Continuous School Improvement Planning, Session 2

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Continuous School Improvement Planning, Session 2

• Professional Development Services
• Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
• Regional Offices

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Outcomes

• To gain an understanding of SMART goals and why
  they are important in the school improvement
  planning process
• To learn a problem solving strategy for
  determining root causes of gaps
• To analyze and develop processes to close gaps.

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SMART Goals

• Goals reflect priorities of the school.
• Resources and staffing should align with the
  goals.
• Goals should drive the behavior of everyone in
  the school.
• Goals should have formative assessments in place
  to monitor progress

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SMART Goals

• Goals should address the key questions of
  professional learning communities.
• Assessment for learning and common assessments
  are critical feedback for monitoring progress and
  achieving goals.
• Results orientation

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SMART Goals

• Strategic and Specific
• Measurable
• Attainable
• Results-based
• Time-bound

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Strategic

• Focus on the vital few goals that are high
  leverage areas where the largest gaps between
  vision and current reality exist. Therefore, the
  greatest gains will be seen.

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Specific

• Provides the concrete, tangible, evidence of
  improvement that teams need to stay motivated.
• Schools and teams should focus on specific
  targets for improvement.

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Measurable

• Formative and summative multiple measures
• Schools use data to adjust programs, resources,
  schedules, staffing.
• Teachers use data to improve their practice and
  provide feedback to students on their learning.

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Attainable

• Goals that motivate us to strive higher are those
  that are almost but not quite within our reach,
  that we need to achieve.
• Table Talk
• What is attainable improvement for standardized
  tests?

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Results-Based

• Did student learning improve?
• Concrete benchmarks to measure our efforts.

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Time-Bound

• Specific time-frame
• One year goals are ideal
• Builds internal accountability and commitment.

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Process Goals vs. Results Goals

• TABLE TALK
• What is the difference?
• Are your school goals SMART?

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Process Analysis

• To understand what processes are and are not
  getting desirable results so that we know what
  should be changed or eliminated.
• Flow chart activity/ mapping a school process

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Problem Solving Cycle Activity

• Identify the problem
• List 20 hunches
• Generate questions and data needed to develop an
  action plan

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Resources

• The Power of SMART Goals, ONeill and Conzemius
• Measuring School Processes, Bernhardt

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Compliance

• Addendum will be available on the portal and on
  the CD.
• Generic objectives, formative, and summative
  assessments, and strategies are written.
• Schools will insert compensatory education
  information and percentages for their goals.
• Schools have the option of adding goals if they
  wish.

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• Questions and Concerns
• Reflections