Align the Design: A Blueprint for School Improvement"This is our THIRD school improvement plan Why aren't we seeing any results?" "We have all of this data, but we don't know what to do with it " "What does this workshop have to do with the goals we set for our school? Many of today's school leaders have all the latest tools, techniques, and programs for school improvement. Unfortunately, some leaders fail to create real, sustainable results for their schools because they use one or two "flavor-of-the-month" strategies without connecting all the pieces together for real improvement. In Align the Design: A Blueprint for School Improvement, Nancy J. Mooney and Ann T. Mausbach emphasize the importance of coordinating essential school improvement processes to increase staff capacity, improve student achievement, and develop effective schools. The authors show school leaders how to use "power tools" to
Each chapter includes personal reflections from the authors and lists of touchstone texts that have inspired their efforts. At a time when school leaders are trying to translate urgent calls for higher achievement into actions that work, Align the Design provides expert guidance and practical tools that will help educators work more purposefully together to create better schools for their students. |
Contents
Developing Curriculum Leadership and Design | 1 |
Aligning the Design for School Improvement | 26 |
Making Sense of the Data | 42 |
Providing Accountability for the Data | 61 |
Working the Plan for School Improvement | 79 |
Developing Powerful Professional Development | 93 |
Supervising Teaching Learning and People | 123 |
Creating Leaders for School Improvement | 148 |
Appendix B Sample School Por tfolio | 170 |
Appendix C Preparing for a Data Consultation | 172 |
Appendix D School Improvement Plan Overview | 177 |
Appendix E Questions and Answers AboutDisplays of Student Work | 181 |
Appendix F Examples of Weekly Messages | 184 |
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About the Authors | 201 |
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Align the Design: A Blueprint for School Improvement Nancy J. Mooney,Ann T. Mausbach Limited preview - 2008 |