Benchmarking and Best Practices
APQC Education conducts benchmarking and best-practice research in order to help schools and school districts:
Learn what works and why - Get answers from best-practice districts - Improve their processes
Would you like to learn how “best-in-class” districts are approaching tough problems and adapting best practice solutions? APQC Education can offer you best practices on challenging topics such as developing online courses, evaluating the impact of instructional coaches, and effectively using data in the classroom. APQC is offering the following final reports* from our benchmarking studies to help you in your district or campus best practice research.
Best Practices in:
- Assessing Student Achievement
- Hiring Highly Qualified Teachers
- Utilizing Information Technology
- Professional Development
- English Language Learners
- Professional Language Learning Communities
- Math and Science
- Collaborative Cultures
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Response to Intervention (RTI)
- Data Driven Decision Making in the Classroom
- Developing Frameworks in Online Learning
- Assessing the Impact of Instructional Coaches on Teaching Learning
*APQC final benchmarking reports are free of charge to members and the best practice reports are priced from $49-$149.
Please visit our Knowledge Base for specific prices.
APQC is now offering “Benchmarking-in-a-Box”. This is an enhanced benchmarking product that will provide your staff a comprehensive professional development experience based on selected benchmarking studies.
The package includes:
- A final report from the benchmarking study
- A set of Knowledge Objects (concise, compelling snippets of data and information from the study)
- Recordings and power point presentations from each of the virtual site visits (best practice partners)
- Facilitation guidelines for using the package
Benchmarking-in-a-box is now available for the 'Assessing the Impact of Instructional Coaches on Teaching Learning”.
$299 (Delivered by mail - 3 to 5 business days processing)
The following are examples of Best Practice data shared across our network so that districts may improve their own processes:
- One best practice district was able to net annual savings of $914,954.00 through increased retention of beginning teachers as a result of their instructional coaching program.
- The average hiring bonus for newly recruited teachers in best practice districts is $1,810.00.
- Algebra 1 tends to be taught earlier in best practice districts. Best practice districts have an average of 50.2 percent of their students enrolling in Algebra 1 during middle school.
- For districts processing at least 1,000 new hire starts, the average hiring per start is $659.00.; those districts processing fewer than 1,000 new hires, the hiring cost per employee is $1,840.00
- One hundred districts across the country use APQC's benchmarking methodology to help discover and transfer best practices in areas such as math and science instruction, recruiting highly qualified teachers, managing information technology, data driven decision making and many other topics critical to improving student achievement.
CONTACT US TODAY and let us know how APQC Education's Benchmarking and Best Practices can help your organization.