Overview and History
 School Improvement
 Research and Resources
 Your Feedback
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State law calls school and district-level
Continuous Improvement Plan (ORS
329.095)
› Only district plans submitted to SEA
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ESEA Flexibility waiver calls for a tool that
supports self-assessment, planning, and
monitoring for Priority and Focus Schools
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
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Committee of Practitioners
 Regional Network Coordinators
 Coaches
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Over 1,200 trained
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Indistar is our system for self-evaluation,
building a plan and monitoring the plan
› Indicators serve as organizing schema
› Plan is the content
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Indicators created for Priority and Focus
Schools
› Indicator list narrowed from 212 to 185 then
to 34
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Indicators created for district planning
› Experience and our Advisory Committee
held us to 37 indicators
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Reports
› Comprehensive Report
› Task Report
› Summary Report
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Uploaded documents
› budgets
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Approval of Comprehensive
Achievement Plan (CAP)
› May of 2013
› May of 2014
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Quarterly Feedback for CAP
› November 2013
› February 2014
District:
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Comment
Comment
Number(s)
#
Fully
Implemented
or Included
in Plan (F or P)
Score
School:
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2012-2013
– Scored individual Indicators
– Schools revise
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2013-2014
– Individual indicator quarterly feedback
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2014-2015
– Holistic Comprehensive Achievement Plan
(CAP)
– Rubric for school’s ability to achieve success
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
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Indistar’s Wise Ways®
› Valuable and initially well-received but not
written to our new indicators
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Needed a descriptor for each indicator
› Can’t call them Wise Ways®–note the little ®
› Needed a name that reflected the work
Oregon’s Resources
and Research
Attempted several iterations
 Decided educators had 3 questions
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› Why is this important to our students?
› What does this look like when well done?
› Where can we get more information?
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
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› Google search
› Google Scholar search
Search terms show target best results
 If printed, terms are easier to type than URLs
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› monitoring school improvement vs.
› http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=monitorin
g+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!
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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
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1.
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?
2.
Whole group report out
Carla Wade: carla.wade@state.or.us
Jan McCoy: jan.mccoy@state.or.us
Shanda Brown: shanda.brown@state.or.us