Educational Strategy Choice Help

This page shares how educational leaders can choose better educational strategies to get better student outcomes.

Ed. Strategy Choices Include:
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Professional development.
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Instructional practices.
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Educational policies.
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Curricula by grade and subject.
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Educational products & services.
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Educational programs & initiatives.
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Other educational strategies.

Better Ed. Strategies Can Improve:
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Standardized test scores.
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Attendance.
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Graduation rates.
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Student behavior.
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College & career outcomes.
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Other outcomes.

Avoid the following Pitfalls
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Do NOT rely mostly on intuition and hunches.
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Do NOT rely mostly on the research sales representatives share on their own products.
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Do NOT assume that evidence-based interventions are one-size-fits-all solutions that will work for every school.
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Do NOT rely mostly on data dashboard analyses by I.T. people who are NOT trained in educational research.

Use These Keys to Success
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Use your hunches, but support them with data whenever possible (or when people have different hunches).
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Use research & analyses by an objective third party not associated with the products & services.
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Use research & analyses that are specific to each of your unique schools' students, staff, existing strategies, etc.
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Use research & analyses by people with expertise in educational research (not your I.T. staff using a data dashboard).

We Can Help You . . .
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Avoid program evaluation and data use pitfalls.
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Choose better educational strategies.
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Increase stakeholder buy-in and staff implementation.
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Improve student outcomes.
