1. Using Data as a Catalyst to Dialogue about Race, Class, and Culture

Disaggregated student learning data provides a rich opportunity for examining tacit assumptions about diverse students and their potential. Learn how to mine this opportunity by applying a cultural proficiency lens to data analysis, engaging in data-driven dialogue, and gaining insights from the experience of practitioners who are putting these tools to work in their schools.

2. Coaches as Learners

Learn strategies to share with your coaches. Gain clarity about your goals and learn how to identify multiple pathways to accomplish them. Practice using strategies for listening carefully and speaking powerfully. Address the successes and challenges of providing feedback. Experience consultancy and model coaching to support the learning of one another.

3. School Leadership Teams: Debunking the "Leader-as-Hero" Model

Real school change involves principals, teachers, parents, students, and the community in visioning and bringing a razor-sharp focus on instruction. Simulate real-life experiences from the work of states and districts in the Wallace Foundation network. Examine roles, identify effective change management practices, and gain effective leadership team techniques.

4. Linking Student Achievement to Teacher Performance

Linking student achievement to teacher performance involves building the capacity for teachers and supervisors of teachers to interpret student achievement data and to use data to set goals for improvement. Learn how two school districts designed and implemented such a system through a comprehensive staff development program.