Comprehensive School Improvement Planning

with Indistar

Stephanie BenedictAcademic Development Institute & Center on Innovations in Learning

Teaming

Research & Resources

Continuous Improvement Process

Sustainability

The importance of working together…

Leadership TeamThe team that manages the Indistar®

process and is ultimately responsible for making decisions for the school, for

transformation and for school improvement.

Instructional TeamsTeams that include teachers in grade

level groupings, grade-level clusters, or subject areas. Responsible for planning

instruction for students.

School Community CouncilA team that includes parents as the

majority of its members and looks at how the school and families work together for

the benefit of students.

TimeTeams need time to do their work and

structure to do effective work. Indistar® provides benchmarks of work to be

completed at specific points in time during the year.

Leadership Teams must ask and answer several questions:

What is the straight-forward, literal

meaning and intent of the indicator?

How would we know the extent to which the indicator

is implemented?

What data must be analyzed to

determine the level of implementation?

What instruments must be created to

gather the data?

Who will make the data available?

What does it look like now?

By placing the requirement for determining the necessary data sources, gathering the data, and analyzing the data on the Leadership Team, the Leadership Team is engaged in “deep practice.”

Not as simple as a checklist, but much more likely to yield greater understanding and skill and to drive the district or school’s improvement.

Decide data

Gather data

Analyze Data

Research

Wise Ways• briefs that provide a context for the indicator, research syntheses, examples, and references.

Indicators in Action

• tutorials with narrative and video demonstration of the indicators by administrators, teachers, and parents..

Indicators NOW!

• video index of mini-sodes extracted from the Indicators in Action™ courses.

INDISTAR Continuous

Improvement

Indicators: Assess, Plan, Monitor, Implement, and

Adjust

Gather, Analyze, and Use Data to make decisions

Use Research to determine what is good,

effective practice

Receive ongoing coaching support and

state feedback

Leadership Teams meet regularly (twice per

month)

Continue to…monitor ongoing actions

…gather and analyze data

…reinforce and evaluate practices

…gather evidence

Sustainability

ASSESS where you are

CREATE a plan for where you want to be

MONITOR implementation of your plan

SUSTAIN implementation…?

…what kind of house will you

build?