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Lorna M Earl - Leading Schools in a Data-Rich World: Harnessing Data for School Improvement - 9781412906463 - V9781412906463
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Leading Schools in a Data-Rich World: Harnessing Data for School Improvement

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Description for Leading Schools in a Data-Rich World: Harnessing Data for School Improvement Paperback. The authors show educators how to become comfortable with data for increasing student achievement. Editor(s): Earl, Lorna M.; Katz, Steven. Num Pages: 152 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 9. Weight in Grams: 308.

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. By replacing cynicism with conviction, learning to harness data′s power, and becoming good users of data to positively impact student achievement, school leaders can develop three crucial capacities: an inquiry habit of mind, data literacy, and a culture of inquiry.

Lorna M. Earl and Steven Katz show educators how to become comfortable with data, and provide valuable tools for school improvement teams to use ... Read more

  • Vignettes to support group discussion
  • Activities for practicing the ideas and concepts in the book
  • Task sheets
  • Short case studies with actual school data that show how the full process works in a school

To improve schools, data can and should be a vital force in the change process. Using this essential resource, school leaders, school teams, study groups, and students of education can all make sense of data to plan and reform for maximum benefit.

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Product Details

Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United States
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
314g
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Thousand Oaks, United States
ISBN
9781412906463
SKU
V9781412906463
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Lorna M Earl
Lorna M. Earl is a director of Aporia Consulting Ltd. and a retired associate professor from the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. She was the first director of assessment for the Ontario Education Quality and Accountability Office, and she as been a researcher and research director in ... Read more

Reviews for Leading Schools in a Data-Rich World: Harnessing Data for School Improvement
"I recommend this book for school leadership teams and study groups delving into the school improvement process. Earl and Katz manage to make leaders feel comfortable with using data to improve student achievement. The authors help reduce the fear of ′number crunching′ with vignettes that show how meaningful data analysis through a team approach can truly help direct our efforts to ... Read more

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