Improving School Performance
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Produced by a team of SEDL staff who drew upon more than 3 decades of school reform research and theory, the Working Systemically approach is a process for school improvement and increased student achievement that focuses on key components and competencies at all levels of the local educational system. |
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The book illustrates how professional learning communities (PLCs) can help increase leadership capacity, embed professional development in daily work, create a positive school culture and develop accountability. But it also addresses how to manage the conflict that arises, the creativity needed for problem solving, and the courage to challenge existing systems and ways of thinking when necessary. |
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This boxed set contains the three Measuring Implementation CBAM manuals; a CD-ROM scoring program; and a DVD that includes interviews with the CBAM developers, Archie George, Gene Hall, and Shirley Hord. |
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A follow-up to 101 Questions, this book extends the conversation on accountability, standards, and assessment and includes discussions of Power standards, grading, and writing to improve student achievement |
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This product is an online version of the Change Facilitator Stages of Concern Questionnaire that can be completed online by many participants in a short amount of time. The product provides access for a "survey coordinator" to the online questionnaire as well as to a survey coordination site where the coordinator can customize the questionnaire and define subgroups to allow data for a group to be examined by subpopulations as well as by individuals and by the group as a whole. |
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This online version of the Stages of Concern (SoC) Questionnaire enables researchers and evaluators to use their computers to score questionnaires; analyze the results; and produce multiple types of reports, including individual, total-sample, and user-specified subgroup reports. |
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This five CD-ROM set provides Innovation Configurations maps for higher education institutions, state education agencies, professional associations, external assistance providers, and directors of staff development of school systems. The maps are accompanied by introductory material that explains the concept and use of Innovation Configurations and their application to the staff development standards. |
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This CD-ROM is one of a set of five CD-ROMs that provide Innovation Configurations maps for higher education institutions. The maps are accompanied by introductory material that explains the concept and use of Innovation Configurations and their application to the staff development standards. |
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This CD-ROM is one of a set of five CD-ROMs that provide Innovation Configurations maps for state education agencies. The maps are accompanied by introductory material that explains the concept and use of Innovation Configurations and their application to the staff development standards. |
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This CD-ROM is one of a set of five CD-ROMs that provide Innovation Configurations maps for professional associations. The maps are accompanied by introductory material that explains the concept and use of Innovation Configurations and their application to the staff development standards. |
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This CD-ROM is one of a set of five CD-ROMs that provide Innovation Configurations maps for external assistance providers. The maps are accompanied by introductory material that explains the concept and use of Innovation Configurations and their application to the staff development standards. |
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This CD-ROM is one of a set of five CD-ROMs that provide Innovation Configurations maps for directors of staff development of school systems. The maps are accompanied by introductory material that explains the concept and use of Innovation Configurations and their application to the staff development standards. |
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This book discusses television and film clips that staff developers can use to encourage discussion and reflection on pertinent common themes. |
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This updated manual explains how to use and score the Stages of Concern (SoC) Questionnaire, which assesses teacher concerns about new programs and practices. A CD-ROM scoring device is included. |
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This updated manual discusses how individuals behave and react with respect to specific change. The tool helps researchers and evaluators determine the extent to which an innovation is being implemented by distinguishing among three levels of nonuse and five levels of use. |
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This updated manual describes how to use Innovation Configuration Maps to clarify what an innovation or change looks like along a continuum from high-quality implementation to least-desired practices. |
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This book offers a roadmap for reflective practice that presents research-based information, ideas, and strategies for engaging in reflective practice. |
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This easy-to-read introduction to the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) is a cornerstone in the school-change literature. The book provides concepts, tools, and techniques that educators can use to facilitate school change and improvement programs. |
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In this book, Dr. White describes the foundation principles for data analysis and provides the strategies needed to take action based on that analysis. |
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In its 2nd edition, this book focuses on how school leaders can use the Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) to understand, evaluate, and facilitate school change. The text presents a number of research-based models and tools along with examples of how each one supports the change process. |
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The Lesson Study approach helps teachers deepen their content knowledge, adopt effective teaching strategies, and reflect on student learning. This multimedia package uses math instruction as an example and is designed for trainers and team leaders. |
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This 27-minute lesson study video documents implementation of one lesson focusing on direct variation. |
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SEDL i-Plan is a online school improvement planning tool customized for Galena Park ISD. The system allows campus contacts to log on and create a plan, including a campus profile, plan introduction, needs assessment, goals, appendix, and several report options. The system allows administrators to monitor plans in development, review and approve plans that are submitted, or comment on needed changes and open the plan for additional modifications. |
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Show Me the Proof!, a companion handbook to Beyond the Numbers, is designed to offer practical, user-friendly tools and strategies to apply the right tools of analysis to the right data for the right purposes. |
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This collection of stories offers leaders and trainers opportunities to work with staff members to develop new perspectives on old problems and provide innovative, alternate ways of seeing issues and challenges. |
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This book presents a clear definition of a professional learning community and offers practical advice from schools that have successfully modeled or are creating such communities. |
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This book provides Innovation Configuration (IC) maps for NSDCÕs 12 professional development standards. |
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This reference book provides clear answers to commonly asked questions about the most pressing issues in education. |
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This handbook of activities helps principals reflect on and analyze how they react in typical situations that they face daily. |
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This book provides the vision and framework for making staff development more responsive to the learning needs of educators and students. |
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This book, written by principals for principals, covers a variety of topics including trust, change, assessment, and mediating. |
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This kit provides seven training modules to guide district leaders and teams as they work with individual schools to make the changes needed to provide a high-quality education for every child. |
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This publication provides teachers with research information and practical ideas for modifying assessments to make them more effective. |
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This book reviews the five dimensions along which a school staff must operate to develop a professional learning community and discusses the role such a community plays in school reform. |
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These publications includes stories and reports of research on how school professional staff - teachers and principals - organize as a learning community and a review of the five dimensions along which a school staff should operate in order to become a learning community and discusses the role such a community can play in school reform. |
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Este folleto anima a profesores a recordar por qué se hicieron profesores en primer lugar, y después ayuda a cambiar sus prácticas para hacerlas más significativas para sus estudiantes y el aprendizaje de ellos. |
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This booklet engages teachers in recalling why they became teachers in the first place, and then changes their practice to make it more meaningful for children and their learning. |
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This two-volume resource for trainers contains findings and approaches to blending assessment with instruction to improve student learning. |
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This manual equips you with procedures for analyzing and understanding teachers' concerns when presented as open-ended statements. |
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In The Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting with their vocation and their students Ð and recovering their passion for one of the most difficult and important of human endeavors. |
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This literature review includes examples of schools that have organized professional learning communities and discusses five dimensions of those communities: supportive and shared leadership, shared values and vision, collective creativity, supportive conditions, and shared personal practice. The publication also discusses steps for transforming a school into a professional learning community. |
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This book is for use with change facilitators such as principals, staff developers, and teacher leaders who have concerns that are identical in dynamics to those on the front-line of educational innovation. |
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