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Record Nr.

UNINA9910478854903321

Autore

Corrigan Michael W.

Titolo

Multi-dimensional education : a common sense approach to data-driven thinking / / Michael W. Corrigan, Doug Grove, Philip F. Vincent ; cover designer, Rose Storey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-4522-6928-9

1-4522-6886-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

371.207

Soggetti

School management and organization - Data processing

Educational evaluation - Data processing

School improvement programs

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors""; ""Introduction: A New Lens""; ""PART I - Assessment""; ""Chapter 1 - The Paradoxes, Oxymorons, and Myths of Education""; ""Chapter 2 - The Seven Dimensions to Guiding Systemic Data-Driven Thinking""; ""Chapter 3 - Connecting the Data Dots to Achievement""; ""PART II - Improvement""; ""Chapter 4 - The 4Cs Framework for Shared Leadership and Planning""; ""Chapter 5 - The C of Curriculum""; ""Chapter 6 - The C of Community""; ""Chapter 7 - The C of Climate""; ""Chapter 8 - The C of Character""

""PART III - Achievement""""Chapter 9 - Gearing Up for Systemic Success""; ""Chapter 10 - Rising Above the Standards""; ""Appendix""; ""References""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

A comprehensive guide to data-driven school improvement    Look beyond student test scores with a practical and multidimensional data gathering approach. The authors detail the steps for identifying, collecting, analyzing, and using data as a basis for making instructional and schoolwide decisions. This book's seven-dimensional model



outlines how to apply data to these key processes:     Assessing student achievement     Modifying instruction based on data findings     Improving school performance The result is a holistic and accurate instrument for making the changes needed to improve studen

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954113203321

Autore

Longenbach James

Titolo

Draft of a letter / / James Longenbach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007

ISBN

9786611965860

9781281965868

1281965863

9780226492728

0226492729

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (82 p.)

Collana

Phoenix poets

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Poetry

POETRY / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 -- 2 -- Note

Sommario/riassunto

From Second Draft:. What other people learn. From birth, . Betrayal, . I learned late. My soul perched. On an olive branch. Combing itself, . Waving its plumes. I said. Being mortal, . I aspire to. Mortal things. I need you, . Said my soul, . If you?re telling the truth. Draft of a Letter is a book about belief?not belief in the unknowable but belief in what seems bewilderingly plain. Pondering the bodies we inhabit, the words we speak, these poems discover infinitude in the most familiar places. The revelation is disorienting and, as a result, these poems talk to themselves, revise themselves, fash.