Billions of dollars are wasted on unsuccessful educational innovations. The results: failure to improve student outcomes, discouraged teachers, and wasted hope, time and money!
This Guide demonstrates how to introduce positive and sustainable educational improvements - based on leading research.
Practical step-by-step methods demonstrate:
• preplanning: analysis of influential social, political, educational, financial, and policy characteristics of contexts into which changes will be introduced - make contextually-valid decisions;
• how to identify and prevent impediments to change;
• Implementation: use systematic strategies for introducing change;
• how to create a culture of collaboration, collegiality, and authenticity - united in the focus: “We can improve student achievements!”
• how to team with stakeholders: the government, school boards, teachers, students, parents and the community;
• how to deliver effective, classroom-valid, professional development;
• how to establish active and engaged communication for mutual feedback, mentoring and reinforcement;
• Evaluation: how to select valid and reliable methods of program evaluation;
• how to make data-based decisions for program;
• Sustainment: how to make durable educational changes.
Written by an award-winning author, David Baine, academic and practitioner.
If you want to improve student achievements, this is a must have Guide.