Instructional Practices Inventory: A Process for Profiling Student Engaged Learning for School Improvement

Further information may be found on the Middle Level Leadership Center web site at http://education.missouri.edu/orgs/mllc/4A_ipi_overview.phpA list of Middle Level Leadership Center's items within MOspace about Instructional Practices Inventory may be found at https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/3480/browse?value=Instructional+Practices+Inventory&type=subjectThis manuscript was written to describe in some detail the IPI data collection categories, the use of those categories to support school-wide instructional change by studying student engaged learning and provide data from schools of various types that have used the IPI. The audiences for this manuscript are educators who are just learning about the IPI process and would like insight about its use and value, and educators who use the IPI and would like to review the recommended processes and reflect about how it is used in their school

Project ASSIST: A Comprehensive, Systemic Change Initiative for Middle Level Schools.

Presented at the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Ft. Lauderdale, January, 2006.For more information about Project ASSIST, please visit http://education.missouri.edu/orgs/mllc/3A_ast_overview.phpA list of MOspace items relating to Project ASSIST may be found at https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/3480/browse?value=Project+ASSIST&type=subjectProject ASSIST (Achieving Success through School Improvement Site Teams) is a school improvement initiative sponsored by the Middle Level Leadership Center, University of Missouri. Center staff members work directly with school leadership teams from Missouri middle level schools using a conceptual design grounded in a “student-centered, content framework” and a “vision-driven, change process framework” to build internal leadership capacity for continuous improvement. The data presented in this paper addressed three broad areas of focus that the overall initiative was established to influences: school culture and climate, pedagogical practices, and leadership. The data were from two ASSIST cohorts, 1996-1998 and 1998-2000. The findings affirm the value of using a “leadership team capacity design” of educating and supporting a nucleus of teachers and the principal to positively impact the important areas of focus analyzed for this paper

Frameworks for Continuous School Improvement: A Synthesis of Essential Concepts

A list of MOspace items relating to Project ASSIST may be found at https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/3480/browse?value=Project+ASSIST&type=subjectFurther information may be found on the Middle Level Leadership Center web site at http://education.missouri.edu/orgs/mllc/3A_ast_overview.phpThis is one of three items marked by the Middle Level Leadership Center as Project ASSIST Recommended Readings. The other two items may be found at https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/3553 and https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/3555To develop and maintain a school improvement process that promotes success for each student, principals and teachers must understand and implement two unique but interrelated “frameworks” for improvement. The frameworks are complex and require time to understand and establish. Once established, they are fragile and difficult to maintain. The following discussions briefly explain each framework and the significance of the concepts “comprehensive” and “systemic.

Instructional Practices Inventory: Using a Student Learning Assessment to Foster Organizational Learning

Further information may be found on the Middle Level Leadership Center web site at http://education.missouri.edu/orgs/mllc/4A_ipi_overview.phpA list of Middle Level Leadership Center's items within MOspace about Instructional Practices Inventory may be found at https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/3480/browse?value=Instructional+Practices+Inventory&type=subjectThis manuscript describes the IPI data collection categories, the use of those categories to support school-wide instructional change, and data findings from schools of various types that have used the IPI

Comprehensive school improvement faculty reflection worksheet : an analysis of issues associated school-wide improvement major questions and specific statements

A list of MOspace items relating to Project ASSIST may be found at https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/3481/browse?value=Project+ASSIST&type=subjectFurther information may be found on the Middle Level Leadership Center web site at http://education.missouri.edu/orgs/mllc/3A_ast_overview.phpFiles attached are "Curriculum Instruction Assessment Faculty Reflection Worksheet," "Comprehensive SI Faculty Worksheet," and "Comprehensive SI Faculty Worksheet with Categories."These materials help school improvement teams and faculties develop a perspective about several key concepts for school improvement. The comprehensive school improvement worksheet addresses a broad range of key concepts. The curriculum and assessment worksheet focuses specifically on the pedagogy of the school

Effecting principal growth

Personal administrator development affects entire school districts

Eliminating the Gap: Insights From A School of Poverty that Changed Achievement for All Students

Presented at the National Association of Secondary School Principals, Annual Convention, Reno, March, 2006.This report presents the improvement in student achievement in the 7th and 8th graders at Freeport Intermediate, a school where 77% of its students are economically disadvantaged

Decolonizing Qualitative Instruments: Adapting Qualitative Instruments for Meaningful and Culturally Appropriate Data Collection in Schools with Indigenous Majority Populations

Files attached below (in order) are the paper "Decolonizing Qualitative Instruments: Adapting Qualitative Instruments for Meaningful and Culturally Appropriate Data Collection in Schools with Indigenous Majority Populations" and the presentation slides.Further information about the Instructional Practices Inventory may be found at http://education.missouri.edu/orgs/mllc/4A_ipi_overview.phpPresented at the National Middle School Association, Annual Convention, Houston, November 2007.The purpose of this research project is to explore decolonizing an observational assessment process and consider its utility for use in diverse school settings. To meet this research goal, the research team selected the Instructional Practices Inventory (IPI), a process for profiling student engaged learning for school improvement. The research team will examine: 1) the vocabulary used in the instrument, 2) the criteria used to classify observations, 3) the recommended procedures for facilitating faculty analysis and problem-solving, and 4) the utilization of cultural interpreters from the target populations

What Forty Years of Numbers Tell Us: Reflections on Large, National Middle School Studies

Files attached below (in order) are "Special Interest Group Descriptions" (part 1), "Selected National Reports of Middle Level Education 1963-2003" (part 2), and "Selected National Reports of Middle Level Education 1963-2003" (part 3).Presented at the National Middle School Association Annual Convention.This presentation discusses forty years of middle school statistics

Effects of subsurface fracture interactions on surface deformation

Thesis (S.M. in Geophysics)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-64).Although the surface deformation resulting from the opening of a single fracture in a layered elastic half-space resembles the observed deformation at the InSalah site, it seems unlikely that only a single fracture is involved. This raises the question of how interaction among multiple fractures affects surface deformation. Finite element modeling is used to build a 3D model of a reservoir with multiple fractures. The interacting cracks and fractures give this model a more complicated stress state, and so any surface deformation would be different from that of a model with a single fracture. Geodetic monitoring of large-scale CO 2 sequestration provides a potentially powerful and cost-effective tool for interrogating reservoir structure and processes. For example, InSAR observations at the InSalah, Algeria sequestration site have mapped the surface deformation above an active reservoir, and helped delineate the effects of CO2 storage. The impact of interactions on individual fractures and the qualitative changes in the surface displacement and stress fields are considered and the importance of orientation, position and fracture area is investigated. It was found that when the crack locations are biased towards stacked parallel arrangements, then the shielding effect of interactions dominates, meaning that the overall stiffness of a representative volume increases. When collinear interactions dominate then the overall stiffness is reduced. These effects are then used to find a volume average and a continuum description of a solid with effective elastic properties. In this way a volume of fractured rock can be replaced with a representative volume with elastic properties that approximate the interaction effects.by Ruel Jerry.S.M.in Geophysic