Product Description: Your key to understanding how formative assessment improves learning! Using clear explanations and poignant cases, this timely resource shows how formative assessment can be used to understand student beliefs, inform classroom instruction, and encourage student reflection...read more

Product Description: This facilitator's guide helps trainers build educators' understanding of data analysis, promote an inquiry "habit of mind," and develop leaders' capacity to support an inquiry process.

Product Description: Turn skepticism about data into knowledge for true educational reform!  More versatile than mere number crunching and statistics, data can be an effective tool―or even a powerful catalyst―for change within a school. Lorna M. Earl and Steven Katz show educators how to become comfortable with data, and provide valuable tools that school leaders and school improvement teams can use in their work, including: Vignettes to support group discussion Activities to give readers a chance to practice ideas and concepts Task sheets Short case studies that show how the full process works...read more

Product Description: The purpose of this book is to re-orient the current agenda in education towards learning. The recent emphasis has been on achieving standards through managing schools, teachers and the teaching process. But the real purpose of schools was, is, and always will be about learning...read more

Product Description: Focusing on change and reform in secondary and elementary schools, this book explores the possibilities for better schooling for early adolescents.

Product Description: This text focuses on "participatory evaluation", an approach that involves teachers and educational administrators as partners with researchers in a broad range of school and school system-based evaluation tasks with the explicit goal of using such data to improve practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)