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The View from the States: A Brief on Instructional Improvement System Strategies and Approaches [PDF, 1.54 MB]

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We recently met with CFO Bodo Uebber to discuss details of Daimler's previously announced long - term strategy, which includes increasing the number of Mercedes - Benz dealerships and unit sales in China and capitalizing on recent dealership improvements (better sales training, new technology systems) to steadily boost division profits, as well as initiatives to strengthen business in other divisions.

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The resulting consensus document, 2020 Vision for a High - Quality, High - Value Maternity Care System serves as a focal point to inspire improvement strategies, and formed the basis for the Blueprint For Action: Steps Toward A High - Quality, High - Value Maternity Care System:

Progressive Redesign Opportunity Schools of Excellence (PROSE), created under the new UFT - DOE contract, gives schools flexibility in designing their schedules, programming, teacher evaluation systems and other aspects of their school environments so that they are able to implement innovative school improvement strategies.

The second, a report from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) outlines that overall in the UK the «absence of a clear strategy has meant that investments and improvement to our transport system have been slower to develop, are more expensive and deliver less».

It may be that these new strategies were responsible for the improvement in girls» results, or, as I and most teachers involved in the system at the time believed, the new style of examination provided a way for girls to become confident enough to succeed.

If Miner's strategy works, Syracuse could have access to tens of millions of dollars to make substantial improvements in a system that has seen one to two water main breaks per day for the past two years.

Josh Wallack, a deputy chancellor for strategy and policy at the city's Education Department, said that these policies and others, taken together, create a comprehensive improvement strategy for the entire system.

While we would not feel comfortable claiming, based on the analysis here, that student - based budgeting has been the cause of greater equity in Houston's school funding system, our findings do show that despite an initial increase in the coefficient of variation, Houston schools have over the longer term made modest improvements in equity since the strategy was put into place.

In other words, chartering is a continuous improvement process for a system of schools: When you build a strategy around closing bad schools, enabling great ones to grow and enabling promising new schools to start, you shift the quality distribution to the right year after year.

We expect to use the results of this research to shape both the Instructional Partnership Initiative, which makes innovative use of feedback from our teacher evaluation system, as well as other state strategies for classroom improvement in years to come.»

The school system is engaged in a three - pronged strategy of school improvement.

By Schools for Schools has a very clear underlying strategy for school improvement, which is that all of the challenges that arise in the system already have solutions that exist within the system somewhere.

Drawing on data from two national pilot programs — Principals as Literacy Leaders (PALL) and Leading Aligned Numeracy Development (LAND)-- this book looks at effective strategies for implementing system improvement and presents approaches for capitalising on successes, and overcoming the shortcomings of initiative - based reforms.

DuFour and DuFour provide an explicit model that is systems - based and implemented by the school leadership team as a school improvement strategy.

If a school system is not well equipped to understand the state of teaching practice within its classrooms, then it will have a difficult time planning and implementing strategies for improvement to meet the development needs of the vast majority of its teachers.

Curtis works with school systems, foundations, higher education and education policy organizations on a variety of topics including urban district improvement strategy, superintendent and principal leadership development, and how to make teaching a compelling and rewarding career.

Creighton and WestEd used four major improvement strategies: 1) refining the curriculum and aligning staff training and student tests to that curriculum; 2) improving instructional practices, including those for English language learners, who comprise a large share of the district's students; 3) developing and using tests during the school year, other than those used for accountability, to assess what students had learned; and 4) implementing a system of individualized instruction based on student needs.

We offer guidance and expertise to help literacy leaders conduct structured reading and writing observations, train staff members in effective intervention strategies and grouping, create multi-tiered systems of support, and use data to engage in self - inquiry and improvement.

She has developed and presented over 300 workshops on a variety of topics, including standards, mathematics teaching, assessment, instructional strategies, leadership, professional development planning and evaluation, and system improvement.

Policy Analysis for California Education is an independent, non-partisan research center based at the University of California - Berkeley, the University of Southern California, and Stanford University that seeks to define and sustain a long - term strategy for comprehensive policy reform and continuous improvement in performance at all levels of California's education system, from early childhood to post-secondary education and training.

Previously, Erica was a Senior Director at Achievement First Charter School Network, where she started the Human Capital team and was responsible for supporting Achievement First's activities around Human Resources systems, talent strategy, employment policies, benefits, performance improvement, compensation, and Diversity & Inclusiveness strategy.

As the senior director of strategy and performance improvement at CSUSA, Alesha founded and managed four teams — strategic planning, grants, data analysis, and quality assurance — and led CSUSA to become the first EMO to achieve AdvancED accreditation as a school system.

Sheryl L. Harmer, Ed.D., specializes in social and emotional strategy and skill development, school improvement, and community - wide systems change.

