Aligning Student Support With Achievement Goals: The Secondary Principal's Guide [Paperback]

The authors offer a practical approach to creating a reorganized, fully-integrated student support community that contributes to increasing academic success.The authors offer a practical approach to creating a reorganized, fully-integrated student support community that contributes to increasing academic success. This book (will)...get you thinking and ready to grapple with some of the major issues facing counseling today. Principals who have joined forces with their school counselor in leadership, advocacy, and systemic change are seeing the results in equity of opportunity for all students in their charge. This book is a tool to help the principal partner in support of the school counselors'  efforts to act intentionally to drive data in a positive direction. Seashore Louis and Gordon provide a remarkably insightful and user-friendly portfolio of strategies for fully integrating the student personnel function into the quest to create more productive schools. Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Before We Begin&
1. The Gaping Hole in School Reform
2. Old Versus New Models of Student Support Programs
3. Barriers to Creating a Comprehensive Support Program
4. New Practices Defined
5. In the Beginning: What School Leaders Can Do About Student Support
6. Initiating and Sustaining Change
Appendix: Research Methods
Endnotes
References
Index