School Improvement
The old platform used to submit your School Improvement Plan.
What is ASSIST?
He legislated Chapter I, which is now called Title I in 1965.
Who is Lynden B. Johnson?
Lynden B Johnson enacted The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) which was later reauthorized by several Presidents to the IASA, NCLB, and now ESSA.
Each Title I School must discuss this with parents and parent-teacher conferences annually.
What is Home/School Compact?
Is your Home/School Compact ready and updated for 2018-2019?
True or False. Program Evaluations are due on an annual basis.
What is True?
But are you remembering that you have to turn in 1, but you have to do and keep on file all of them?
Long form - due to MDE
Short form - reviewed by Central Office and kept on file.
Four major types of data needed in a CNA.
What are Demographic, Perception, Process, and Achievement data?
Due date for school improvement plans is?
What is September 1 of each school year?
Two types of Title I Schools.
What are Targeted Assistance or Schoolwide Title I Schools?
Are you in a Title I building and if so what type?
This document outlines all parent engagement legislation and activities for the school year and how the school will carry them out.
What is the Parent Involvement Plan?
Have you updated your PIP for the 2018-2019 school year and shared it with parents?
Program evaluations are completed and due to MDE by this date annually.
What is June 30?
Remember only 1 per building is due to MDE, but all initiatives, programs, and/or strategies should be evaluated annually.
True or False. Only Title I schools have to conduct and complete a Comprehensive Needs Assessment.
What is False?
A district is required to have a Comprehensive Needs Assessment prior to completing their DIP. Many sections of ESSA require a CNA. Districts who take the Title IV funds have certified that they have a district CNA completed.
True or False. Objectives must be based on state achievement data in ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies.
What is False? Objectives can be based on state, local, or behavioral data in core and non-core areas.
Name of federal grant that provides districts additional funding for professional learning.
What is Title II, Part A funds?
Do you use Title II Part A funds to provide your staff professional learning activities?
Leading researcher that provides training for staffs on Parent and Family Engagement and focuses her work around the six keys of parent involvement.
Who is Joyce Epstein?
Check out her book, "School, Family, and Community Partnerships". Great for idea on staff trainings and parent involvement activities.
Stakeholders assisting on the program evaluations.
Who are parents, support staff, certified staff, and administrators?
If program evaluations are completed by the SI team, they should be shared and reviewed for feedback by all staff and accessible to parents for feedback as applicable.
CNA findings should lead to this?
What is SIP/DIP strategies, initiatives, or program adjustments or additions?
Required stakeholders for school improvement teams include:
What is Parents, support staff, certified staff, administrators?
Note for district improvement teams, you would add, students, Board members, and community members as applicable.
Name of federal grant that provides well-rounded education to all students, as well as safe and healthy students, and technology enhancements.
What is Title IV, Part A?
How is your district using Title IV, Part A funding? How much are you getting?
True or False. Parents must be included on the design, implementation, and evaluation of the Schoolwide or Targeted Assistance Title I Program?
What is True?
This is why it is crucial you have parent input on your SI teams. How do you get your parents on the SI team?
Program evaluations are used to determine this.
What is program effectiveness in increasing student learning and behaviors?
Evaluations can be about instructional or non instructional programs. However, they all should lead to desired student achievement outcomes.
CNA findings should be shared with this stakeholder group(s).
What is ALL stakeholder groups for the school/district such as students, staff, parents, and community?
How are you reporting all of your CNA findings to your stakeholders?
New platform to submit school improvement plans.
What is...it hasn't been determined yet?
As soon as we have new information, I will forward it.
State grants are categorical funds which provide additional dollars to districts. This grant provides additional dollars for at-risk students and programs.
What is Section 31a funds?
These funds are distributed to districts with the first state aid payment on October 20. No one ever knows how much they will get or even if they will get any, thus making planning difficult.
Barriers must be removed for these three types of families for communication about their child's school progress.
What are: English Learners, Migrants, and Disabled?
Program evaluation findings should lead to adjustments in these four things:
What is research-based strategies, professional learning, program resources, implementation accountability?
Districts are no longer required to submit this type of data with their SIP.
What is Process Data? (SSR/DSR/ED Yes Report)
However, the requirement to review process data has not changed, so how will you review your processes if you don't continue completing the SSR/DSR (Ed YES report)?