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<h2 class="hd hd-2 unit-title">Readings & More for Unit 5</h2>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">For each unit, we curate a set of readings that can help you better understand and explore the ideas presented. </span><strong style="text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">We recommend choosing one reading that looks engaging and relevant, and skimming, perusing, or glancing at the others.</strong></p>
<p>From the <a href="https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/" target="[object Object]">Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching</a>: </p>
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<li>Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. "<a href="https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/our-ideas/six-core-principles-improvement/" target="[object Object]" style="font-size: 1em;">The Six Core Principles of Improvement</a><span style="font-size: 1em;">." Accessed February 20, 2017. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1em;"><em>Harvard Educational Review</em>. <a href="http://hepg.org/her-home/issues/harvard-educational-review-volume-85-number-4/herbooknote/learning-to-improve" target="[object Object]">Book Note on <em>Learning to Improve: </em></a></span><a href="http://hepg.org/her-home/issues/harvard-educational-review-volume-85-number-4/herbooknote/learning-to-improve" target="[object Object]"><em>How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better</em></a>. Harvard Education Publishing Group. Accessed February 20, 2017. </li>
<li>Professor Donald J. Peurach (University of Michigan) and Dr. Anthony S. Bryk (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching) launched an edX MOOC titled <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/improvement-science-education-michiganx-leaded503x#!" target="[object Object]" style="font-size: 1em;">Improvement Science in Education</a><span style="font-size: 1em;"> on May 30, 2017. </span></li>
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<p>If you’d like to dig deeper into a specific assessment framework, consider the <a href="http://datawise.gse.harvard.edu/" target="[object Object]">Data Wise Project</a> at Harvard Graduate School of Education: </p>
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<li>Boudett, Kathryn Parker and Elizabeth A. City. May/June 2013. "<a href="http://hepg.org/hel-home/issues/29_3/helarticle/lessons-from-the-data-wise-project_567#home" target="[object Object]">Lessons from the Data Wise Project</a>." <em>Harvard Education Letter</em> 29 (3)</li>
<li>Steele, Jennifer L. and Kathryn Parker Boudett. January/February 2008. "<a href="http://hepg.org/HEPG/Media/Documents/hel_datawiseinaction.pdf" target="[object Object]" style="font-size: 1em;">Leadership Lessons from Schools Becoming 'Data-Wise</a><span style="font-size: 1em;">.'" <em>Harvard Education Letter</em> 24 (1). </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 1em;">The Data Wise Project has a self-paced <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-data-wise-collaborative-harvardx-gse3x-0" target="[object Object]">MOOC</a> on edX if you want to learn more.</span></li>
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<p>Our course sponsor, Microsoft, has developed the Microsoft School Transformation Framework, a set of white papers and resources that summarize decades of research about school leadership and school change. Here are some of the resources that are relevant to this unit:</p>
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<li>Microsoft. 2015. <em><a href="https://msp2l1160225102310.blob.core.windows.net/ms-p2-l1-160225-1023-13-assets/18287_Quality%20Assurance_151116_en-US.pdf" target="[object Object]">Organizational Capacity, Strategic Planning and Quality Assurance - Monitoring and Evaluation</a></em>. </li>
<li>Clark, Tom. 2015. <em><a href="https://msp2l1160225102310.blob.core.windows.net/ms-p2-l1-160225-1023-13-assets/18261_3_2%20Quality%20Assurance_v3_en-US.pdf" target="[object Object]">Quality Assurance: Monitoring and Evaluation to Inform Practice and Leadership</a></em>. Microsoft. </li>
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