School Improvement, Step by Step

Educational Leadership

In this article, McREL Principal Consultant Sammye Wheeler-Clouse and Senior Director Michael Siebersma, along with former Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) Chief Academic Officer Deborah Backus, share the success story of Eiber Elementary, an under-performing school that the JCPS partnered with to ensure effective implementation of its improvement plan. Realizing it needed to get serious about monitoring how well school initiatives were carried out, the school worked with McREL to break down a large improvement goal into manageable parts, involve the entire staff, monitor and provide support along the way, and apply lessons learned to future initiatives.

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