Use the power of data—and the insights it provides—to enhance your leadership practice!
Offering key concepts about how the informed use of data can translate into highly effective school leadership, this seventh volume in The Soul of Educational Leadership series demonstrates how educational leaders can apply data strategically to strengthen school leadership and significantly improve professional learning, students′ learning experiences, and schoolwide performance.
Copublished with the HOPE Foundation and the American Association of School Administrators and featuring state-of-the-art contributions from Jesse Rodriguez, Lorna M. Earl, Steven Katz, Eileen Depka, Kay Burke, and other experts, this compact book combines research, practice, and innovative thinking to help readers determine what kind of data they need and how to use their findings to:
- Create a culture of professional inquiry that drives staff development
- Redefine curriculum, instruction, and assessment in standards-based classrooms
- Raise student achievement
- Determine best uses for technology to benefit administrators, teachers, and students
- Regularly fine tune the decision-making process
Table of Content
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Introduction
1. Using What You Know to Be a More Effective Leader – Paul Houston
2. Creating a Culture of Inquiry: Harnessing Data for Professional Learning – Lorna Earl, Steven Katz
3. Using Assessment Data to Lead Teaching and Learning – Peter Hill
4. Institutionalizing the Use of a Four-Letter Word – Eileen Depka
5. Using Data to Drive Instruction and Assessment in the Standards-Based Classroom – Kay Burke
6. Data: One District’s Journey – Doug Otto
7. Information and Communications Technology in Education – Jesse Rodriguez
8. Some Pitfalls in the Use of Data—and How to Avoid Them – Roy Forbes
Index
About the author
Robert W. Cole is proprietor and founder of Edu-Data, a firm specializing in writing, research, and publication services. He was a member of the staff of Phi Delta Kappan magazine for 14 years: assistant editor 1974-1976, managing editor 1976-1980, and editor-in-chief 1981-88. During his tenure as editor-in-chief, the Kappan earned more than 40 Distinguished Achievement Awards from the Association of Educational Publishers, three of them for his editorials. Since leaving the Kappan, Cole has served as founding vice president of the Schlechty Center for Leadership in School Reform (1990-1994). At CLSR he managed districtwide and communitywide school reform efforts and led the team that created the Kentucky Superintendents’ Leadership Institute. He formed the Bluegrass Leadership Network, in which superintendents worked together to use current leadership concepts to solve reform-oriented management and leadership problems.As senior consultant to the National Reading Styles Institute (1994-2005), Cole served as editor and lead writer of the Power Reading Program. He and a team of writers and illustrators created a series of hundreds of graded short stories, short novels, and comic books from Primer through Grade 10. Those stories were then recorded by Cole and Marie Carbo; they are being used by schools all across the United States to teach struggling readers.Cole has served as a book development editor for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), for Corwin Press, and for Writer’s Edge Press. He has been president of the Educational Press Association of America and member of the Ed Press Board of Directors. He has presented workshops, master classes, and lectures at universities nationwide, including Harvard University, Stanford University, Indiana University, Xavier University, Boise State University, and the University of Southern Maine. He has served as a special consultant to college and university deans in working with faculties on writing for professional publication. Recently he began serving as managing editor and senior associate with the Center for Empowered Leadership.
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