Previously, she taught elementary school in Washington, DC."Coherence" was produced on a shoestring. Candice received her EdD from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and she holds an MAT from American University, an MA in policy analysis and evaluation from Stanford University, and a BA in government from Cornell University. At WestEd, she serves as a program evaluator, researcher, and technical assistance provider to state and local education agencies. She is also committed to supporting educators with understanding issues related to racial and ethnic diversity and enacting pedagogical practices that promote equity. She has led and designed numerous professional learning workshops for educators as a senior team member of the Data Wise Project and the Internal Coherence Research Project. Her research focuses on the connections between educator learning and the organizational conditions that support collaboration and improvement. She received her BA in Spanish and Portuguese from University of California, Berkeley an MA in teaching from the University of San Francisco and an EdM in educational policy and an EdD in education policy, leadership, and instructional practice from Harvard University.Ĭandice Bocala, EdD, is a Senior Research Associate at WestEd and Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Previously, Elizabeth taught elementary school in Oakland and San Francisco. Her research interests include school improvement, standards-based accountability policies, teacher collaboration, and teacher preparation and development. Elizabeth’s research focuses on the school conditions and learning opportunities that help teachers engage in ambitious instruction this support included opportunities for teachers to use curriculum, assessments, and inquiry-based practices to meet the goals of standards-based accountability policies. She holds an MA in English education from Teachers College and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.Įlizabeth Leisy Stosich, EdD, is a Research and Policy Fellow at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Previously, Michelle worked as a high school teacher in New York City Oakland, California and a small rural community in upstate New York. She is a contributing author to Data Wise in Action: Stories of Schools Using Data to Improve Teaching and Learning. Michelle received her doctorate with a concentration in leadership, policy, and instructional practice, and her research focused on tightening the relationship between teacher efficacy and the core work of schools. While completing her doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Michelle served as the director of the Internal Coherence Research Project of the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP), at the Boston field site. In this capacity, she has consulted with schools, districts, networks, leadership coaches, and other providers of professional learning. Michelle Forman, EdD, works as a consultant helping educators develop internal coherence as a learning process to support teacher agency, organizational capacity, and ongoing improvements to teaching and learning. The book blends theory and practice to bring tested wisdom to bear on critical issues of education leadership and professional learning. At the heart of the book is a survey and rubric that can help schools better understand their strengths and weaknesses and the kinds of resources they need to support student learning. School or system leaders who progress through this book with colleagues will develop a shared vision for ambitious teaching and learning anchored in the instructional core organize the work of the leadership and teacher teams to advance this vision and build psychologically safe team, school, and system cultures to support the risk taking and constructive challenges necessary to move schools or systems to the next level of performance. The internal coherence framework featured in the book brings together three important domains of research: leadership for learning, organizational improvement, and instructional efficacy. Internal coherence is defined as the ability of educators in a school or system to connect and align resources to carry out an improvement strategy, engage in collective learning, and use that learning to provide students with richer educational opportunities. The Internal Coherence Framework presents a system of research-based practices for assessing and developing the conditions that support adult and student learning in schools.
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