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Koh, Gloria A.; Askell-Williams, Helen – Review of Education, 2021
School-improvement initiatives are implemented with admirable goals, often requiring substantial human and material resources. However, many fail to be sustainable beyond short-term funding cycles or the enthusiasm of local initiators. Typically, implementation and improvement are viewed linearly and as static end-products that fail to consider…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Educational Improvement, School Effectiveness, Systems Approach
Center for MH in Schools and Student/Learning Supports at UCLA, 2021
The intent of this report is to contribute to discussions about what is involved in efforts to implement the type of broad-based, multifaceted system changes seen as essential for fundamentally improving schools. The report begins by stressing four interrelated considerations involved in making multifaceted and complex sustainable changes at a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Intervention, Program Implementation
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Pierce, Jennifer D.; Irby, Melissa; Weber-Mayrer, Melissa – Learning Professional, 2019
These three authors have led and studied coaching across diverse settings and with educators at multiple levels, from classroom teachers to district and state leaders, and have observed that the need for a more strategic approach is a common theme. They draw on implementation science research to describe how to improve coaching across educational…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Program Implementation, Educational Improvement, Competence
Courchaine, Tara; Jones, Lindsay E.; McCart, Amy; Skelton, Seena M.; Ward, Caryn S.; Woods, Kari – Great Lakes Equity Center, 2023
This brief explains how four important system design initiatives frequently promoted by state and local education agencies for school improvement can be implemented through an intentional systematic approach for a powerful, positive impact on student outcomes. As technical assistance providers with expertise in four specific frameworks for…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Equal Education, Access to Education, Multi Tiered Systems of Support
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McLure, Felicity I.; Aldridge, Jill M. – School Leadership & Management, 2022
The purpose of this systematic literature review of empirical studies was to analyse the results of 20 years of research, related to education reform, to identify factors that support or hinder change efforts. An electronic search identified a total of 160 relevant primary studies published between 2000 and 2020 that were included in the review.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Barriers, Systems Approach, Educational Objectives
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Whalen, Samuel P. – Center for Urban Education Leadership, 2020
This case study explores the strategic plan of Janice Jackson, CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, along with the central office leadership team she assembled over a five-year period. In July 2015 Dr. Jackson was tapped by then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel to become Chief Education Officer (CEdO) in partnership with CEO Forrest Claypool, a veteran public…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Educational Practices, Educational Administration, Leadership
Whalen, Samuel P. – Online Submission, 2020
This study investigates the leadership practices associated with, impacts of, and challenges encountered from a "big city" Chief Executive Officer's continuous improvement approach to system-level leadership. Undertaken from Summer 2019 to early Fall 2020, this study used organizational learning and continuous improvement as tools to…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Educational Practices, Educational Administration, Leadership
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Perry, George S., Jr.; Richardson, Joan; Jackson, Tiffiny Shockley – Learning Professional, 2022
Systems, structures, and practices perpetuate disparities because they reinforce barriers that sort and separate students based on assumed success or failure. When students are disadvantaged in this way, the implicit message is that their learning doesn't matter. The counterpoint to these discriminatory systems is an asset-based approach, which is…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Faculty Development, Professional Development, Organizational Development
Myung, Jeannie; Krausen, Kelsey; Kimner, Hayin; Donahue, Corey – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2020
California's school accountability and support system, the Statewide System of Support (System of Support), was designed to transform California's approach to school improvement. Rather than focusing on punitive consequences for underperformance, the System of Support is designed to provide education leaders and educators with needed support to…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Skill Development, Capacity Building
Meyers, Coby V.; Redding, Sam; Hitt, Dallas Hambrick; McCauley, Carlas; Dunn, Lenay; Chapman, Katy; Ambroso, Eric; Chen-Gaddini, Min – Center on School Turnaround at WestEd, 2017
The Center on School Turnaround at WestEd has developed a framework to assist states, districts, and schools in leading and managing rapid improvement efforts. The framework shares, in practical language, the critical practices of successful school turnaround in four domains, or areas of focus, that research and experience suggest are central to…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Improvement, Models, Systems Approach
McCauley, Carlas; Cashman, Joanne – Center on School Turnaround at WestEd, 2018
As researchers, decision-makers, and practitioners focus on continuous improvement in education, local-level change is gaining importance. Yet, many local school improvement efforts fail to be fully implemented. Even those that are fully implemented often fail to sustain improvements because the schools are embedded in systems that face multiple…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Improvement, Stakeholders, School Districts
Cowan, D'Ette; Joyner, Stacey; Beckwith, Shirley – Corwin, 2012
For many districts, the improvement process can seem like trying to nail Jello to the wall. This fieldbook shows how to avoid a haphazard approach by focusing on all aspects of the system and specific issues that have most impact upon student achievement. This multidimensional process also entails increasing the competencies of everyone involved…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Improvement, Systems Approach, Instructional Leadership
Cowan, D'Ette; Joyner, Stacey; Beckwith, Shirley – Corwin, 2012
It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes a community of educators to improve a school--a community that includes administrators and teachers in different, but equally important, roles. A district's changes can only show results once their improvements reach the classroom. At the same time, teachers need support from their districts to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Improvement, Systems Approach, Instructional Leadership
Aspen Institute, 2014
To assist system administrators as they pursue their own teacher leadership initiatives, this profile from Leading Educators and the Aspen Institute details the steps Denver Public Schools (DPS) took to design and implement its Differentiated Roles pilot. Specifically, it examines the initiative's opportunities and challenges within the context of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Teacher Leadership, Program Development, Program Descriptions
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Schwalm, Jason; Tylek, Karen Smuck – Afterschool Matters, 2012
Citywide implementation of project-based learning highlights the benefits--and the challenges--of promoting exemplary practices across an entire out-of-school time (OST) network. In summer 2009, the City of Philadelphia and its intermediary, the Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC), introduced project-based learning to a network of more…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Program Implementation, Program Descriptions
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