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Iveland, Ashley; Tyler, Burr; Britton, Ted; Nguyen, Kimberly; Schneider, Steve – WestEd, 2017
NGSS Early Implementers is a four-year initiative created to help eight California school districts and two charter management organizations, supported by WestEd's K-12 Alliance, implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). This evaluation report describes how site and district administrators are making critical contributions to the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Science Education, Program Implementation, State Standards
Villani, Susan; Mundry, Susan; Cobb, Velma; Henry, Susan; Schlanger, Phoebe; Shaffer, Susan; Basterra, Maria del Rosario – Center for Education Equity, Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, 2021
This guide is designed to help teachers and administrators use data to continuously improve equity in schools. Educators can also use data to engage students, parents/guardians, the community, and others who want to make positive changes in schools to increase equity. The purposes of the guide are to: (1) Introduce MAEC's Equity Audit Tools as a…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Data Analysis, Audits (Verification), Educational Improvement
Estrella, Denise; Tyler, Burr; Britton, Ted; Iveland, Ashley; Nguyen, Kimberly; Arnett, Elizabeth – WestEd, 2019
NGSS Early Implementers is a six-year initiative created to help eight California school districts and two charter management organizations, supported by WestEd's K-12 Alliance, implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Administrators need learning opportunities if they are to adequately understand the substantial shifts of the Next…
Descriptors: School Districts, Science Education, State Standards, Kindergarten
Cerwin, Karen; DiRanna, Kathy; Grace, Jill; LaFontaine, Phil; Ritchie, Sue; Sherif, Jody; Topps, Jo; Tupper, David; Vargas, Claudio; Woods, Barbara; Tyler, Burr; Britton, Ted; Iveland, Ashley – WestEd, 2018
NGSS Early Implementers is a four-year initiative created to help eight California school districts and two charter management organizations, supported by WestEd's K-12 Alliance, implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Designed for professional developers and administrators, this report describes 10 tools and processes that are…
Descriptors: State Standards, School Districts, Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Casey, Katherine – iNACOL, 2018
This paper focuses on engaging and enabling educators to play new roles and take new leadership in the paradigm shift between traditional and competency-based education: a system of learning designed to ensure that all learners are prepared with the knowledge, skills and dispositions to be successful lifelong learners. The paper re-envisions…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Barriers, Alignment (Education), Teaching Methods
Wilson, Suzanne, Ed.; Schweingruber, Heidi, Ed.; Nielsen, Natalie, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2015
Currently, many states are adopting the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) or are revising their own state standards in ways that reflect the NGSS. For students and schools, the implementation of any science standards rests with teachers. For those teachers, an evolving understanding about how best to teach science represents a significant…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Education, Faculty Development, Standards
Eaker, Robert; Keating, Janel – Solution Tree, 2011
What would a learning community look like "if we really meant it" when we committed to ensuring the learning of each student? What would we consider good enough for our own children? In "Every School, Every Team, Every Classroom," the authors suggest that these two questions drive PLC leaders to embed PLC at Work[TM] practices in their entire…
Descriptors: Leadership, Principals, Educational Change, Boards of Education
Desravines, Jean; Aquino, Jaime; Fenton, Benjamin – New Leaders, 2016
This leadership framework, based on practices employed by some the nation's most successful principals, can be used to diagnose and address school needs. The framework is excerpted from "Breakthrough Principals" © 2016 by Jean Desravines, Jaime Aquino, Benjamin Fenton, and New Leaders, published by Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand. The…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Responsibility, Transformational Leadership, Curriculum
von Frank, Valerie, Ed. – National Staff Development Council, 2009
"The Learning System" is a newsletter designed for superintendents and central office staff with professional learning responsibilities. This issue includes: (1) District Pulls Together in Pursuit of Excellence: Creating Collaboration Systemwide Requires Commitment (Valerie von Frank); (2) Scheduling Time for Teacher Learning Is Key for…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Central Office Administrators, School Districts, Faculty Development
Wells, Caryn; Keane, William G. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2008
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are places where teachers work with intentionality to improve their own craft for the benefit of students. Teachers and administrators study collaboratively and analyze student learning results to improve academic achievement for all students. Administrators working to implement PLCs seek to expand…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Superintendents
Jacobs, Heidi Hayes – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2004
This helpful resource will speed the mapping effort along and apply curriculum mapping to special situations. In this book teachers and administrators offer concrete advice on how to get the most out of curriculum mapping in districts and schools: (1) Steps to implementing mapping procedures and leading the mapping process; (2) Tools and resources…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Cawelti, Gordon; Protheroe, Nancy – 2003
This report synthesizes the findings of four studies that focused on school districts as the center of focus for school-improvement efforts. The studies did not examine school systems that had been high performing for a long time; rather, they took their data from districts serving high percentages of students who typically struggle but were…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Board of Education Role, Case Studies