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Oregon's Support for School Improvement Planning: Utilizing Indistar for Priority Schools

The presentation shares insights into Oregon's approach to school improvement planning using the Indistar tool, aimed at supporting Priority and Focus schools. Key topics include the state's laws regarding Continuous Improvement Plans, the development of indicators aligned with state and federal planning requirements, and the feedback process involving various stakeholders. The presentation also highlights training efforts, monitoring strategies, and the importance of educator engagement in implementing research-based practices to enhance student outcomes.

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Oregon's Support for School Improvement Planning: Utilizing Indistar for Priority Schools

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  1. Oregon’s Support for Improvement Planning Carla Wade, Shanda Brown & Jan McCoy Oregon Department of Education Office of Instruction, Standards, Assessment and Accountability Indistar Summit 2014

  2. Sharing • Overview and History • School Improvement • Research and Resources • Your Feedback

  3. History

  4. Authority for including schools and districts • State law calls school and district-level Continuous Improvement Plan (ORS 329.095) • Only district plans submitted to SEA • ESEA Flexibility waiver calls for a tool that supports self-assessment, planning, and monitoring for Priority and Focus Schools

  5. Advisory • Provided input on alignment of Indistar indicators to state and federal planning requirements for Title IA, IIA, & III • Developed new draft indicators to meet planning requirements • Providing guidance on review process

  6. Additional Input • Committee of Practitioners • Regional Network Coordinators • Coaches

  7. Regional Training • Over 1,200 trained

  8. Improvement Planning • Indistar is our system for self-evaluation, building a plan and monitoring the plan • Indicators serve as organizing schema • Plan is the content

  9. Indicators to Meet Planning Needs/Requirements • Indicators created for Priority and Focus Schools • Indicator list narrowed from 212 to 185 then to 34 • Indicators created for district planning • Experience and our Advisory Committee held us to 37 indicators

  10. School Improvement: How Oregon is Using Indistar to Support Priority and Focus Schools

  11. Indistar Tool • Reports • Comprehensive Report • Task Report • Summary Report • Uploaded documents • budgets

  12. Approval and Quarterly Feedback • Approval of Comprehensive Achievement Plan (CAP) • May of 2013 • May of 2014 • Quarterly Feedback for CAP • November 2013 • February 2014

  13. Approval of CAP 2013-2014

  14. 2013-2014 Quarterly Feedback

  15. Process • 2012-2013 • Scored individual Indicators • Schools revise • 2013-2014 • Individual indicator quarterly feedback • 2014-2015 • Holistic Comprehensive Achievement Plan (CAP) • Rubric for school’s ability to achieve success

  16. Purposes • Communication tool • Feedback between school and state • Opportunity to review, update and revise at any time • Upload documents-all documents in one place • Common tool for SEA data collection • Sustainability tool after school improvement

  17. Supportive Documentation • Indistar’s Wise Ways® • Valuable and initially well-received but not written to our new indicators • Needed a descriptor for each indicator • Can’t call them Wise Ways®–note the little ® • Needed a name that reflected the work

  18. Oregon’s Resources and Research

  19. Development of R&Rs • Attempted several iterations • Decided educators had 3 questions • Why is this important to our students? • What does this look like when well done? • Wherecan we get more information?

  20. Answered the Three Questions • Brief, research-based introduction to the expected return on the indicator • Brief, research-supported description of the district/school role in implementing the indicator • Two types of web searches with several terms each • Google search • Google Scholar search

  21. Why Search Terms? • Search terms show target best results • If printed, terms are easier to type than URLs • monitoring school improvement vs. • http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=monitoring+school+improvement&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=1%2C38&as_ylo=2004&as_vis=1 • Guides educators into Google Scholar to stimulate use • Google does all the work of keeping the resources up-to-date!

  22. Indicator DTAL3.8

  23. Distribution • Linked from indicator in Indistar® • All included in a single PDF that is navigable • Links to search terms are hot in the PDF • Took advantage of PDF navigation settings

  24. Feedback • At your tables, please discuss one of the two R & R’s • Does the explanation of why this important ring true? • Does the “when well Implemented” hit the target? Are they missing something? • Do you think this research supports sustainable practice? • Overall impressions, comments, questions or general points of concern? • Whole group report out

  25. Questions

  26. Thank you! Carla Wade: carla.wade@state.or.us Jan McCoy: jan.mccoy@state.or.us Shanda Brown: shanda.brown@state.or.us

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