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The School Improvement Network increases student learning by improving teacher quality through professional development resources and services that are practical, researched-based, and proven to increase student achievement. We can either manage your entire school improvement program, which includes training, evaluation, and on-going implementation guidance; or, we can supplement your current efforts with our award winning video, online and CD-ROM-based professional development?every solution we offer features real teachers in real classrooms applying research-based practices. In business for over 15 years, the School Improvement Network has visited over 3,000 classrooms throughout North America helping thousands of school systems increase student learning.
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Program 1: Changing Schools from Within
Educators must look inwardly to solve problems that will improve their schools
- Understanding the Change Process
- Building the capacity to collaborate, to have vision, to screen out, to integrate, and to make connections.
- The implementation dip helps educators work through new innovations knowing that greater success will follow.
- Strengthen the relationships within and without the school.
- The Nature and Impact of Collaborative Cultures
- School culture types
- Avoiding Balkanization
- Contrived collegiality must be avoided
- Strategies for Teachers to Develop Collaborative Cultures
- Strategies for Principals as Leaders of Change
- Guidelines for Dealing with Staff
- Understand the culture
- Value your teachers
- Extend what you value
- Express what you value
- Promote collaboration, no co-optation
- Make menus, not mandates
- Use bureaucratic means to facilitate, not constrain
- Connect with the wider environment
- Moving Forward to Recreate the Schools We Need
- School improvement will occur where there is a professional learning community that focuses on and continually evaluates its pedagogy, and ties it to student assessment.
Students have the greatest chance for success when all concerned entities are actively involved in creating the best possible learning environment.
- The Modern Context of Schools
- Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.
- Going Deeper: Purpose, Passion and Emotion, and Hope
- Identify the purposes of teaching: to love, care, serve, empower, and learn.
- Teaching is a passionate vocation.
- Learn to be hopeful at all times.
- Going Wider: Engaging External Forces
- The Five Key External Forces:
- Parents and Communities
- Government Policy
- Technology
- Businesses
- The Changing Teaching Profession
- Teachers Getting Out There
- Making students prime partners
- Responding to parents' needs and desires
- Becoming more assessment literate
- Refusing to mind your own business
- Developing and use your emotional intelligence
- Helping to recreate your profession
- Principals Getting Out There
- Steering clear of false certainty
- Basing risk on security
- Respecting those you want to silence
- Moving towards the danger in forming new alliances
- Managing emotionally as well as rationally
- Fighting for lost causes--be hopeful when it counts
- Life Lines of Hope: Governments, Parents, Unions, Businesses and Citizens
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