Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement

Posted on March 8, 2017March 4, 2017 by coreeducation

The Center on School Turnaround at WestEd (CST) has released the Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement. This report was developed as a framework to assist states, districts, and schools in leading and managing rapid improvement efforts. The framework shares, in practical language, the critical practices of successful school turnaround in four domains, or areas Read more about Four Domains for Rapid School Improvement[…]

Leading Ambitious Teaching and Learning

Posted on February 21, 2017March 28, 2020 by coreeducation

The Carnegie Foundation has collaborated with colleagues in the University of Michigan’s School of Education and Ross School of Business to develop a massive open online course that moves aspiring and practicing educational leaders to improve learning outcomes for all students. In this course, Leading Ambitious Teaching and Learning, the aim is to develop leaders’ Read more about Leading Ambitious Teaching and Learning[…]

The School Principal’s Role in Reducing Teacher Turnover

Posted on February 9, 2017January 30, 2017 by coreeducation

Roxanne Garza of New America recently examined the important role principals play in building a school environment that reduces teacher attrition. Excerpts from her article appear below: Recent debates about ensuring all students have effective teachers have largely centered on how to recruit, prepare, evaluate, and—more recently—develop them. But these efforts to “build a better Read more about The School Principal’s Role in Reducing Teacher Turnover[…]

Evidence Review of School Leadership Interventions Under ESSA

Posted on January 18, 2017January 13, 2017 by coreeducation

Recognizing that effective leadership is essential to most school improvement efforts, the new federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) enables states and districts to use certain major funding sources to help achieve their school improvement goals by supporting principals and other school leaders. Because those funding streams urge consideration of evidence of effectiveness, Wallace commissioned Read more about Evidence Review of School Leadership Interventions Under ESSA[…]

Evaluation of Performance Measures for Teachers and Principals

Posted on December 2, 2016November 22, 2016 by coreeducation

According to a report from the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE), three performance measures used for evaluating teachers and principals provided some information to distinguish educator performance and led to increased feedback. The study examined the first year implementation of a set of three performance measures: observations of teachers’ classroom practices; Read more about Evaluation of Performance Measures for Teachers and Principals[…]

New Toolkit and Crosswalk for Leadership Standards Alignment

Posted on November 15, 2016November 12, 2016 by coreeducation

The Center on Great Teachers & Leaders at AIR has released a new toolkit and crosswalk, Aligning Leadership Standards to the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders. Many states are transitioning or considering a transition to the new Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL), developed by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). Developed in Read more about New Toolkit and Crosswalk for Leadership Standards Alignment[…]

Getting College- and Career-Ready Standards Right

Posted on October 13, 2016October 8, 2016 by coreeducation

Over four weeks last spring, the Learning First Alliance convened a “Practitioner Think Tank” consisting of a cross-section of education practitioners: teachers, principals, school counselors, parents, technology directors, superintendents, teacher educators, school board members and other ground-level educators. This group began the process of creating a new report that explores what is needed to achieve Read more about Getting College- and Career-Ready Standards Right[…]

Research on Teacher Leadership

Posted on October 10, 2016October 8, 2016 by coreeducation

Madeline Will, writing for the Teaching Now blog, provides a summary of a new literature review on teacher leadership. Excerpts from the article appear below: “All teachers have the capacity to be leaders,” researchers wrote in a recent comprehensive review of literature on teacher leadership, “but not all teachers want to be.” Julianne A. Wenner, Read more about Research on Teacher Leadership[…]

CTQ Releases Consensus Papers

Posted on September 12, 2016September 9, 2016 by coreeducation

The Coalition for Teaching Quality, a group of more than 100 national, state and local teacher, principal, civil rights, disability, rural, youth, higher education, and related education advocacy organizations has released three consensus policy papers to help inform state and district implementation of ESSA. Building a Strong and Diverse Teacher and Principal Recruitment Read more about CTQ Releases Consensus Papers[…]

How to Turn Around a Failing School

Posted on August 18, 2016August 14, 2016 by coreeducation

To understand how to turn around a failing school quickly, using as few resources as possible, Alex Hill, Liz Mellon, Jules Goddard and Ben Laker studied changes made by 160 UK academies after they were put into remedial measures by the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (OFSTED) up to seven years Read more about How to Turn Around a Failing School[…]

The CLASS Project: Empowering Educators, Raising Student Achievement

Posted on July 29, 2016July 22, 2016 by coreeducation

Against a statewide backdrop of sliding student achievement levels, widening education inequities, and high levels of teacher dissatisfaction, the CLASS Project—an Oregon nonprofit initiative—has made sharp gains in all of these areas while simultaneously improving the working relationships between various education system stakeholders. But what exactly IS the Creative Leadership Achieves Student Success (CLASS) Project? Read more about The CLASS Project: Empowering Educators, Raising Student Achievement[…]

Maintaining Focus on Student Success

Posted on July 7, 2016March 3, 2020 by coreeducation

A recent paper titled Not another meeting: How performance management routines help education systems deliver on their goals for students asks what data from the field can tell us about the ways in which leaders keep their systems focused on their goals through regular conversations about progress. This paper considers five years’ data from “capacity Read more about Maintaining Focus on Student Success[…]

Organizations in Which Teachers Can Do Their Best Work

Posted on July 5, 2016July 1, 2016 by coreeducation

In a two part blog on the best ways to organize an educational system, Mark Tucker outlines his vision and details the specific methods that can be used to achieve this vision. Mr. Tucker writes: NCEE, the organization I head, runs the biggest and most successful program for training school principals in the United States, Read more about Organizations in Which Teachers Can Do Their Best Work[…]

Developing Excellent School Principals: Considerations for State Policy

Posted on June 3, 2016May 27, 2016 by coreeducation

Even though school principals have a powerful impact on teaching and student achievement, in general they remain relatively low priorities on crowded state education policy agendas. A new report recently released suggests a number of possible actions that state policymakers can consider to raise the profile of principals on policy agendas and ensure they are Read more about Developing Excellent School Principals: Considerations for State Policy[…]

A Policymaker’s Guide to School Leadership

Posted on May 19, 2016May 13, 2016 by coreeducation

Whether the goal is to enhance instruction, create a culture of excellence, or broaden education options for parents, it’s nearly impossible to improve schools without strong leaders. This is hardly news; much evidence has indicated the importance of effective principals for decades. Yet reform strategies have largely lacked a coherent plan to upgrade leadership, even Read more about A Policymaker’s Guide to School Leadership[…]