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Learn a step-by-step process for gathering and using data to improve instruction, student outcomes, and educational equity across your district or system.
The Data Wise Improvement Process is an eight-step model that guides teams of educators as they work collaboratively to improve teaching and learning through evidence-based analysis. The process provides a clear, carefully tested blueprint that employs a wide range of evidence, from the “big data” of high-stakes tests to the “street data” collected through classroom observation and information about lived experience gathered from students and their families.
The System Wise Leadership Institute brings together district, system, and school leaders in person and online to help them learn how to employ Data Wise for continuous improvement at the system level. In this intensive program, you’ll gather with peers and Harvard faculty for three days of dialogue and training in the Data Wise Improvement Process. Then you’ll head back home and continue online, with peer conversations and monthly sessions with a certified Coach.
The System Wise Leadership Institute features a blend of in-person and virtual learning, including three days of in-person sessions plus three virtual 90-minute plenaries, along with seven monthly coaching sessions. It aims to equip participants with research-based content and develop skills in collaborative work and data-informed coaching.
On the Harvard campus, you’ll meet for three days of in-person sessions, followed by three 90-minute virtual plenaries with Data Wise leaders. Working with Harvard faculty and other district and system education leaders, you’ll learn about the Data Wise Improvement Process and how to implement it at the system level. You’ll learn how to use data to align your system on learning design and delivery. You’ll explore how to use data to build capacity for teaching and learning. And you’ll prepare a plan to implement System Wise continuous instructional improvement at scale across your system.
Back at home, you’ll work with a Data Wise coach online. Over seven months, your coach will connect with you for monthly meetings. Your coach will help you use data to analyze the effectiveness of your improvement plan and suggest changes to the process that can help improve student performance and increase education equity.
Participants will be able to:
This program is designed for district and system education leaders who wish to learn how to employ data to foster continuous improvement among groups of schools. Participants may include:
This program only accepts teams. First-time applicants need to create a Professional Education account to apply.
Designate one participant or an administrative staff member as the Coordinator.
Invoices will only be available upon your acceptance.
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