Action Learning Systems, Inc.—Increasing Student Achievement

Targeted Professional Development

The ALS model for school reform requires the school to focus on building a school-wide, systematic coaching program. As a team, teachers plan, work, assess, and analyze results. Focus and alignment are tight, expectations are high, and opportunities to learn, both for students and teachers, are enhanced. Additionally, site administrators are actively involved, receiving collegial support for instructional leadership and evaluation of school programs.

Introduction to Strategy-Focused Coaching
Participants learn about the attributes of an effective coaching program including: roles and responsibilities of personnel, formal training, demonstration lessons, co-planning, co-teaching, observations and feedback, collegial support, and data collection and analysis.

Coaches’ Cadre
Participants develop a long-term plan to fully implement a Comprehensive Coaching Program at their school.

Building Accountable Leadership
Participants learn to communicate at a personal and professional level and build a high-performance team. Site principals learn to organize the school around student achievement of standards. In-class observations, Action Walks, and building horizontal and vertical teams are the focuses of this direct, intensive coaching process.

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Action Learning Systems has made great strides in providing a quality education for all students. You have created a model that other schools in this country should attempt to learn from and use as a model of how high-quality education is attainable for all students.

Willard R. Daggett, Ed. D.
International Center for Leadership in Education, Inc.