Sioux City, IA -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/20/2012 -- Kaizen means change. According to Dr. Rich McGrath, “Nowhere is change more impactful, more important, than in elementary education -- where a child's love of learning begins.” For a quarter century, Dr. Rich McGrath has been an important change agent in elementary education.
Using well-established kaizen principles, Dr. McGrath has developed a systematic way to enter an elementary school and observe, assess, and recommend change that delivers research-based recommendations for best-practices, and continued process improvement.
Dr. McGrath examines rigorous curriculum including Curriculum Integration, Curriculum Articulation and Maps, Unpacking Standards and Value Assessments; Quality Instruction including Authentic and Meaningful Tasks, Student Engagement, Effective Strategies with Fidelity, and Technology Integration. Dr. McGrath also insists upon Transformational Leadership which must include Shared Leadership, Effective Communication, Instructional Leadership, Professional Learning and High Expectations. Kaizen Education Leadership also emphasized a Positive Learning Culture consisting of Reinforced Vision, Student and Staff Recognition, Data: From Paper to Action, Parent Pride and Participation, as well as Community Involvement.
The elimination of wasteful and ineffective strategies generates both qualifiable and quantifiable results. Ongoing monitoring is a critical aspect of Kaizen Education Leadership.
These essential aspects of the school improvement model are thoroughly examined in Kaizen Education Leadership, trademarked by Dr. McGrath.
Week-long sessions with the education change agent are being reserved for the 2012-2013 school year, including on-going monitor services.
Greater details can be found at http://www.drrichmcgrath.com/Services.html.
Dr.Rich McGrath (http://www.drrichmcgrath.com) is an expert in all phases of education, particularly versed in school-wide reform of inner city schools; with experience leading a school of students with over 90% poverty and over 60% English Language Learners.
Dr. McGrath has served as principal since 2004. Before his career as a principal, he was a reading consultant for Northwest Area Education Agency for five years; a classroom teacher for fifteen years for Sioux City Community Schools, Iowa and Aurora Public Schools, Colorado.
A graduate of University of Denver, Colorado, Dr. McGrath studied education under Ellin Oliver Keene, noted education author. Dr. McGrath received his Master’s in School Administration from University of Northern Iowa and then earned his doctorate from The University of South Dakota in Curriculum and Instruction.
School Administrators of Iowa recognized Dr. Richard McGrath as one of the leading elementary school principals in Iowa in 2011. Dr. McGrath’s passion is to ensure that all children are reading at grade level or better. McGrath has served as principal in a diverse school district in Iowa for nearly a decade.
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