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What Brain Research Can Teach About Cutting School Budgets
Edited by:
- Karen D. Olsen - Mid-California Science Improvement Program
Foreword by Susan Kovalik
January 2013 | 224 pages | Corwin
Karen Olsen's What Brain Research Can Teach About Cutting School Budgets is a practical guide for school leaders who are charged with the painstaking task of making budget cuts—a task typically driven by emotion, tradition, and the power of social leaders, followed by disagreements and dissatisfaction.
This book offers an alternative—a way to use brain research to create powerful but politically neutral decision-making criteria. The author offers clear action items, brain research summaries, and checklists to guide leaders through the budget cutting process, and to ensure that they reinvest money into the key programmes that will truly impact student achievement.
Foreword by Susan Kovalik
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Where to $tart
2. Instruction: Tools
3. Instruction: Organization and Use of Time
4. Staffing
5. Professional Development
6. The Inseparable Bodybrain Learning Partnership: Movement and Aerobic Exercise
7. The Inseparable Bodybrain Learning Partnership: Emotion
8. Double-Link Curriculum for Two-Step Learning: Link One
9. Double-Link Curriculum for Two-Step Learning: Link Two
10. Testing: Does the Emperor Wear Clothes?
Appendix A: Pattern Seeking
Appendix B: Developing Programs
Appendix C: Age Appropriateness
Glossary
List of Figures
About the Author
References
Index
