Full Description
Improvement Science as a Tool for School Enhancement is a collection of equity-focused improvement science-in-action, school-based case studies led by practitioners. Chapter authors tell us how and why improvement science principles make system-wide improvements in classroom practice, how they learned from the problems encountered and further, how they were then able to make changeswithin a school or district.
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Deborah S. Peterson, Susan P. Carlile, and Gloria McDaniel-Hall
Chapter 2. Teachers Can't Do It Alone: The Role of Leadership in Implementing Equity-Driven Social-Emotional Learning
Amie B. Cieminski and Thomas Lee Morgan
Chapter 3. Improving School Culture Through the Implementation of Social-Emotional Learning and Restorative Practices
Joanna Carrillo Rowley, Michael Odell, and Teresa Kennedy
Chapter 4. A Pandemic and a Wildfire Evacuation: Serving Historically Underserved Students During Disasters
Ryan Carpenter, Benjamin Hargrave, and Kathleen Oropallo
Chapter 5. Combating Chronic Absenteeism: Multitiered Systems of Supports at the Elementary Level
Greg Nelson
Chapter 6. Increasing Attendance in Middle School
Emily Anderson
Chapter 7. Disparities in Middle School Discipline: English Learners, Students Receiving Special Education Services, and Boys
Cassandra Thonstad
Chapter 8. Improving Our Response to Intervention Program: Improvement Science Victoria Brown
Chapter 9. Increasing Academic Success Through a High School Advisory Program
Bryce Bennett
Chapter 10. Improving Ninth-Grade On-Track Rates in an Urban Public High School
Brian Rahaman
Chapter 11. Addressing Equity Issues for Long-Term Multilingual Learners: Using Improvement Science Practices to Improve Understanding and Services
Bill Eagle and Susan Connolly
Chapter 12. Improved Outcomes for All: Students With Disabilities and Improvement Science
Kristine J. Melloy and Toby King
Chapter 13. Equitable Special Education Evaluation in the Time of COVID-19
Kileen Birmingham and James Sanders
Chapter 14. Student Engagement Through Shared Power
Jeffrey R. Waters
Chapter 15. Increasing Equity Through Family
Engagement
Gloria McDaniel-Hall, Ryan McCarty, and Landon Brown
Chapter 16. Family Engagement: Increasing Equity Through the Reading Club Project Folusho B. Abayomi
Chapter 17. Centering Equity and Starting Small to Transform School Climate
Michelle Li, Kirsten Ebersole LaCroix, and Donna Braun
Chapter 18. Sustaining One Another While Leading Equity-Focused Improvement Science Efforts
Deborah S. Peterson
About the Authors
Index
