Comprehensive Planning Strategies and
Implementation Steps:
Charter School Training
Comprehensive Planning Team
paplanning@caiu.org
717-732-8403
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Training Goals
 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.
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Components of the Comprehensive Plan
Charter Schools
The Pennsylvania Planning Web Application
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Planning Overview
Charter Schools
 Comprehensive Plan (required)
 School Improvement Plan (required for Priority & Focus
schools)
 Charter Annual Report (required)
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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
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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
Old under NCLB
• 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
New under ESEA
• 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
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ESEA Flexibility Waiver – Accountability Measures
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
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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 institution
b) Local Administrator: has the ability to add users who
can access the Comp Plan web application
http://compplanning.wiki.caiu.org/Local+Security+Admini
stration+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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Roles for Access - Wikispace
http://compplanning.wiki.caiu.org/Local+Security+Administration+for+Comp+Plan
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Web Application: Navigation
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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 Special Education sections of the Annual Report
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Web Application: Annual Report
• 2 new sections:
• Special Education Personnel Development
• Special Education Program Profile
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Web Application: Components
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NEEDS ASSESSMENT
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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
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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 Analysis
Statements 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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Systems Analysis
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Systems Analysis
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Systems Analysis
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Needs Assessment Overview
1) Analyze data to identify
symptoms of the overall health of
the organization:
Accomplishments & Concerns
2) Analyze Entity Systems: a databased, 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 highpriority Systemic Challenges
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Web Application: Action Plan
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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
 Select/create a Systemic Challenge to be the Goal of
an Action Plan (or create a Goal)
 Identify Strategies that have a significant probability
of meeting the Action Plan Goal
 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
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Action Planning: Goals
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Action Planning : Goals
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Action Planning: Strategies
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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. Walkthroughs 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 Padlet
http://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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Action Planning: Implementation Steps
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!)
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Action Planning: Implementation Steps
Do any of your implementation steps need refined?
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(Data Analysis & Systems Analysis)
(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
kfortney@caiu.org.
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