IPI (Instructional Practices Inventory)Definition
In the introduction to On Common Ground: The Power of Professional Learning Communities, Rick and Rebecca DuFour and their co-editor Robert Eaker (2005) draw a significant conclusion about the common elements necessary for school change. “Students would be better served if educators embraced learning rather than teaching as the mission of their school, if they worked collaboratively to help all students learn, and if they used formative assessments and a focus on results to guide their practice and foster continuous improvement” (p. 5). The IPI is a very practical system for understanding learning across an entire school that provides one form of data valuable when a school faculty begins the critical conversations described in DuFour’s quote. The IPI “fits” the quotation in the following ways: (a) educators must focus on student learning rather than teaching--the IPI process collects data about student learning for the school’s IPI profiles, (b) teachers must study and think together collaboratively--the IPI profiles are created to be the basis for collaborative faculty study and reflection, and (c) formative data are essential to monitor and adjust practices--the IPI profiles provide formative data about student engaged learning collected as frequently as faculty appropriate to maintain faculty focus on continuous change in school-wide learning and related instruction. Information taken from: Middle Level Leadership Center. Jerry Valentine, Director 8-05
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