Characteristics of High Performing Schools
After listening to the lecture this module and reading OSPI’s Nine Characteristics of Effective schools and Lezotte’s Correlates of Effective Schools I am very thankful that the leaders in my district and my school site emmerse themselves in research on effective teaching. Our professional development for the last 4 years has been research-based. My colleagues are buying in to our common vision for Relationship, Relevance, and Rigor for all students. We have been reading through and working towards Grading for Learning for the last 2 years and are now in a place to really focus on student learning. Our science department is going to be involved in OEL the next 3 years in order to give us protocol for discussing what our students are actually learning. Our school can be a very effective school and we are making strides to be a “second generation” school in more categories.
Ken O'Connor's Book: Grading for learning
