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School Improvement2025-02-07T22:15:10+00:00

School Improvement

Improving outcomes for students requires improving the systems and schools that serve them. At Marzano Research, we believe research provides a critical foundation in understanding how to create effective systems and practices. Our services focus on what schools should do to improve student achievement and college and career readiness by combining research-based guidance with a continuous improvement process. We focus on evaluating efforts and using data to understand what works under which conditions for which students and educators. Marzano Research helps schools build on their strengths—their people, students, communities, and other assets. Our positive view of improvement assumes that the people involved have the ability and the will to learn what is necessary to improve student academic and behavioral outcomes.

How We Can Help

We are passionate about helping schools, districts, state departments of education, and other human development organizations with their evidence-informed continuous improvement efforts. We can help you

  • Develop leadership capacity

  • Use data to understand needs and set priorities
  • Select evidence-based programs and practices
  • Apply implementation and change management research to improve systems
  • Train agency staff to evaluate and improve education programs
  • Pair academic and behavioral supports to improve outcomes for students
  • Design and facilitate professional learning networks
  • Support the unique learning needs of school improvement coaches
  • Assess and improve your college and career readiness initiatives and provide indicators of readiness and success

If you’re interested in engaging Marzano Research for school improvement, reach out to:

Mike Siebersma
Mike SiebersmaDirector

720.463.3600 x 145

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What’s New in School Improvement

School Improvement Resources

Leveraging existing talents of staff, students, and community while enhancing teaching expertise and leadership capacity within your current team.

Examining interconnected factors affecting student achievement to identify key leverage points for meaningful change across academic and behavioral domains.

Collecting and analyzing meaningful metrics to set priorities, guide decisions, and monitor progress toward established goals.

Blending rigorous research with practical strategies tailored to your context, guiding change through processes that produce lasting results.

Developing internal expertise in leadership and evaluation while designing collaborative structures that build collective capacity organization-wide.

Creating specialized coaching support and improvement facilitators to maximize effectiveness in facilitating sustainable change efforts.

Assessing and enhancing pathways to ensure students develop essential skills for postsecondary success through academic and behavioral support.

Establishing sustainable processes that regularly evaluate outcomes and refine strategies for ongoing student achievement gains.

Strength-Based Development

Leveraging existing talents of staff, students, and community while enhancing teaching expertise and leadership capacity within your current team.

Strength-Based Development

Leveraging existing talents of staff, students, and community while enhancing teaching expertise and leadership capacity within your current team.

Strength-Based Development

Leveraging existing talents of staff, students, and community while enhancing teaching expertise and leadership capacity within your current team.

Strength-Based Development

Leveraging existing talents of staff, students, and community while enhancing teaching expertise and leadership capacity within your current team.

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