Profiles of Successful Schoolwide Programs - December 1998

A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

Acknowledgments

Implementing Schoolwide Programs, Volumes I and II, is part of a series of Idea Books for school-based practitioners who are implementing federal compensatory education programs. Disseminated under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Education, the Idea Book series is designed to help schools create opportunities for learning that enable all students to achieve challenging academic standards.

This volume, Profiles of Promising Schoolwide Program Practices, demonstrates how educators and their supporting communities are implementing a new vision of comprehensive school reform using the schoolwide program option available under the 1994 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education. Its companion, Volume I: An Idea Book on Planning, describes what leads up to schoolwide implementation, using the legislative underpinnings of schoolwide programs and suggesting effective strategies that schools and communities have used to comprehensively improve learning for children in the nation's most impoverished schools.

In completing this volume, the study team consulted with successful school-based educators to learn what it takes to create outstanding schoolwide programs. We are grateful to the many named and unnamed people who lent vital assistance to this effort. Although space does not permit mentioning all the individual contributors, the school names and contact information for those included in this volume are listed on the inside of the back cover. We encourage interested readers to contact the schools directly for additional information.

The profiles in this volume were written by a talented team of Policy Studies Associates researchers who worked diligently in a compressed time frame to identify compelling examples of schoolwide programming and to tell their stories. Stacy Allen, Janie Funkhouser, David Kauffman, Kate Kelliher, and Katie Rusnak were the primary researchers and writers; Üllik Rouk,Ben Lagueruela, and Kim Thomas prepared this volume for publication. At the U.S. Department of Education, Wendy Jo New and Joanne Bogart provided invaluable support and advice throughout all stages of this project.

Finally, we thank Anastasia Miller, of Colorado Design Associates in Washington, DC, for her excellent work on the design and layout of the publication.

Questions about schoolwide programs may be directed to the U.S. Department of Education, Compensatory Education Programs, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20202, (202) 260-0826.

Ellen Pechman, Study Director
Policy Studies Associates
Washington, DC
December 1998

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