Not exact matches
In this edition of the EdCast, Roberts reflects
on how «instructional rounds» can provide a framework for
systemic improvement in
schools.
State and district guidelines for
school improvement planning are focusing too heavily
on standards and results - oriented
improvements instead of promoting
systemic changes to address barriers to teaching and learning, concludes a report from the Center for Mental Health in
Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In his brilliant forward for the book, Andy Hargreaves (Boston College) writes, «This is one of the most extraordinarily powerful books
on school improvement and positive
systemic change I have ever read.
«Richard has done some of the most practical, insightful, and carefully crafted work
on how to improve urban
schools... not just in one or two classrooms and one or two
schools, but in a
systemic way,» says Knowles, now the executive director of the Center for Urban
School Improvement at the University of Chicago.
She is the lead coordinator and manager
on many projects such as Scale - up of EC Pyramid Implementation and Routines - Based Early Intervention in
school districts statewide, Part B Early Childhood RDA Initiative for State
Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP), Results Matter Child Outcomes B - 5 for Part B and Part C SPP / APRs, and the Statewide child assessment system.
The framework relies
on a synthesis of decades of
school improvement research to identify five
systemic components regarding district - level commitments, four support system components for implementation at both the district and campus levels, and seven factors proven to be critical to campus success.
Ensures your professional development effort is focused
on «big ideas» related to
systemic school improvement.
Read as Executive Director Dr. Betheny Lyke shares her thoughts with the Illinois Association of
School Administrators (IASA)
on the importance of forming communities of practice via learning networks for continuous
improvement that leads to
systemic change.
Read as Illinois CSI Executive Director Dr. Betheny Lyke shares her thoughts with the Illinois Association of
School Administrators (IASA)
on how funding must be used wisely through a continuous
improvement process and how The Every Student Succeeds Act provides local education agencies with more opportunities for innovation to improve
systemic problems.
Candidates document
on - the - job performance of the facilitation of
systemic, sustainable
school improvement over the past three to five years.
Candidate teams document their shared
on - the - job performance of the facilitation of
systemic, sustainable
school improvement over the past three to five years.
As program coordinator, Roberta works directly with
school districts that are partnering with the Center
on systemic instructional
improvement and co-facilitates a network of central office and
school leaders.
As program coordinator, Laura works directly with selected
school districts partnering with the Center
on systemic instructional
improvement and instructional rounds.
Michael has always seen himself as a person committed to leading
systemic change and continues to focus
on building an inclusive
school environment to support
improvement for every student.
She holds a doctorate from Harvard University's Graduate
School of Education, where she focused
on the
systemic demands of large scale educational
improvement, and is the author of The Mindful
School Leader (Corwin, 2014), Wounded By
School (Teachers College Press, 2009) and
Schools As Colonizers (Verlag, 2008).
They envision a three - pronged
systemic remedy: a continuous
improvement approach for addressing educational opportunities; targeted high - leverage interventions focused
on key transition points and needs; and stronger connections between
schools and other institutions and systems affecting the development and well - being of children and youth.
Despite continued emphasis
on systemic approaches to
school improvement,
schools struggle to use data and information in a manner consistent with systems thinking.