Practice Profiles

Guidance for West Virginia Schools and Districts

April 2012

• Overview– Support for Personalized Learning– Foundational Principles

• Framework of Support– Introduction to Practice Profiles– Structure of Practice Profiles– Use of Practice Profiles– Review Process

• Providing Support

Agenda

Purpose of Support for Personalized Learning

Support for Personalized Learning is a framework that promotes a well-integrated system connecting general, supplementary, gifted and special education in providing high quality, standards-based instruction and intervention that is matched to students’ academic, social/emotional and behavioral needs.

Purpose of Support for Personalized Learning

Foundational Principles

• SPL is a comprehensive school improvement framework.

• SPL is a technical structure that organizes and aligns curriculum, instruction and assessment in the form of increasingly intensive services and supports for all students.

• Student learning and needs are monitored and are assessed routinely using a continuum of technically adequate measures.

Foundational Principles

• Multi-level systems of support are established in order to meet changing needs of all students at any given point in time.

• Student response to instruction and intervention is used to evaluate the effectiveness of CORE, TARGETED and INTENSIVE instruction over time.

• SPL is a framework that promotes organizational flexibility and can be an effective process for building and sustaining teacher leadership and effective practices over time.

Foundational Principles

Introduction to Practice Profiles

• Practice Profiles are tools designed to assist districts, schools and educators with self- evaluation of current instructional and assessment practices.

• Provide the means to reflect on policies and practices in order to improve outcomes for students.

Introduction to Practice Profiles

• The tools are based on the six components of SPL– Leadership– School Climate and Culture– Teams and Processes– Family and Community Partnerships– Assessment– Curriculum and Instruction

Introduction to Practice Profiles

• Practice Profiles may be used as:– An informational resource– A way to measure implementation– Tools to assist with planning and school

improvement

Structure of Practice Profiles

• Profiles have been written for three levels of implementation – classroom, school, and district.

• Each profile discusses the six SPL components across the GROWTH STAGES– Emerging : Establishing Consensus– Developing : Building Infrastructure– Operationalizing : Gaining Consistency– Optimizing : Innovating and Sustaining

Structure of Practice Profile

• Within the profiles there are common key anchors and guiding questions on the far left column– Structures– Processes and Procedures– Professional Development

Structure of Practice Profile

Use of Practice Profiles

• Use of the Practice Profiles is a self-reflective process to:– Gauge their level of implementation in relation to

the Optimizing stage– Plan for next steps in implementation

Use of Practice Profile

Use of Practice Profiles

Directions:1. Determine if you are going to focus on one

component or the entire profile.2. Read the rows and columns to get a sense of the

scope of the component.3. Using existing data determine and highlight or

circle the cells that best describe the current stage of development.

Leadership School-levelFramework of Support: School-Level Practice Profile

Use of Practice Profiles

Directions continued:4. After completing the profile indicate the

current implementation stage of your site presently on the Scoring Summary.

5. Identify desired level of implementation.6. Compare the gap between desired level

and current level.

Use of Practice Profiles

Scoring Summary

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Use of Practice Profiles

7. Create and action plan with timelines to close the gap between desired level and current level of implementation.

8. Check on the progress of the action plan throughout the school year.

Use of Practice Profiles

Key Points:• Practice Profiles can be read horizontally or

vertically.• You do not have to read each component each

time you use the profile.• If you feel that two growth stages in one row

describe your site, pick the cell to the left.• It is possible to be in different growth stages

across components.

• It is possible to be in two different growth stages within one component.

• Discussing the information in these profiles requires collaboration and input from several departments/stakeholders/colleagues.

• These are not intended to be direct guides and do not describe how exactly to move forward.

Use of Practice Profiles

Review Process

When districts, schools and educators use the profiles to both measure implementation and plan for next steps, they are engaging in the Review Process.

Review Process

• The process is a formative review.• The information and insights gained are used

in planning.• The series of formative review may lead to

periodic summative transition points.• The information helps make determination as

to specific policy and program outcomes.

Providing Support

Implementation practices and supports are necessary across each level of the Support for Personalized Learning framework.

Students

School Staff

School Leadership Team

District Leadership Team

WVDE Leadership Group

RESA Leadership Team

Improved academics and behavior

Provides effective practices to support students

Provides guidance and manages implementation

Provides guidance, visibility, funding and implementation supports

Provides guidance, visibility and implementation supports

Provides guidance, visibility, funding and implementation supports

Providing Support

Purpose of Support for Personalized Learning

Support for Personalized Learning is a framework that promotes a well-integrated system connecting general, supplementary, gifted and special education in providing high quality, standards-based instruction and intervention that is matched to students’ academic, social/emotional and behavioral needs.