How to Use FEPSI Data to Improve A School

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School Culture and FEPSI

• How to Use FEPSI Data to Improve A School s
  Culture

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School Culture Review

• Deal and Peterson (1993) have offered the most
  succinct definition of school culture. They
  simply state it is an "inner reality.
• Robbins and Alvy (1995) expand the definition by
  stating that "This inner reality reflects what
  organizational members care about, what they are
  willing to spend time doing, what and how they
  celebrate, and what they talk about. " 

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CULTURE vs. CLIMATE

• CULTURE
• Personality of school
• Shared experiences (both in and outside the
  school)
• Traditions
• Celebrations
• Sense of Community
• Norms, Values, Symbols and Stories

• CLIMATE
• Physical Appearance
• Outward Indicators
• Displays of student work
• Safe and welcoming environment

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General Assumptions on School Improvement

• Student achievement improves when teaching
  improves.
• Teaching improves through programs and
  interventions that bring
• High-quality professional development
• Adequate resources
• Evidence-based strategies and curricula
• Effective programs or interventions work only
  when they are fully implemented.
• Full implementation is most likely when school
  climate (teacher support, culture, environment)
  is positive.

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FEPSI Inventory Dimensions

• Expectations (everyone can learn)
• Order (discipline respect)
• Collaboration (working together)
• Leadership (supportive, strong)
• Instruction (good instructional program)
• Environment (pride in school)
• Involvement (parents community)

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Effective School Hierarchy
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Traditional Assumptions That ImproveStudent
Achievement
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Positive School Culture

• Teacher effects are far more powerful
  determinants of student achievement than are
  program effects.
• Where school culture is positive
• Good teachers are more likely to remain.
• Programs can be better implemented.
• Teaching learning can be more easily improved.

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FEPSI Data

• Of all the instruments included in the Formative
  Evaluation Process for School Improvement, the
  SCI is the least program-specific. Rather, it
  addresses environmental issues that are
  foundational to program success in any school.
• It is most important that the entire faculty be
  involved in processing this information and in
  making resultant school improvement decisions.
• It is recommended that the principal,
  facilitator, or a teacher leader become familiar
  with the school climate profile and assist the
  entire group in being able to read and understand
  the report.
• FEPSI Data can be analyzed to be use in the
  development of the ACSIP Plan

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Analysis of FEPSI DATA

• Find out what dimensions /items are in need need
  immediate attention
• Look at 3 year data (Highest and Lowest)
• Determine if dimension/ items are improving or
  declining
• Use a strategic process to report strengths and
  weaknesses in dimension/items to total group
• (T-chart, Fishbone, Graphs, Histograph,
  Non-Linguistic Representations)
• Determine reasons for increase/decline
• Celebrate all successes with group and continue
  plan for improvement

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• Fax [phone]
• SAMPLE FEPSI/ACSIP Planning Meeting
  SAMPLE
• February 20
• WELCOME..
• Kathy Pflughoeft 
• Group Norms and Outcomes for the Day .
• Cindy Thomas 
• Team Building Exercise.FISH STICKS.Celebrati
  ons
• Karen Sullards/Gean Vines 
• Power Point Data Driven Decision in a
  Professional Learning Community School 
• REVIEW Mission/Vision and FEPSI REPORT (SCI
  SOMS).
• Angela McGee
• DISCUSS HOW TO USE THE FEPSI GUIDEBOOK
• BREAK OUT GROUPS
• REPORT BACK WITH CELEBRATIONS/NEEDS
• Process - Histograph
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• IMPLEMENTATION BENCHMARKS
• Gean Vines
• USE FEPSI DATA TO DETERMINE EACH PHASE (BY
  CONSENSUS)
• Process..Fishbone Problem Technique to analyze
  areas that have been identified (choose 2)
• Add Benchmarks if Needed
• REVIEW ACSIP/ACTION PLANS
• Traci Perdue
• BREAK OUT GROUPS IN THE THREE AREAS
• MATH-LITERACY-SCHOOL CLIMATE
• GROUP REPORTS
• REFLECTIONS/EVALUATIONS
• Give a man a fish and he can eat
• Eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he
  can eat for a lifetime .
• Chinese Proverb

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FEPSI DATA CAN

• Identify strengths and weaknesses of the schools
  culture and programs.
• Identify problems early in the implementation
  process of new instructional programs
• Document success as positive feedback to school
  staff
• Provide supportive evidence for Celebrations and
  provide starting points for improvement
• Base improvement planning on objective data.
• Formalize schools accountability or success of
  its instructional programs.

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School CultureThe Foundation on which School
Improvement rests
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Sound Advice

• Improvement is essentially a school-by-school
  process, enlightened by the degree to which those
  associated with each school working to improve it
  have the data required for building a useful
  agenda .
• --John Goodlad , University of Washington
• The relationships among the adults in schools
  are the basis, the pre-condition, the sine qua
  non that allow, energize and sustain all attempts
  at school improvement. Unless adults talk with
  one another, observe one another, and help one
  another, very little will change.
• --Roland Barth, Founder, Harvard Principals
  Center
• Even in schools with toxic or threadbare
  cultures, it is possible to find things worth
  celebrating. Those stories, values and
  traditions provide a vital point for updating,
  reinvigorating, and reframing the schools
  identity and culture.
• --Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal, School Culture
  Researchers