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Download full textRegion 16 Comprehensive Center, 2024
This playbook addresses the "how" in the continuous improvement process, focusing on schools and communities. It is a step-by-step guide for superintendents, principals, staff, and communities on how to engage in the school continuous improvement cycle while recognizing the unique assets and challenges of communities and their schools.…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Total Quality Management, Educational Improvement, School Community Relationship
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Direct linkBendikson, Linda; Meyer, Frauke – Myers Education Press, 2022
"It's Not Rocket Science - A Guide to the School Improvement Cycle: With Examples From New Zealand and Australian Schools" presents an easy-to-read, practical guide to effectively leading school improvement. It walks leaders through each step of 'The School Improvement Cycle' developed by Bendikson and Meyer, providing case studies,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Responsibility
Contann Dabney, Contributor; Terry Hofer, Contributor; Beth Jackson, Contributor; Smriti Jacob, Contributor; Jeannine Medvedich, Contributor; Andrew Morrill, Contributor; Shakinna Patterson, Contributor; Joe Sassone, Contributor; Giselle Sherry-Marsh, Contributor; Andrew Swanson, Contributor; Ashleigh Tillman, Contributor; Susan Villani, Contributor; Melinda Wallace, Contributor; Noel White, Contributor – WestEd, 2025
This guide was developed for district leaders and leadership teams to use as a supplement to the "Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement: A Systems Framework" and its related survey system. The Four Domains framework, from WestEd's Center for School Turnaround and Improvement, was created to assist states, districts, and schools as…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Improvement, Program Implementation, School Districts
British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2021
This Implementation Guide for the Framework for Enhancing Student Learning was developed to support Boards of Education to fulfill the responsibilities as outlined in the "Framework for Enhancing Student Learning Policy" and "Enhancing Student Learning Reporting Order." This document provides the policy requirements and…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Educational Policy, Guidelines, School Districts
Hannigan, Jessica Djabrayan; Hannigan, John E. – Corwin, 2020
MTSS is complex. Without correct implementation and evaluation, schools struggle to do it well and students can be negatively impacted in the process. With the guidance provided in this book, however, you can start on the path to equitable access and opportunities for all students to achieve. In this hands-on guide, authors Jessica and John…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Program Implementation, Equal Education, Access to Education
State Support Network, 2020
A leadership academy is a formal professional learning opportunity for current school leaders, focused on augmenting knowledge and skills, increasing specialization, and refreshing leadership practices. States interested in supporting leadership academies through federal or other funding sources can look to current models of leadership academies…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Training, State Programs, Educational Improvement
Nash, John B. – Harvard Education Press, 2019
School innovation expert John B. Nash demonstrates how design thinking can be adapted successfully by busy school leaders seeking student-centered solutions to a range of challenges. Based on a decade of work teaching school leaders nationally and internationally, "Design Thinking in Schools" shows how leaders can adopt a design thinking…
Descriptors: Design, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Marjorie Cohen; Steve Klein; Cherise Moore – Career and Technical Education Research Network, 2020
Continuous improvement, a structured process for using data and research to improve educational programming, is an important component in creating and maintaining successful CTE programs. For practitioners to engage in continuous improvement--and to use data and research to go beyond accountability--they need to maintain an effective data…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Research, Data Use, Research Utilization
VanLone, Janet; Freeman, Jennifer; LaSalle, Tamika; Gordon, Lola; Polk, Tiffany; Rocha Neves, Jesslynn – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2019
Research focusing on school climate has shown that healthy, safe, and positive school environments are associated with improved psychological, social, behavioral, and academic outcomes for secondary students. For this reason, it is important for schools to understand how to improve perceptions of school climate through effective, evidence-based…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Evidence Based Practice, High Schools, Program Implementation
Daugherty, Lindsay; Karam, Rita; Basco, Daniel; Kaufman, Julia H. – Grantee Submission, 2019
In education, practitioners are increasingly looking for strategies to bring data and evidence into decisionmaking and to roll out programs in intentional ways that allow for ongoing improvement. This toolkit acts as a guide to improvement strategies for teams of practitioners at colleges, providing them with the knowledge and tools they need to…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Remedial Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Improvement
Goodwin, Bryan; Rouleau, Kristin; Lewis, Dale – McREL International, 2018
Take charge of your school's learning environment and culture and push past performance plateaus by rekindling the power of curiosity across your school. "Curiosity Works" guides school leadership teams through a six-phase journey toward powerful, continuous improvement and innovation, with 17 tools you can use to reflect on where you…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation, Instructional Leadership
Ratway, Beth – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2018
The primary purpose of this Guide is to provide a blueprint for the development, revision, and implementation of state social studies standards. The process described herein offers opportunities for a range of stakeholder groups to engage in discussions around promising approaches and strategies that strategically advance implementation goals. It…
Descriptors: Program Development, Program Implementation, Academic Standards, State Standards
Council of Chief State School Officers, 2019
In 2019, 46 states and territories are implementing Preschool Development Grants (PDGs), which will support states to do five broadly defined activities: 1. A Birth to Five Needs Assessment 2. A Birth to Five Strategic Plan 3. Maximizing Parent Knowledge and Choice 4. Sharing Best Practices 5. Improving Overall Quality. This brief starts by…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Preschool Education
Cuiccio, Cary; Husby-Slater, Marie – State Support Network, 2018
This guidebook is designed to support state and local leaders in the first step in the improvement process, the development and facilitation of a needs assessment. The guidebook does the following: (1) Reviews some of the major school-improvement-related needs assessment requirements found in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation
Schmoker, Mike – ASCD, 2016
In his 2011 ASCD best-seller "Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning," author Mike Schmoker described a fresh approach to K-12 teaching built on three core elements: a focused and coherent curriculum; clear, structured lessons; and purposeful reading and writing, or authentic literacy. Now, in "Leading…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, School Districts, Educational Administration, Models
