His work focuses on finding better ways to use test - score and other data to
inform teaching and leadership practices.
Not exact matches
«I believe that without
informed leadership, most technology initiatives are fragmented
and lack cohesion,» said Langlie, Online
Teaching / Learning Support at New York's Hudson Valley Community College.
The framework for our overall project also points to the mostly indirect influence of principals «actions on students
and on student learning.223 Such actions are mediated, for example, by school conditions such as academic press, 224 with significant consequences for
teaching and learning
and for powerful features of classroom practice such as teachers «uses of instructional time.225 Evidence -
informed decision making by principals, guided by this understanding of principals «work, includes having
and using a broad array of evidence about many things: key features of their school «s external context; the status of school
and classroom conditions mediating leaders «own
leadership practices;
and the status of their students «learning.
We
informed them that in our survey data collection we would be inviting principals, assistant principals,
and teachers to respond to a written survey about
leadership policy
and practices that bear on
teaching and learning; that we would conduct the principal
and teacher surveys in four schools per district representing elementary
and secondary schools;
and that we would be conducting a second round of surveys in the final year of the study (2008).
State - of - the - art statistical analyses
and actionable reports providing data to
inform professional development, enhance
teaching and leadership skills,
and elevate student performance
Consider for example the Department of Education's 2014
Teach to Lead program, whose Teacher Leader Model Standards include
leadership skills such as building collaborative cultures
and using data to
inform instruction.
Researchers analysed the
leadership competency self - assessments of fellows from the charity
Teaching Leaders
and also interviewed scores of middle leaders (heads of year
and heads of departments) to
inform their findings.
A teacher in her second year of
teaching delivers a presentation to members of the school's
leadership team on the educational philosophies that
inform her practice
and her objectives for
teaching in the coming year.
In addition to
informing public policy, IDRA works to improve education policy, for example, recommending actions that universities can undertake to recruit,
teach,
and certify bilingual education teachers
and to foster their
leadership in bilingual
and bicultural education.