Model of Essential Supports for Student Learning

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Description

A school-improvement framework developed by the Consortium on Chicago School Research that organizes seven organizational capacities and practices intended to support ambitious student learning.

Components

• Model of Essential Supports for Student Learning as framework for assessing school improvement: The report uses the Model of Essential Supports for Student Learning as its organizing framework, assessing seven areas of school improvement: "quality of classroom instruction; student learning climate; school leadership; teacher professional community; parent and community support; relational trust; and instructional program coherence." Survey measures, field research indicators, and achievement analyses were organized around these supports, with figures tracking each from 1994 or 1997 to 2001. (Smylie et al. (2003))

Claims

• Initial improvements in Annenberg schools' organizational capacity by 1999 largely disappeared by 2001, leaving little net change [+M] — (also cited [~W])
• Schools that improved focused on multiple mutually-reinforcing aspects of school organization rather than a single aspect [+W]
• Breakthrough Schools Sustained Professional Community Leadership Trust [+M]
• Annenberg elementary schools developed in small but potentially significant ways in leadership, professional community, parent and community support, and social trust, mostly mirroring citywide development patterns [+M]
• More Essential Supports Higher Improvement Likelihood [+M]

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Key Sources

• Smylie, M. A., Wenzel, S. A., with Allensworth, E., Fendt, C., Hallman, S., Luppescu, S., & Nagaoka, J. (2003). The Chicago Annenberg Challenge: Successes, Failures, and Lessons for the Future. Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED
• Wenzel, S. A., Smylie, M. A., Sebring, P. B., Allensworth, E., Gutierrez, T., Hallman, S., Luppescu, S., & Miller, S. R. (2001). Development of Chicago Annenberg Schools: 1996-1999. Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED452313

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title	Model of Essential Supports for Student Learning
description	A school-improvement framework developed by the Consortium on Chicago School Research that organizes seven organizational capacities and practices intended to support ambitious student learning.
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