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With 35 AdvancED Standard Committees representing over 250 internal and external stakeholders, you de-serve a big thank you for all your work on our dis-trict and school Self Assessments.
Thank you
How will we document all of our work... The AdvancED External Review Team will visit Burke County Public Schools from September 25-28, 2016. We can expect this team to be composed of five educators with a Chairperson from outside the state of Georgia.
For those of us who have been doing this for years, we have
seen this External Review visit move from “paper-full” to almost “paper-less”.
It is vital we document our work with effective and mod-ern platforms.
Well in advance of the Sep-tember visit, the External Review Team will be able to
study and review our school system with:
The BCPS Website
eBOARD
AdvancED ASSIST
Burke County Public Schools
Spring 2016
AdvancED SACS Vision Statement Burke County Schools will exemplify a quality system that is respected for high standards, outstanding performance, and excellence in student achievement. Mission Statement The mission of the Burke County School System is to ensure that all stu-dents will graduate with the necessary skills to function successfully in a global society.
Belief Statements (School System)
Student Performance All students will experience a high quality, data-driven,
and academically challenging learning environment, designed to meet their
unique needs, to help them become socially responsible citizens, to en-
hance their opportunities, and to facilitate their post-secondary goals.
Stakeholder Engagement A strong partnership among employees, students,
families, and the community is essential for optimal student achievement,
advancement of our community, and fulfillment of civic responsibility in our
society.
Organizational Effectiveness The recruitment, hiring, and retention of a
highly qualified and effective faculty, staff, and administration is vital to the
development and sustainability of a positive climate, culture, and learning
environment.
Continuous Improvement Continuous improvement is non-negotiable and
fostered through systemic planning and assessment, building capacity,
maximizing resources, collaboration, partnerships, professional learning,
networking, transparency, communication, stakeholder feedback, and utili-
zation of current trends and technologies.
Inside this issue:
All about eleot 2-3
Survey Results 2013-2016 4
External Review Sample Schedule 4
AdvancED Stakeholder Survey
Participants Exceed OUR Goal
20% Parent
Participation
40% Student
Participation
60% Staff
Participation
BES 50% 95% 100%
BCAS 45% 68% 88%
BCHS 25% 48% 86%
BCMS 49% 78% 89%
SGA 74% 94% 100%
WPS 42% 94% 99%
Trained observers spend at least 20 minutes in all or nearly every class-room in the school and record their observations on a standardized re-
porting template. Data are then uploaded and stored by Ad-vancED. The eleot provides structured and quantifiable data on the extent to which learners are engaged in activi-ties and/or demonstrate knowledge, attitudes and/or
dispositions that are conducive to effective learning. The tool provides an aggregate picture for an entire school.
In essence, eleot measures the extent to which there is observ-able evidence (or no evidence) that students are engaged in certain activities or demon-strate certain knowledge, atti-tudes and/or dispositions in a classroom during a defined period of time as measured on a four-point scale (1 being “not observed,”4 being “very evi-dent”). The seven eleot environ-
ments examined are:
Equitable Learning
High Expectations
Supportive Learning
Active Learning
Progress Monitoring and Feedback
Well-Managed Learning
Digital Learning
eleot—The Effective Learning Environments Observation Tool
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eleot—The Effective Learning Environments Observation Tool (page 1)
Burke County Public Schools
on day 1 will be at Central Of-fice and will include System and Standards presentations, lead-ership and community inter-views, and artifact review. Team work session #2 will be in the evening.
Day 2
The External Review will divide and cover as many schools as possible for the entire work day. The focus will be on classroom observations (eleot), artifact review, and targeted interviews. Team work session 3 will be in the evening.
Day 3
All External Review Team work on day 3 will be at Central Of-fice.
External Review Team Members
Based upon the size of the school system
Comprised of in-state and out-of-state professionals
Led by a trained Lead Eval-uator from out-of-state
Supported by an Associate Lead Evaluator from in-state
Appointed by AdvancED
Day 1
Team work session #1 typically takes place on the evening prior to the start of the External Re-view.
All External Review Team work
Day 3 summary:
Follow up interviews
Team work session #4—exit Power Point prepara-tion/review
Team work time and finalize logistical details
Lead Evaluator meets with the Superintendent
Exit report delivered at a “called” BCBOE Meet-ing
External Review Team Sample Schedule
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3.9
4
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
2013 2014 2015 2016
Parents
Staff
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
5
2013 2014 2015 2016
Early Elementary Students
Elementary Students
Middle School/High School
Students
4
Survey Results