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)

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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: carla.wade@state.or.usJan McCoy: jan.mccoy@state.or.usShanda Brown: shanda.brown@state.or.us