Align The Design: A Blueprint for School Improvement

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• Develop effective curriculum • Make the most of their school’s data

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Nancy J. Mooney currently serves as an education consultant on topics of school improvement, school leadership, and communication arts. She has 20 years of experience as a school administrator. Ann T. Mausbach currently works as a central office administrator in charge of teaching and learning for a school district in the Midwest. She has served as a school administrator for 14 years.

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In Align the Design: A Blueprint for School Improvement, Nancy J. Mooney and Ann T. Mausbach emphasize the importance of coordinating essential school improvement processes to increase staff capacity, improve student achievement, and develop effective schools. The authors show school leaders how to use “power tools” to

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At a time when school leaders are trying to translate urgent calls for higher achievement into actions that work, Align the Design provides expert guidance and practical tools that will help educators work more purposefully together to create better schools for their students.

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any of today’s school leaders have all the latest tools, techniques, and programs for school improvement. Unfortunately, some leaders fail to create real, sustainable results for their schools because they use one or two “flavor-of-the-month” strategies without connecting all the pieces together for real improvement.

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Each chapter also includes personal reflections from the authors and lists of touchstone texts that have inspired their efforts.

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“What does this workshop have to do with the goals we set for our school?”

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“We have all of this data, but we don’t know what to do with it!”

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• Create successful school improvement plans • Implement valuable professional development sessions and workshops • Use efficient supervisory techniques • Foster leadership for school improvement

“This is our THIRD school improvement plan! Why aren’t we seeing any results?”

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—Mike Schmoker, author of Results Now

A L I GN the DESIGN

In Align the Design, Mooney and Mausbach are emphatic about the leader’s main task: to align the fundamental elements of improvement in the service of better instruction. They provide a practical and compelling treatment of those critical elements: an authentic vision, clear curriculum expectations, common assessments, classroom walkthroughs, and the use of data to monitor their impact on learning. This book is full of clear, helpful advice.

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