Middle Cities
Education Association
Creating Opportunities for the Urban
Learner
Tools for School Improvement
| I. Overall Building Capacity for Success | II. Professional Development Tools |
| III. Support Services | IV. Website Resources |
| V. Elements Necessary for a Quality Mentoring Program | |
Education Policy Center Presentation: Michigan’s 216 "Priority" Schools: What Do We Do Now
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The School Improvement legislation has been on the books since 1990. The process
of school improvement has been defined, refined, clarified, redefined, etc.
As a result of this activity, much work in the following areas has been provided through higher education, state, national and district initiatives.
Middle Cities Education Association has had the opportunity to work with a number of districts and state organizations in supporting the School Improvement methodology and in implementing the MDE Curriculum Framework. Through that work, we have identified some tools that help districts and buildings analyze their efforts in the complex work of school improvement and provides direction in a way that connects quality professional development with subject matter and with a systems perspective.
The categories below reflect some connector tools and services that we have available now and will allow us to incorporate more in the future.
Please feel free to try these out and to give us feedback.
Note: Some of these materials have been developed through a grant from the Michigan State Board of Education.
Category I – OVERALL BUILDING CAPACITY FOR SUCCESS
Reflect on your analysis of the work of school improvement in your school and plan for next steps. You will be able to download these tools most accurately through pdf. We can help you with that process (call 517/347-0292.)
Category II – PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
Chart the individual, school wide and district wide progress and needs in implementing best practice methodologies in science, math, integrated studies, and technology integration. You will be able to download these tools most accurately through pdf. We can help you with that process (call 517/347-0292.)
Category III – SUPPORT SERVICES
Call on MCEA staff to help facilitate the use of these tools.
Category IV – Website Resources
Other websites that will help you in thinking through this work. (A work in Progress. Please contribute good websites by contacting us at 517/347-0292.)
Category V - Elements Necessary for a Quality Mentoring Program
Draft format for monitoring your mentoring
program, proposed by the Partnership to Support New Teacher Success.
Click here to access this document.
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