Moving from Indistar Navigation to

Indistar as a School Improvement Tool

Wisconsin Title I Innovation and Implementation Conference IIOctober 2014

Teaming

Research & Resources

Continuous Improvement Process

Sustainability

Leadership Team

The team that manages the Indistar® process and is ultimately responsible for making decisions for

the school, for transformation and for school improvement.

School Community Council

A 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.

Instructional TeamsTeams that include teachers in grade level groupings, grade-

level clusters, or subject areas. Responsible for planning instruction for 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.

The importance of working together…

By placing the requirement for determining the necessary data sources, gathering the data, analyzing the data and monitoring progress on the Leadership Team, the Leadership Team is

engaged in “deep practice.”

Decide data

Gather data

Analyze Data

Needs Assessment Drives School Improvement Planning—Progress

Data Drives Continuous Improvement

Regular Leadership

Team Meetings

Gather, analyze, and

use data

Research best practice

Plan and monitor action

steps

Coaching support and

feedback Continuous Improveme

nt Cycle

Research Best Practice

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

What data must be analyzed?

What are our biggest needs?

Based on our needs, what are

our goals?

What does research suggest as best practice

strategies?

Which indicator aligns to the

strategy?

What does the indicator mean?

How would we know the extent

to which the indicator is

implemented?

What are the action steps we need to take?

Are we implementing the action steps with

fidelity?

How do we know? What data supports

our conclusion??

What should we stop doing because we

know it doesn’t work?

What results are we getting?

How do we know? What data supports

our conclusions?

Are our practices becoming

habits?

What do we need to do to sustain our

improvements?

Are we making

progress?

Do we need to revise our

plan?

What are our next steps?

…monitor ongoing actions

…gather and analyze data

…reinforce and evaluate practices

…gather evidence

Sustainability

Teams

Best Practice

Student Outcom

es

Sustainability

Data Implementation

Continuous Improvement

ASSESS where you are

CREATE a plan for where you want to be

MONITOR implementation

SUSTAIN implementation

Presenters

•Aundrea Kerkenbush(608) 261-16322

aundrea.kerkenbush@dpi.wi.gov

•Kathy Lyngaas(608) 267-7462

kathy.lyngaas@dpi.wi.gov