Description
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a set of principles and systematic methods for improvement to help district and school leaders achieve the continuous improvement goals embedded in the Professional Standard for Educational Leadership (PSEL) and the National Educational Leadership Program (NELP) standards. Bringing the PSEL Standard 10 to life, this book tackles the why, how, and what of continuous improvement through an equity lens.
In the first section, Leading Continuous Improvement in Schools provides an overall introduction to and rationale for continuous improvement, situating current approaches to continuous improvement, situating current approaches to continuous improvement in education within broader historical and sectoral contexts. The second section highlights how the tenets of improvement science such as making iterative, incremental, evidence-based advancements; utilizing practical measurements; and acknowledging variability position school and system leaders to ada
Table of Contents
Foreword
By series editors Michelle D. Young and Rose M. Ylimaki
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Action Inventories
Section I: Why Continuous Improvement?
Chapter 1: Ava’s Story of Equity-Oriented Improvement
Chapter 2: What Is (and Isn’t) Continuous Improvement in Education?
Chapter 3: Enacting Leadership through Continuous Improvement
Chapter 4: Equity-Oriented Continuous Improvement
Section II: How Do We Enact Continuous Improvement?
Chapter 5: Problem Identification and Framing (with Brandi Hinnant-Crawford)
Chapter 6: Data for Improvement and Disciplined Inquiry
Chapter 7: Spread and Scale: The Promise (and Perils) of Networks and Systems Change
Section III: What is Leading Continuous Improvement?
Chapter 8: Building a Toolbox for Leading Continuous Improvement
Chapter 9: Building Organizational Capacity for Continuous Improvement
Chapter 10: Policy Considerations for Continuous Improvement (with David Osworth)
Chapter 11: Conclusion
Appendices
Index
