Sharing Responsibility to Improve Teaching and Learning

April 9, 2014

Educators in elementary and secondary schools around the country can now tap into the Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning (CALL) survey to assess how to improve their schools. CALL is a web-based tool that gauges what works well and what needs improving in a school’s day-to-day activities. Where most assessments focus on one school leader, the principal, CALL measures the contributions of administrators, teachers, and other instructional staff. They all take the CALL survey, recognizing that school improvement is a shared responsibility, rather than a burden for a single leader. Schools then receive customized action plans to develop policies that improve learning for all students.

CALL was developed at WCER by researchers Richard Halverson and Carolyn Kelley. It is now available to schools across the country through the Wisconsin Center for Education Products and Services (WCEPS), a nonprofit founded in 2011 to disseminate copyrightable education products developed at UW–Madison.

The connection between WCEPS and CALL is highlighted in a recent article by the UW–Madison School of Education.