Oregon’s Support for Improvement Planning Carla Wade, Shanda Brown & Jan McCoy Oregon Department of Education Office of Instruction, Standards, Assessment and Accountability Indistar Summit 2014
Mar 22, 2016
Oregon’s Support for Improvement Planning
Carla Wade, Shanda Brown & Jan McCoy
Oregon Department of Education Office of Instruction, Standards, Assessment and
Accountability
Indistar Summit 2014
Sharing Overview and History School Improvement Research and Resources Your Feedback
History
Authority for including schools and districts State law calls school and district-level
Continuous Improvement Plan (ORS 329.095)› Only district plans submitted to SEA
ESEA Flexibility waiver calls for a tool that supports self-assessment, planning, and monitoring for Priority and Focus Schools
Advisory
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
Additional Input Committee of Practitioners Regional Network Coordinators Coaches
Regional Training Over 1,200 trained
Improvement Planning Indistar is our system for self-
evaluation, building a plan and monitoring the plan› Indicators serve as organizing schema › Plan is the content
Indicators to Meet Planning Needs/Requirements Indicators created for Priority and
Focus Schools › Indicator list narrowed from 212 to 185
then to 34
Indicators created for district planning› Experience and our Advisory Committee
held us to 37 indicators
School Improvement:
How Oregon is Using Indistar to Support Priority and Focus Schools
Indistar Tool Reports
› Comprehensive Report› Task Report› Summary Report
Uploaded documents› budgets
Approval and Quarterly Feedback Approval of Comprehensive
Achievement Plan (CAP)› May of 2013 › May of 2014
Quarterly Feedback for CAP› November 2013› February 2014
Approval of CAP 2013-2014District: School:
#
Fully Implement
edor Includedin Plan (F
or P)
Score
Comment Comment Number(s)
DSC 1.1
DSC 1.2
DSC 1.3
DSC 1.4
DSC 1.5
DSC 1.6
EE 2.1
EE 2.2
EE 2.3
2013-2014 Quarterly Feedback
Process• 2012-2013
– Scored individual Indicators– Schools revise
• 2013-2014– Individual indicator quarterly feedback
• 2014-2015– Holistic Comprehensive Achievement Plan
(CAP)– Rubric for school’s ability to achieve success
Purposes 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
Supportive Documentation Indistar’s Wise Ways®
› Valuable and initially well-received but not written to our new indicators
Needed a descriptor for each indicator› Can’t call them Wise Ways®–note the little
®› Needed a name that reflected the work
Oregon’s Resourcesand Research
Development of R&Rs Attempted several iterations Decided educators had 3 questions
› Why is this important to our students?› What does this look like when well done?› Where can we get more information?
Answered the Three Questions 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› Google search› Google Scholar search
Why Search Terms? Search terms show target best results If printed, terms are easier to type than URLs
› monitoring school improvement vs.› http://scholar.google.com/scholar?
q=monitoring+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!
Indicator DTAL3.8
Distribution 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
Feedback1. 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
Questions
Thank you!Carla Wade: [email protected] McCoy: [email protected] Brown: [email protected]