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Using the Indistar® Web-based Planning Tool to Support School Improvement for Returning Title I AMO Schools Presenter: Ms. LaVonne Kunkel. Purpose. To provide guidance for updating the Indistar school improvement plan To review important reminders. General Guidelines.
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Using the Indistar® Web-based Planning Tool to Support School Improvement for Returning Title I AMO Schools Presenter: Ms. LaVonne Kunkel
Purpose • To provide guidance for updating the Indistar school improvement plan • To review important reminders
General Guidelines • If you are a Title I school(not Focus, Priority, or Warned) that has missed one or more Annual Measurable Objective(s), you must use Indistar® to create your school improvement plan. • Even if you missed only one AMO, you must include both math and reading in your school’s improvement plan. • You must address all subgroups in your school’s improvement plan, not just the one or two that may have missed the AMO. • Title I requirements specify that you must notify parents of your status as a Title I school that has missed one or more objective.
Indistar® (www.indistar.org)Six-Step Improvement Plan • A web-based tool for assessing, planning, implementing, and monitoring progress toward the rapid improvement indicators. Step 1 – Register school Step 2 – Provide school information Step 3 – Form school team Step 4 – Assess school indicators Step 5 – Create school plan Step 6 – Monitor school plan
Indistar Main Menu Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6
Steps to Follow • Step 1 – Register School • Update your currentschool information. • Do you have a new principal? • Do you wish to assign a new • Process Manager?
Steps to Follow • Step 2 – Provide School Information • Update your school’s demographic information. • Has your division undergone • redistricting? • Have grade levels changed due to restructuring?
Steps to Follow • Step 3 – Form School Team • Update your leadership team • Does it include a diverse membership designed to meet the needs of your school based on the most current data? • Has there been a change in staff members? • Has a new division representative been assigned to your school?
Steps to Follow • Step 4 – Assess School Indicators • The leadership team does not have to reassess the required indicators that were assessed last year. • The leadership team may select one or • two additional indicators to include in • the plan, not to exceed a total of five. • Any new indicators the team wishes to include in the current plan must be assessed in the “Assess” component.
Steps to Follow • Step 5– Create School Plan • TA01, TA02, and TA03 must be included in the plan. • Return to “Create” to update completion dates, how it will look when fully implemented, and persons responsible. • Update each task that was not marked as completed in the prior year, adding steps to implement the task. • If you add a new indicator: • Review Wise Ways to understand the full • intent of the indicator. • “How it will look when this objective is being fully met” must be in the form of a SMART goal.
Steps to Follow • Step 5– Create School Plan • Selecting the person responsible • Empower team members • Create new tasks • Tasks must tell whowill do what and when it will occur. • Tasks must be specific and sequential. • Words to avoid: regular, regularly, continuously, often • Include measurable terms: weekly, daily, monthly
Steps to Follow • Step 6– Monitor School Plan • Remember: • Monitor each task monthly. • Be sure to date each entry. • Tell what has been done to achieve the objective. • Include roadblocks as well as progress. • Summarize results of discussion. • Include reflection and next steps. • DoNOT include specific student achievement data.
Agenda and Minutes • Remember: • Meeting minutes do not serve as a substitute for entering comments in the monitor section of the school improvement plan. • Posting minutes to Indistar during your leadership meeting will save time and ensure accuracy of reporting. • When reporting actions/decisions, meeting minutes should not include names of specific individuals. • Agendas and minutes are subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
Tips for Success • The leadership team should meet as often as necessary to ensure continuity and focus on the school improvement plan. • When assessing indicators that address formative assessment, do not include references to summative assessments. • At each meeting, have the task report from the Indistar site available to ensure that you are monitoring tasks on a regular basis. • When creating the agenda, assign specific tasks for review. • Post your minutes to the Indistar® site as you conduct your meeting. • Do not be too anxious to mark tasks or indicators complete.
Indistar and Bloom’s Taxonomy Indistar Bloom’s Taxonomy Step 1 – Register school Step 2 – Provide school information Remembering Step 3 – Form school team Understanding, Applying Step 4 – Assess school indicators Step 5 – Create school plan Analyzing, Evaluating Step 6 – Monitor school plan and Creating
Questions? • If you have any questions or need further assistance, please contact the Office of School Improvement at osita@doe.virginia.gov or call Dr. Susan Fitzpatrick at 804-225-2897.
Thank you. • You’ve been a great audience.