Topic: Continuous Improvement
Suggested Reading
Eight Habits of the Heart for Educators Clifton L. Taulbert Building a great learning-teaching community is not a project but an ongoing process – one that must involve all heads, hands, and hearts! Working together happens best in an environment where people know each other and are committed to sustaining... Read the full article >
AdvancED Accreditation Embraces Cultural Relevancy
AdvancED is deeply committed to respecting the importance of culture relevancy in serving the accreditation and school improvement needs of Nonpublic Schools. Behind this commitment lies a belief that a diverse community of schools can contribute more effectively to the greater body of educational knowledge and research than groups of... Read the full article >
A Self-Study: The Impact of Accreditation on School Improvement
Does accreditation make a difference? Does it have an impact on schools and help them change? Does it contribute to a school’s efforts to improve itself? The answer is yes! AdvancED recently commissioned a team of outside researchers to study this issue. The results are contained in a report (re:... Read the full article >
A New Way of Thinking: Schools as Professional Learning Communities
There is some good news about public education! We know more than we’ve ever known about successful school improvement. In fact, rarely in American history has there been such wide-spread agreement among researchers and practitioners alike regarding how to significantly improve schools. Increasingly, educators across North America are working to... Read the full article >
Actions of Effective Leaders
What I have outlined below are five specific actions that leaders must take if they want to make improvement in their schools and districts. Before identifying these five actions however I need to address one system-wide concern that that must be addressed first. Of all of the potential drawbacks to... Read the full article >