Leading schools in a data-rich world : harnessing data for school improvement /
Turn skepticism about data into knowledge for true educational reform! More versatile than mere number crunching and statistics, data can be an effective tool-or even a powerful catalyst-for change within a school. Lorna M. Earl and Steven Katz show educators how to become comfortable with data, and...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks, California :
Corwin Press, a Sage Publications Company,
[2006]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Putting data at the center of school improvement
- Awash with data
- Data as a policy lever
- Educators' skepticism about data
- Needing to know
- Thinking differently about data
- Accountability redefined
- Choosing accountability through informed professional judgment
- The role of data in informed professional judgment
- Using data to "take charge of change"
- Using data for informed decision making
- An inquiry habit of mind
- Data literacy
- A culture of inquiry
- Leading in a data-rich world
- Cultivating the qualities of data-driven leadership
- The painting metaphor
- Inquiry habit of mind
- Data literacy
- A culture of inquiry
- A gallery full of paintings
- Developing an inquiry habit of mind
- Setting the canvas
- Planning this picture
- Becoming data literate
- Blocking the canvas
- The first strokes
- Creating a culture of inquiry
- The image grows
- Displaying the picture
- Sustaining the process: the cycle of inquiry
- The next picture, and the next, and the next.