ABOUT IMPROVEMENT BY DESIGN GROUP

We provide customized service to organizations that want to improve.  Our aim is to provide value to organizations who find themselves at many different points on their improvement journey.  Our ability to help is based on a commitment to learning as much as possible about the capabilities and aspirations of each organization we work with. We help them to build toward the future that each client envisions.

OUR SERVICES

Professional Learning Planning

We co-design and customize professional learning workshops on an array of topics including disciplinary literacy, formative assessment, technology integration in the disciplines, project-centered activities in STEAM and STEM, and English-Language Learning.

Professional Learning Communities

We support organizations in building learning as an organization-wide value.  We help organizations develop practices and routines that allow learning in organizations to be publicly shared within the organization.

Support for Design Team Formation

We support organizations in establishing, facilitating, and sustaining successful collaborative design teams. We help groups build team vision, goals, and expectations, and we offer guidance in establishing team roles and expectations, and fostering participation.

School Improvement

We support organizations in acquiring explicit skills and developing individual and collective dispositions towards continuous learning and improvement.  We work with organizations both on issues of climate and on the technical aspects of instruction, teaching, and learning.

Evaluation Services

We serve as evaluation partners in building formative and summative evaluation plans.