Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of Educational Leadership and Policy
First Advisor
Deborah Peterson
Term of Graduation
Fall 2022
Date of Publication
12-13-2022
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership: Administration
Department
Educational Leadership and Policy
Language
English
Subjects
School improvement programs, Academic achievement, Educational tests and measurements, Discrimination in school discipline, Educational change, Educational leadership
DOI
10.15760/etd.8112
Physical Description
1 online resource (iv, 135 pages)
Abstract
The aspiration of achieving equitable outcomes for all students is a focus of schools, districts, and communities but has largely remained unattainable with the top-down implementation of change ideas and directives that come and go as quickly as they are implemented. Too often the direct users, students and classroom staff, are left out of the conversations around what works best to improve student success, contributing to the achievement gaps experienced by our students of color, students receiving special education or English language services, or in the case of a hook discipline, young men. By utilizing Improvement Science through collaboration across staff classifications, small changes can be made that scale to larger systems and lead to more equitable outcomes for our underserved students.
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39174
Recommended Citation
Thonstad, Cassandra Diane, "Increasing Collaboration to Improve Student Outcomes: Improvement Science" (2022). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 6253.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.8112