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Title: WASC Visiting Committee Final Presentation


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WASC Visiting Committee Final Presentation
  • Hong Kong International School
  • April, 2007

2
Organization for Student Learning
3
Organization for Student Learning
  • Mission, Student Learning Results, Leadership
  • HKIS has developed strong SLRs with input from
    all stakeholders
  • Further assessment and integration of the SLRs is
    needed
  • Senior Leadership are enabling school improvement
    through the development of the Office for
    Learning.
  • Further clarification on roles and responsibility
    is needed.

4
Organization for Student Learning
  • Faculty
  • HKIS values all faculty and their commitment to
    the learning of all students.
  • HKIS needs ongoing dialogue about performance
    appraisal systems.
  • HKIS supports professional development for
    faculty and recognizes achievement.
  • HKIS needs to establish a school-wide
    professional development plan integrated with
    SLRs.

5
Organization for Student Learning
  • Strategic Plan
  • HKIS has developed a comprehensive plan for
    school improvement.
  • HKIS needs to prioritize the initiatives underway
    to ensure focus on student learning.
  • The school leadership team demonstrates
    commitment to the management of a very complex
    organization through the development of
    distributed leadership.
  • HKIS needs to provides sufficient time for
    faculty and administrative collaboration.

6
Curriculum and Instruction
7
Curriculum and Instruction
  • Areas of Strength
  • HKIS and Administration have in place
  • Clearly defined SLRs
  • Written standards and benchmarks R1-12
  • Uniform curriculum model and design (UbD)
  • Extensive in-house curriculum system
    (myDragonNet)
  • Faculty instruction that evidences many research
    based teaching practices
  • Wide range of formal and informal assessments

8
Curriculum and Instruction
  • Areas of Strength
  • HKIS and Administration have commitment to
  • SLRs
  • Collaborative curriculum development and
    refinement
  • Shared ownership for all students

9
Curriculum and Instruction
  • Areas for Follow-up
  • In order to support the continuing curriculum
    work, HKIS administration and faculty needs
    ongoing, focused, and structured professional
    collaboration that
  • Aligns and articulates
  • SLRs with assessments
  • Standards and benchmarks with a method of
    tracking and reporting them
  • Refines
  • Standards and benchmarks
  • Written curriculum units
  • In-house web based curriculum system
  • Through annual curriculum review
  • Reflects
  • Professional conversations that are focused and
    structured
  • Initiatives that are prioritized and sustained

10
Support for Student Personal and Academic Growth
11
Support for Student Personal and Academic Growth
  • Areas of Strength
  • Co-curricular and service opportunities for all
  • Learning support for students
  • Opportunities for Parents
  • Consistent communication home

12
Support for Student Personal and Academic Growth
  • Areas for Follow-up
  • Articulate connection between SLRs and student
    learning
  • Gather data about student involvement in
    co-curricular activities
  • Provide instruction and measure growth in
    Spirituality, Character Development, and
    Contributing to Society SLRs.

13
Resource Management and Development
14
Resource Management and Development
  • Areas of Strength
  • HKIS is financially healthy.
  • HKIS has a well articulated and aggressive master
    facility plan (MFP).
  • HKIS has planned a comprehensive strategic
    initiative with regards to faculty retention and
    recruitment.
  • HKIS has a committed and highly professional
    administration, faculty, and support staff.
  • HKIS is committed to developing and maintaining
    high quality facilities
  • HKIS has robust technological resources that are
    capably deployed.

15
Resource Management and Development
  • Areas for Follow-up
  • HKIS should review and align policies and
    priorities for all resources, recognizing the
    impact on individual, divisional, and school-wide
    goals.
  • HKIS should consider the importance of clear
    communication and strategic planning for the
    critical initiatives of performance appraisals,
    career structure development, and
    compensation/benefits as each of these
    initiatives are developed and implemented.
  • HKIS should continue development of a technology
    plan that links decision making with a clearly
    defined positive impact on student learning.

16
Schoolwide Areas of StrengthSchoolwide Areas for
Follow-up
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Schoolwide Areas of Strength
  • The HKIS community is to be congratulated for the
    outstanding quality and accuracy of its
    self-study report and its ongoing commitment to
    student learning.
  • Areas of strength include

18
Schoolwide Areas of Strength
  • The new Office for Learning, together with
    existing instructional leaders, provides a
    school-wide focus on the needs of students and
    the conditions that will enable their optimal
    learning, as evidenced in the initial
    improvements made.
  • The Board of Managers is devoting itself to the
    reorganization and continued development of its
    work based on agreed upon best practices in
    school governance.
  • The Board of Managers has selected and supported
    a highly capable Head of School who has helped
    stabilize and guide the school in its on-going
    improvement process for the past two years.

19
Schoolwide Areas of Strength
  • A highly-committed and talented faculty and staff
    collectively provide a healthy, appropriate, and
    diverse learning environment for students.
  • The schools improvement initiatives are designed
    to enhance holistic learning opportunities for
    HKIS students.
  • The strong emphasis on Student Learning Results
    is articulated in the clearly-defined mission and
    in the strategic plan.

20
Schoolwide Areas of Strength
  • While recognizing that more healing must take
    place, HKIS is effectively addressing the
    concerns articulated in the mid-term WASC report.
  • The Understanding by Design framework and
    myDragonNet are helping to facilitate continued
    commitment to curriculum development and the
    requisite community-wide communication about
    student learning.
  • Commitment to supplying outstanding resources and
    facilities supports the HKIS learning environment
    and mission both now and in the future.

21
Schoolwide Areas for Follow-up
  • Building upon the HKIS self study and its
    subsequent work, and in order to continue its
    focus on student learning

22
Schoolwide Areas for Follow-up
  • HKIS should intentionally strive to align
    curriculum, programs, school-wide initiatives,
    processes, resources, performance appraisal, and
    personnel with the pursuit of the schools
    mission, student learning results, and strategic
    plan.
  • In considering how best to effectively manage
    change and the many planned initiatives, the
    Board of Managers and school leadership need to
    design a process to clarify and coordinate
    strategic institutional priorities over the next
    several years, perhaps with the services of an
    outside facilitator.

23
Schoolwide Areas for Follow-up
  • The Board of Managers, school leadership,
    faculty, staff, and the Lutheran ChurchMissouri
    Synod should continue to build trust, effective
    communication, and clarity of purpose.
  • The HKIS community should crystallize a shared
    vision (a picture of the organizations desired
    state, tied to the Mission and SLRs, at specific
    intervals in the future), in order to focus the
    schools efforts, make the best use of resources,
    and guide its priorities, allocation of
    resources, and decision-making.

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Schoolwide Areas for Follow-up
  • HKIS should refine and further establish
    organizational design in order to clarify and
    institutionalize the desired organizational
    behaviors of a professional learning community,
    as articulated in the strategic plan.
  • Particularly with the advent of the Office for
    Learning, HKIS should clarify and distribute
    leadership roles, responsibilities, and desired
    outcomes for all parties concerned.
  • HKIS should continue to pursue the goal of a
    unified and aligned school with two campuses and
    four divisions.
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