School Performance

In school performance, the quality of teaching trumps almost everything else. Therefore, low-performing schools improve when their teachers and leaders ensure high-quality teaching is happening in every classroom.

Whatever your school’s unique challenges, McREL can help you develop a culture of high quality and high expectations—the most powerful predictors of student success. Read below to learn how.

Book & Resources

McREL’s content experts have authored a wide range of books and resources related to improving schools, including Simply Better: Doing What Matters Most to Change the Odds for Student Success, the Classroom Instruction That Works series of books, and Understanding Common Core Standards.

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Research & Reports

McREL’s school improvement work is based on decades of experience, research, and reports that examine every aspect of a high-performance school culture—from effective school and district leadership to data use to hiring and keeping the best teachers. 

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Consulting & Guidance

Our consultants help focus on the areas that matter most to student achievement through McREL's comprehensive approach to school improvement, Success in Sight, as well as our Principal Evaluation System.

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Staff Development

McREL’s Balanced Leadership® program, Power Walkthrough®, Power of Data, and introductory Success in Sight workshops help school leaders translate research into results that transform school culture.

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