org (see Specialty Areas)

School Leadership: A Profile Document www.oise.utoronto.ca/~vsvede/

South Educational Development Laboratory  www.sedl.org

U.S. Dept. of Education: No Child Left Behind www.ed.gov

California Department of Education www.cde.ca.gov

San Diego County Office of Ed K-12 resources www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/resources