CAST Network
Improvement Science Project
In the Spring of 2020, the Urban Education Institute partnered with the CAST School Network and created a team of educators representing three campuses across two school districts, with support from faculty and staff at the Institute and in UTSA's College of Education and Human Development. In the midst of a pandemic and emergency distance learning, this team launched by completing a unique improvement science simulation in partnership with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. With eight campus-based teacher-leaders and two members of the network adminstration, the team set out to identify a problem of practice and began learning and implementing improvement science tools in order to bring about an effective change for students.
Digging into the Data
Hear from some of the teachers as they began to unpack their observations from the data collected in UEI's COVID-19 Distance Learning reports below:
See the reports that the team used for its initial investigation from survey data created by UEI for CAST schools and seven other San Antonio school districts that included responses from 1,125 parents and teachers, along with with 545 teachers:
Tools of the Trade
Learn about some of the tools the team used in its investigation from the UEI Improvement Science Toolkit: