Using Data to Focus Instructional Improvement

by Cheryl James-Ward, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Diane Lapp

Overview

Data. Does the word make you cringe? Does it evoke feelings of guilt? Are you unsure how to distill it and use it effectively?

Grab this book and learn how to empower yourself and your school community with information gleaned from your school's data. Experienced educators and authors offer simple instructions that can help focus school improvement efforts and result in increasing teacher expertise—a factor that positively affects the quality of life for students long after they have left the classroom. Accepting responsibility for such far-reaching influence requires educators to adopt instructional improvement as a standard by which a school needs to operate and as a means to collaborate and interact with one another. More than that, though, instructional improvement is an important component of successful schools.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416614845
Publisher:	ASCD
Publication date:	02/06/2013
Pages:	134
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Debugging the School

Chapter 2: Taking a Hard Look at Hard Data

Chapter 3: Using Soft Data to Bring Information into Focus

Chapter 4: Getting to the Root of the Problem

Chapter 5: Mobilizing Efforts to Make a Difference

Chapter 6: Monitoring Progress and Midcourse Corrections

Chapter 7: Fast Forward: The Ongoing Pursuit of Excellence

References

About the Authors