One Plan, One Purpose

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One Plan, One Purpose

• School Improvement Planning 2006

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Agenda

• Background NCLB and Required Improvement Plans
• Expectations for Planning
• Illinois e-Plans School Improvement Template
• Questions and Answers

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First, the Terms

• NCLB No Child Left Behind law
• SIP School Improvement Plan
• E-Plan on-line SIP
• AYP Adequate Yearly Progress
• In Status reference to schools or districts that
  did not make AYP (2 consecutive years)
• IIRC Interactive Illinois Report Card. The site
  for the required template for plans.
• RESPRORegional System of Support Providers for
  schools in status

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Conditions for Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)

• At least 95 of students are tested for reading
  and math for all students and all subgroups
• At least meet the minimum annual target for
  Meeting/Exceeding Standards for reading and math
  for all groups and all subgroups
• At least meet the minimum annual target for
  attendance rate for elementary/middle schools or
  graduation rate for high schools
• Note the subgroup size 45 students
• For additional information, see AYP
• at http//www.isbe.state.il.us/sos/.

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Title I and Non-Title Plan Requirements
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Failure to Make AYP and Required Improvement Plans

• NCLB requires revisions of improvement plans
  after the 2nd calculation of AYP
• After the 4th calculationthe plan aligns with
  corrective actions for Title I schools
• After the 6th calculationthe plan aligns with
  the restructuring plan

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Revised Plans and School Status
SIP REVISION
ACADEMIC EARLY WARNING STATUS OR SCHOOL
IMPROVEMENT
ACADEMIC WATCH STATUS OR CORRECTIVE ACTION
RESTRUCTURING
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Federal Sanctions and Required Plans
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A Closer Look at Corrective Actions

• At least one of the following aligned with the
  SIP
• Replace school staff relevant to AYP
• Institute and fully implement a new curriculum,
  with appropriate professional development for all
  relevant staff
• Significantly decrease management authority at
  the school level
• Appoint an outside expert to advise the school on
  its progress toward making AYP, based on its
  school plan
• Extend the school year or school day or
• Restructure the internal organizational structure
  of the schools.

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Restructuring Options

• Reopen as a charter school
• Replace all or most of the staff
• Enter into a contract with an entity
• State takeover
• Implement any other major restructuring
• of the schools governance
• One or more options selected in context.
• For more information available at
  http//www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/schoolimprovem
  entguid.doc

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The Real Target
What do we have to do to fill out the template?
What do we have to do to improve student learning?
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Paradigm Shift
I taught.
The students learned.
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Asking big questions
What did ISAT or PSAE tell us? Why didnt we
make AYP? How can we make AYP?
What do our data show us? Who is NOT learning?
Why did our kids perform this way? What are the
barriers to student learning? Which of these can
we influence? What changes must we make in the
classrooms?
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One Plan, One Purpose

• One
• on-line
• SIP template
• used by
• everyone
• required to
• have a
• revised
• plan.

STUDENT LEARNING
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Illinois e-Plans

• District Improvement Plan
• Technology Integration Plan
• District Improvement and Tech Plan
• Title I District Plan
• Restructuring Plan
• School Improvement Plan

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Hope and Good Sense

• Expecting success
• Prioritizing objectives
• Eliminating distractions

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SIP TIPS--Tools

• Guide language of the law that describes
  requirements embedded in template
• Template on-line format
• Checklist tool for planning and review
• The template and the accompanying guide are to be
  used together to ensure that users include all
  requirements of state and federal law.

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SIP TIPS--The template

• Section I Data and Analysis
• Section II Action Plan
• Section III Plan Development, Review, and
  Implementation
• Section IV Board Approval and Assurances

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Illinois e-Plan Roadmap
SAMPLE SCREEN
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SECTION I - Data and Analysis

• Automatically
• populated State assessment results
• School information
• Optional Data
• Local Assessment
• School and Community Factors
• Professional Development
• Parent Involvement
• Prompts for analysis at each screen
• What conclusions do you draw from these data?
  What factors contribute to these results?
• Note You may not import data charts or tables.

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Sample Data Screen
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SECTION II - Action Plan

• OBJECTIVES
• STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES
• Students
• Professional Development
• Parent Involvement
• RESOURCES IDENTIFIED
• MONITORING

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A Word about Objectives

• A performance target in terms of student
  achievement
• A global target addressing multiple AYP
  deficiencies
• Focused on learning for All or Subgroups
• Aligned to corrective action and restructuring,
  if applicable

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Objectives

• Identify current achievement level and specific,
  measurable outcomes in terms of AYP for each year
  of the plan.
• Clear and tightly focused on the fundamental
  teaching and learning issues preventing the
  school from making AYP.
• Promote continuous and substantial progress to
  ensure that students in each subgroup make AYP.
• Examples
• While our current achievement in reading for the
  grade 3 low income subgroup is 30
  meeting/exceeding for ISAT, this subgroup will
  make AYP of at least 55 in 2007 and 62.5 in
  2008 or Safe Harbor.
• The low income participation rate in mathematics,
  currently at 84, will be raised to at least 95
  of the students participating in the 2007 and
  2008 ISAT.

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SECTION II - Action Plan

• OBJECTIVES
• STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES
• Students What needs to happen in the classroom
  (or elsewhere) to affect learning to achieve this
  objective?
• Professional development What professional
  development will staff need?
• Parent Involvement What activities are needed
  for parents/community?
• RESOURCES IDENTIFIED
• MONITORING

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Section II Action Plan
Objective (short title) Reading-Fluency
Timeline
Budget
Drop Down Boxes
Text Boxes
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SECTION III - Plan Development, Review, and
Implementation

• Parent Notification
• Stakeholder Involvement
• Peer Review Process
• School Support Team (if applicable)
• Teacher Mentoring Process
• Districts Responsibilities
• States Responsibilities

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A Word about the Teams

• School improvement team
• School Support Team
• Peer review team

For further description, go to http//www.ed.gov/p
olicy/elsec/guid/schoolimprovementguid.doc
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Peer Review Team and Function

• Team composition
• Teachers/administrators from similar more
  successful schools
• ROE/ISC and RESPRO staff
• University faculty
• Consultants
• The team provides feedback about the viability of
  the SIP paying close attention to the action
  plan. Given the data, do the strategies and
  activities have promise?

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SECTION IV - Board Approval and Assurances

• District Responsibility
• Scientifically Based, Researched Methods and
  Practices
• IL Learning Standards
• Professional Development funds
• Board Approval

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Timelines

• A 3 month planning process follows notification
  of status
• SIP team summarizes their work in the Illinois
  e-Plan
• A 45 day peer review process follows
• The superintendent submits the SIP to local board
• The superintendent locks down the final, board
  approved SIP (135 days after initial
  notification)
• ISBE reviews/monitors SIPs

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SIP Timeline for Any School in Academic Status

45 day peer review and board approval
3 month planning process
Supt posts plan at IIRC
135 days
SIP Team submits plan to local superintendent
Notification of status
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Work with your REGIONAL SYSTEM OF SUPPORT
PROVIDER (RESPRO)
To learn more about the RESPROs, see RESPRO
at http//www.isbe.state.il.us/sos/
Service Area Map
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Assistance with Illinois e-Plans

• Interactive Illinois Report Card
  http//iirc.niu.edu/scripts/whatsnew110805.asp
• Contact Federal Grants and Programs at
  217/524-4832.
• Passwords Send a request with District/School
  Name and RCD code to Gail Buoy at gbuoy_at_isbe.net