Description of Services
Murphy Educational Consulting LLC’s core services include but are not limited to:
o EVALUATION
o PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
o DATA ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
o RESEARCH
To learn more about our services, rates and availability, please contact us at info@murphyeducational.com. By working together, we can design a project to meet your needs, and your budget.
- Evaluate aspects of your school that you would like to know more about. Examples:
- School Culture
- Community members’ perceptions of the school
- Students’ perception of safety, academic rigor, preparedness for college, etc.
- Teacher satisfaction
- develop conceptual framework
- 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
Data analysis and data-driven decision making
- help staff make connections between standardized assessment results (ISAT, PSAE, ACT, EXPLORE, PLAN) and instructional strategies
- make connections between student achievement and school-wide professional development
- increase understanding of standardized assessment data
- design a formative interim assessment project centered on staff involvement and collaboration
Rubrics
- Design rubrics for teacher and student behaviors, assessment of student work, school culture, academic rigor, teacher feedback, student dialogue, etc.
- Engage in collaborative use of the rubric to achieve satisfactory inter-rater reliability
- Analyze rubric data and make connections to relevant factors and other sources of data.
- Create common vision, vocabulary and expectations
Leadership Training
- Coaching for success
- Norming observation practices
- Roles of lead teachers/department chairs
- Administrator as coach
- Coaching protocols
- Literacy coaching
Working with parents and community groups
- Asset- Based strategies to improve parental and community involvement
- Community Asset Maps: A key to uncovering a community’s resources
- Excavating parent and student gifts for school improvement
- Mobilizing social and human capital
Instructional Design
- Backwards Design
- Vertical Articulation across contents
- Content Map Development
- Curriculum Map Development
Pedagogical
- Content Area Literacy
- Vocabulary Instruction
- Text Structures
- QAR/Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Active Reading Strategies
- Writing Instruction—Writing to learn and Learning to Write
- Data Driven Instruction
- Inquiry based instruction/the art of questioning
- Socratic Seminars
- Grammar
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
- Data Collection
- Data Entry
- Data Analysis, descriptive and inferential
- Statistical Modeling
- Data displays & Report Writing
- Analysis of standardized assessment results: ISAT, PSAE, ACT, EXPLORE, PLAN, Work Keys
- Cohort Analysis of students or members: what is the change over time?
- Literature Review
- Needs Assessment
- Survey design, web survey and web-based data management
- Sampling design and execution
