As you assess your engagement in the decision making process of school improvement, you should insist that members have an active role in school improvement planning. One way to do this is to make sure members are represented on the school improvement teams.

The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University has a primary focus of academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities on a critically important national challenge - closing the achievement gap.

The National Education Association Foundation has developed a theory about change based on recent research on effective schools, district redesign, association capacity, curriculum and instruction, and other related areas.

School improvement is like a trip: you can’t plan it unless you know where you want to go. Keys for Excellence for Your Schools — KEYS for short — shows the way. And it puts the school community in the driver’s seat.

Section 3301-56 of the OAC outlines the required interventions for districts declared to be under Academic Watch or in Academic Emergency status. The chart on this page illustrates the required intervention for each category.

The U.S. Department of Education approved Ohio’s application for $132 million in School Improvement Grant (SIG) funds Transform Struggling Schools