Data Dynamics: Aligning Teacher Team, School, & District Efforts - Softcover

Holcombe, Edie L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935542230 ISBN 13: 9781935542230

Publisher: Solution Tree, 2011

Synopsis

How is your school data performing for you? Examine the ways your school can better use student achievement data, nonacademic student data, staff data, and parent/community data to identify areas for improvement. This book will help administrators and leaders with school improvement planning and implementation, and teachers will find that good data can be used to plan instruction and monitor and motivate students.

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Review

"Edie Holcomb has once again demonstrated a keen understanding of the types of data used by schools and districts, and more importantly, the meaningful ways that they can be used to inform and improve learning. Data Dynamics provides a much-needed synthesis of the ways teacher, school, and district data teams can use data not simply report it. As in previous publications, Holcomb provides many examples of both academic and nonacademic forms of data needed to truly understand the dynamics of school improvement from classroom to district levels of organization. Readers will feel reenergized with a new clarity about approaching the task of using the many sources of data we deal with and not being overwhelmed by them." -- Katherine P. Divine "Executive Director for Research Design & Evaluation, Schultz Center for Teaching and Leadership"

About the Author

Edie L. Holcomb is executive director of curriculum and instructional services for Kenosha Unified School District No. 1 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She has experienced the challenges of improving student achievement from many perspectives: From classroom teacher to university professorFrom gifted education coordinator to mainstream teacher of children with multiple disabilitiesFrom school- and district-level administration to national and international consultingFrom small rural districts to the challenges of urban education

She is highly regarded for her ability to link research and practice on issues related to instructional leadership and school and district change including standards-based curriculum, instruction, assessment, supervision, and accountability. She has taught at all grade levels, served as a building principal and central office administrator, and assisted districts as an external facilitator for accreditation and implementation of school reform designs. As associate director of the National Center for Effective Schools, she developed a training program for site-based teams and provided technical support for implementation of school improvement efforts throughout the United States and in Canada, Guam, St. Lucia, and Hong Kong. She developed a comprehensive standards-based learning system for the staff and 47,000 students of the Seattle, Washington, city district and has supervised K 12 clusters of schools and evaluated principals.

Her work received the Excellence in Staff Development Award from the Iowa Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development in 1988. In 1990, her study of the needs of beginning principals was recognized by the American Association of School Administrators with the Paul F. Salmon Award for Outstanding Education Leadership Research.

She served as an elected member-at-large on the Leadership Council for ASCD International, played an active role in Washington State s School Improvement Assistance Program, and contributed to development of the new School System Improvement Resource Guide. Holcomb is the author of four previous books and numerous articles and reviews.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935542230
• ISBN 13: 9781935542230
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224