
School Improvement: Strategies That Work
Explore core principles associated with school improvement: culture and instruction. Examine the components of data-driven instruction: assessment-analysis-action-reflection. Acquire protocols for successful data-driven implementation while creating a climate for site-based capacity building. Gain strategies to assess and strengthen school culture as a major driver for school improvement while exploring the stages of team development, analysis of individual leadership styles and protocols for successful group dynamics. Gain tools for assessing the four major sources of data (demographic, perception, achievement and program) as key components in designing a comprehensive school-wide monitoring system. Examine a framework for decision-making based on the Plan-Do-Check-Act Continuous Improvement Cycle to actively and reflectively respond to student outcomes to improve teaching and learning. Learn how this school’s model has been expanded to a division-wide model for school improvement.
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