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?
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