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Comprehensive Planning Strategies and Implementation Steps: Charter School Training
Comprehensive Planning [email protected]
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Review PLANNING PROCESSES and REGULATIONS.
Assess needs to inform ACTION PLANS.
Identify STRATEGIES that have a significant probability of achieving School Improvement Goals.
Design IMPLEMENTATION STEPS necessary to successfully execute the strategies.
Training Goals
Components of the Comprehensive Plan
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The Pennsylvania Planning Web Application
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Charter Schools Comprehensive Plan (required) School Improvement Plan (required for Priority & Focus schools) Charter Annual Report (required)
Planning Overview
Your school name
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Due Dates and Workflow
November 30, 2014 – Phase 3 LEA Comprehensive Plan due (28-day public review and Board approval prior)
November 30, 2015 – Phase 1 LEA Comprehensive Plan due (28-day public review and Board approval prior)
November 30, 2016 -- Phase 2 LEA Comprehensive Plan due (28-day public review and Board approval prior)
June 30, 2015 – School Improvement Plan resubmission (Board approval prior) Major changes to plan – 28 day public review Minor changes to plan – no need for public review
August 1, 2015 - Charter Annual Report due
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The CP Resource Page
http://tinyurl.com/CP-PDE-Home
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Professional Education Plan
The Comprehensive Plan must contain a minimum of 2 Professional Development implementation steps:
1 aligned to improving language and literacy acquisition
1 aligned to teaching diverse learners in an inclusive setting
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ESEA Flexibility Waiver – Federal Accountability Differences
New under ESEA• All public schools in PA• 100% proficiency on state
tests by 2014• “Adequate Yearly
Progress” (AYP)• Disaggregated subgroups:
N=40• Each school receives a
designation based on AYP status
• Federal designations only apply to Title I schools
• Close “achievement gap” by half in 6 years
• Annual Measureable Objectives (AMOs)
• Two student groups: N=11• Only highest and lowest
Title I schools receive designations
Old under NCLB
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The new accountability system focuses on four Annual Measurable Objectives (AMOs):
1) Test Participation Rate
2) Graduation Rate/Attendance Rate
3) Closing Achievement Gap-for all students
4) Closing the Achievement Gap of Historically Underperforming Students
ESEA Flexibility Waiver – Accountability Measures
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ESEA Flexibility Waiver Update
3-Year Required School Improvement Plans
Only required for Title I Schools designated as “Priority” or “Focus”
Annual resubmission required by June 30th
A 3-year Comprehensive Plan is also required, but may not fall in same timeframe
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Web Application- Roles for Access
Two Administrator roles are needed to set up Initial Access to the Comp Plan web application: a) Local Security Administrator: Top-level users, responsible for the overall security of the Education Portal for their institutionb) Local Administrator: has the ability to add users who can access the Comp Plan web application
http://compplanning.wiki.caiu.org/Local+Security+Administration+for+Comp+Plan
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Web Application- Roles for Access
Within the Comp Plan web application, three different groups can view, edit and/or submit plans:
Viewer (can view) Author (can view, edit and check plan for
issues) Planning Leader (can view, edit, check plan
for issues, and submit)
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http://compplanning.wiki.caiu.org/Local+Security+Administration+for+Comp+Plan
Roles for Access - Wikispace
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Your school name
Web Application: Annual Report
• Charter Annual Report – a component of the Comprehensive Planning Process
• Purpose: To provide an overview of the information within the Charter School annually
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Web Application: Annual Report
• 2 new sections:• Special Education Personnel Development • Special Education Program Profile
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Data Analysis
Every discussion conducted and every decision
made during an entire planning process should be
based upon relevant, meaningful, and timely data
Planning teams may wish to utilize the Data
Walkthroughs provided within the CP web
application
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Data Analysis
The Planning Processes
require planning teams to document
data-based statements of
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
and data-based statements of
CONCERNS
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Data AnalysisStatements of concern should identify specific findings from analysis of data related to student academic achievement and performance (e.g. attendance, behavior, graduation rate, etc.) which the planning team believes to be most worrisome.
72% of our students did not score at the proficient or advanced level in the 2014 PSSA Reading exam.
The total number of behavioral referrals increased by 11% from 2012-13 to 2013-14.
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Systems Analysis• Data Analysis informs Systems Analysis.
• The guiding questions in the web application were identified and aligned to researched-based systems.
