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2002 District Survey of Parents, Students and Staff
Organization: Olentangy Local School District
About this tool: Results from the Olentangy School District 2002 survey of parents, students, and staff. Includes...

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Action Guide
Organization: Center for Community Change
About this tool: Descriptions of the different pieces of the education puzzle, with links to detailed information...

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Buried Treasure: Developing a Management Guide from Mountains of School Data
Organization: Center on Reinventing Public Education
About this tool: This report provides a practical discussion of what is required to develop a school district...

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CCD (Common Core of Data) Build a Table: Introduction
Organization: National Center for Education Statistics
About this tool: You can build a database from federally collected information - Data are collected down to the...

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Checklists and Tools for Use in School Evaluation
Organization: The Evaluation Center: Western Michigan University
About this tool: Evaluation of all school improvement areas - Includes questions which could be easily converted...

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Creating "Good" Schools: An Observation and Discussion Tool
Organization: Forum for Youth Investment
About this tool: The tool is meant to help adults and students identify real opportunities for school improvement....

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Data Collection Tips: Developing a Survey
Organization: Innovation Network, Inc.
About this tool: Issues and advice about developing your own surveys and finding and modifying existing data...

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Dispelling the Myth Online
Organization: The Education Trust
About this tool: This fully interactive data warehouse allows schools and districts to examine high poverty and high...

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Education Counts
Organization: Education Week
About this tool: More than 250 state-level K-12 education indicators, as well as tools to create custom tables,...

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Free Management Library
Organization: The Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits
About this tool: 75 improvement areas for schools and other organizations. Includes topics such as human resources,...

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Illinois State Board of Education School-Improvement Plan
Organization: Illinois State Board of Education
About this tool: A host of school-improvement plan rubrics that can help schools narrow in on their specific...

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Making the Grade: A Racial Justice Report Card
Organization: Applied Research Center
About this tool: This downloadable program can help schools and districts analyze equity in their schools. The...

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Map Viewer - School District Demographics System
Organization: National Center for Education Statistics
About this tool: Map federal data by district- The tool maps census data by district in a GIS format. Good for...

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New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum School District Effectiveness Checklist
Organization: New Jersey Department of Education
About this tool: The School District Effectiveness Checklist is a self-evaluation completed by each local district...

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Organizational Assessment
Organization: Innovation Network, Inc.
About this tool: Organizational Assessment Tool addresses six main components of organizational development:...

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QSP -- QUALITY SCHOOL PORTFOLIO
Organization: National Center for Research on Evaluation Standards and Student Testing (CRESST)
About this tool: FREE web-based decision support tool for schools and districts. The tool is only available to US...

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Sample Focus Group Topic Guide
Organization: (EHR) Education and Human Resources
About this tool: Sample focus group topic guide - includes probing questions (Part of User Friendly Handbook (web...

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School Equity Survey
Organization: Kentucky Department of Education
About this tool: This equity survey is specific to Kentucky but could easily be modified for use in other schools or...

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School Quality Survey Instruments
Organization: Accountability Resource Center Hawaii
About this tool: This battery of school-quality surveys contains instruments for parents, teachers, and elementary,...

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School Visit Questions
Organization: The School Redesign Network at Stanford University
About this tool: This document by the School Redesign Network lists questions you can ask before, during, and after...

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School-Improvement Survey: Family Perspectives
Organization: School-Improvement Planning in Washington State
About this tool: A short survey designed to get the family perspective about school improvement. The main link has...

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Springboard Schools Cycle of Inquiry
Organization: Bay Area School Reform Collaborative
About this tool: 6 steps of a school level cycle of inquiry (1 page description- graphic)- Website includes many...

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Student perspectives on School Improvement - Student Conditions- Self Assessment
Organization: EDUCATION-LINE
About this tool: Fascinating study that examines how students perceive school improvement. Survey (in appendix)...

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Team Building Tools
Organization: Minnesota Department of Education
About this tool: Team-building tools offered on the Minnesota Department of Education Web site. High-functioning...

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The Catalog of Research on Secondary School Reform
Organization: National High School Alliance
About this tool: Tool for researchers and policy-makers who want to know what type of research is currently in...

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The Toolbox (From The School Self-Evaluation toolbox, Kathryn Riley and John McBeath, 2000)
Organization: The World Bank Group: Effective Schools and Teachers
About this tool: Hosted on the World Bank Group: Effective Schools and Teachers site, this toolbox examines school...

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Using Data to Improve Schools: What's Working
Organization: American Association of School Administrators
About this tool: Designed primarily for district superintendents and their leadership teams to assist in data-driven...

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Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations!
Organization: John C. Pezzullo's Home Page
About this tool: On-line resource for websites offering free interactive statistics and free statistics software. ...

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