The Bottom Line on Excellence: A Guide to Investing in Professional Learning that Increases Educator Performance and Student Results

Autor/inn/en	Killion, Joellen; Hirsh, Stephanie
Titel	The Bottom Line on Excellence: A Guide to Investing in Professional Learning that Increases Educator Performance and Student Results
Quelle	In: Journal of Staff Development, 33 (2012) 1, S.10-16 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0276-928X
Schlagwörter	Educational Finance; Accounting; Expenditures; Income; Teacher Improvement; Academic Achievement; Professional Development; Educational Improvement; Accountability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsfonds; Abrechnung; Buchführung; Buchhaltung; Ausgaben; Einkommen; Schulleistung; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Verantwortung
Abstract	What percentage of their budgets should schools and districts invest in professional learning? To answer that question, schools and districts must first know how much they are spending on professional learning and be able to connect that spending to student achievement. Knowing what is invested in professional learning requires understanding the multiple sources of funding for professional learning, how those funds are dispersed, how the funds are coded, and who manages the expenditures. Understanding what is invested in professional learning requires consensus on what constitutes an expense, consistency in coding expenditures, and sophisticated accounting systems that can aggregate and analyze expense categories across multiple income areas by program, school, or income source. Adequate accounting systems increase districts' and schools' ability to analyze, prioritize, coordinate, and monitor resources for professional learning. This article presents a list of principles that will guide districts and schools in allocating and assessing resources in professional learning. For many districts and schools, these principles require a shift from how they have traditionally supported professional learning to emphasize structures and policies that lead to practices linking educator learning to student learning. The bottom line is that truly focusing professional development requires administrators to figure out where their dollars are spent, whether those patterns align to strategic goals for teacher improvement, and, if not, institute changes to the spending. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10