As Assistant Commissioner at the Tennessee Department of Education, Emily Barton is responsible for the dramatic improvement of student achievement through many strategies including the implementation and success of Tennessee's evaluation system and the adoption of Common Core State Standards.

These and other pipeline strategies that effect broad - based systems must strike a balance between stability and flexibility in order for them to change as school improvement strategies evolve, say both The Wallace Foundation and education reformers such as Michael Fullan, whose concept of «motion leadership» reflects the need for a systematic culture of continuous reflection and growth.

The federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) establishes new opportunities for building and supporting birth - to - third - grade systems at both state and local levels, enabling states to integrate B - 3rd strategies into their new focus on equity, accountability, assessment, professional learning and school improvement.

Co-teaching as a school system strategy for continuous improvement.

The Singapore government has employed the developers of the Queensland system to focus their school improvement strategies upon performance assessments.

While each of these strategies can improve the equitable distribution of effective teachers within schools, it is equally important — if not more important — for every principal to create systems and processes that support high standards and continuous improvement for all teachers.

An accountability system designed to have sustained impact must look at the factors that lead to success or are impeding the improvement efforts so that successful strategies may be further scaled and failing approaches may be modified or abandoned.

The purpose of the School Turnaround Academy is to elevate a state education agency's (SEA) understanding of research and practice on school turnaround and how a state's turnaround policies and strategies fit within a coherent system of support and intervention for districts and schools in need of improvement.

Reformers look for change strategies with leverage to promote improvements throughout a system, rather than in just one part of a system.

Huge shifts in pedagogical practice and that takes visionary leadership and a strong administrative team to...» plan, implement, monitor, and adjust improvement efforts, as well as to review and align district strategies, policies, protocols, practices, processes, curriculum, instruction, assessment, professional development, and myriad other systems that must work synchronously to meet achievement and instructional goals.

Because what works in one district may not work in every district, professional learning should be aligned and adapted to address school and system goals.25 States and school districts should work with teachers to design ongoing cycles of learning and improvement that ensure all educators can identify areas for growth and learn evidence - based strategies that will address their needs, ultimately improving their performance and increasing student achievement.26

Given the potential for new evaluation systems to produce data that can truly inform continuous improvements in teacher practice, and feed into an aligned system of educator talent management strategies that attract and retain greater numbers of excellent teachers — the cost may well be worth the investment.

Finally, Johnson suggests strategies for monitoring and continually analyzing outcomes throughout the implementation process in order to sustain PLCs for long term system - wide improvement.

EducationCounsel: EducationCounsel is a mission - based education consulting firm that combines experience in policy, strategy, law, and advocacy to drive significant improvements in the U.S. education system.

«This past year, our Catholic school system celebrated a multitude of demonstrable improvements thanks to carefully targeted investments and innovative educational strategies.»

Partnering with School Districts for Sustainable Success Devoted to system - wide school improvement, the Connecticut Center for School Change assesses Connecticut school districts to identify key areas for improvement and provides strategies for sustainable student outcomes.

The 17 individual state fact sheets break down each state's school classification system in addition to school improvement timeline, grant structure, types of schools identified, and key improvement strategies.

As you are aware, the Illinois Center for School Improvement (Illinois CSI), operated by American Institutes for Research (AIR) on behalf of the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), was created to coordinate the statewide system of support to provide identified districts with strategies for transforming schools performing below state standards.

What follows are the resulting strategies and actions that were undertaken to develop a much stronger statewide infrastructure and support system for high standards and continuous improvement of afterschool learning across the state.

The diagnostic process is designed using NYCLA's systems approach to change, which utilizes an analytical framework that explores the interconnections between various aspects of a complex system — in this case, a school The diagnostic process guides school leaders and their teams in uncovering what is beneath student performance and progress data and in designing an improvement strategy that addresses all of those layers.

In regard to school improvement strategies, educational systems evolve from monocentric to polycentric ones and their inspection systems struggle to keep up.

Here we draw upon this literature to illustrate findings on the district role in reform in three areas: the challenges confronting district efforts to implement system - wide improvements in student learning; district strategies for improving student learning; and evidence of impact on the nature and quality of teaching and learning.

A New Vision for Professional Learning: A Toolkit to Help States Use ESSA to Advance Learning and Improvement Systems provides a summary brief of why professional learning matters to equity and excellence and a strategy guide on opportunities that exist in ESSA for professional learning.

While each of the states featured in the report have pursued a unique combination of approaches to reduce suspensions, three common strategies were at the core of their success: each state collected and analyzed comprehensive school discipline data from their systems; they regularly shared school discipline metrics with policymakers, educational leaders, and the public; and they used that data to drive and shape legislative and administrative improvements.