Putting Faces on the Data: What Great Leaders Do!

List of Figures and TablesForeword by Sir Michael BarberPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the Authors1. From Information Glut to Well-Known FACES2. The Power of Putting FACES on the Data3. Making It Work in Practice -- Assessment4. Making It Work in Practice -- Instruction5. Leadership -- Individualizing for Improvement6. Ownership -- Of All the FACESEpilogueGlossary of TermsAppendix A. Matrix of Scaffolded Learning Using the Gradual-Release-of-Responsibility ModelAppendix B. Data Collection Placemat for ResearchAppendix C. Case Management TemplateAppendix D.The Teaching-Learning CycleAppendix E. Weekly Literacy Block PlannerAppendix F. Task-Oriented Question Construction Wheel Based on Bloom's TaxonomyAppendix G. Cross-Curricular Literacy Indicators of SuccessAppendix H. Guiding Questions for Collaborative Team Book StudyReferencesIndex

<a href="http://www.corwin.com/repository/binaries/pdf/Sharratt_consulting_flyer.pdf">Consulting Description: Data</a><a href="http://www.corwin.com/repository/binaries/pdf/Sharratt_Fullan_consulting_flyer.pdf">Consulting Description: Leadership</a>Lyn Sharratt is an experienced practitioner in system and school improvement working globally at all educational levels. As well, she is a professor at OISE/University of Toronto where she lectures and currently coordinates the 26-student Learning and Leadership EdD program. She is the former superintendent of curriculum & instruction services in York Region District School Board, a large Canadian school district where she and her staff curriculum team analyzed assessment data and developed a comprehensive literacy improvement program that they launched with the cooperation of senior leadership, principals, and over 8,800 teachers. The continuously improving 14-Parameter program resulted in increased achievement for a diverse, multi-cultural and multi-lingual population of over 115,000 students, and the district became the top performing district in Ontario, where teaching positions became among the most sought-after in the nation. Sharratt has been a curriculum consultant, administrator and has also taught all elementary grades and secondary-age students in inner-city and rural settings. Lyn has analyzed and commented on Public Policy for a provincial organization; has taught pre-service education at York University; and led in-service professional learning in a provincial teachers union head office. She is lead author, with Michael Fullan, of both "Realization: The Change Imperative for Increasing District-Wide Reform" (Corwin, 2009) and, "Putting FACES on the Data: What Great Leaders Do!" (Corwin, 2012). Currently, she consults internationally, working with districts, administrators, curriculum consultants and teachers in Chile, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.

"Too often the debate about education sets up a false dichotomy between rigorous use of data on the one hand and teachers' professionalism on the other. This book demonstrates triumphantly that when the two go together, students benefit."--Sir Michael Barber