Process Improvement in Education

Facility:
Inner city Elementary School in large metropolitan area.

Project:
Develop a more standardized process for the Principal to monitor teacher's classrooms and record and share findings to improve overall instruction and preparation of students for state achievement tests.

Project Summary:
Development of a professional development tool with which the Principal can see teaching trends over time and share this information with teachers in weekly meetings and one-on one conferences as part of the school-wide professional development and improvement effort. The project resulted in self-reflective feedback for teachers that could be immediately implemented or fine-tuned to get immediate improvement results toward better preparation of students to use higher order thinking skills that are tested in the state Achievement test.