Productive schools focus their resources and energies on students and learning.
Administrators and teachers coordinate school improvement efforts into cohesive activities that enhance the quality of student learning. Relatively stable goals. A productive school community recognizes that change and improvement require sufficient time and concerted effort, supported by appropriate resources. Having embraced a set of goals for learning, the productive school remains focused and resists the tendency to adopt the flavor of the month, which results in multiple, diffuse goals. Unfortunately, some of these programs and projects may conflict with one another and drain existing resources that could be more profitably focused on the goal of improved student learning and academic achievement.