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Leading With Data
Pathways to Improve Your School
- Ellen Goldring - Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
- Mark Berends - University of Notre Dame, USA
Series:
Leadership for Learning Series
Leadership for Learning Series
November 2008 | 216 pages | Corwin
A comprehensive, practical guide to effective use of data for school improvement! This hands-on guidebook helps head teachers make meaningful data-based instructional decisions with confidence. In layman's terms, the authors explain the essential statistical and assessment information that administrators need to know what types of data to look at, how to analyze the information, and how to use what they've learned from the data to make critical choices for their schools. As part of the Leadership for Learning Series, this resource:
Provides school-level leaders with support in developing and sustaining a schoolwide capacity for continuous improvement
Links data-based decision making with issues of accountability, improved learning, and shared mission and goals
Includes a glossary, school improvement template, sample forms, and data tools
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction by Willis D. Hawley and E. Joseph Schneider
1. The Importance of Data-Based Decision Making
2. Leading Successful Schools With Data: Pathways to School Improvement
3. The Steps in Data-Based Decision Making: Linking Data to Mission and Goals
4. Using Standardized Achievement Data for School Improvement Planning: Measuring Achievement Outcomes
5. Using Formative Assessments to Improve Instruction
6. Multiple Measures for Pathways to School Improvement
7. Involving the Community in Data-Based Decision Making
8. Analyzing Data for School Improvement
9. Seeking Solutions: Evidence-Based Decisions and Processes
10. Leading With Data for Continuous School Improvement
Index
Excellent book. I gave it to an adjunct that was teaching School Improvement and they loved it. They are using it in our program
Leadership, Policy, and Adult and Higher Education, North Carolina State University
July 14, 2013
A very useful text on using data to raise the level of student achievement.
Leadership, Policy, and Adult and Higher Education, North Carolina State University
August 25, 2012