Comprehensive School Improvement Planning with Indistar Stephanie Benedict Academic Development Institute & Center on Innovations in Learning

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The importance of working together… Leadership Team The team that manages the Indistar® process and is ultimately responsible for making decisions for the school, for transformation and for school improvement. Instructional Teams Teams that include teachers in grade level groupings, grade-level clusters, or subject areas. Responsible for planning instruction for students. School Community Council A 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. Time Teams 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)

Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change a sample image, select a picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in each placeholder to insert your own images. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. Sample pictures courtesy of Bill Staples. Continue to…monitor ongoing actions …gather and analyze data …reinforce and evaluate practices …gather evidence Sustainabilit y

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?