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Title: What You Need to Know About School Improvement Planning to Improve Student Achievement


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What You Need to Know About School Improvement
Planning to Improve Student Achievement
Virginia School Board Association Annual
Convention November 17, 2005
  • Darryle S. Craig, Ph.D.
  • Office of Educational Planning
  • Department of Accountability
  • Fairfax County Public Schools

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In this session, you will be provided with a
brief overview of
  • Terminology
  • Inherent risks
  • The school improvement planning committee
  • Data
  • Work plans
  • Planning to plan
  • Continuous improvement

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Some 21st Century School Improvement Planning
Terminology
  • Accountability
  • Data
  • Confronting brutal facts
  • Moral leadership
  • Strategic planning

4
More terminology
  • Alignment
  • Integration
  • Focus
  • Continuous, system wide improvement
  • Collaboration and consensus building

5
Risks Inherent in School Improvement Planning
  • Plans must always be revised Plan carefully
  • (from Peterson, K. The Paradoxes of School
    Reform)
  • planning is priceless, but plans are useless
  • (from Collins, J. Good to Great)
  • Political leadership that favors or believes
    in planning is not popular.
  • (McGrath, D. quoted in Washington Post,
    8/13/05)

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Clarity
  • of all the human universals our need for
    security, for community, for clarity, for
    authority, and for respect our need for clarity,
    when met, is the most likely to engender in us
    confidence, persistence, resilience, and
    creativity.
  • Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You Need to
    Know

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  • Clarity required in School Planning
  • Composition of SIP team
  • Role of SIP members
  • Meeting logistics
  • Accessing data
  • Understanding the data
  • Translating the understanding into action

8
The School Improvement Planning Committee
  • Composition
  • Organization Communication
  • Leadership skills required

9
Sources of Data to Consider
  • Demographic information
  • Formative and summative data
  • Variety perception data as well as hard data

10
Analyzing the Data
  • Identify trends
  • Disaggregate

11
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
  • The annual level of improvement, as measured on
    student assessments and other academic
    indicators, set by each state that a school must
    achieve.

The Achiever, U.S. Department of Education, Vol.
4, No. 10, September 2005
12
Annual Measurable Objective(AMO)
A short-term goal for making AYP
  • In 2005-2006, the AYP annual measurable
    objectives are
  • _____ passing for Reading
  • _____ passing for Mathematics

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Gives overall picture of how well students
performed.
14
Indicates how well students performed by
subgroups.
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Developing the School Improvement Plan
  • Articulate concerns (The 5 Whys)
  • Prioritize (Areas of Focus)
  • Set measurable objectives (Indicators of
    Achievement)
  • Plan to plan

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Areas of Focus
  • Should be based on both summative and formative
    test data.
  • Should be specific enough, so that all staff
    members, parents, and volunteers will know what
    needs to be done to facilitate student learning.

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School improvement plan objectives
  • Four core areas
  • - Students will improve achievement in English.
  • - Students will improve achievement in
    mathematics.
  • - Students will improve achievement in science.
  • - Students will improve achievement in history
    and social science.
  • Global
  • - May be used to implement academic strategies
    across the content areas.
  • - May be used to improve the school climate as
    determined by the SIP.

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Indicators of Achievement
  • Narrow the aim of a given objective.
  • Often mirror division targets or strategic goals.
  • Are specific, measurable, and linked to data.
  • Formed using both summative and formative data.

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What Do Specific Indicators of Achievement Look
Like?
  • Broad
  • Students passing the English SOL test will
    increase.
  • The percent of students passing the EOC SOL World
    History test will increase.
  • Specific
  • The percentage of students passing the 3rd grade
    English SOL test will increase from 80 to 85 .
  • The percent of students passing the EOC SOL World
    History test will increase from 72 to 77.

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Tools for planning to plan
  • Work plan strategies
  • Spring fall pre-planning tables
  • Guide for prioritizing subgroup needs
  • School improvement planning calendar
  • Strategic action plan

22
Work Plan Strategies
  • 10 elements required by NCLB for Title I
  • schools identified for improvement
  • -Research based -Parent notification
  • -Best practices -Assign responsibilities
  • -Staff development -Increase parental
    involvement
  • -Funded effectively -Increase instructional time
  • -Include annual goals -Teacher mentoring
  • http//www.ed.gov/nclb/methods/whatworks/research/
    index.html
  • http//www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/suptsmemos/2004/inf2
    35.html

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Spring Pre-Planning School Improvement
Planning Beginning the Conversation about Results
This pre-planning should occur in May-June of
the school year.
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Fall Pre-Planning School Improvement
Planning Reflecting on Results
This pre-planning should occur as soon as data
are available.
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Table for Prioritizing Needs Based on
Subgroups Test or Report Reviewed________________
________ Grade Level_____________
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School Improvement Plan Calendar 2005
2006 School Name
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Strategic Action Planning
DISTRICT GOAL
TARGETS
OBJECTIVE 1
Strategy 1.2
Strategy 1.3
Strategy 1.1
Strategy 1.4
Strategy 1.5
Task 1.1.1
Task 1.3.1
Task 1.2.1
Task 1.5.1
Task 1.4.1
Task 1.3.2
Task 1.1.2
Task 1.2.2
Task 1.4.2
Task 1.5.2
Task 1.3.3
Task 1.1.3
Task 1.2.3
Task 1.4.3
Task 1.5.3
Task 1.3.4
Task 1.5.4
Task 1.1.4
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Continuous School Improvement Planning Process
Execute Work Plans
Plan to Plan
Develop Measurable Goals Indicators
of Achievement
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School improvement planning that increases
student achievement requires collaboration!
Information Technology
Testing
Teachers
Administrators
Staff Development
Curriculum Instruction
Planning
Parents Community
School Improvement Planning
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Office of Educational Planning
We want to help you plan!
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