Best Practices from High-Performing High Schools: How Successful Schools Help Students Stay in School and Thrive

By Kristen C. Wilcox and Janet I. Angelis

In their second collaboration, Wilcox and Angelis tell the stories of high school educators who embody best practices in their day-to-day activities--practices that consistently lead to higher student academic achievement across the core subjects for all students. This book shares results of a multicase study of how some high schools consistently deliver better student performance, including improved 4-year graduation rates. These schools have learned how to successfully adapt to the climate of increased (and increasing) accountability.

Best Practices from High-Performing High Schools is for anyone who strives to ensure that all students graduate from high school and are ready to succeed in college, in their careers, and in life.

Book Features:

Models that teachers and administrators can use to improve their school and their own practice. Depictions of how educators in higher-performing schools strategically target resources and focus their energies on areas of greatest need. A framework of best practices from schools serving large numbers of children from low-income and/or immigrant families.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807751685
• ISBN13: 9780807751688
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 8.9"