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Carla Gonzales: school improvement plans need to include measurable short and long term goals that progress and are visited by staff throughout the year. Data need to inform strategies  as living document would do.

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Carla Gonzales: school improvement plans need to include measurable short and long term goals that progress and are visited by staff throughout the year. Data need to inform strategies  as living document would do.

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This is just a guide that helps with guiding the school where they need to be.  Any discussions need to be focused on the how they support the school improvement plan.

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This is just a guide that helps with guiding the school where they need to be.  Any discussions need to be focused on the how they support the school improvement plan.

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The School Improvement Plan is a working document that must be updated each year with new goals based on the data from the previous year. This document requires input from many stakeholders and is the guiding document for a school. The video did a nice job of talking about needs assessments and how data can be used to guide decision-making for schools.

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I like the idea of it being a living document. If something doesn't work well, it can be modified.

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21st Century Learning should drive curriculum and instruction and should help focus professional development that is part of the SPP, and driven by the needs assessment.

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SPP's need to incorporate 21st century activities for families to branch off on at home in order to help students grow.

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Family engagement helps to foster a positive school enviornment which helps improve student achievement. Growth in the SPP needs to be seen using data. 21st century learning can help increase student achievement helping to show improvement according to the SPP.

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It would be nice to have a tool for parents to use to make sure their students can self-regulate at home...like a checklist.

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The school improvement plan is the main tool schools should be using to keep their site focused.  Forrest Gorden

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The school improvement plan is the main tool schools should be using to keep their site focused.  Forrest Gorden

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Family Engagement is an important Tier 1 support for any school performance plan. So many questions can be answered with a parent night.

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Authentic audiences encompass family engagement and professional development.
The whole point of 21st Century Learning is to elevate learning, which speaks to Curriculum and Instruction. The top of the Knowledge Construction competency includes interdisciplinary learning activities, which allows teachers to address multiple standards and students to solidify their understanding.

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Needs assessment looks at evidence and growth. It's continually being looked at. Seeing what will drive your school performance plan.

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Encouraging teachers to use 21st-century learning not only in the classroom but in their own professional development can create an atmosphere of progress in the entire school. Using efficient assessment, collaboration, and communication skills to drive student achievement would show the success of a 21st-century geared achievement plan.

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As schools look for areas to improve, 21st Century learning can help. Encouraging collaboration, problem solving, communication, and other dimensions can help. Aligning curriculum goals and 21st century strategies can help students grow, as well as prepare them for 21st century careers. Parent engagement can be facilitated by the use of technology. Some families may not have internet at home, but almost all parents have a smartphone. Using multiple means of communication can help keep parents engaged in the day to day working of the school.

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It makes sense to complete a Comprehensive Needs Assessment
We all have need for improvement.  Using quantitative data to decide what needs are most important is key.  They mentioned in the video that some topics that originally came up that were never mentioned in the whole document needed to be dropped. How do we provide feedback about each of our schools to the District CNA?

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Every teacher has the ability to sit on the SPP development team, and they should do that.  Teacher evaluations should also be aligned to the SPP goals.

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21 century skills help us (teachers) communicate with parents and the community. Parents also have multiple modes of technology to stay in touch with their student's school.

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Karen S.
The SPP guides the entire school year. It focuses on three areas: Professional Development, Family Engagement, and Curriculum.
A Comprehensive Needs Assessment (CNA) is completed prior to SPP. All decisions are data driven

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Drives the School Performance Plan. Identifies the needs that schools need to improve on.

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Our school talks about our performance plan the first day back. We then pick something to talk about all year. We are focusing on MTSS and SEL on our performance plan. We would like to tie 21st Century in, especially Self-Regulation! We are not there yet, however that is what our leader project is for.

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SPP is a living document. Vision of where the school district wants to be at in the long run.

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Review what has worked in the past and make changes where they are needed. Be sure to address the root of the problem.

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Marcelle, Jennifer, Darcy, Erin:
The qualitative data tells the story of the school. The needs assessment drives the entire spp document. Look at what is going well in the school, not just needs.

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As noted in the Systems Thinking module, to understand why certain events are occurring, it's important to look at the patterns, structures, and the vision of the whole. The SPP is a way of looking at the school as a whole rather than the parts of the whole to align all members with the same vision. When the staff shares the same vision, the staff can work together in their goals towards family engagement, C&I, and professional development.

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What's working and where else might it work in your school or elsewhere in the district?

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Consider the root causes
Make it a living document-don't reinvent the wheel every year
21st Century curriculum planning will drive the SPP
All teachers should be on the same path, it won't be as beneficial if everyone doesn't have a similar vision of what works for student achievement.

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It is the vision that guides the school all year in order to move students forward and close the achievement gap.
21st century skills help us communicate the vision and actions with all steak holders. Parents can be reached in multiple way as we look at effective communication practices with different groups of our community.
21st century practices allow parents to be more easily involved with the school and the classroom.
Parents become valuable assets in the process of educating students.