Class Measures

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Bridging cultural and academic learning to build student ownership - Miles' story

Posted by Class Measures on Jan 19, 2021 2:47:23 PM

Increasing student growth data by over 20% - Miles' story

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Topics: School Improvement, Coaching

Leveraging new teaching techniques to build nuanced language skills

Posted by Class Measures on Jan 19, 2021 2:35:58 PM

Using data and new techniques to create impactful teaching strategies - Carol's story

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Topics: School Improvement, Coaching

Engaging in action research and building networks among educators

Posted by Class Measures on Jan 19, 2021 2:27:34 PM

Creating better supports for students with distracting behaviors - TJ's story

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Topics: School Improvement, Coaching

Supporting highly effective teachers to continue their growth

Posted by Class Measures on Jan 19, 2021 2:16:14 PM

Reinvigorating practice to achieve more differentiation for advanced students, not just intensive students - Annamarie's story

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Topics: School Improvement, Coaching

Developing more authentic collaboration among teachers and more distributive leadership

Posted by Class Measures on Nov 29, 2019 3:59:14 PM

How Clover Park School District addressed school improvement needs across a group of schools each with unique student populations and priority goals.

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Topics: School Improvement

Achieving rapid progress and hitting improvement targets in high-need areas – an inspirational story of school turnaround

Posted by Class Measures on Nov 29, 2019 3:06:36 PM

 

How one school leveraged their instructional program to develop a whole new team of effective leaders in education resulting in an increase in SBAC student proficiency from just 2% to 20% in English Language Arts, and 6% to 12% in mathematics.

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Topics: School Improvement

Case Study: St Cloud Area School District

Posted by Class Measures on Nov 29, 2019 2:49:57 PM

 

When several of the schools in St Cloud Area School District found themselves amongst the lowest performing schools in the state, district leaders recognized the problem would not be solved by incremental improvement initiatives due to its systemic nature. They took the decision to get to the heart of those schools’ problems by engaging in a ‘deep-dive’ review of their priority and focus schools with the aspiration of implementing sustainable improvement plans for each school.

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Topics: School Improvement

Increasing English Language Arts proficiency by 50%

Posted by Class Measures on Nov 29, 2019 2:40:35 PM

 

How Esperanza Charter School developed their capacity to improve and demonstrated progress against the backdrop of a high English Learner and economically disadvantaged learner population

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Topics: School Improvement

Making big changes: turning school effort into performance improvement

Posted by Class Measures on Nov 29, 2019 2:16:16 PM

 

How Meridian Middle School accelerated student learning through a combination of collaborative quality school review, authentic action planning and challenging the beliefs and systems that were inhibiting progress.

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Topics: School Improvement

Co-teaching to support the transformation of classroom practice : St. Cloud Area School District 742

Posted by Class Measures on Nov 29, 2019 1:57:20 PM

A partnership with the St. Cloud Area School District 742 

In December of 2017, through a Kellogg grant, the St. Cloud Area School District 742 and Class Measures began a close working relationship to address the low student achievement and rapid demographic change of two focus schools: Discovery and Talahi Elementary Schools. Within two years, both schools had transformed their classroom practices through Class Measures-guided ELOs (Effective Learning Observations) and the implementation of an effective/whole-school co-teaching model. 

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Topics: School Improvement