• Overview – Indistar® SSOS Online Web Tool in comparison to the publication “Evaluating the Statewide System of Support”

• Assessment Process

• Planning Process

• Monitoring Process

• Questions, Comments & What’s Next

• Contact information

The Center on Innovation & Improvement provides four processes to assist SEAs with the development of their statewide systems of support. These processes are:

• Self-Assessment of the Statewide System of Support: This process, based on the Handbook on Statewide Systems of Support and an accompanying manual (Strengthening the Statewide System of Support) guides an SEA team, facilitated by its Regional Comprehensive Center, in defining and assessing the components of its system of support within a framework of Incentives, Opportunity, and Capacity. This process is intended to bring everyone within the SEA to a full understanding of the system of support and their role in it. The process also concludes with objectives and a plan for future development of the SSOS.

• Evaluating the Statewide System of Support: This document provides rubrics, guidelines, and examples for an internal or external evaluation of a system of support.

• Operations Manual: CII provides a template and examples for the SEA to operationalize its system of support in a manual that includes the SEA’s philosophy and purpose for its SSOS, organizational charts, role descriptions, timelines, reporting templates, and instruments. The Operations Manual is useful internally within the SEA to guide the work of various divisions involved in school improvement. It is also a succinct way of showing districts and schools the State’s differentiated pathways to district and school improvement and the services available to them. When policies and practices change, the Operations Manual is updated to keep everyone informed of the current system and on the same page.

• Continuous Improvement of the Statewide System of Support: This web-based process, based on the rubrics in Evaluating the Statewide System of Support, guides the SEA team in assessing elements of its statewide system of support, planning for improvement, and tracking its progress over time.

The Indistar® SSOS online Tool can now be used as the continuous improvement model to guide SEA teams in assessing, planning and monitoring their statewide system of support.

SSOS Online Tool Evaluating the SSOS publication

Full Level of Implementation with Evidence of Impact

Mostly Functional

Limited Development or Partial Implementation

Little or No development or Implementation

Limited Development or Implementation

Full Implementation with Evidence

No development or Implementation

* From Indistar – Step 4, Assess SSOS Indicators

* From Evaluating Statewide System of Support publication– pg. 21

* From Step 4 – Assessments in the SSoS Online Tool

Exemplars from the SSOS publication

Wise Ways® from the SSOS Online Tool

Wise Ways® are research briefs to

support indicators of effectivepractice

* From Indistar – Step 4, Assess SSOS Indicators

1. Describe how each objective (indicators are now objectives) will look in your state when fully implemented.

2. Assign a team member to each objective.3. Establish a target date for completion.

1. Create a list of tasks needed to complete (or meet) the objective.

2. Assign each task to a team member or another person within your state who will complete the task.

3. Establish a target date for each task.

Index numbers help teams identify ‘quick

wins’…high priority and easy to accomplish

Objective

Assessment information

The Plan

Tasks

1. Keep track of who is responsible for each task by printing out the Tasks Report.

2. Update tasks at each team meeting. 3. Enter notes about progress and/or completion

dates.

1. Keep track of task completion.2. Have all of the tasks for an objective been met? 3. If all tasks are completed, is the objective fully

met?a. No….go back to Step 5 and add more tasksb. Not sure….come back to this once you have

reached a decisionc. Yes….great! Provide evidence that the

objective has been met, your experience in the pursuit, and describe how you will sustain your efforts towards full implementation.

Task and Plan progress

Experience

Efforts to sustain

Evidence of full implementation

Tom Kerins tkerins@centerii.org

217-732-6462 ext. 20

Stephanie Benedict sbenedict@centerii.org

217-732-6462 ext. 32