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Developing an Action Plan – Chapter 6
After all the hard work of data analysis and examining the instruction, it is time to develop an action plan.  Four steps are given to guide successful action planning:
1.  Decide on an instructional strategy or multiple strategies that will solve the problem of practice that was identified previously.
2.  Agree [...]

Examining Instruction – Chapter 5
This chapter focused on linking teaching and learning and then examining the instruction to find the inadequacies as related to the learner-centered problem.   The connection should be clear, but many teachers feel overwhelmed and unable to make change happen.  This is largely due to external factors like funding, poverty, previous [...]

Digging Into Data – Chapter 4
Chapter 4 presents ways that school faculties can dig into the data of their students and discover the learner-centered problem.
The steps include:
1.  Look carefully at a single data source
2.  Understand student thinking
3.  Challenge assumptions
4.  Dig into other data sources
5.   Triangulate data sources
6.  Develop a shared understanding of the knowledge [...]