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Resources: Chicago School Alliance Visits

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School Visits: A Tool for Improvement.
Chicago Schools Alliance. January 2006.
This "brief" was prepared by the Alliance to answer questions that Chicago educators raised about the differences between PBI and other familiar visiting applications including Illinois Quality Review and “walk-throughs.” The paper concludes with a description of the advantages that the PBI visit offers. View »

PBI School Visit Team Member Reflections—2005.
Chicago Schools Alliance. May 2005.
A collection of reflections about the value of the PBI visit experience by people who served as team members on the Alliance visits in 2005. View »

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“An idea is better than no idea. …That’s the way science works. An idea can be tested, whereas if you have no idea, nothing can be tested and you don’t understand anything.”

---- James D. Watson , Biologist

 

 


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