14 Parameters to Increase All Students’ Achievement

1. Shared beliefs and understandings.
   1. a. Each student can achieve high standards given the right time and the right support.
   2. b. Each teacher can teach to high standards given the right assistance.
   3. c. High expectations and early and ongoing intervention are essential.
   4. d. Teachers and administrators need to be able to articulate what they do and why they teach the way they do (adapted from Hill & Crévola, 1999).
2. Embedded literacy/instructional coaches.
3. Daily, sustained focus on literacy instruction.
4. Principal instructional leadership.
5. Early and ongoing intervention.
6. Case management approach: Data walls, case-by-case meetings.
7. Professional learning at school staff meetings.
8. In-school grade/subject meetings: Collaborative marking of student work. 
9. Centralized resources.
10. Commitment of district and school budgets for literacy learning and resources.
11. Action research/collaborative inquiry.
12.  Parental and community involvements
13. Cross-curricular literacy connections in each subject area.
14. Shared responsibility and accountability.

Source: Sharratt & Fullan, 2006, 2009, 2012.

Putting Faces on the Data: What Great Leaders Do! 

By Lyn Sharratt & Michael Fullan 

The many benefits of personalizing data include increased student engagement and positive impact on school culture. This guide helps readers set goals, adjust lessons, identify students’ strengths and weaknesses, and implement interventions. Included is a self-assessment framework for implementing improvement at the district and state levels. By focusing on connecting all the dots between students and data, educators can accomplish the ultimate goal of helping them learn. (Corwin Press, 2012)

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