Our purpose is to build the region's capacity to use data and research to address
problems of practice in education.
They worked with teachers to
identify problems of practice, and they showed that they were well prepared to offer specific, actionable, and research - based solutions.
The program supports teachers to move from using habits of inquiry in
addressing problems of practice to designing robust research questions and consulting research and professional literature to expand their thinking about their practice.
Programs should also emphasize reflective practice, provide opportunities for peers to discuss and
solve problems of practice and provide a context for coaching and mentoring.
The program focuses
on problems of practice - studying practice, engaging in constructive critique of practice, and improving one's practice.
They picked
problems of practice for which a positive result was virtually guaranteed rather than difficult challenges with more uncertain outcomes.
As teachers discuss
shared problems of practice, visit one another's classes, discuss student artifacts, and ask lots of questions, they engage in real inquiry.
A
significant problem of practice in more selective admissions is assessing and measuring individual characteristics most likely to be associated with later school leader success, including achievement of strong student learning outcomes.
The presentation will also illuminate how collaboration through strong clinical partnerships has enabled the development of this uniquely focused clinical practice program, designed to address
problems of practice at the local level.
So let's break down this process to a
typical problem of practice that districts encounter: how to help teachers connect their instructional practice goals with student learning goals.
Effective communities of practice engage in active learning guided by a process of inquiry, with a shared focus on a
clear problem of practice.
The chapters include focusing questions that school leaders can reflect on as they tackle change and
problems of practice in their own schools and districts.
This innovative new executive education program will use case studies to delve deeply into the challenges of impact at scale, will introduce multiple frameworks for growth, and will provide time for teams to work on a
specific problem of practice with an experienced facilitator.
The 20 Challenges, addressed by a team of education experts, range from «Enable students to build on their own enduring, science - related interests» to «Shift incentives to encourage education research on the
real problems of practice as they exist in school settings.»
Dr. Bernstein's simulation research focuses on capturing the experiences of school leaders
around problems of practice for the creation of scalable Peer - to - Peer Professional Development (P2P - PD) for practitioners.
Academy participants work
from problems of practice, use cycles of inquiry, learn from case studies, and utilize virtual professional learning communities and virtual individual coaching.
In their learning communities, Seattle's school leaders rotated through each others» schools five times per year, visiting classrooms and viewing
problems of practice with the 5D lens.
With such information in hand, aspiring and practicing school leaders are prepared to engage in an iterative process designed to reveal a high
leverage problem of practice.
Themed Teaching Tomorrow's Leaders, the conference will offer sessions focused on four
urgent problems of practice identified through a membership survey by NNSTOY:
Creating Research - Practice Partnerships in Education is an invaluable resource for educators and researchers seeking to develop long - term collaborations in which educators and researchers work together to study and solve
pressing problems of practice.
The Leadership Collaborative Series serves as a network for school improvement that helps schools tackle a common
problem of practice through an improvement process.
KKJ: I mentioned math and college success as our
key problems of practice, and we will be doing rapid program iteration to figure out the best way to move these needles.
Soon after the launch of Buzz, Design Teams from the entire cohort convene for an in - person session — allowing them to collaborate with professionals outside of their schools,
discuss problems of practice, and apply their learning from the Buzz online learning platform to their specific school design plan.
In the
video Problems of Practice, I address that, in our Algebra 2 PBL Curriculum Writing Team, we found units where an authentic PBL problem would restructure the unit so that students deepen their understanding of math through a real - life application.
At this academy, educators and education leaders will interact in intellectually stimulating learning environments — in person and online — to co-construct solutions to specific yet
widespread problems of practice.
In 2016, the GLC initiated a pilot project to develop practitioner action research to
investigate problems of practice identified by each school in their strategic planning documents.
The panelists will discuss high -
priority problems of practice — the need to develop and sustain a high - quality teaching force and improve the educational outcomes for low - performing and diverse students.
UCEA fulfills this purpose collaboratively by 1) promoting, sponsoring, and disseminating research on the
essential problems of practice, 2) improving the preparation and professional development of school leaders and professors, and 3) influencing policy and practice through establishing and fostering collaborative networks.
The Carnegie Foundation has enlisted a group of K - 12 leaders directly involved in developing and implementing teacher evaluation systems to ensure that our work is grounded in
critical problems of practice.
Janet is currently participating in the Learning Forward Academy program, a 2 1/2 year cohort focused on a specific job
embedded problem of practice, in this case, the CAR process.
As a result of these observations and discussions with teachers they determined that the key
teaching problem of practice was that teachers needed to better teach the vocabulary and the processes for students to engage in effective mathematical discourse.
In the first step, principal supervisors and principals use student test scores, self - assessments, classroom observations and observations of principal practice to identify the most pressing student learning problems and contributing teaching and
leading problems of practice.
Candidates who complete the Reach Instructional Leadership Academy will be skilled instructional coaches, supervisors, and facilitators of professional learning, with a highly developed inquiry orientation to
instructional problems of practice.