What will turn a PLA school to an effective learning system?
- Signal the need for dramatic change with strong leadership:
- Communicating a clear purpose
- Creating high expectations
- Sharing leadership and authority
- Identifying advocates within a staff
- Building a consensus that permeated the entire staff
- Analyzed performance data
- Study the school and its needs
- Maintain a consistent focus on improving instruction
- Using data to set goals at three levels:
- The school level
- The classroom level
- The student level
- Using data to set goals at three levels:
- What some turnaround principals are doing:
- Developing targeted goals by analyzing data, such as:
- Develop systems to help teachers understand and how to use the data
- Strong leaders:
- Eliminate the factors that impede change
- Use outreach to not only sell the school but to also sell the fact that change must and has come to the school