COMPASS-AIM: A University/P–12 Partnership Innovation for Continuous Improvement
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COMPASS-AIM: A University/P–12 Partnership Innovation for Continuous Improvement
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COMPASS-AIM is a set of processes and tools used by participants in a research–practice partnership (RPP) to improve organizational capacities and individual and team competencies for organizational learning and improvement. The “COMPASS” team includes teams of teachers and school leaders who work with a university researcher and expert professional developers. Improvement teams begin by COMParing practices in their own setting to those in higher performing schools identified through research. The next few phases involve Assessing priorities based on those comparisons, Selecting levers (i.e., drivers) to improve a priority area, and Setting a SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-bound) goal or goals designed to address the priority area. Once a “COMPASS” team establishes a goal or goals, the process has it take AIM at Action planning, Implementation, and Monitoring progress through periodic “check the pulse” meetings. Throughout these phases, participants use self-assessment tools, case studies, and a variety of other research reports to inform their work. This research utilization-focused approach bridges research and practice, while accommodating for variability in desired outcomes, affordances, and constraints for change in different school and district contexts.
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Date
In publication
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92
Issue
5
Pages
649-674
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
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Published Text
Scholarship genre
Methodological
Empirical
IRE Approach/Concept
Citation
Wilcox, K. C., Lawson, H. A., & Angelis, J. I. (2017). COMPASS-AIM: A University/P–12 Partnership Innovation for Continuous Improvement. Peabody Journal of Education, 92(5), 649–674. https://doi.org/10.1080/0161956X.2017.1368654
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