School Improvement Services

PCG is organizing a series of training session for schools.

Public Consulting Group invites you to take part in our new training program: Internal Evaluation based on Effective Data Use Methods that consists of 6 one-day sessions.

PCG offers:

• In-depth analysis of educational data and an effective diagnosis of the identified problem
• Formulating an improvement strategy and a work plan
• Evaluating the effectiveness of implemented changes
• Support in the internal evaluation process and school management.

During the consecutive sessions, based on the data available at your school, the participating school directors and teachers will analyze and think through a chosen problematic area. In their school, they will diagnose the causes of the issues, and plan an improvement strategy based on the collected data.

Training participants will be guided by experienced experts in going through the process of solving the identified problems. PCG’s specialists will provide individual support and expertise to build competences of the participating school teams.

For more information about our training program, please contact us by phone +48 2908 224 or through email:  amastalerz@pcgeu.com

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In response to the requirements set by the 2009 Pedagogical Supervision Act, PCG has developed a suite of services to effectively plan and conduct an internal evaluation process and support schools to prepare for an external evaluation. PCG offers also programs for building foundational competences in schools which support the development of a sustainable culture of improvement to achieve startegically defined goals. Our innovative solutions help school recognize their strenghts and identify areas for improvement to systemically improve overall school effectiveness and student performance.

PCG offer includes services organized around the following areas:

• External Evaluation Preview Audit
• Internal Evaluation Targeted Consulting
• Building Competences

PCG  helps schools discover problem areas, diagnose barriers to improvement, and define an action plan to implement effective solutions. Our methodology is based on a three step data-driven theory of action including: Discovery, Diagnosis, and Doing. Data is used throught the process to provide valuable insights for making strategic decisions. These phases are designed to be conducted by school teams and can be used multiple times throughout the year to address various improvement areas.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• How prepared is my school for the external evaluation?
• What are the indicators of my school's capacity to meet a given requirement?
• What evidence does our school in each of the review areas?
• What are our strengths and weaknesses?

PCG offers consulting services to assist schools in assessing the level of their preparedness for
an external evaluation of school performance and accountability. PCG offers a proven auditing methodology, operational and organizational protocols, tools to conduct well-structured preview audits, as well as reports that identify areas of strength and weakness that inlcude conclusions and recommendations for schools.

• What target areas for improvement should my school concentrate on?
• What process should we follow for our internal evaluation?
• How do we structure the internal evaluation around a given requirement?
• How do we implement a school improvement project to positively impact school performance?

Our  consultants and experts help schools identify target areas for improvement and then guide school teams through the phases of a structured improvement process addressing the targeted  requirements outlined in the Pedegogical Supervision Act.

• What knowledge, skills, and competences should teachers be encouraged to develop to support school improvement?
• What capacities should we focus on to bring best results?
• How do we create a culture of improvement at my school?

PCG defined core strategic capacity building areas which have the greatest impact on school improvement: data use, collaboration,  and action planning and implementation. Building competences in these areas supports development of a sustainable culture of improvement to achieve startegically defined goals.

Effective use of data can provide school leaders with valuable insights for making strategic decisions about school performance that ultimately result in improved student outcomes. We introduce an outcome-oriented approach that uses data-driven decision making based on external exams’ data, educational value added data, internal and external evaluation data, as well as any other data that help to effectively diagnose supportive and restraining factors of students’ progress. To establish a sustainable culture of data use, PCG offers schools proven data use models, tools, processes, and methodologies to support a systemic aproach to school improvement, which include:

• Data use survey to define school’s data use profile
• Professional development data use training course
• Interactive coaching to educators around data-driven decision making

The Pedagogical Supervision Act emphasizes the need to create school project teams to collaborate on enacting school improvement through rigorous internal evaluation and in response to external evaluation findings. Such teams include not only teachers, but also representatives of other institutions, local communities, parents and students. PCG offers:

• Advise and expertise in the area of effective team building and management
• Proven solutions that support effective project teamwork
• Protocols corresponding to the culture of work in specific institutions

Our specialists work together with the school team to design and implement an action plan and teamwork procedures and protocols.  PCG consultants provide:

• Planning to support the internal evaluation process by providing structure and methodology
• Guidance on selecting or developing appropriate tools
• Workshops to perform gap analysis, plan actions, enforce initiatives, monitor their implementation and measure their effectiveness