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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
Marie Nolen, M.Ed
and
Nancy Paprocki, M.Ed
Principal Consultants
Title Grants Administration
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
Purpose of a Schoolwide Program
Sec. 200.25 Schoolwide programs in general.
(1) The purpose of a schoolwide program is to improve academic achievement throughout a school so that all students, particularly the lowest-achieving students, demonstrate proficiency related to the State's academic standards under Sec. 200.1.
(2) The improved achievement is a result from improving the entire educational program of the school.
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
Why do I Need a Schoolwide Plan?
• It addresses all of the components defined in the ESEA.
All Components Addressed
• It is designed to upgrade the entire educational program in a Title I Part A school.
All Students Succeed.
• Schoolwide programs are authorized under ESEA as an alternative means to better serve allchildren in a school.
All Students Served
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
Schoolwide Program Benefits
Title I funds can be used to meet the needs of all
students in the school, therefore, all students
participate.
No distinctions are made between staff paid with
Title I funds and staff who are not.
All staff are expected to direct efforts toward upgrading the entire educational program
and improving the achievement of all students,
but particularly those who are low achieving.
NCLB allows schools that have received approval to be SW to consolidate or blend funds from other sources
(optional).
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
Advantages of Operating a Schoolwide
Program
•Improvement
Plans for comprehensive long term improvement.
The school and LEA engage in
continuous evaluation of the
plan and self-assessment.
Achievement
Closes the achievement gap for
all students.
Provides continuous learning for all
students.
Organization
Seeks to strengthen the school’s internal
structures.
Consolidates resources to help
achieve goals (optional).
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
Eligibility for Operating a Schoolwide
Program
SEAs may request a waiver for certain schools to operate a Schoolwide
Program without meeting the 40% threshold under these 2 conditions.
SCHOOLWIDE
Not less that 40% of the children enrolled in the
school are from low-income families.
School Improvement Grants (SIG) program in a Tier I or II school that receives SIG funds to implement
one of the SIG intervention models
ESEA flexibility in a priority or focus school
that implements interventions designed to enhance the entire educational program.
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
First Steps to Becoming Schoolwide
Any eligible school that desires to operate a schoolwide program shall, with the assistance of the LEA, first develop or amend a comprehensive plan for reforming the total instructional program in the school.
NCLB section 1114(b) (2)(A) (i-iv)
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
Systemic Continuous
Improvement Process
Conduct a comprehensive
needs assessment
Create a comprehensive
plan
Annually evaluate the effectiveness of
the schoolwide program and revise
as necessary
Core Elements of Schoolwide Planning
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
Comprehensive Plan: Purpose
The plan describes how the school will improve academic achievement throughout the school, so that all students
can demonstrate proficiency on the State’s academic standards.
Review and analyze all facets
of the school’s operation.
Understand the subjects and skills for which teaching and
learning need to be improved.
Identify the specific academic needs of students and groups
of students who are notachieving the State’s academic
standards .
Identify deficiencies and determine root
causes.
Identify strengths.
Formulate recommenda-
tions.
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
Comprehensive Plan: ProcessEstablish a Schoolwide
Planning Team.
Regular teachers, special edteachers, arts teachers, parapros,
parents, community members, and business partners
Clarify the Vision for Reform.
Why do we exist? What are our expectations?
Complete the School Profile.
Identify Data Sources.
achievement data, external trends, data about culture
and conditions.
Analyze Data.
What to improve? How to improve it?
Write the Plan.
Create several SMART goals.
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
How Much Time does Schoolwide
Planning Take?It is suggested that the plan be developed over a one-year period, unless
the LEA determines that less time is needed to develop and implement the
plan, or that it would be prudent financially or programmatically to complete
the tasks sooner, because:
It reflects the vision and mission of the school as a learning community.
It brings focus to the priorities established by the school’s planning team.
It determines the goals and objectives for effecting desired changes using information from student assessments, surveys, profiles and interviews.
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
Considerations when Creating a
Schoolwide Plan
Does the school already have a plan?
How will the budget support the
plan?
Who will monitor
implement-ation of the
plan?
How will this plan
accommo-date
changes over time?
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
Comprehensive Plan Components
Includes a list of State Educational Agency and local educational agency programs and other federal programs that will be consolidated.
Describes how the school will provide individual student academic assessment results in a language the parents can understand, including an interpretation of those results, to the parents of a child who participates in the state required academic assessments.
Describes how the school will use resources under Title I Part A and from other sources to implement the 10 listed components.
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
• Data derived from the Needs Assessment provides the foundation for the goals of the comprehensive schoolwide plan.
• In most schools, the needs assessment will result in the identification of a large number of issues that could be addressed to improve achievement.
• No school should attempt to address every identified need in a single year.
• Planning experts suggest that schools prioritize their major issues and address no more than three of the most important in the first year.
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Illinois State Board of Education
• Instructional strategies and initiatives in the comprehensive plan must be based on scientifically-based research, strengthen the core academic program, increase the quality and quantity of learning time, and address the learning needs of all students in the school.
• When school staff use schoolwide reform strategies drawn from the research on effective classroom practice, they foster a systemic approach that ensures the learning needs of all students are met. – Strengthens the core program.
– Increases the quantity and quality of learning time.
– Provides an enriched and accelerated curriculum.
– Includes strategies for meeting the needs of underserved populations.
