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Ongoing, intensive, and purposeful professional development that is researched
based, data driven, and focused on developing a teacher’s pedagogy, not expertise
in a publisher’s curriculum
Multiple partnerships to address outside factors that affect students and their
families in under resourced communities
Future Considerations
There are many things that Delano Charter School does exceptionally well. In
further strengthening their program, some areas of improvement and focus should be on
strengthening technology usage throughout the school in a more meaningful way that
promotes learning. One area that the school is cognizant of is ensuring that the
technology will not be the “Crayola curriculum in a digital format” as stated by the
principal. Additionally, the school should continue to look at further increasing the
quality of before school and after school teachers and utilizing fully credentialed and
highly qualified tutors. Finally, as the school leadership transitions next year, it will be
imperative that the new principal be able to continue the momentum of the school’s
current improvement efforts.
Object Description
| Title | Allocation of educational resources to improve student achievement: Case studies of four California charter schools |
| Author | Patrick, Ramona Kay |
| Author email | rpatrick@usc.edu; ramonakaypatrick@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-28 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-05-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Picus, Lawrence O. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hentschke, Guilbert C. Nelson, John L. |
| Abstract | Charter schools are growing at a rapid pace have significantly more flexibility in their allocation of resources in comparison to their traditional public school counterparts in California. Because of this, it is important to study how successful charter schools, with this increased flexibility, are utilizing their resources to achieve high results with their students in a time of fiscal constraint. There is a plethora of data and research on effective school practices to improve student achievement, but a dearth of research on the effective allocation of resources at charter schools. The purpose of this study is to analyze how four high performing charter schools, with high percentages of socioeconomically disadvantaged students in Los Angeles, California, are implementing school improvement strategies and utilizing resources at their school site to impact student achievement. The Evidenced-Based Model, (Odden & Picus, 2008) along with Odden and Archibald’s (2009) Ten Strategies for Doubling Student Performance were used as a lens in this study to compare resource allocation as well as school improvement strategies to best support student achievement at the schools. This study will describe each schools’ instructional vision and improvement strategy, how resources are utilized to implement their instructional improvement plan, how the current fiscal crisis is affecting their allocation of resources, and how actual resource patterns are aligned with the Evidence Based Model (Odden & Picus, 2008). |
| Keyword | charter schools; resource allocation; evidenced-based model |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 2000/2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3815 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Patrick, Ramona Kay |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Patrick-4438 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume51/etd-Patrick-4438.pdf |
Description
| Title | Page 201 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 193 Ongoing, intensive, and purposeful professional development that is researched based, data driven, and focused on developing a teacher’s pedagogy, not expertise in a publisher’s curriculum Multiple partnerships to address outside factors that affect students and their families in under resourced communities Future Considerations There are many things that Delano Charter School does exceptionally well. In further strengthening their program, some areas of improvement and focus should be on strengthening technology usage throughout the school in a more meaningful way that promotes learning. One area that the school is cognizant of is ensuring that the technology will not be the “Crayola curriculum in a digital format” as stated by the principal. Additionally, the school should continue to look at further increasing the quality of before school and after school teachers and utilizing fully credentialed and highly qualified tutors. Finally, as the school leadership transitions next year, it will be imperative that the new principal be able to continue the momentum of the school’s current improvement efforts. |
