Specific Recommendations from the P16 Plan

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Specific Recommendations from the P-16 Plan
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Academic Standards, Assessments and
Accountability
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P-16 Plan Academic Standards, Assessments and
Accountability

• Ensure academic standards, assessments and
  accountability system are among best in the
  nation.
  
• Align K12 requirements with college and
  workforce expectations.
  
• Provide teachers with tools to measure student
  progress.
  

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P-16 Plan Academic Standards, Assessments and
Accountability

• Link and report data across P16 systems.
• Implement accountability system and report card
  for higher education and workforce training.
  

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Teaching and Learning
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P-16 Plan Teaching and Learning

• Ensure every student has a highly qualified,
  effective teacher.
  
• Promote teaching profession and recruit more
  high-quality candidates.
  
• Strengthen preparation, licensure, compensation
  and retention.
  

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P-16 Plan Teaching and Learning

• Provide quality professional development to help
  teachers align curriculum, instruction and
  assessment practices to standards.
  

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Early Learning and School Readiness Strategies
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P-16 Plan Early Learning and School Readiness
Strategies

• Involve parents in planning and implementation.
• Stress cognitive (brain) development and
  importance of reading.
  

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P-16 Plan Early Learning and School Readiness
Strategies

• 3. Guarantee access to appropriate health
  screenings and high-quality developmental
  check-ups for all children, birth to age 7.
  
• Regular screening by pediatricians.
• Train parents, child care workers and others to
  use parent-based screening tools.
  
• Avoid over-subscription of African American
  children to special education.

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P-16 Plan Early Learning and School Readiness
Strategies

• 4. Focus on reading.
• Parents at home.
• Family and community literacy.
• Professional development and training.
• Reading specialists in all primary grades.
• Formative reading assessments in primary grades.
• Immediate additional assistance to at-risk
  students.

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P-16 Plan Early Learning and School Readiness
Strategies

• Make sure every child has access to high-quality
  programs that help prepare them for school.
  
• Voluntary preschool.
• Professional development on reading strategies.
• Professional development on engaging parents.
• Information and training for parents.
• Smooth transitions from preschool.

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P-16 Plan Early Learning and School Readiness
Strategies

• 6. Ask Indiana employers to invest in the states
  future workforce by providing or partnering to
  provide high-quality child care options for
  employees.
• Incentives to offer high-quality child care.

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P-16 Plan Early Learning and School Readiness
Strategies

• 7. Make high-quality Kindergarten available for
  all children.
  
• Full-day Kindergarten for all children.
• Mandatory Kindergarten attendance.
• Adjust age for Kindergarten entry.

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P-16 Plan Early Learning and School Readiness
Strategies

• 8. Establish an Early Learning and School
  Readiness Commission for coordinating birth to
  age six early learning and school readiness
  experiences, giving greater priority to children
  and family issues, and working to increase the
  efficiency and effectiveness of programs that
  serve children and families.
• Build on successful initiatives, integrate
  services and expand partnerships.
  
• Measure results to promote strategic planning and
  collaboration.

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School and District Leadership and Governance
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P-16 Plan School and District Leadership and
Governance

• Develop strategies to recruit and retain
  high-quality school leaders, especially women and
  minorities, with incentives to work in
  high-poverty schools.
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• Provide professional development focused on
  instructional leadership and best practices for
  improving student achievement and maximizing the
  use of resources and instructional time.
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P-16 Plan School and District Leadership and
Governance

• Provide professional development focused on
  engaging parents and community members to help
  improve student achievement.
  
• Identify standards and provide tools for parent
  and community involvement.
  

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P-16 Plan School and District Leadership and
Governance

• Align professional development and
  performance-based license renewal with state
  standards and local improvement plans.
  
• Strengthen administrator preparation programs,
  including focus on best practices, using data,
  using technology, and optimizing resources and
  instructional time.
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P-16 Plan School and District Leadership and
Governance

• Encourage collaboration among organizations
  focused on improving school leadership.
  

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Eliminating Achievement Gaps and Ensuring
Academic Progress for All Students
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P-16 Plan Eliminating Achievement Gaps and
Ensuring Academic Progress for All Students

• Provide data and research to dispel achievement
  gap myths.
  
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• Invest in early learning, school readiness and
  reading.
  
• Involve families as partners in creating programs
  and policies.
  
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P-16 Plan Eliminating Achievement Gaps and
Ensuring Academic Progress for All Students

• Provide additional assistance to schools serving
  many students not meeting standards.  
  
