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Halverson, Richard; Prichett, Reid; Grigg, Jeffrey; Thomas, Chris – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2005
The recent demand for schools to respond to external accountability measures challenges school leaders to create school instructional systems that use data to guide the practices of teaching and learning. This paper considers how local school leaders build data-driven instructional systems (DDIS) by developing new programs and using existing…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Data, Instructional Systems, Decision Making
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Goderya-Shaikh, Fehmida; Madden, Margaret; Saad, Ismail – Educational Research and Reviews, 2006
A positive change in the learning environment in schools is visible through ongoing professional development of teachers and administrators. Monitoring the professional development program and providing support to teachers and administrators to transfer their learnings into the school environment ensures some measures of quality. Quality issues…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development
King, Caroline – Grantmakers for Education, 2006
Even after acting on the best available information to make a grantmaking decision, a grantmaker should seek to learn from grantees, remain adaptable to new ideas and open to unexpected learning, and willing to admit when grants do not turn out as expected. To this end, Grantmakers for Education's Principles for Effective Education Grantmaking…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Grants, Reading Skills, Writing Skills