• The sources of the system(s) include the following:– SAS portal– 7 Turnaround Principles – Educator Effectiveness Principles
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1)Analyze data to identify symptoms of the overall health of the organization: Accomplishments & Concerns
2)Analyze Entity Systems: a data-based, diagnostic effort to identify systemic deficiencies that may be reasons for Systemic Challenges: Guiding Questions
3)Based upon timely and relevant data, Prioritize Systemic Challenges
4)Build Action Plans to address high-priority Systemic Challenges
Needs Assessment Overview
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Simple example…Action Plan
Goal: Lose 20 lbs in 1 year
Strategy: Exercise using T25
Implementation Steps: 1. Purchase the T25 program (receipt)2. Develop an exercise schedule
(schedule)3. Research T25 for best practices
(techniques)4. Designate a space for working out
(blueprint of space)5. Purchase exercise apparel (receipt)
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Action Planning
Identify all of the “to-do list” steps that will be needed to implement the Strategies: Each “to-do list” step is an Implementation Step
Identify Strategies that have a significant probability of meeting the Action Plan Goal
Select/create a Systemic Challenge to be the Goal of an Action Plan (or create a Goal)
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Action Planning: Strategies
• Descriptions of proven interventions / best practices
• Descriptors tell “how” goals will be implemented
• Strategies provide significant probability of attaining goal
• Strategies designed for systemic implementation
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Action Planning: Strategies
Effective Strategy? Why or why not?
Goal: Ensure that there is a system within the school the fully ensures school-wide use of data that is focused on school
improvement and the academic growth of all students.
Strategy: Make data part of an ongoing cycle of instructional improvement
Strategy description: Our school will develop a data team that will select data and analyze it weekly in order to help our teachers
make instructional decisions. We will rely on our data coordinators to pull data and organize it for analyzing purposes. Once data teams have reviewed the data, it will be shared during
weekly, grade-level Professional Learning Communities (PLCs); and instructional practices will be prioritized accordingly.
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Action Planning: Strategies
Effective Strategy? Why or why not?
Goal: Ensure that there is a system within the school the fully ensures school-wide use of data that is focused on school
improvement and the academic growth of all students.
Strategy: Provide professional development on differentiated instruction.
Strategy description: Provide a PD session on differentiated instruction; emphasizing varied ways for students to acquire,
process and/or construct content.
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Action Planning: Strategies
Effective Strategy? Why or why not?
Goal: Ensure that there is a system within the school the fully ensures school-wide use of data that is focused on school improvement and the
academic growth of all students.
Strategy: Create Response to Intervention and Instruction schedules
Strategy description: Bell schedules, program ideas, planning documents, and management systems from schools around the country
will be shared and high school principals will schedule intervention/enrichment periods to provide interventions to students.
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Action Planning: Strategies
Effective Strategy? Why or why not?
Goal: Ensure that there is a system within the school the fully ensures school-wide use of data that is focused on school improvement and the
academic growth of all students.
Strategy: Implement classroom walk-through system
Strategy description: The Principal will implement classroom walk-through culture within the school in which observable evidence of teaching practice
and learning results to support inquiry will be collected and used. This process provides data for reflection, dialogue between the principal and
teacher, and decision-making that improves student learning. Walk-throughs are non-evaluative. They are the basis for questions, observations, and
professional dialogue in ways that turn inquiry into action. They link the philosophical beliefs that the school has embraced -- and plans to which the
school has committed -- with observable change at the classroom and student level.
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Action Planning: Strategies
Effective Strategy? Why or why not?
Goal: Ensure that there is a system within the school the fully ensures school-wide use of data that is focused on school improvement and the
academic growth of all students.
Strategy: Create an Early Identification Academic Support Program.
Strategy description: The Leadership Team will create a program that incorporates a variety of data sources, including diagnostic assessment results, which allow teachers, administrators and other school staff to identify students at risk prior to or soon after their enrollment in the
school and to prescribe and monitor the effectiveness of interventions for individual students during their years at our elementary school.
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Action Planning: Strategies
Consider accessing these pages to obtain helpful information; however,
it is recommended the import function not be used because most descriptions will not describe how the strategy will
be used by the LEA
http://training.paplanning.org
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Action Planning: Strategies
Do you have a strategy that has made a positive impact in your school?
Share out using Padlethttp://padlet.com/kfortney/CP
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Action Planning: Implementation Steps
• A list of “to-dos” (the WORK) that includes evidence of the implementation step
• Tell HOW strategy will be executed• Tell WHAT sequential actions will occur• Tell WHO and WHEN actions will occur
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Action Planning: Implementation Steps
The leadership teams from each school will determine the most appropriate groupings of teachers (e.g. grade level, content area, etc.,) that will engage in the analysis of common assessment results to inform those teachers about their collective and individual instructional practices.
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Action Planning: Implementation Steps
A list from each school of the teachers in each data team with a postscript that describes the rationale for the establishment of data teams.
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Goal: Establish that there is a system within the school that fully ensures school-wide use of data that is focused on school improvement and the academic growth of all students.Strategy Title: Make data part of an ongoing cycle of instructional improvement. Implementation Steps: (include evidence!)
Action Planning: Implementation Steps
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Effective Planning=
Needs Assessment(Data Analysis & Systems Analysis)
Action Plans(Goals, Strategies & Implementation Steps)
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CP Planning Committees…– If you would like to receive feedback on revisions
you make, please contact Kelly Fortney [email protected].
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