• Ensure schools with many students not meeting
  standards have highest quality teachers and
  administrators.
  
• Provide additional learning time for students who
  need it.
  

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P-16 Plan Eliminating Achievement Gaps and
Ensuring Academic Progress for All Students

• Implement preventative strategies and
  intervention services. 
  
• Implement strategies that ensure students with
  disabilities reach their full potential.
  
• Provide incentives for schools to reduce number
  of students who are absent more than 10 days or
  who drop out.

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P-16 Plan Eliminating Achievement Gaps and
Ensuring Academic Progress for All Students

• Provide additional resources to schools with many
  limited English proficient (LEP) students to help
  all students speak, read and write English.
  
• Insist on a rigorous academic curriculum and
  instruction for all students.

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Ensuring College and Workforce Success
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P-16 Plan Ensuring College and Workforce Success

• Ensure high school graduation requirements
  provide necessary foundation for college and
  workplace.  
  
• Ensure differentiated diploma requirements are
  among best in the nation.
  
• Insist on high-quality, rigorous academic
  curriculum for all Core 40.

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P-16 Plan Ensuring College and Workforce Success

• Use job shadowing, career days, internships and
  related programs to provide students with
  connected learning experiences and exposure to
  the workplace. 
• Ensure all K12 schools have comprehensive
  guidance programs that support high achievement.

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P-16 Plan Ensuring College and Workforce Success

• Increase the achievement of the states highest
  achievers Algebra by grade 8, Advanced
  Placement, PSAT and/or PLAN, and International
  Baccalaureate.
• Ensure all students can take Advanced Placement
  (AP) and dual enrollment programs.

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P-16 Plan Ensuring College and Workforce Success

• Ensure vocational/technical programs lead to
  high-skilled, high-demand occupations.
  
• Implement an electronic, high school transcript
  system to transfer student data.
  
• Encourage employers to use hiring practices that
  support higher student achievement.

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Dropout Prevention
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P-16 Plan Dropout Prevention

• Improve academic foundation skills through
  rigorous curriculum, differentiated instruction
  and early intervention programs.  
  
• Develop mentoring programs for at-risk students.
• Establish rigorous alternative programs.

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P-16 Plan Dropout Prevention

• Report chronic absenteeism beginning with
  elementary school students.
  
• Implement financial policies to ensure low-income
  (high-dropout) districts have sufficient
  resources.

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P-16 Plan Dropout Prevention

• Encourage school partnerships with courts,
  government agencies and community organizations
  to identify and implement prevention programs.
  
• Raise the dropout age to 18.

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Higher Education and Continued Learning
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P-16 Plan Higher Education and Continued
Learning

• Align admission standards, remediation policies
  and financial aid to maximize potential for
  college degree completion.
  
• Ensure higher education opportunities are readily
  available to all.
  
• Ensure affordable access to higher education,
  with a coherent student assistance and
  institutional funding policy.

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P-16 Plan Higher Education and Continued
Learning

• Ensure more Hoosiers earn college degrees to
  provide business and industry with more skilled
  and trained workers who can compete in the global
  economy.
• Provide necessary support to ensure high-quality,
  teacher-preparation programs.
  

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P-16 Plan Higher Education and Continued
Learning

• Maximize higher educations role in research
  (basic and applied) and economic development.
  
• Implement an accountability system and report
  card for higher education and workforce training
  programs.

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Effective Use of Technology
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P-16 Plan Effective Use of Technology

• Expand data communications capacity by providing
  all schools with broadband networks
  interconnected to the state backbone.
  
• Ensure every school has the technology to meet
  P16 requirements.
  
• Provide an array of online and Web-enabled tools.

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P-16 Plan Effective Use of Technology

• Provide online and video distance-learning
  options.
  
• Provide professional development to help teachers
  integrate technology into curriculum.

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Communication
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P-16 Plan Communication

• Effective and targeted communication efforts
  will
  
• Clearly explain the nonnegotiable nature and
  urgency of raising student achievement for all
  students
  
• Honestly convey the states progress and
  continuing challenges and
  
• Motivate individuals to take specific actions.

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Efficient Use of Resources
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P-16 Plan Efficient Use of Resources

• Key fiscal principles for P16
• Current expenditures must be reviewed for
  efficiency and effectiveness and aligned with
  desired outcomes.
  
• Additional investments may be needed to prevent
  and eliminate achievement gaps.
  
• Such additional investments should result in
  savings in special education, remediation and
  dropout-prevention costs.