Data and Assessment Planning

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Data and Assessment Planning

• Healthy Schools Leadership Program
• Spring, 2006

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Purpose

• What information is needed to develop an
  achievable action plan for coordinated school
  health?
• What information is needed to accurately evaluate
  the implementation and effectiveness of a
  coordinated school health action plan?

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School Improvement Planning

• What are our collective experiences?
• What is our familiarity with the process?
• How do we see SIP relating to our efforts in the
  Healthy School Leadership Program?

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Data Sources

• Healthy Youth Survey
• School Health Index
• Healthy Schools Report Card
• Others? Lots!

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Healthy Schools Report Card

• Eleven Characteristics
• Eight components, plus
• Policy and strategic planning
• Coordination
• Environment broken into 2 subsetssocial and
  emotional climate and school facilities and
  transportation
• Approximately 40 Indicators across the Eleven
  Characteristics

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HSRCTools for data collection

• Develop agreement regarding indicators
• Indictor rubrics
• Quality
• Impact
• Effort
• Excel spreadsheet for data input
• Color coded summary report to help prioritize
  actions.

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Other data collection and Analysis

• Achievement data
• Demographic data
• Perception data
• Context data

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Data Collection Steps

• Action planning for data
• Collectionsnapshots, trends, etc
• Narrative descriptions of data
• Characterizing the narratives
• Prioritizing the narratives
• Building a profile

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Methods

• Take advantage of SIP tools
• SHI
• Healthy Youth Surveylocal reports, and LHJ
  support
• Other surveysstaff wellness, for example
• Healthy Schools Report Card
• Focus Groups
• Key informant interviews

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Next Steps for Data Collection

• Plan to Plan
• What are we already doing?
• What arent we doing but need to do?
• Who will do what, by when, and how?
• Receive and review Healthy Schools Report Card
• Video conference(s) on implementing HSRC
• Keep it Simple
• Get to Work!