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A
Promising Practice is a “story” that describes one
school team’s success in setting and attaining an
improvement goal. This site is a place for you to share
your school improvement success, to find out how other
schools have dealt with their challenges, and to learn
from their successful strategies.
How can Promising Practices help your school?
Study the challenges, the work, and the results in the
submissions linked below. They can be the beginning of a
professional learning opportunity for your school or
district team. Call the contact person for more
information about how they worked through the process.
Through this study, your team will:
• See the challenges that other schools and districts
are working on • Understand that different schools have used different
methods to address similar challenges • Affirm that school improvement risks can yield
positive results • Develop case studies to organize and align your team • Bring non-GLISI-trained leaders into your work • Expand your networking opportunities
Have a Promising Practice to share? We know our
leaders are committed to sharing their success in
improving school achievement. Study the
Submitting
a Promising Practice page and work through the Promising Practices PowerPoint template,
and you can take
the next step toward researching, analyzing, and
implementing your own Promising Practice.
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Submitted By |
School
Challenge |
School
Level |
Target
Grade |
Target
Student Population |
Target
Content Area |
What Was
Implemented |
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New!
D. Blizzard |
Develop and implement a
continuous improvement plan and Balanced
Scorecard |
Elementary |
5 |
Students With
Disabilities |
Reading |
Professional learning;
School Improvement Plan; Balanced Scorecard |
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New!
G. Hughes |
Bored students; lack of
technology alignment; achievements declining |
Primary |
1 |
Early Inter-vention
Plan and Limited English Proficiency sub-groups |
Reading |
21st Century Model
Classrooms |
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New!
W. Hickman |
Lack of focus and
shared vision; little collabor-ation; lack of
teacher leaders |
High |
9-11 |
All |
Math |
Better-seeking Team
with focus on data, collaboration, and school
and system-wide goals |
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New!
D. Sturdivant |
Poverty, not making
AYP, low expectations, in-adequate profes-sional
learning |
Middle |
6-8 |
All students |
All |
Professional learning,
alignment of curriculum with GPS, using data |
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New!
F. Brown |
Improve scores for LEP
and SWD students |
Middle |
6-8 |
Limited English
Proficiency/
Students W/ Disabilities |
All |
Professional learning,
collaborative planning time, monitoring |
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M. Taylor |
Changing
the school culture |
Elementary |
4 |
Hispanic
students |
Reading |
Better-seeking team |
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G. Taylor |
Unifying
school and faculty buy-in |
Middle |
6-8 |
All
students |
Reading |
Enrichment
block |
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P. Reaves |
Change
teacher mindset in terms of subpopulations |
Middle |
6-8 |
All
students |
LAR/reading
& math |
Professional learning focus |
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S. Smith |
Changing math program,
assessment, and instruction |
Elementary |
4 |
All students |
Math |
PDCA cycle to endorse ONE
math program |
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T. DeLoach |
Culture of
the school; adopt "no excuses" attitude |
Middle |
6-8 |
All
students |
Math |
Data
analysis to influence all systems |
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N. Cook |
Improve
scores on GA High School Writing Test |
High |
9-12 |
All students |
Writing |
Write it Right Initiative |
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B. Brown |
Dealing with the sudden
change in population to reach all students |
High |
9-12 |
Hispanic students |
Writing |
Increased student &
teacher ownership to raise cultural awareness |
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D. Rodriguez |
Increase
all student CRCT math scores by 2% each year |
Elementary |
K-5 |
All students |
Math |
For teachers: intensive
prof. development; For students: weekly
instructional focus & motivational "boot camp" |
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N. Greenwood |
Improve district-level
focus on student achievement;
maintain consistency of achievement initiatives
despite high turnover |
District-level (All)
Elementary Middle
High |
K-5
6-8
9-12 |
All students |
Reading
Math
English |
Strong leader-
ship at all schools; school budget control; data
rooms; common planning times; Better-seeking
Teams at school level; teachers working together |
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V. Smith |
Preparing a school
improvement plan |
Elementary |
3-5 |
All students |
Reading
Math |
Restructuring of school
policies and processes |
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D. Williams |
Changing culture of
school & staff expectations of students |
High
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9-11 |
All students |
English |
Cardinal Creative
Alliance (Better-seeking Team) |
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C. May |
"Needs
Improvement School" with high minority and
poverty |
Elementary |
3-5 |
All students |
Reading/ELA and Math |
Improved practices and
intervention for low-performing students |
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