Boudett and City's Meeting Wise: Making the Most of Collaborative Time for Educators (2014), the latest publication to emerge from the project, recognizes the importance of meetings as the place where much of the
real work of school improvements happens.
As districts and schools do the
challenging work of school improvement, and as they engage in their current strategic planning processes, I hope that a re-emphasis on the science - to - practice principles and practices will increase your success... especially as this process necessarily evolves in the next months leading up to the 2018 - 2019 school year.
The challenge to school leaders is to actualize the collective ideas and suggestions, providing the dedicated focus, time, resources and structures for the
deep work of school improvement to occur in the year to come.
By cutting red tape and promoting transparency, Congress can help equip parents, voters, taxpayers, and public officials to do the
real work of school improvement.
They created the Data Wise Improvement Process, a cycle of eight specific, manageable steps designed to help school leaders organize
the work of school improvement.
In a series of seminars led by Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty Richard Murnane, Kathryn Boudett, and Elizabeth City, the group developed an eight - step Data Wise cycle as a means to help school leaders organize
the work of school improvement around a process that has specific, manageable steps.
Under the latter rubric comes the role of parents as loyal helpers in
the work of school improvement and educational betterment.
Why do institutions created for and devoted to learning not call on the professionals within them to become more proficient in improving the effectiveness of schools by actually doing
the work of school improvement?
«This is a disappointing report, which offers little that can help the real
work of school improvement.
How are we going to meet the needs of students - student by student / skill by skill, which is
the work of school improvement, if we do not believe that they can do the work?
Smart leaders do this by including teachers, staff, parents and other community members in
the work of school improvement.
If you do not use a leadership team, take Schmoker's recommendations under advisement and consider creating one to guide
the work of school improvement and build support.
Other authors offer overarching principles to guide
the work of school improvement.
Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining
the work of school improvement.