School Improvement for All (eBook)

A How-To Guide for Doing the Right Work (Drive Continuous Improvement and Student Success Using the PLC Process)

Sharon V. Kramer, Sarah Schuhl (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
184 Seiten
Solution Tree Press (Verlag)
978-1-943874-83-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Continuous school improvement only happens when teachers and administrators collectively center their powers on ensuring student success within a professional learning community. With this practical guide, K-12 educators will discover how to target their school's specific needs with an immediate course of action to improve and measure student achievement. Each chapter includes space for teams to determine actions steps and a list of questions to help bring greater focus to your school improvement process.

A how-to guide for implementing Professional Learning Community at Work™ practices:

• Learn how to drive increased academic achievement for all students.



• Consider anecdotes from the authors' experiences working with schools that illustrate best practices in action.



• Contemplate your school's reality, and determine what actions you can take to improve student achievement.



• Prepare a school improvement plan for the structural changes needed to create a positive school culture.



• Use helpful protocols, rubrics, and action and assessment plans found throughout the book to design your continuous improvement plan.

Contents:


Introduction


Chapter 1: Charting a Course Focused on Learning


Chapter 2: Transforming Culture and Structures


Chapter 3: Focusing on 21st Century Learners


Chapter 4: Establishing a Common Curriculum


Chapter 5: Creating and Using Common Assessments


Chapter 6: Planning Meaningful and Effective Instruction


Chapter 7: Embracing Accountability


Epilogue


References and Resources

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.6.2017
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: PLC at Work, professional learning communities, school improvement process, continuous improvement plan, improving school culture, creating a positive school culture, ideas to improve school environment, student success, academic achievement, measure student achievement, leadership, accountability, instruction, pedagogy, education, teaching, common assessment, K-12 teachers, educators, administrators, STAC book, how-to guide • school improvement, professional learning communities, PLC, leadership, accountability, instruction, common assessment
• ISBN-10: 1-943874-83-2 / 1943874832
• ISBN-13: 978-1-943874-83-5 / 9781943874835