Services

RESEARCH

The Institute at Indian Hill prides itself on its ability to design and conduct high-quality educational research.

We offer a full range of quantitative and qualitative research methods, which we apply based on the specific needs of each educational program.

The Institute’s approach is highly inclusive, collaborative, and formative. We do not impose a pre-formatted research framework. Instead, we engage the collaboration of all stakeholders in determining the most essential and impactful research questions and
construct the research design
accordingly.

Selected Areas of Research Expertise

• School Reform Best Practices

• Institutional Research

• Professional Learning
Communities

• Instructional Best Practices

• Data Use for School
Improvement

• Smaller Learning Communities

• Crisis Management in Schools
and Districts

• International Education

Further information

COACHING

The Institute offers coaching expertise in a wide variety of school practices, including school management, professional learning communities, shared leadership, bell-to-bell and wall-to-wall instruction, assessments for learning, data use, and classroom management.

On-Site Coaching

• Bell-to-Bell and Wall-to-Wall
Instruction

• Data-Driven Planning

• Data-Driven Instruction

• School Management

• Crisis Management in Schools

Training Workshops & Professional
Development

• Transforming Classrooms from
The Inside Out

• Data Use in Schools—3 Modules

• Research Methods & Data
Analysis—Quant. and Qual.

• Conducting Classroom
Walkthroughs

• Group Facilitation Skills

• Professional Writing

• Evaluation Methods

EVALUATION

Institute evaluation projects assist clients to meet process and performance outcomes and to enhance and disseminate learning. Drawing on multiple data sources, findings target specific components, as well as, entire systems and result in formative recommendations for improvement.

Sample Evaluation Projects

• Comprehensive School Reform

• Smaller Learning Communities

• Teach for American History

• Professional Learning
Communities

• Charter School Programs

• Indicator Development to
Measure Program Outcomes

• Organizational Evaluation

• International Education
Programs

• Crisis Management

• Quality Classroom Instruction

• Systemic Data Use

• Minority Biomedical Research
Support Grants

• Research Initiative for Scientific
Enhancement