ICOS Presents:

"Standards Deviation: A Sense-Making Account of Education Standards Implementation"

Professor James Spillane
Learning Sciences; Human Development & Social Policy
Institute for Policy Research, School of Education and Social Policy
Northwestern University

University of Michigan

March 19, 2004

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Introduction

Title Slide

Implementation

Implementation (2)

Ms. Tory & Ms. Isaro

Classroom Implementation

Ms. Tory & Ms. Isaro (2)

Possible Explanations

Implementation & Sense-making

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Implementation & Sense-making

Intellectual Anchors

Standards/Systemic Reform

Book Cover

Table of Contents

Theory Building Study

School District Characteristics

Component Two: District Policymaking

Data Analysis: Phase 1 District Interview Data

Standards in School District Policymaking

Interactive Policymaking

Standards & District Policy: High Fidelity?

Attention is Not Enough

Littleton's Sonny Naughton

Lakeside's Ann Smith

Implementation and Cognition: District Policy-makers' Understandings of Mathematics Reforms

Conserving Existing Understandings

(Miss)Understanding the New as the Old

Form Focused rather than Function Focused Understandings

District Policymakers' Position by Type of Understanding

District Leaders' Understanding of Mathematics as Problem Solving & their District's Level of Implementation

District Officials' Understandings

Other Research

State Standards, District Policy, & the Schoolteacher

State Policy

State Standards & District Policy

District Policy as Surrogate for State & National Standards

Teacher Guidance

Teacher Guidance & Implementation Fidelity

Example #3

Classroom Implementation

Teachers' Opportunities for Making Sense of Standards

Sense-Making: A Group Endeavor

Going Public with Classroom Practice: Developing Understandings of Entailments of Reform Ideas

Coherence & Focus

Sense-Making: Going it Alone

Resources for Sense-making

A Sense-making Framework

Some Puzzles

Examining sense-making in day-to-day School Practices

School Practices & Policy Implementation

Policy Tools in School Practices

Curricular Domains and Dimension of Instruction: The subject matters

Policy & Instruction

Curricular and Assessment Tools in Practice: Dimensions of Instruction

Work Practices in Schools and School Districts: The Subject Matters

Information Networks

Subject matter & Sense-making Situation

Participation Structures & Subject Matter

Participation Structures: Language Arts

Participation Structures: Mathematics

Leaders' Thinking about Instructional Improvement

Subject Matter & Leaders' Mental Scripts

Conclusion

Questions

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