Educator Preparation and Development
Engaging in Distributed Leadership
School leadership is broadly acknowledged to be vital to improving outcomes for schools and students. Yet, amongst the countless demands that educational leaders face, making wise choices to pressing issues have become increasingly more complex.
A new CPRE report reveals strategies to help leaders tackle their toughest issues.
Meaningful & Sustainable School Improvement with Distributed Leadership
School leadership is broadly acknowledged to be the lynchpin for school success. Yet, amongst the countless demands that school leaders face, making wise leadership choices is increasingly challenging. On what should leaders focus their attention and how should they prioritize their improvement efforts?
Managing Networks for School Improvement: Seven Lessons from the Field
In recent decades, new networks for school improvement (NSI) have proliferated across the country. These emerging organizational structures present education leaders with an opportunity to build dynamic infrastructures to engage schools in improvements to teaching and learning. NSI are diverse. Some NSI are part of school districts, while others are contracted by school districts to design blueprints for school improvement.
Lizzy Pecora
Lizzy Pecora is a Senior Research Coordinator with CPRE and Penn GSE. She is the project manager for the Responsive Math Teaching Project and a Heising Simons study on assessing the efficacy of OGAP in Philadelphia schools. Lizzy has extensive experience in project management and school partnerships. Lizzy holds a B.A. from Allegheny College and an M.A. from Villanova University.
Publications: A Model for Developing Sustainable Math Instructional Leadership
Study reveals OGAP produced meaningful impacts on teacher knowledge and student learning
New report describes the results of a rigorous two-year study of the impacts of the Ongoing Assessment Project (OGAP), a mathematics initiative, on teacher and student learning in grades 3-5 in two Philadelphia area school districts. OGAP is a mathematics program which combines teacher formative assessment practices with knowledge of student developmental progressions to build deeper student understanding of mathematics content.
Janine Remillard
Janine Remillard is an associate professor of mathematics education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. Her research interests include teachers’ interactions with mathematics curriculum materials, mathematics teacher learning in urban classrooms, and locally relevant mathematics instruction.
Katharine M. Conn
Katharine Conn is a senior research scientist at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) at Columbia University. Her current research focuses on issues of quality and access in primary and secondary education, teacher retention, alternative teacher preparation programs, school-to-work transitions in developing countries, and the use of meta-analysis in education research.
TASK Technical Report
This report reviews the development, piloting, and preliminary results from the large-scale field trial of the TASK Instrument (see cpre.org/task). In the first section, we review the need for an assessment of teachers’ capacity for learning trajectory-oriented instruction and the theoretical foundations that inform our work. We then describe the instrument and its development.
TASK: A Measure of Learning Trajectory-Oriented Formative Assessment
This interactive electronic report provides an overview of an innovative new instrument developed by CPRE researchers to authentically measure teachers’ formative assessment practices in mathematics.
Allan Odden
Allan Odden is professor emeritus of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE). He previously served as professor of education policy and administration at the University of Southern California (1984-1993), and director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), an education policy consortium of USC, Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley.
