What Brain Research Can Teach About Cutting School Budgets [Paperback]

With a strategy-builder chart for reinvesting and reallocating dollars, this unique resource applies brain research to the budgeting process to make decision making more objective.With a strategy-builder chart for reinvesting and reallocating dollars, this unique resource applies brain research to the budgeting process to make decision making more objective. 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. We used this book in our district with all our principals and it was a powerful guide in helping them see through the fog of mandates, policies, and red tape and get to the priority of students! Im very pleased to see a book bold enough to assert that the realm of brain research should be applied to wherever human brains are working and whatever challenges we face. Not only can and should brain research inform how and what we teach in the classroom, but it should be brought to bear in boardrooms and the school budgeting process.?This book is?brilliant and groundbreaking. Every school in America should have a copy in its professional library. Olsen addresses a current national issue with?a focus on budget deficits and identifying a process for making decisions about budget cuts. This is definitely a different and unusual approach to budget cuttinga compelling contribution to the field. The entire nation is struggling with budget cuts, and this book is a very practical guide, a guide that has longevity and can be used time and time again with the same profound results. I would recommend this text as a must-read for anyone affected by budget cuts in education. Foreword by Susan Kovalik
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Where to $tart
Attitude Is Important
Action ItemslCs