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Commission on Accreditation and
School Improvement
Writing the School Improvement
Plan
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NCA accreditation is based on a yearly
review of the NCA CASI standard and
engagement in a continuous school
improvement process.
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Schools must complete a five year
documentation cycle of school
improvement and a yearly review of
membership and improvement criteria.
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Protocol
(5 year documentation cycle)
Phases
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Gaining Commitment
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Getting Started
Collecting and Analyzing Data
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Mission and Writing Goals
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Develop Improvement Plan
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Implement Improvement Plan
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Monitor Implementation
Document Improvement
Continue the Process
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Preliminary Chair
Contact/Visit
Plan Validation
Team Visit
Documentation
Team Visit
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Profiling
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A profile is a concise, stand-alone
document which gives a snapshot or
picture of a school in data terms, as a
cycle of school improvement begins.
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Characteristics
Profiles enable school staffs to identify
needs.
Profiles are the documents from which
student performance goals emerge.
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Profile Activities
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Collecting the data
Determining the findings
Completing the analysis
Determining the implications
Writing the task lists
Triangulating the data
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How Student Performance Goals
Are Selected
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Based upon at least three pieces of data from the
school profile and supported by environmental
scan data.
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Goal Number 1 - All students will improve
their reading comprehension skills across the
curriculum.
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Why we selected the reading goal.
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1. Our students did not score well on our norm
referenced test which was the Stanford 9.
2. Our survey of the business community
indicated our students could not read on entry in
to the world of work.
3. Our locally developed criterion referenced test
on reading showed our students were below
acceptable levels.
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Writing the Goals
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This is a faculty activity which should help
develop the ownership of the process that will be
necessary for implementation of the plan later on.
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Once the goals are written the
plan is developed
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In the NCA timeline this means that in a five
year reporting period the plan is usually
developed beginning in the second year of the
process.
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Implementation of a school improvement plan
should occur no later than the start of the
third year.
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Phase Five:
Developing the School
Improvement Plan
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Determine Interventions
Select Assessments
Prepare the Action Plans
Determine Staff Development
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Interventions
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The First Step to Good Interventions
Examine
research and/or
best practice
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NCA Web Site
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NCA Web Address is
www.ncacasi.org
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1-800-525-9517
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Education Research Service
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Will provide research to member schools on
any topic requested.
2000 Clarendon Road
Arlington, VA 22201
703-243-2100
[email protected]
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ASCD
Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development
1703 North Beauregard Street
Alexandria, Virginia 22311
1-800-933-2723
www.ascd.org
Magazine: Educational Leadership
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Northwest Regional Lab
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www.nwrel.org
All regional labs available from this website
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Educational Best Practices
www.ed.gov/inits/statelocal/sl-best.html
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Interventions
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Let’s examine the criteria and rubric for writing
good interventions found in the team chair
software.
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Assessments
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Selecting/Creating Assessments
Standardized
Advantages:
Greater possibility of validity and reliability
Politically more acceptable to community
Procedures are standardized
Disadvantages: Cost
Less likely to match your educational
program or curriculum
Appropriate common metric to measure
your goal may not exist
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Selecting/Creating Assessments
Locally Developed
Advantages:
Can be built to directly match the target goal
Can be built to match your program
Disadvantages: Less likely to be valid and reliable
Your staff has to develop rubrics and
procedures
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What will become part of your
“body of evidence”
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Our state assessment
Our standardized assessment
Our locally developed examinations
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Buros Institute of Mental
Measures
If you want to examine the
pedigree of assessments contact
Buros Institute at the University
of Nebraska.
www.unl.edu/buros
402-472-6203
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ERIC
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www.accesseric.org
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Northwest Regional Lab
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www.nwrel.org
All regional labs available from this website
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Data Analysis
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Data is used to determine if there is
student performance growth.
How will you analyze your data?
What is your baseline data?
What groups will you assess and compare?
What types of data will you collect?
Who will collect, graph and analyze the data?
How will you present the data - what charts, graphs, etc.?
How will you manage local data?
What types of disaggregation will you use?
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Steps in Data Analysis
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Calculate the pre-test mean and the post-test
mean
Convert the pre-test and post-test mean scores
into standard scores
Find the standard score difference
Interpret the standard score difference
Write the narrative report
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Victoria Bernhardt
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Data Analysis for Comprehensive
School- wide Improvement
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[email protected]
Edie Holcomb
• Getting Excited About Data
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Protocol
(5 year documentation cycle)
Phases
1.
Gaining Commitment
2.
Getting Started
Collecting and Analyzing Data
3.
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Mission and Writing Goals
5.
Develop Improvement Plan
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Implement Improvement Plan
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Monitor Implementation
Document Improvement
Continue the Process
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Preliminary Chair
Contact/Visit
Plan Validation
Team Visit
Documentation
Team Visit
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Creating the Written School
Improvement Plan
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The Goal Sheets
The Action Plans
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Student Performance Goal #1
Support Data. 1.
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“Triangulation”
Interventions/Strategies
Assessments:
1. Standardized
2. Locally Developed
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Action Plans
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For every intervention in a school improvement
plan there is created at least one action plan page.
This page contains all the details that go into the
plan. The important word here is details.
Always provide more information than you think
necessary.
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School Improvement Plan
Action Plan Pages
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Activities: What specific things are going to occur to make the
intervention work?
Timeline: When do you plan to start and complete the activities?
Resources: What specific resources do you need to implement the
intervention?
Evidence of Attainment: What assessments you use to demonstrate
student performance improvement?
Person Responsible: Who has been designated to keep track of the
activities and who has been assigned to keep the assessment data?
Staff Development: What plan has been developed to assist the faculty
implement the intervention?
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Staff Development
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What staff development activities will
move the faculty from awareness to
actual transfer into the classroom?
How will you know the plan
is being implemented in
the classroom?
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Staff Development
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What staff development activities will
move the faculty from awareness to
actual transfer into the classroom?
How will you know the plan
is being implemented in
the classroom?
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Staff Development
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Staff Development is often used to help the
faculty learn about the new interventions and
how to implement them.This is particularly
helpful for staff members implementing
activities out of their curricular area.
Staff Development needs to be directly linked to
the school improvement plan.
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NCA Commission on Accreditation and
School Improvement
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The Commission is here to assist and support
you as you work on school improvement plans
in your school.
Workshops
Fall Conferences in states
Annual Meeting April 7-10,2002
State Committee
Ambassadors
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NCA Ambassador
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Leslie Ballard
Terre Haute South Vigo High School
812-462-4252
[email protected]
NCA Office 7-11 am 800-468-7405
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