Improving School Performance
Guides and Toolkits
SEDL offers free access to the Working Systemically online survey, which is a data collection instrument allows a coordinator to set up and deploy a 34-question online survey to gather data from teachers, administrators, and other school stakeholders regarding the working systemically principles (e.g. use of data, communicating priorities, access to materials, professional development, etc.). The results are automatically tallied for the coordinator, and results can be viewed by subgroups customized by the survey coordinator. Sign up for a free survey coordinator account today! |
This paper shows that policymakers and researchers have changed their views about school improvement and the role of teachers in the process of translating policy coherence into improved instructional coherence and student learning. |
Price: $15 
This publication provides teachers with research information and practical ideas for modifying assessments to make them more effective. |
This book discusses the six strategies of successful implementation of a comprehensive school program and provides tips from experts. |
This guide is for teachers and administrators interested in participating in or beginning their own teacher exchange program with another country. |
Esta guía es para maestros y administradores interesados en participar en, o iniciar, un programa de intercambio con otro país. |
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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. |
Price: $66
This two-volume resource for trainers contains findings and approaches to blending assessment with instruction to improve student learning. |
Price: $15
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. |
These publications are a series of policy supplements which focus on creating an approach to support education and systemic change. |
This guide explores the personal qualities that contribute to a person's leadership practices and examines how personal qualities influence educational leadership. The main topics discussed are some key leadership concepts, characteristics found in effective educational, and implications of these characteristics when leaders implement or initiate school change. |
This guide examines some contextual factors that can support or block efforts to improve schools. It discusses the role of school resources, policies, and rules in change, how attitudes and beliefs of school administrators, faculty, and students shape school change, cultural norms in school change, and definitions of at-risk students and context. |
Price: $18
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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