Resources

Announcing a Call For Chapter Proposals!

Teaching and Learning for Collaborative Continuous Improvement in Education: Challenges and Possibilities Across the Educational System
Published by Myers Education Press

We invite you to contribute chapters that critically engage with the challenges of developing capacities for Collaborative Continuous Improvement in Education (CCIE)  in diverse settings. We’re looking for chapters that highlight challenges, promising practices, lessons learned, and lingering questions related to teaching and learning for CCIE.

Focus areas include:

• Diversity of learners’ needs
• Critical learning challenges
• Varied modalities

Read more here!

Direct Support for Continuous Improvement

Announcing NYKids COMPASS Institutes - Summer 2024

NYKids is offering evidence-based direct support for Continuous Improvement this summer! 

Learn more here and contact us at (518)-442-5171 or nykids@albany.edu to reserve your spot now!

 

The COMPASS-AIM PROCESS

A unique resource for system-wide continuous improvement

COMPASS is a direct support school improvement program that:

• Enables educators to demonstrate professional growth and development within the APPR system.
• Contributes hours toward New York State Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) requirements.
• Assists in district and school planning.

COMPASS Institute’s multi-step process will help your leadership team:

• Take the pulse of your school by comparing your practices to those of odds-beating schools (a school climate survey is provided).
• Select levers for improvement by examining practices of odds-beating schools through case study analysis.
• Determine action steps and plan for evidence-guided decision-making using improvement science tools (e.g. causal analysis; driver diagramming)

Learn More about COMPASS

                 

 

Papers and Presentations:

• Wilcox, K.C. & Zuckerman, S. (2019). Building will and capacity for improvement in a rural research-practice partnership.  The Rural Educator, 40(1), 73-90.
• Andress, N. (2017). CASDA’s Mission in Action: Powerful Partnerships with the University at Albany’s School of Education, Capital Area School Development Association Online Blog.
• Wilcox, K.C., Lawson, H.A. & Angelis, J. (2017). COMPASS-AIM: A university/P-12 partnership innovation for continuous improvement. Peabody Journal of Education, 92(5), 649-674.
• Wilcox, K. & Angelis, J. (2016, January 12). Local approach benefits education. Albany Times Union.  Topic: COMPASS in line with New Federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
• Wilcox, K.C, Angelis, J. & Lawson, H.A, (2015). Developing Capacities for Evidence-Guided Continuous Improvement: A University/P-12 Network Project. Paper presented at the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools Conference, Nashville, TN, Oct 7-9, 2015. PowerPoint available here.

For more information about COMPASS direct support, contact: nykids@albany.edu or call (518) 442-5171.