Continuous School Improvement

by Mark A. Smylie

Author	: Mark A. Smylie
Publisher	: Corwin Press
Total Pages	: 193
Release	: 2009-12-10
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1452272220

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"A hallmark volume by one of the nation′s most accomplished school improvement scholars. This is the most thoroughly researched, well-crafted, and useful volume on continuous improvement available. Smylie does for ′continuous improvement′ what Fullan did for change." —Joseph Murphy, Professor Vanderbilt University Discover what it takes to create lasting, positive change for your school, your teachers, and your students! Focusing on school change that improves teaching and learning, this guide for principals integrates evolutionary change theory with the research on continuous improvement. Mark A. Smylie begins with a succinct overview of organizational change that provides readers with the foundation they need to embark on a school change initiative. Interviews with educators involved with organizational change provide insightful examples and first-person responses to the challenges inherent in school change. Continuous School Improvement also addresses the major implementation problems that leaders face, such as: Building trust Creating a culture of mutual responsibility Building support Setting goals Responding to teachers′ stress in the face of change

Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement

by Victoria L. Bernhardt

Author	: Victoria L. Bernhardt
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 426
Release	: 2017-09-19
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1351587862

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Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement provides a new definition of school improvement, away from a singular focus on compliance, toward a true commitment to excellence. This book is a call to action. It is about inspiring schools and school districts to commit to continuous school improvement by providing a framework that will result in improving teaching for every teacher and learning for every student through the comprehensive use of data. A culmination of over 30 years of doing the hard work in schools and districts both nationally and internationally, Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement shares new, evidence-based learnings about how to analyze, report, communicate, and use multiple measures of data. The updated edition provides a wealth of tools, protocols, timelines, examples, and strategies that will help schools and districts become genuine learning organizations.

Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement

by Victoria Bernhardt

Author	: Victoria Bernhardt
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 321
Release	: 2013-10-18
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1317930800

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5 PERCEPTIONS; Changing Perceptions; Assessing Perceptions; Questionnaires; Designing Questionnaires: Begin With the End in Mind; Data Collection Considerations; Our Example Schools; Study Questions for Perceptions; Summary; 6 STUDENT LEARNING; Ways to Measure Student Learning; Grades; Analyzing the Results, Descriptively; Analyzing the Results, Inferentially; Measurement Error; Looking Across Student Learning Measures; Other Common Testing Terms; Our Example Schools; Study Questions for Student Learning; Summary; 7 SCHOOL PROCESSES; School Level Processes; Classroom Level Processes.

Response to Intervention and Continuous School Improvement

by Victoria L. Bernhardt

Author	: Victoria L. Bernhardt
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages	: 148
Release	: 2017-03-31
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1351977148

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Experts Bernhardt and Hébert's latest book demonstrates strategies to ensure your entire staff works together to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate a schoolwide prevention system with integrity and fidelity. Each step in this important resource is designed to help administrators, teachers, and other educators improve the learning of every student by implementing Response to Intervention (RtI) as part of a continuous school improvement process. This second edition spotlights the "Five Stages of RtI Implementation" and is complemented by the robust online RtI Implementation Guide, which includes more than 30 downloadable templates, examples, and other files to help schools start their journey of establishing a successful system. By applying the authors' insightful guidance in Response to Intervention (RtI) and Continuous School Improvement (CSI), you'll be able to redesign your general and special education programs to put your school on a path toward improvement!

Data, Data Everywhere

by Victoria L. Bernhardt

Author	: Victoria L. Bernhardt
Publisher	: Eye On Education
Total Pages	: 122
Release	: 2009
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 1596671025

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This book is an easy-to-read primer that describes what it takes to increase student achievement at every grade level, subject area, and student group. Readers will learn how to use data to drive their continuous improvement process as they develop an appreciation of the various types of data, uses for data, and how data are involved with the school improvement process. Online Course Available through a partnerhip with Knowledge Delivery Systems. Click here for more information. (CEUs may be available through your district.)

School Portfolio Toolkit

by Victoria Bernhardt

Author	: Victoria Bernhardt
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 337
Release	: 2013-10-02
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1317922611

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The School Portfolio Toolkit is a book that includes over 300 tools, strategies, templates, and examples for use in building school portfolios and for planning, implementing, and evaluating continuous school improvement. The Toolkit was written to support school personnel with the mechanics of putting together a school portfolio, as well as to offer processes and strategies to move whole school staffs into and through continuous improvement. The tools in the Toolkit will help staffs create, implement, and maintain school portfolios and begin the journey of continuous improvement. Each chapter deals with one topic related to the school portfolio and comprehensive school improvement, with related documents and tools. The School Portfolio Toolkit book provides templates, tools, examples, and strategies that will help you analyze your school's data, create a vision that is truly shared by the school staff, build a continuous school improvement plan to implement the school vision, formulate a leadership structure to implement the vision, involve parents, community, and business in implementing the vision, embed up to forty different powerful professional development designs into your school plan, evaluate your continuous school improvement work, and create a School Portfolio that will organize and serve as a framework for the continuation of this work

From Questions to Actions

by Victoria L. Bernhardt

Author	: Victoria L. Bernhardt
Publisher	: Eye On Education
Total Pages	: 209
Release	: 2009
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 159667122X

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First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Learning to Improve

by Anthony S. Bryk

Author	: Anthony S. Bryk
Publisher	: Harvard Education Press
Total Pages	: 309
Release	: 2015-03-01
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 161250793X

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As a field, education has largely failed to learn from experience. Time after time, promising education reforms fall short of their goals and are abandoned as other promising ideas take their place. In Learning to Improve, the authors argue for a new approach. Rather than “implementing fast and learning slow,” they believe educators should adopt a more rigorous approach to improvement that allows the field to “learn fast to implement well.” Using ideas borrowed from improvement science, the authors show how a process of disciplined inquiry can be combined with the use of networks to identify, adapt, and successfully scale up promising interventions in education. Organized around six core principles, the book shows how “networked improvement communities” can bring together researchers and practitioners to accelerate learning in key areas of education. Examples include efforts to address the high rates of failure among students in community college remedial math courses and strategies for improving feedback to novice teachers. Learning to Improve offers a new paradigm for research and development in education that promises to be a powerful driver of improvement for the nation’s schools and colleges.

Response to Intervention and Continuous School Improvement

by Victoria Bernhardt

Author	: Victoria Bernhardt
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 359
Release	: 2014-01-09
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1317927346

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Ensure the success of your school and improve the learning of all students by implementing Response to Intervention (RTI) as part of a continuous school improvement (CSI) process. This book shows you how to get your entire staff working together to design, implement, and evaluate a schoolwide prevention system. With specific examples, CSI experts Victoria Bernhardt and Connie L. Hebert demonstrate each step of the RTI process as it relates to continuous school improvement. By applying effective RTI strategies in your classrooms, you'll put your school on a path toward continuous improvement. The strategies in this book will help administrators, teachers, book study groups, and other educators use RTI to achieve their CSI goals!