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The AMI team provides self-directed professional development sessions, practical tools, and various other resources for building your capacity to use evidence for improvement.
Explore PD Modules and search our bank of practical tools that we have created, adapted or curated just for you. Develop your skills on data literacy, survey design, continuous improvement and more! The time invested learning will help you to make a bigger impact in the future.
Continuous Improvement
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Discover resources to help you with your continuous improvement in education.
Data Literacy
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Discover resources to increase your knowledge of data literacy
Effective collaborative teams
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Discover resources to be part of an effective collaborative team
Understanding the problem & unpacking its root causes
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Is your team trying to address a persistent problem? This module is developed to help you better understand your problem by uncovering its root causes.
1 - Planning for Improvement
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This learning series will provide you with an approach for thinking critically together about the problems and challenges you face in your local context in order to set a common goal and identify a meaningful action that you can take together to achieve your goal.
Setting Goals & Establishing Indicators of Success
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Is your team working towards improvement? Have a look at this module which offers a simple process for clarifying your goal and identifying what indicators you’ll use to know you’ve achieved that goal.
2 - Implementing a Change Idea
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As educators in Quebec’s English public schools, you likely have many change ideas for your schools, but knowing how to make changes that lead to lasting improvements in learning and teaching can be more challenging. This learning series will provide you with an approach for testing a change idea that will be less overwhelming, more useful, and more relevant for your team.
How to Identify a Change Idea
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Once your team is clear about the problem to address and the goal for improvement, the video and tools in this module will help you identify a change idea to test out to achieve your goal. What small change can you make that might lead to an improvement?
3 - Looking at Data as a School Team
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School teams come together to look at student data for a variety of reasons, such as to better understand student needs, prepare reports, or review the school Educational Project. But not everyone is experienced or comfortable with analyzing and discussing student data.
This learning series will provide you with some foundational concepts so that looking at data as a school team becomes less overwhelming, more useful, and more relevant for your team.
Planning & Testing a Change
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If your team is preparing to take action and test a change idea, let us guide you in creating your action plan and timeline with a couple videos, practical tools and extra resources.
4 - Theory of Continuous Improvement and PDSAs
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Are you facing a problem in your daily work related to student success or wellbeing, but you’re unsure of the best solution? Applying a continuous improvement process to your work will help you ensure that your efforts lead to lasting improvements.
Continuous Improvement is a process that can help you address challenges in your daily work. This process relies on rapid tests of change called PDSAs to guide the development, revision and continued fine-tuning of new tools, processes and relationships
Studying & Acting on Change Results
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Is your team preparing to learn from your test of change by studying your results? Is your team thinking about how to apply your learning to improve your actions? Let us guide you with a couple videos and some practical tools and bonus resources.
Preparing to Talk about Data
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Taking some time to preview data before meeting with a team can help educators feel more prepared to engage in
meaningful discussions with their colleagues about the data. Dive into this PD Module to learn a few tips for preparing to talk about data.
Putting Data Analysis into Practice
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With busy schedules and competing priorities, it can be a challenge to find time to analyze school data or further develop related data literacy skills. Check out this module to learn how to put data analysis in to your practice.
Survey Design
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Do you need to create a survey to get information? Not sure where to start, or just want some tips on how to make a great survey and get the information you need? Watch this short video to learn how to create an effective survey! Explore the PD Module and develop your skills in Survey Design to help improve your practice.
Introduction to Continuous Improvement
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Continuous Improvement is a process that allows educators to create positive changes in the system in order to improve outcomes for children and young people. This video is an introduction to the use of Continuous Improvement in education. Explore this PD Module to help you learn how to implement continuous improvement into your practice.
Introduction to PDSAs
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If you want to improve your practice or systems but don't know where to start, this short video on PDSAs will provide you with a structured, reflective process to help you become more evidence-based in your work, keeping only practices that you can prove make things better for you and your students. Explore the full PD Module to learn more.