Data for School Improvement

Tips for Choosing your team:

• identify instructional leaders and their specific role

• attempt non-traditional leadership structures

• look for reliability

• look for receptiveness

• be open to feedback

• model coachability

• attempt to keep ratios of teachers to leaders at 12:1 at maximum

Tips for training your team for roll out:

• plan on a weekly 3 hour time commitment

• leverage strong leaders as additional leaders

• train your team before any action takes place

• build the team's schedule

• make sure each instructional leader has a locked in observation time 

• make sure each instructional leaders allocates time for sharing reciprocal feedback

Equip your team by creating a Leadership Quick Reference Guide that includes:

• • Weekly data meeting one pager

  • Planning Meeting one pager

  • Give Effective Feedback one pager

  • Get Better Faster Scope and Sequence

  • Get Better Faster Coach's Guide

  • Leading Professional Development one pager

  • Student Culture One Pager

Monitor the School:

• Leaders walk the school together and observe and coach

• Identify gaps and corresponding patterns

• Take action as needed

Lead Effective Leadership Meetings:

• Include more instruction than announcements

• Model leadership 

• Use evidence, not opinions or anecdotes

• review observation data

• take action to support teachers