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What Brain Research Can Teach About Cutting School Budgets e-bog

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&quote;Karen Olsen has put budget topics into perspective so that school administrators can make decisions based on what is best for children, not what is easiest and most efficient for adults. This book is a powerful guide in helping our principals see through the fog of mandates, policies, and red tape and get to the priority of students!&quote;-Terri Patterson, Director of Elementary Educati...
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Forfattere Olsen, Karen D. (redaktør)
Forlag Corwin
Udgivet 18 februar 2010
Længde 224 sider
Genrer Funding of education and student finance
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781452216256
"e;Karen Olsen has put budget topics into perspective so that school administrators can make decisions based on what is best for children, not what is easiest and most efficient for adults. This book is a powerful guide in helping our principals see through the fog of mandates, policies, and red tape and get to the priority of students!"e;-Terri Patterson, Director of Elementary EducationWaco Independent School District, TX"e;This book boldly asserts that brain research should be applied wherever human brains are working. Not only can and should brain research inform how and what we teach in the classroom, it should be brought to bear in boardrooms and the school budgeting process as well."e;-Linda Jordan, Associate ProfessorHope CollegeMake objective budget-cutting decisions that will truly impact student achievement!In tough economic environments, budget cutting is a daunting but necessary task for many school administrators. Karen D. Olsen takes an exciting, unique approach by applying brain research to budgeting. Now educators can make the decision-making process more objective by using analytical thinking in school budgeting rather than responding to emotion, tradition, or outside influences. Providing a strategy-builder chart, this bookOffers action items for putting the strategies into practiceHelps leaders determine where money should be reinvested or reallocatedProvides specific tips for working within a group decision-making settingIncludes more than 30 analytical charts to aid in gathering needed informationWhat Brain Research Can Teach About Cutting School Budgets offers principals and district leaders a methodical process for taking subjectivity out of the budgeting process.