Renforcement de la direction des écoles en vue d’améliorer leur résilience

Strengthening school leadership towards improving school resiliency

“Strengthening School Leadership Toward Improving School Resiliency” was a two-year interdisciplinary multi-country development research project exploring how the quality of school leadership could be strengthened as a means of improving education quality in under-resourced environments. The primary objective of the project was to understand whether use of a specific continuous improvement approach, Improvement Science (IS), supports sustainable change in the practices of school leaders. School leaders are acknowledged to have a critical role in improving the quality of teaching and learning within schools. Continuous improvement methods such as IS offer a set of ideas, tools and practices which empower practitioners such as school leaders to take an active role in improvement, crafting a narrative which explains the improvement initiative and helping to remove obstacles and blockages in the improvement initiative, and other actions which move the institution towards its goals.

Auteur ou autrice(s) : Wolfenden, Freda, Walley, Paul, Agbaire, Jennifer, Hartley, Jean

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Strengthening school leadership through an improvement science approach : final report - Kenya

The relationship between leadership and improved educational outcomes is increasingly acknowledged in Kenya (The Republic of Kenya, 2008; Eacott and Asuga, 2014), but like in many other Global South countries, school leadership is under-researched (Asuga et al, 2015) and investment in school leadership under-funded. Worldreader, in collaboration with Open University in the UK, introduced an implementation science approach and the use of PLAN, STUDY, DO, and ACT (PDSA) cycles to test creative solutions towards improving reading outcomes in children. School leaders and researchers worked together to design, implement and assess innovations to the learning loss and literacy challenges facing their schools post Covid-19. In particular, school leaders were introduced to Booksmart, a digital reading program, and conducted a series of experiments to determine how best to leverage mobile technology for improved reading growth in students in their schools. The overall objective of the research was to understand how a learning science approach targeting school leaders could contribute to improved quality and equity and continued learning and well-being of girls and boys in the Global South during the prolonged school closures of the COVID-19 crisis, and future emergencies.

Auteur ou autrice(s) : Worldreader

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School leaders’ professional collaboration to address problems of practice using improvement cycles, what are they (and we) learning? : case studies from Chile, Kenya and the Philippines

The presentation outlines the conceptual framing of developing school leaders’ problem solving and leadership capacities. The main focus is on deepening the understanding of how communities are using an Improvement Science approach and improvement cycles to achieve these goals in the school setting.

Auteur ou autrice(s) : Wolfenden, Freda, Agbaire, Jennifer

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Nairobi teacher illustrates a life-changing lesson for parents in the community

Many of the schools lining Nairobi, and the thousands of pupils that attend them, are in need of resources and support. Our recent School Leadership Project introduced 12 of these schools to our BookSmart app, giving teachers powerful data about their students’ reading habits and allowing them to make data-led decisions in their classrooms. A project intended to build knowledge and capacity cultivated many fruitful benefits. Gatoto Primary, a school that participated in the project, is situated in the Mukuru slums, an industrial area of Nairobi. Peter Nyabuto Omimi has been a teacher for 20 years, and a headteacher at Gatoto for five. He has been encouraged by the positive effect BookSmart has had on his classroom, but also by the newfound connections he’s made with parents.

Auteur ou autrice(s) : Worldreader

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Self-confidence is flouring across Kenyan classrooms

In densely-populated neighborhoods dotting the outskirts of Nairobi, 12 underserved schools including St Paul’s Primary drove change in their communities by participating in a project designed to build knowledge and capacity. With the power of Worldreader’s BookSmart app, educators participating in the School Leadership Project gained data about their pupils’ reading habits, that allowed them to make data-led decisions in their classrooms.

Auteur ou autrice(s) : Worldreader

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‘Winging it’ or developing new forms of practice exploring the boundary work in an international education endeavour

The presentation gives an overview of the project’s main goal, which is to understand the extent to which school leaders’ innovative use of an improvement cycle methodology strengthens their capacity to analyse problems of practice and organise collective action for improvement.

Auteur ou autrice(s) : Wolfenden, Freda, Agbaire, Jennifer

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Improvement science as a way to build resilience

The Covid-19 crisis has given all educators worldwide a whole series of problems to solve. Given the real-time nature of the issues solutions have needed to be found quickly, so that continuity of education is maintained (where possible) and where pupils do not lose too much of their educational opportunities. In some cases, the evidence base about what solutions work best and the vital resources needed have both been in short supply. This is where Improvement Science is an approach to problem-solving that can be of use.

Auteur ou autrice(s) : Walley, Pau

Langage : Anglais

Strengthening collaboration among Chilean early childhood school leaders : piloting an improvement science approach in a local public education service (SLEP)

The presentation outlines the main goal of the project; to bring an analytical tools to the school leaders and enhance their adaptive capacity to cope with changing and disruptive circumstances such as the pandemic.

Auteur ou autrice(s) : Castillo-Canales, Dante, Canales T., Alejandra

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Continuous improvement science : strengthening school leadership and improving school resiliency

The presentation presents an overview of Worldreader, a nonprofit organization that brings high-quality, affordable digital learning to children in under-resourced communities. It outlines the research question: How and to what extent does an improvement science intervention provide a methodology for pedagogic change involving ICTs in Kenya? and presents the rationale, intervention, data collection, and results.

Auteur ou autrice(s) : Mwachi, Joan, Gathoni, Wanjiku

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