Dr. Supovitz conducts research on how education organizations use different forms of evidence to inquire about the quality and effect of their systems to support the improvement of teaching and learning in schools. Dr. Supovitz also leads the evidence-based leadership strand of Penn’s mid-career leadership program and teaches courses on how current and future leaders can develop an inquiry frame of thinking about continuous improvement and the skills necessary to compile, analyze, and act upon various forms of evidence.
While studying policy analysis at Duke University, Dr. Supovitz first focused on education leadership and policy. Before earning his doctorate at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, he gained middle and high school teaching experience in Queretaro, Mexico, and Boston, Massachusetts. His dissertation at Harvard focused on the classroom and accountability uses of portfolio assessment in an urban school district. Upon completing his degree, Dr. Supovitz worked as a research associate at Horizon Research in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he directed the evaluation of the New Jersey Statewide Systemic Initiative and evaluated the effectiveness of electronic “netcourses” for teacher enhancement. He joined the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) in 1997 as a senior researcher and the faculty at Penn GSE in 2005.
Dr. Supovitz is an accomplished mixed-method researcher and evaluator, employing both quantitative and qualitative techniques. He has published findings from a number of educational studies, including multiple studies of programmatic effectiveness; examinations of the relationship between teacher professional development, teaching practice, and student achievement; studies of educational leadership; research on efforts to develop communities of instructional practice in schools; an examination of the equitability of different forms of student assessment; and the use of technology for evaluative data collection. His current work focuses on how districts develop a coherent vision of instructional improvement and devise systems to support instructional focus in schools, and how organizations build a culture of inquiry that supports sustained organizational learning and improvement.
learning
Education Reform Perspectives at the Iowa Education Summit
Iowa has moved from being a national leader in education to being among the average over the past two decades. In response to this downward trend in Iowa’s standing, Governor Terry Branstad called for an education summit to discuss ideas with business and education leaders and teachers on what can be done to make Iowa an educational leader again. On July 25 and 26, in Des Moines, various speakers, including New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Asia Society Senior Advisor, Vivien Stewart, spoke at the Iowa Education Summit to share their ideas for education reform.
View more video from Iowa Public Television at our website: http://www.iptv.org/
Future Of Smart: Changes Made Since Book Released | Education Reform Ft. Ulcca Joshi Hansen
Learning Personalized hosted Author Ulcca Joshi Hansen discussing her book The Future Of Smart: How our Education System Needs To Help All Young People Thrive. For part three of this podcast, the conversation directs to the changes/ reforms that were done after the book was released. Small changes in education and students give some hope that current practices of education can be changed.
The importance of change in learning for young people of all types can result in positive development in the next generation of students. New activities such as mentors and coaches for education can encourage learning for everyone from teachers to parents.
Learning Personalized was founded by education consultant Allison Zmuda as a passion project. It gives a voice to teacher-leaders, administrators, and students doing amazing things
Social Media and Websites
Consulting site: http://www.allisonzmuda.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/allison_zmuda
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonzmuda
Check out Ulcca Joshi Hansen’s book! The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive
Ulcca’s website for the book: www.ulcca.com
For more information about Ulcca, visit her website or connect with her on social media.
Questions for this video
– Would you consider new changes for education for students? ‘Y’ for yes, ‘N’ for no
– Is education going in the right direction in America? ‘Y’ for yes, ‘N’ for no
– Do not forget to SUBSCRIBE to the channel, so you do not miss out on the latest from our channel!
#Education #EducationReform #Education2022
A headmaster’s philosophy of education reform | Mark Tottman | TEDxReigate
For today’s students to be most successful in the workplace of the future, they will need to cultivate soft skills relating to how they think and how they collaborate. They will need an excellent set of values and the ability to be resilient.
The current education system is built on a very narrow type of success – exam results. At the school where Mark is Headmaster, they take a transformative approach to education. Believing that fostering soft skills makes agile and adaptable students – shaping them to thrive in an unpredictable future. Mark Tottman is known for his innovative and disruptive approach to education. He has been a disruptor for as long as he can remember.
Mark is particularly focused on inspiring students to become ‘Warrior Learners’. He devotes his professional life to educating students to develop characteristics that will future-proof their lives in a fast-paced and complex world.
Mark has a degree in Modern History from Oxford University and an MBA from Edinburgh Business School. Before training to be a teacher in his mid 30s, Mark applied his unconventional and creative approach to business and leadership during seven years in marketing and operations in the UK service sector and for eight years as an international management consultant specialising in strategy and change for companies and sports organisations around the world.
As Headmaster, Mark has drawn on his business career and 20 years of teaching experience to develop a highly-successful, disruptive and courageous culture. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
Big Thinkers: Barnett Berry on Education Reform
The Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ) is a non-profit advocacy organization based in North Carolina. They are dedicated to improving education by advancing the teaching profession through targeted research, outreach to policy-makers, and fostering teacher leadership.
*Follow us here:*
Official Website: https://edutopia.org
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/edutopia
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edutopia
Twitter: https://twitter.com/edutopia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edutopia/
© 2011 George Lucas Educational Foundation
Education reform in Brazil
Eduardo Deschamps, Assistant Secretary of Education for the State of Santa Catarina, participated in a Yale leadership program titled, “Leading Educational Reforms: Empowering Brazil for the 21st Century”. Deschamps explains the need to look to successful models in the U.S. and Europe to develop educational reform in Brazil. To learn more about Yale and Brazil, visit http://world.yale.edu/regions/latin-america