THE PURPOSE/RESPONSIBILITY OF SCHOOL IS TO EDUCATE ALL STUDENTS
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To promote the core value that ALL students can and will learn and meet high standards
Sustain a culture of caring, commitment and continuous improvement
Hold high academic expectations and use standards-based teaching and learning’
Have clear performance expectations for all personnel to support that all student s will learn
Ensure that all personnel have the capacity to meet the performance expectations
Assure that funding is provided to support the purpose and core value of the system
Have an accountability system that holds all stakeholders accountable for students meeting high standards
Levels of Understanding
A. The Purpose and responsibilities of all School District Leadership
1. Do District and site personnel have a clear and shared understanding of high quality instruction?
How do you describe expected practices?
2. Does all leadership support high quality instruction and reduce the amount of non-instructional burdens on sites
and teachers?
How is this accomplished?
3. Does leadership have a clear understanding of current student achievement levels?
What is this?
4. Have they addressed the significant subgroups and their impact on instructional practice and student
achievement?
How?
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A. The Purpose and responsibilities of all School District Leadership
5. Are there clear expectations for all stakeholder roles?
What are they?
6. Are these communicated and related to students’ achievement?
How?
7. Does the District LEA Addendum relate to the purpose of the District?
How?
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B. School District promotes the core value that All students can and will learn and meet high standards
8. Do the District office, principals and teachers articulate this value through a common vision?
How?
9. Do the District’s policies, structures and practices reflect this vision?
How?
10. Does this Core value drive decision making?
How and how well?
11. Are all stakeholders aware of how these decisions are made or involved in the process?
To what extent?
12. Is this core value sustained through change in leadership?
How?
13. Is this value communicated to new leadership?
How?
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C. Sustain a culture of caring, commitment and continuous improvement
14. Does leadership promote a climate of trust, respect, and openness at all levels with all stakeholders?
How and how well?
15. Does leadership seek feedback?
How is this used?
16. Does leadership promote a culture of risk-taking? How?
Does leadership use this to find solutions and support learning?
17. Are successes and failures used to find solutions?
How?
18. Does leadership seek input from all stakeholders?
How?
19. Does this input promote collaborative planning and support for all students?
How?
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20. Does leadership promote partnerships to assure continuous improvement?
How?
21. Does leadership promote the core values?
How?
D. Hold high academic expectations and use standards-based teaching and learning
22. Does the District have explicit content and outcome standards and curriculum pacing guides in all content areas
that reflect high quality learning?
What are these?
23. Are these pacing guides aligned to each other?
How?
24. Do the outcome standards drive the work of all stakeholders (District office, principals, teachers, students)?
How?
25. Do all personnel have opportunities for professional development?
How are they tied to data?
How are they evaluated for learning outcomes?
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E. Have clear performance expectations for all personnel to support that all students will learn
26. Are performance expectations for all personnel related to students learning?
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27. Does each stakeholder understand his/her role and how its supports student learning?
How well?
F. Ensure that all personnel have the capacity to meet the performance expectations
28. Are highly qualified teachers in all classrooms?
How accurate is this at this time?
29. Are teachers and coaches assigned to meet the unique needs of a site?
How?
30. Are principals assigned to provide effective leadership based on the needs of the site and their individual skill
levels?
How?
31. Is there effective leadership at all levels to support high quality learning?
How do you determine this?
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G. Assure that funding is provided to support the purpose and core value of the system
32. Are fiscal resources allocated to support the core value?
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How well?
33. Are these fiscal resources distributed on the basis of individual school needs so that all schools can serve all
students?
How is equity established?
H. Have an accountability system that holds all stakeholders accountable for students meeting high
standards
34. Is the School District holding itself and all stakeholders accountable for assuring that students meet high
standards?
How and how effective is this?
35. Are multiple assessments used to measure student achievement and school progress?
What indicators are used?
How timely are they?
36. Are instructional and other decision making at all levels driven by data?
What data is used and how?
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37. Is accurate and timely data provided to schools?
How often and how is this tied to student achievement?
38. Is student progress regularly communicated to students and parents?
How?
39. Do we have expectations for students in their use of this information?
What does it look like?
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BARRIERS MATRIX
Stakeholders
Barrier
Full Implementation
of Adopted
Curriculum
Barrier
Academic
Expectations
Barrier
Access to Core
for
High Priority
Students
Barrier
Data
Analysis/System
of Use and
Reporting
Personal Leadership
Style
Teachers/staff
Students
Parents/Community
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Barrier
Staff Development
for support of
Implementation
Barrier
Developing a
Purposeful
Community
SOLUTIONS MATRIX
Stakeholders
Solution
Full Implementation
of Adopted
Curriculum
Solution
Academic
Expectations
Solution
Access to Core
for All Students
Solution
Data
Analysis/System
of Use and
Reporting
Professional
Leadership Style
Teachers/staff
Students
Parents/Community
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Solution
Staff Development
for support of
Implementation
Solution
Developing a
Purposeful
Community