Using Data and GAN to Bring Focus to Instruction

Imagine how different schools would be if teachers and principals were able to focus completely on a few, significant priorities that have a profoundly positive impact on student learning across all subject areas. Imagine individual teachers actually having extra time because continuous, relevant data helps them target their instruction to students’ greatest areas of need.

Goals = Success

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Testing is not the problem

I’m gravely concerned about a recent posting in Teacher Week by Renee Moore, a former Mississippi state teacher of the year and Milken Award winner. In a post entitled “Fixing NCLB: How Testing Hurts Disadvantaged Kids”, Ms.

S.M.A.R.T. Solution for Transformational Change

The S.M.A.R.T. Solution for Transformational Change is a school-based, highly targeted and intensively supported process led by the school’s S.M.A.R.T. Leadership Team. The S.M.A.R.T. Solution for Transformational Change is specifically designed to support schools that have selected the Transformation or Turnaround models for school improvement. QLD can either serve as the Lead Change Agent or in a supporting role.

The Improvement Process

Watch the recording of our recent webinar: An evidence-based model for measuring improvement in teaching and learning

Date: 
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

How do you measure the effectiveness of your school improvement efforts?

The S.M.A.R.T. Solution Measurement System™ (SSMS) incorporates the use of multiple forms of data and field-based evidence to assess the impact of professional development focused on school improvement. Specifically, the SSMS integrates critical measures of student performance with an Indicators of Progress rubric and S.M.A.R.T. Survey. 

Our Framework

Use the attached S.M.A.R.T. Schools Self-assessment with your colleagues to reflect on where your school stands.

A Process for Implementing S.M.A.R.T. Goals

When Mike Schmoker's Results was published, we were impressed by his 33 Minute Meeting Agenda. We were looking for a way to extend S.M.A.R.T. Goals into a deeper learning process that would bring together instructional best practices with job-embedded staff development and collaborative inquiry. This is the results-driven school improvement process we've been teaching, coaching and refining ever since.

S.M.A.R.T. Goals

The "SMART" acronym was originally coined 30 years ago by Peter Drucker in his classic work, Management by Results. It has since been used everywhere from strategic planning to weight loss programs to self help resources. SMART is defined a little bit differently by each industry, but having used SMART for many years in the corporate sector, Anne and Jan defined it for educators as: S=Specific and Strategic, M=Measurable, A=Attainable, R=Results-based, T=Timebound.

Meet Dean Stacy - Featured QLD Coach

Certified S.M.A.R.T. Coach

Dean has been involved in secondary education for more than 40 years in Texas schools. He has served as a teacher, coach, assistant principal, principal, and executive principal at the secondary level. 

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