School and District Improvement (formerly IL-EMPOWER)
Illinois has launched a new program to improve the lowest performing schools in the state as part of its U. S. Department of Education Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan. The new structure, called School and District Improvement (formerly IL-EMPOWER), is promoted...
School and District Improvement (formerly IL-EMPOWER), Supporting Leaders
Leaders should not underestimate the enormity of the challenge of improvement in a low performing school. In many low performing schools, even simple problems like improving student behavior in the hallways is a steep challenge. In large part it is because social and...
School and District Improvement (formerly IL-EMPOWER), Supporting Teams
For any school improvement effort to be successful, teaching and learning – “the instructional core” – must be the North Star (Cohen and Ball, 1999). The Council of the Great City Schools (2015) found that the most improved schools were able to clearly articulate how...
