The School Improvement Rubric (SIR) Bibliography
Following is a list of some of the resources that have been referenced in the development of the School Improvement Rubric (SIR), the SIR Question Bank and the Technical Assistance Process using the SIR. Their primary use has been to develop the descriptors within the Rubric and to develop questions within the SIR Question Bank.
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A Guide to Performance Excellence for Schools, Self-Assessment Work Book, ASQ Koalaty Kid, 1998.
A How-To Guide for School-Business Partnerships, The Council for Corporate & School Partnerships, http://www.corpschoolpartners.org/pdf/coke_how_to_guide.pdf.
Assessing Educational Leaders, Douglas B. Reeves, Corwin Press & NASSP, 2004.
Effective Schools Model, The Ohio Center for Effective Schools, http://www.effective-schools.com/.
Enhancing Student Achievement – A Framework for School Improvement, Charlotte Danielson, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2002.
ISLLC Standards for School Leaders, Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC), http://www.ccsso.org/Projects/interstate_school_leaders_licensure_consortium/standards_for_school_leaders/562.cfm.
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Education Criteria for Performance Excellence, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2004, http://baldrige.nist.gov/.
Ohio Award for Excellence Baldrige Education Criteria for Performance Excellence, http://www.oae.org.
Ohio Community Collaboration Model for School Improvement, The Center for School-Based Mental Health Programs at Miami University, The Ohio State University College of Social Work and the Ohio Department of Education, see http://www.ode.state.oh.us/students-families-communities/community_learning_center_program/ohio_community_collaboration_model.asp.
Operating Standards for Ohio’s Schools, Ohio Department of Education, Columbus, Ohio, 2001.
Performance Excellence Assessment, Developed for Ohio State Government by the Ohio Office of Quality Services.
Performance Excellence Assessment Workbook,
Mark Blazey.
Powerful Learning, Journal of Staff Development, Winter 2003, Ron Brandt (ASCD, 1998).
Professional
Learning Communities at Work – Best Practices for Enhancing Student
Achievement, Richard DuFour & Robert Eaker, Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1998.
Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement, Mike Schmoker, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1999.
School Improvement Resource Guide, Jim Shipley & Associates, December, 2000.
School Improvement Planning: What's Missing?, A Center Policy Report of the UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools, Spring 2005
School
Portfolio Toolkit, Dr. Victoria
Bernhardt.
Schools that Learn – A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, Peter Senge, Doubleday, 2000,
The Catalog of School Reform Models, Northwest Regional Educational Library and the National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform, http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/catalog/index.shtml.
Whole-School Improvement Rubrics, Boston Plan for Excellence in the Public Schools, Boston Public Schools, http://www.bpe.org.
