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School Improvement Strategies
In order to facilitate academic achievement for all students in the school three things need to happen; the school's culture must reflect the best practices in education through the development of a professional learning community, instruction must be differentiated in order to meet the needs of all students, and teacher expectations must be high in order to facilitate all student's learning.
The potential advantages and benefits of developing a professional learning community at a school are enormous. Applying these principles to education creates opportunities to explore new and creative ways to solve problems and enhance the educational achievement of students as well as develop and strengthen instructional teacher competencies. A supportive organizational culture is essential to sustaining the tenets of a learning organization. The culture should be humane,...
It is essential that members of a learning community recognize that they must work together to achieve their collective purpose. The organization must have challenging but achievable goals. A shared vision has the capacity to be uplifting, encourage experimentation and innovation, and foster a sense of the future. Research identifies three components that drive schools that practice the professional learning community model. The first is to ensure that all students learn. In order to accomplish this schools must constantly ask themselves, what do want students to learn, how will we know when each student has learned it, and how will we respond when a student experiences difficulty in learning? The second is a school must foster…
