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Quality Schools Goals

• To fulfill KEA’s mission “to advocate the idea of a quality public education”

• To help all public schools become high quality schools

• To increase student achievement for ALL students in ALL types of public schools

Quality Schools Initiative Goals

• to create partnerships on behalf of public schools

• to address our members needs and improve their profession and quality of life

Defining School Quality through

KEYS 2.0

Three Major Components:

1. Inputs2. Processes3. Outputs or Outcomes

OUTCOMESINPUTS

SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR DEFINING QUALITY SCHOOLS

AND ACCOUNTABILITY

PROCESSES

$

Quantity and Quality of Teaching Pool

Readiness of Students to Learn

External Supports Partnerships-Community Parent/Business

OUTCOMESINPUTS

National, State, District Policies

SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR DEFINING QUALITY SCHOOLS AND

ACCOUNTABILITY

PROCESSES

Successful Citizenship•Post Sec. Enrollments•Satisfying Careers

Increased Satisfaction-student,staff,parent

Improved Attendance(Students/Staff)

Higher Graduation Rates(Lower Drop Out Rates)

Improved Student Learning/Achievement

OUTCOMES

SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR DEFINING QUALITY SCHOOLS AND

ACCOUNTABILITY

$

Quantity and Quality of Teaching Pool

Readiness of Students to Learn

External Supports Partnerships-Community Parent/Business

INPUTS

National, State, District Policies

PROCESSES

Successful Citizenship•Post Sec. Enrollments•Satisfying Careers

Increased Satisfaction-student,staff,parent

Improved Attendance(Students/Staff)

Higher Graduation Rates(Lower Drop Out Rates)

Improved Student Learning/Achievement

OUTCOMES

SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR DEFINING QUALITY SCHOOLS AND

ACCOUNTABILITY

$

Quantity and Quality of Teaching Pool

Readiness of Students to Learn

External Supports Partnerships-Community Parent/Business

INPUTS

National, State, District Policies

PROCESSES

The Six KEYS of School Quality

1. Shared understanding and commitment to high goals

2. Open communication and collaborative problem solving

3. Continuous assessment for teaching and learning

4. Personal and professional learning5. Resources to support teaching & learning6. Curriculum and instruction

What is the KEYS 2.0 Process?

• A deliberative process for school improvement

• Begins with introducing staff to research-based quality standards for schools

• Continues with the use of a web-based assessment survey completed by the school community to provide information on six areas of school quality that correlate with high student achievement

What happens after the survey?

• Further Analysis and Reflectionon the data– to discuss difficult issues that would otherwise

be muted– to establish priorities and making more rational

school improvement decisions

NEA’s Ongoing Support

• Creation of an infrastructure for successful administration of initiative

• Ongoing collection and analyses of data tracking the effectiveness of the KEYS initiative

• Online administration and scoring w/ statistical and narrative school & district reports

KEA’s Support• Meet with and provide introductory

seminars for school district and building facilitators

• Provide support in setting up each school for survey process

• Provide data retreat for district and building facilitators, in preparation for each site holding its own.

• Make available an organizational coach

Successful Citizenship•Post Sec. Enrollments•Satisfying Careers

Increased Satisfaction-student,staff,parent

Improved Attendance(Students/Staff)

Higher Graduation Rates(Lower Drop Out Rates)

Improved Student Learning/Achievement

OUTCOMES

SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR DEFINING QUALITY SCHOOLS AND

ACCOUNTABILITY

$

Quantity and Quality of Teaching Pool

Readiness of Students to Learn

External Supports Partnerships-Community Parent/Business

INPUTS

National, State, District Policies

PROCESSES

PROCESSES

Shared Understanding

and Commitment to

High Goals

Open Communication

and Collaborative Problem Solving

Continuous Assessment for

Teaching and Learning

KEY 4 KEY 6

Personal & Professional

Learning

Appropriate Use of Resources for

Teaching and Learning

Curriculum and

Instruction

KEY 5

KEY 2KEY 1 KEY 3

SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR DEFINING QUALITY SCHOOLS AND

ACCOUNTABILITY

$

Quantity and Quality of

Teaching Pool

Readiness of Students to

Learn

External Supports Partnerships-Community Parent/Business

INPUTS

National, State, District Policies

Successful Citizenship•Post Sec. Enrollments•Satisfying Careers•Etc.

Increased Satisfaction(Student/Staff/Parent)

Improved Attendance(Students/Staff)

Higher Graduation Rates(Lower Drop Out Rates)

Improved Student Learning/Achievement

OUTCOMES

Key Features of KEYS 2.0

• Online administration is available

• District and school data reports are comprehensive, “user friendly” and can be disaggregated by subgroups

How To Access KEYS 2.0

• The KEYs 2.0 Online demo site is available at : www.keysonline.org/demo

• Access to the KEYS Initiative is available through the KEA

• Contact KEA Research and Instructional Advocacy for further information

• We look forward to working together

Quality Schools through KEYS 2.0

means:• Opportunities to help students achieve and

to improve the quality of public schools• Opportunities to create partnerships• Opportunities to address staff needs and

improve professional quality of life• Opportunities to Improve Labor

Management relations

KEYS at the Local Level

KEYS at the Local Level from the

Perspective of the Association

• Securing the support of the association• The nature of the relationship between the

association and the school district• The need to define roles and responsibilities

through a Memorandum of Understanding• Establishing the district KEYS 2.0 Steering

Committee

KEYS from the Perspective of the

School District

• The District-Association Partnership• The Strategic Plan for the district• KEYS 2.0 and School Improvement Plans• Can KEYS 2.0 District Results support the

schools’ improvement efforts?

Sound Good???Some Questions to

Consider:•How does this fit in with current school improvement processes?•How much more time with this require?•What will it cost KEA, Local Association and/or the school district?•How do we make it sustainable?•Are there natural partners?•Will districts work with us?

Sound Good???Some Questions to

Consider:

•Call Rich, Mary Helen, LuAnn, Kathy, Tom or Mona if you would like to explore the KEYS opportunities for your district or local.•Thanks for your attention!!