Instructional Leadership For K-12 Educators
Instructional Leaders maintain a focus on improving how students are TAUGHT. DataWorks shows you how to master the tools and language of instructional excellence with a complete instructional reform model.
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– Customize a professional development experience that meets the needs of your school or district.
– Help leadership help teachers improve lesson design and delivery, increase student engagement, and enable students to learn more the FIRST time they are taught. (This is the secret to raising student achievement: students have learned more.)
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Training Includes Classroom Observations
Instructional Leadership includes how to make effective classroom observations and provides coaching feedback to teachers. Administrators and coaches learn to recognize and name the research-based strategies that effective teachers use in the classroom as they are used.
How The Classroom Observations Work
Instructional Leadership brings DataWorks training consultants and administrators into the classroom to observe, monitor, and analyze classroom instruction to improve the effectiveness of teachers.
Step 1
DataWorks’ consultants demonstrate by example or by video what each research-based strategy is, and how the strategy should look when used in the classroom.
Step 2
Together with a DataWorks’ consultant, administrators and coaches do five-minute observations in 10 different classrooms on campus. Following each observation, the group will compare their observations and explain what feedback should be delivered to the teacher who was just observed.
Step 3
The administrators and DataWorks debrief to summarize their findings. Then they prepare a report of strengths and weaknesses to share with all teachers, including practices that work successfully throughout the school, strategies that were not implemented correctly, strategies that were omitted.
Step 4
Once the entire staff has mastered the language of instructional excellence and knows the expectations, administrators and coaches begin doing regular, random classroom observations looking for the specific strategies and using their observation checklist to document what they see.
Why Consider Our Instructional Leadership Program?
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Administrators Will See Immediate Improvement
DataWorks’ Instructional leadership programs empower school leaders to implement, monitor, and provide feedback for schoolwide reform. It supports administrators and teachers in analyzing data, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing evidence-based instructional strategies.
By fostering a culture of shared responsibility for student success and providing ongoing professional development, instructional leadership helps ensure that teaching practices are well-aligned, student needs are met, and educational outcomes are consistently improved.
Before And After Instructional Leadership Videos
The first video shows a teacher in the classroom teaching a lesson using basic teaching strategies.
The second video shows how the Instructional Leadership program can take teaching to the next level.
Before Instructional Leadership
After Instructional Leadership
External evaluation commissioned by the S.H. Cowell Foundation, Jane David and Joan Talbert made the following statements about Sanger Unified’s use of Explicit Direct Instruction:
“With training and support in Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) from DataWorks, the principal and teacher coach at this school taught their staff a specific set of strategies for developing and teaching lessons designed to help struggling students. One of the poorest schools with half their students classified as English learners, their success created demand, spurring interest among principals and teachers in implementing EDI in their schools. Grounded in Madeleine Hunter’s elements of effective lessons, the principles embodied in Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) over time became the district’s de facto definition of effective lessons.”
Read the full study here: Turning Around A High-Poverty District