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Using Data to Guide Instruction
(From the January 2012 Education Brief) To more effectively utilize data, Cedar Rapids Community Schools began implementing a solution to analyze in-process/formative data to identify learner needs and inform instruction...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2012-01
- Keywords:Continuous Improvement, Primary and Secondary Education Brief

From the Editor: Quality Assessment
(From the Dec. 2011 Higher Education Brief)Accountability and assessment are common themes in the discussion about improving quality in higher education, but ideas about how to practice assessment and encourage accountability are complex and diverse...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2011-12
- Keywords:Continuous Improvement, Higher Education Brief

Changes in the Higher Learning Commission Accreditation Requirements: An Overview
(From the December 2011 Higher Education Brief) Julie Furst-Bowe explains the recent changes in the Higher Learning Commission’s accreditation criteria, and discusses how the revised criteria should lead to improvements in assessment and accountability...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2011-12
- Keywords:Continuous Improvement, Higher Education Brief

Does Assessment Automatically Lead to Improvement?
(From the Dec. 2011 Higher Education Brief)John Dew observes the marginal advances that the field of education has attained because quality methods are not necessarily part of the core curriculum in education administration programs...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2011-12
- Keywords:Continuous Improvement, Higher Education Brief

21st Century Learning through Continuous Improvement at the Agora School District
This video with Principal Joyce de Vries, Agora School District,includes examples of preparing students for 21st Century learning. This video was included in the 2011 NQEC presentation by Rien Spies, Superintendent of Agora School District...
- Filetype: mp4
- Publish date: 2011-11
- Keywords:Conference Proceedings, 21st Century Skills, Professional Learning Communities (PLC),Webinars/Podcasts/Webcasts

Effective Formative Assessment: Common Instructional Checks
(From the November 2011 Education Brief)Westfield Washington Schools' system of common instructional checks is helping students retain the material covered in class...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2011-11
- Keywords:Continuous Improvement, Primary and Secondary Education Brief

LEADing Your School to a Quality Future
(From the November 2011 Education Brief) At Bethel Elementary School in Greenville, SC, leadership played a crucial role in the school’s application of quality tools and concepts in classrooms and in creating a culture of quality...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2011-11
- Keywords:Continuous Improvement, Leadership, Primary and Secondary Education Brief

Accountability Is Key
(From the November 2011 Education Brief)The theme of accounability resonates throughout the content of this issue. Schools who hold more than just the teachers accountable for students’ educations are reaching great strides on the quality front...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2011-11
- Keywords:Continuous Improvement, Primary and Secondary Education Brief

Steps for Success
(From November 2011 Education Brief) Educational consultant Lee Jenkins offers key steps for achieving quality—not quantity—in the classroom, to maintain high success rates with high standards...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2011-11
- Keywords:Primary and Secondary Education Brief,Continuous Improvement

At Westfield Washington Schools, Summer R.O.C.K.S.
The Summer Reviewing Online Content K-8 Standards (R.O.C.K.S.) program at Westfield Washington Schools helps students retain what they’ve learned from year to year during the summer break...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2011-11
- Keywords:Continuous Improvement, Primary and Secondary Education Brief