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Edmonds outlined six characteristics essential to effective schools, including: Strong administrative leadership. High expectations. An orderly atmosphere. Basic skills acquisition as the school’s primary purpose. Capacity to divert school energy and resources from other activities to advance the school’s basic purpose.
Edmonds was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He received a B.A. in American history from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in American history from Eastern Michigan University, and a certificate of advanced study from Harvard Graduate School of Education. [2] Edmonds began his career as a teacher at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in
That is, the effective activities of instructional leaders, which affect student achievement and school performance, should be considered in the context of school and community environment. In this sense, the effort to measure the effects of instructional leadership without consideration of the school context might be avoided in empirical research.
The Effective School A Proven Path to Learning for All (1999) Safe And Orderly Environment (1999) Assembly Required, A Continuous School Improvement System (2002) Harbors of Hope: The Planning for School and Student Success Process (2005) What Effective Schools Do: A Fresh Look at the Correlates (2010)
At the end of the 2006–2007 school year, the school campus was closed and everything was moved to the former Woodway Elementary campus. The Edmonds School District plans to demolish the old buildings at the Scriber Lake site and build a new district headquarters there, and remodel the former district headquarters for use as the new permanent site for the high school of choice (yet to be named).
Edmonds Heights offers classes to children ranging from kindergarten age to 12th grade. The EHK12 campus is located in a large section of the former Woodway High School campus. It is open four days a week and runs on a semester schedule. The school operates under the WAC 392-121-182 Alternative Learning Experience Requirements.
The vision of the standards-based education reform movement [9] is that all teenagers will receive a meaningful high school diploma that serves essentially as a public guarantee that they can read, write, and do basic mathematics (typically through first-year algebra) at a level which might be useful to an employer. To avoid a surprising ...
The free school movement, also known as the new schools or alternative schools movement, was an American education reform movement during the 1960s and early 1970s that sought to change the aims of formal schooling through alternative, independent community schools.