Observations
Observations allow you to collect information about people’s behavior or about physical places using your own senses (especially your eyes and ears). Observations are done systematically using a protocol.
Student-Teacher
Student-Teacher relations
Participatory School Governance
Schools often have the aim to engage students and community members in school management and improvement efforts, but often it is not easy to do this in an effective and valued way. Schools can work towards solutions to evolving and sustaining valued participatory governance within their school system.
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Curriculum Overload – Improvement
Curriculum Overload is a complex phenomena in which schools face challenges in creating adaptive learning environments for students.
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Explore possibilities to re-organize the scope or sequence of curriculum delivery to achieve valued improvements
Using an analogy of epi-genetic expression in relation to the cultural genome of the school curriculum, educators and school stakeholders (including students) may explore possibilities to strategically organize the scope or sequence of the curriculum for a give class, subject, grade level or grade band.
Scaffold and ensure adaptive understandings of moral psychology
Humans across cultures and from early in childhood display a diversity of often strong moral beleifs and related actions in the world. Understanding the diversity and commonalities in human moral reasoning can be seen as a prequisite for engaging in public discourse on highly contentious and complex social or ecological issues. Schools can work to ensure an iterative, scaffolded, interdisciplinary curriculum that support adaptive understandings of diverse perspectives in moral psychology.
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Rapid Ethnographic Assessment Toolkit
The Evolving Schools Rapid Ethnographic Assessment (REA) Toolkit is an evolving collection of methods and workflows for developing a rapid or exploratory understanding of local school cultures within societal, family-level, and/or individual contexts.
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Rapid Assessment
Rapid Assessment is a methodology for conducting rapid, reliable, and valuable assessments of school or community culture.
PhotoVoice
PhotoVoice is a participatory research method. Community members are asked to take photographs of places or situations regarding a particular question.
Ethnography
Ethnography is the documentation of culture. There are many ways to develop an ethnography, depending on the aims, context, and resources of the researchers.
