In conjunction with

Rockland Teachers’ Institute 

at 

New York International University Center

Presents
Measuring and Promoting School Improvement

March 19^th, 2013   

Presented by:
 Giselle O. Martin-Kniep, President,                  Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd

About the Presenter:
 Giselle O. Martin-Kniep, President,                 Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd.

Giselle O. Martin-Kniep is a teacher educator, researcher, program evaluator, and writer. She is the President of Learner-Centered Initiatives, an educational consulting organization specializing in comprehensive regional and school-based curriculum and assessment work. She is also the Founder and President of Communities for Learning: Leading Lasting Change™, an organization committed to the development of lasting professional learning communities that learn and lead.

Dr. Martin-Kniep has a strong background in organizational change and has graduate degrees in communication and development, social sciences in education, and educational evaluation from Stanford University. She has worked with hundreds of schools and districts nationally and internationally in the areas of curriculum and assessment, standards-based design, school improvement, and action research.

Dr. Martin-Kniep has written extensively. Her books include Becoming a Better Teacher: Eight Innovations that Work, Developing Learning Communities Through Teacher Expertise, and Communities that Learn, Lead and Last: Building and Sustaining Educational Expertise.

Formerly the New York State Staff Development Council

Shift from Compliance Thinking 

to 

Real Improvement Thinking

Unless we measure what we value, we cannot aspire to produce the outcomes we seek. Measuring school improvement and making effective use of data are complex endeavors that transcend what achievement data reveals.  They demand that we use measures and tools that assess what key school stakeholders (i.e., students, teachers and administrators) learn and focus on, what they value, and how they work with each other.

This session will showcase a variety of student, teacher, and school outcomes (i.e., understanding complexity, dealing with ambiguity, collaboration, problem finding, etc.), which are often valued, but seldom, if ever, measured. It will also include an overview of measures that schools could use to document progress and attainment on such outcomes. Participants will have opportunities to explore how to mediate and address APPR requirements in ways that leverage these mandates and will learn about how schools can use existing structures, like PLCs, to be strategic and systemic in their assessment adoption, design and refinement.

Target audience: teams of central office and school administrators with lead teachers.

Measuring and Promoting School Improvement

Registration must be made through My Learning Plan

www.rockteach.org

Registration can be made via credit card, personal check, Money Order or Purchase Order.  Make checks payable to: Rockland Teachers Center Institute

Registration deadline:  March 14, 2013

Registration Fee:       Individual rate: $125 per participant,            Group rate: $95 per person in group of 4 or more people                                                          All registrations include continental breakfast and lunch)

When: March 19, 2013

Location:       New York International University Center 

371 State Rte. 17A

Tuxedo, NY  10987

Time: Continental Breakfast: 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Workshop: 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.

For registration questions, please contact

Betty McAleer

betty.mcaleer@nyiuc.org

(845)351-2090