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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

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

When Students and Teachers Take Responsibility for Learning
(September 2011 Education Brief) How Sue Cleveland Elementary moved toward a systems-based approach to achieve quality goals...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2011-09
- Keywords:Process Management, Primary and Secondary Education Brief

Managing Processes Instead of Having Them Manage Us
(September 2011 Education Brief) Using the Baldrige criteria, Pewaukee School District developed a systems approach that focuses on process management...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2011-09
- Keywords:Process Management, Primary and Secondary Education Brief

The ADDIE Model: Designing, Evaluating Instructional Coach Effectiveness
(From September 2011 Education Brief) Instructional coaches can use the Analysis-Design-Develop-Implement-Evaluate (ADDIE) Model of instructional design to demonstrate a proper return on expectation for each of his or her intended stakeholders...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2011-09
- Keywords:Continuous Improvement, Primary and Secondary Education Brief

New Problems Require New Solutions
(September 2011 Education Brief) In today’s world, academic excellence can only be made possible by schools and districts striving first to become institutions of operational excellence...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2011-09
- Keywords:Continuous Improvement, Primary and Secondary Education Brief