This teaching / learning method promotes personal and social growth, career development, and civic responsibility and can be a powerful vehicle
for effective school reform at all grade levels.
Chicago's LSCs have proven to be a positive element
of effective school reform for nearly two decades (for details, please see the fact sheet, «Research Shows that Local School Councils Help Improve Schools!».
Our schools send teams of educators, parents, and students to our annual fall conference at Stanford University where they hear the latest research on best practices in education and learn from each other how to
create effective school reform.
We don't just have evidence of
effective school reforms from well - studied pilot programs; we also have such evidence from large - scale initiatives that have produced improvements for low - income and minority students.
(Ind.) Smaller class size, followed by increased technology and greater accountability (such as shuttering failing schools) was perceived to be the
most effective school reform strategy, according to a new survey released this month.
Chicago's LSCs have proven to be a positive element
of effective school reform for nearly two decades (for details, please see our fact sheet, «Research Shows that Local School Councils Help Improve Schools!»).
Our schools send teams of educators, parents, and students to our annual fall conference at Stanford University where they hear the latest research on best practices in education and learn from each other how to
create effective school reform.
Reform - minded educators should work to recast parents» roles so parents become an allied force that presses
for effective school reform.
Instead, the pair suggested that reducing educational inequality may best be achieved through three strategies: Effective pre — K programs,
effective school reform, and economic support programs.
As state lawmakers continue their debate, some contend the program makes for exciting headlines but will not lead to
effective school reform.
Identified as
an effective school reform program by the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice of the American Institutes for Research, Washington, D. C.
Further, Marzano's work points emphatically to the importance of quality leadership, which «could be considered the single most important aspect of
effective school reform... [I] t influences every aspect of the model» (p. 172).
Research shows that LSCs are also a successful element of
effective school reform.
Effective school reform is not short - term.
I am looking to be part of
an effective school reform based on collegiality, a clear and shared vision.