Murphy Educational Consulting (MEC)

Evaluate aspects of your program, organization, school or community that you would like to know more about. Examples:

• School Culture
• Program Impact
• People’s perception of their own safety
• Community building
• Community members’ perceptions of the school
• Teacher satisfaction
• Family’s access to supporting resources

Data Analysis

We will work with you to:

• determine evaluation methodology (focus groups, surveys & questionnaires, field observation, interviewing & documents)
• recommend existing or design new design data collection instrument
• collect and analyze data
• write evaluation reports
• use a variety of methods that might include surveys, shadowing, learning walks, focus groups, or interviews
• analyze the data through a collaborative and reflective process

Working with parents and community groups

• Strategies to improve parental and community involvement
• Mobilizing social and human capital

Instructional Design & Pedagogy

• Backwards Design
• Vertical Articulation across contents
• Content Map Development
• Curriculum Map Development
• Content Area Literacy

• Data Driven Instruction
• Inquiry based instruction/the art of questioning

Scoring Student Work

• Design or refine powerful tools to score student work
• Engage in a protocol for teachers to score student work together
• Increase the consistency of grading across classrooms, grades and school years
• Define what ‘excellent’ work looks like
• Increase teacher and student expectations