Community: Thinking Through Improvement
Thinking Through Improvement is for a wide range of audiences, including state agencies, local education agencies, and early childhood service providers. It teaches a process that will allow participants to develop skills for analyzing and using data to make good decisions and improvements to existing programs.
Thinking Through Improvement is divided into three parts: Thinking About Connections, Thinking About Data, and Thinking About Results.
- Part One: Thinking About Connections explains how participants are connected to educational accountability. Activities focus on understanding the federal-state-local connection and how local agencies can meet the responsibilities of IDEA 2004.
- Part Two: Thinking About Data explains what data may be considered during the improvement planning process and how local agencies can address data quality issues. Activities focus on the interpretation and use of data as it relates to the local improvement process.
- Part Three: Thinking About Results explains the PIER process for establishing and maintaining local improvement efforts. Activities focus on prioritizing areas for improvement, setting local targets and benchmarks, selecting effective improvement activities, evaluation the Thinking Through Improvement process and impact, and reporting progress on local improvement efforts.
Partner Organizations
North Central Regional Resource Center (NCRRC)
Facilitators
Practice Groups
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This Practice Group is made up of participants who attended the Thinking Through Improvement training on June 18-19, 2008, and/or July 22-24, 2008.
