Instruction Partners
PSA is partnering with Instruction Partners (IP), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to excellent instruction for all students, to lead a rapid cycle inquiry process across multiple localities. PSA is utilizing a strengths-based approach to rapid cycle inquiry, grounded in implementation science, to advance instructional practices most likely to influence student attendance and engagement during remote and socially distant learning. PSA and IP are collaborating to operationalize this vision into practical measures at three-levels: student-level measures, measures of instructional practice, and measures of IP coaching practices. PSA will document learnings and develop recommendations for future rapid cycle inquiry processes to scale rapid cycle inquiry across IP services and scaffold processes in districts served.
The Wallace Foundation
Among the suite of reports produced for the evaluation of The Wallace Foundation’s Principal Pipeline Initiative (PPI), PSA looked at the ways the six PPI districts developed and used data systems—a Leader Tracking System (LTS)—to inform their decisions regarding principal placement and succession planning. The report describes the lessons learned and the opportunities revealed in the process of building and using a LTS. Common applications—or planned applications—of the LTS include selecting principals to fill school vacancies; improving on-the-job support; and building a better bench of educators based on forecasted needs and available talent. The report draws on interviews with system developers, directors of talent development, and other district leaders, and includes hard-won insights about how to build and roll out LTS tools and dashboards.
Leader Tracking Systems: Turning Data Into Information for School Leadership (wallacefoundation.org)