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Illinois State Board of Education
• High poverty, low performing schools are sometimes staffed with disproportionately high numbers of teachers who are not highly qualified.
• To address this, the ESEA requires that all teachers of core academic subjects and instructional paraprofessionals in a schoolwide program meet the qualifications required by section 1119.
• Student achievement increases in schools where teaching and learning have the highest priority, and students achieve at higher levels when taught by teachers who know and are skilled in their subject matter.
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Illinois State Board of Education
• Teachers and staff in schoolwide program schools must be familiar with the goals and objectives of the schoolwide plan and receive the sustained high quality professional development required to implement the activities planned for each goal.
• Professional development for teachers, principals and paraprofessionals.
• The statute requires also that, if appropriate, professional development extend to pupil services personnel, parents and other staff.
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Illinois State Board of Education
• Recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers
is an ongoing challenge in high poverty schools.
• Low performing students in these schools have
a special need for excellent teachers.
• The schoolwide plan must describe the
strategies it will use to attract and retain highly
qualified teachers.
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Illinois State Board of Education
• Research shows that successful schools have significant and sustained levels of parent involvement.
• Schoolwide plans must contain strategies to involve parents, especially in helping their children do well in school.
• Parents must be involved in the planning, implementation and evaluation of the schoolwide program.
• Family literacy services.
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Illinois State Board of Education
• The plan can include Head Start, Even Start, Early Reading First or State-run preschool programs which provide a foundation for later academic success.
• Effective schoolwide programs capitalize on this strong start.
• Emphasizes the value of creating a coherent and seamless educational program for at-risk students.
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Illinois State Board of Education
• Teachers will provide information on, and improve the achievement of, individual students and the overall instructional program.
• Teachers need current and ongoing assessment data that describe student achievement, which can include less formal assessments, such as observation, performance assessments, and end-of-course tests.
• Teachers should be provided professional development that increases their understanding of the appropriate uses of multiple assessment measures and how to use assessment results to improve instruction.
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Illinois State Board of Education
• These shall include measures to ensure that
students’ difficulties are identified on a timely
basis and to provide sufficient information on
which to base effective assistance.
• Assistance should be made available to all
students in the school who need it and should
be tailored to their needs.
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Illinois State Board of Education
• Schoolwide programs are expected to use the flexibility available to them to integrate services and programs with the aim of upgrading the entire educational program and helping all students reach proficient and advanced levels of achievement.
• Schoolwide program schools may combine most Federal State and local funds to provide those services (optional).
• Exercising this option maximizes the impact of the resources available to carry out the schoolwide program.
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
How Do I Format My Plan?
Schoolwide Plan
Goals should be written in the SMART goal format
(Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and
Time-bound).
The plan should ideally be a series of goals that
address all of the components of the plan.
Student achievement goals and goals that
address how the school will operate should be
included.
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
Schoolwide Plan Formats
Each school has the option to use different formats in developing schoolwide plans, provided:• The plan was developed
based on a needs assessment.
• The plan contains the required 10 statutory elements.
• The plan is evaluated annually.
Examples of acceptable formats:• Rising Star (13 Schoolwide
Indicators)
• Center for School
Improvement (CSI)
(Supplemental Schoolwide
Indicators being developed)
• Advanced Ed (Supplemental
Schoolwide Diagnostic)
• The district can create their own format (must address the 10 required components of a Schoolwide Plan).
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
Required Annual Review
A school operating a schoolwide program must—
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Annually evaluate the implement-ation of, and results achieved by, the schoolwide program, using data from the State's annual assessments and other indicators of academic achievement.
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Determine whether the schoolwide program has been effective in increasing the achievement of students in meeting the State's academic standards, particularly for those students who had been furthest from achieving the standards.
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Revise the plan, as necessary, based on the results of the evaluation, to ensure continuous improvement of students in the schoolwide program.
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Illinois State Board of Education
Who Should Conduct the Evaluation?
Consider availability of staff and resources when making this decision, and the experience of the school with implementing schoolwide programs.
Should this be done internally? (by school staff)
Or externally? (district staff, ROE, Institution of higher education or
technical assistance provider)
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
The Evaluation/Review Process
Identify purpose
and intended audience
Identify issues and
develop review
questions
Identify
data collection
tools
Collect data
Analyze and
interpret results
Report
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Illinois State Board of Education
2 Types of Questions to Ask during
the Evaluation Process
• Is the program, strategy or
action being implemented
as intended?
– Why or why not?
• Did the achievement of
students increase to the
desired level?
– Why or why not?
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Title Grants Division
Illinois State Board of Education
Additional Purposes of the Annual
Evaluation
Assist school leaders in making informed
decisions.
Answer stakeholder questions.
Increase understanding of specific strategies.
Promote interest and support of a program or
activity.
A school that monitors and adjusts its program based on feedback will
become increasingly effective.
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Illinois State Board of Education
Questions??
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Illinois State Board of Education
Helpful Resources
• No Child Left Behind Legislation – Section 1114 – Schoolwide
Programs
• Title I fiscal Issues – U.S. Department of Education – Non-
Regulatory Guidance (February 2008)
• U.S. Department of Education – Non-Regulatory Guidance –
“Designing Schoolwide Programs” (March 2006)
• Illinois State Board of Education – Title I Part A, Schoolwide
programs
• Continuity for Young Children: Positive Transitions to
Elementary School
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