Transcript Shaping Up the Schoolwide Title I Plan

Shaping Up
the Schoolwide Title I Plan
Sybil Lenzi, Consultant
2010
Lenzi Educational Services, Inc.
2010
10 + 2 Required Componets
• Index
1. Comprehensive Needs Assessment
2. Schoolwide Reform Strategies
3. Highly Qualified Teachers & Paras
4. Attract & Retain HQ Teachers
5. Professional Development
6. Parent Involvement
7. Pre-School Transition Strategies
8. Teacher Participation in Assessment Decisions
9. Timely Additional Assistance
10. Coordination of Resources
• Evaluation of Program
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Schoolwide Title I Programs
• Closer look at Rubric
• Legislative Citation and 3 rating categories
• 10 component requirements from Section 1114 of NCLB Act
and 1 from Section 200.26 of Regulations
• Note references to Section 1118 “Parent Involvement”
• MDE is conducting reviews based on this rubric.
• 8 State reviewers
• New, Random Selection and On Site Reviews
• Plans NOT approved must return to a Targeted Assistance
program
• Text boxes provided to incorporate these rubric
requirements in AdvancEd template
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What are the reviewers looking for?
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Index
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AKA “Table of Contents”
Identify the 10 Components + Evaluation
Consider Headings
Include the PA 25 Requirements
Watch for correct page numbers
Take care with Attachments
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Comprehensive Needs
Assessment
• Description of process, results and conclusions
• 4 types of data
• Achievement—Consider grade spans, sub-groups
& content
• Program/Process— SPR 40/90 & SA/SAR
• Perception—Teachers & Parents
• Demographics—Student Body, Staff, Community
• Tight alignment with goals
• Identifies “Gaps” and “Causes” for Goal Setting
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Schoolwide Reform Strategies
• Two Levels = ALL + “…those at risk of not
meeting the State academic standards…”
• Research-based
• Watch citations
• No Websites
• Increases quality & quantity of instruction
• Targeted has moved to Schoolwide
• Inclusion of PA 25 (“one plan”)
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Highly Qualified Staff
• ALL teachers
• ALL instructional
para-pros
• Assurance
Statement
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Attracting & Keeping HQ Staff
• Teacher Turnover “rate”
• Experience of teachers
(years)
• District & School level
efforts/reasons
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Professional Development
• “Ongoing” and planned
• Aligned with goals,
objectives, strategies
• Specific
• Timelines
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Parent Involvement
• Decision-making role is clear and
consistent throughout the plan
• “...language that they can understand…”
• Outline required activities IN the plan and
IN the policy
• Compact & Policy attached
• Parents AND Staff create the Compact
• Compact shared at conferences
(elementary)
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Parent Involvement
• Required activities for ALL Title I schools
and districts/LEA’s (Local Education
Agencies)
• Audience:
• Targeted = Parents of Title I, targeted students
• Schoolwide = ALL parents
• Most common reason for disapproval of
Title I plans is a lack of compliance of the
requirements of Section 1118
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Parent Involvement
• Note “shalls”& active verbs versus “mays”
• Must have attachments:
– School-level Policy
– School-Parent Compact
• Must address the required activities for a
school in the plan AND in the policy
• Take EXTRA care covering this!
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Parent Involvement
• Page 11 of rubric
• “…language the parents can understand…”
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Limited English?
Visually Impaired?
Literacy Issues?
“User Friendly”
• Individual student academic assessment
results
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Pre-School Transition Strategies
• Pre-schoolers invited to
visit school more than
once a year
• Parents and/or preschool
teachers are “trained” in
what it takes for child to
be successful in
kindergarten
• Not required of schools
without kindergarten
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Teachers & Assessment Decisions
• Decisions on the USE of
assessment results
– Consider impact on
teaching
– Identifying students for
interventions/referrals
– Communication with
parents & others
– Selection of assessments
– Timing
• Data Analysis
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Timely Additional Assistance
• How are students identified?
• Assessments
• Team process?
• Other criteria
• What assistance will they get?
• ALL 4 content areas
• Don’t forget their social/emotional/health
needs
• Differentiated Instruction in classroom
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Coordination of Resources
• Laundry list of the many state, federal,
and local resources supporting the
school
• Does not have to be $$$
• State the support provided
• State the SW components supported
• Do not leave out any Federal programs!
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Evaluation of SW Program & Plan
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Annually, at least
Examine data
Examine implementation
Impact on Student
Achievement (and goals)
• Revise/modify if needed
• Then…keep evidence that
you do this!
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Bottom Line for Title I Schools
• If the school wants the Title I plan to pass
a review, it MUST:
– Be included with the basic, school
improvement plan
– Address the required components to the level
described in the rubric
– Have the required attachments
– Determine ways to do this within the text
boxes provided in the AdvancEd templates
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REMEMBER
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Questions/Comments
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