<p><strong><em>With school improvement initiatives, quality trumps quantity every time. </em></strong></p><p>This book solves the growing problem of schools implementing too many improvement strategies at once instead of deep focus on the most critical few. B.R. Jones’s method details:</p><ul> <li><strong>Selecting critical standards</strong>—Defining the skills your students most need now.</li> <li><strong>Uncovering the essentials</strong>—Choosing your initiatives based on a deconstruction of the standards and targeted definitions of how they will enrich students. </li> <li><strong>Critical formative analysis of students</strong>—Analyzing student work to measure the strategy’s effectiveness.</li> <li><strong>Critical learning teams</strong>—Collaborating with colleagues so everyone can make better decisions. </li></ul>