Leadership and Staff
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A3:
Based on student achievement data, the school leadership and staff make decisions and initiate activities that focus on all students achieving the schoolwide learner outcomes and academic standards. The school leadership and staff annually monitor and refine the single schoolwide action plan based on analysis of data to ensure alignment with student needs.
Indicators with Prompts
Broad-Based and Collaborative
Indicator: The school’s planning process is broad-based, collaborative, and has commitment of the stakeholders, including the staff, students, and parents.
Prompt: Comment on the effectiveness of the school planning process to ensure that it is broad-based, collaborative and fosters the commitment of the stakeholders, including the staff, students, parents, and business community.
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| In order to ensure the school's planning process is broad-based and collaborative, while including all stakeholders, the School Site Council, which continues to refine and approve the SPSA, is comprised of administrators, teachers, support staff, parents, and students. The Leadership Team has been expanded to include all department chairs and Professional Learning Community facilitators, as well as an HTA representative.
We have discovered that we as a school need to do more to incorporate input from the business community to inform our planning. |
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Indicator: The school’s Single Plan for Student Achievement is directly correlated to the analysis of student achievement data about the critical learner needs, schoolwide learner outcomes, and academic standards.
Prompt: How do staff ensure that the analysis of student achievement of the critical learner needs, schoolwide learner outcomes, and academic standards are incorporated into the plan and impact the development, implementation, and monitoring of the plan?
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| Example Findings | Example Supporting Evidence |
Correlation between All Resources, Schoolwide Learner Outcomes, and Plan
Indicator: There is correlation between allocation of time/fiscal/personnel/material resources and the implementation, monitoring, and accomplishing of the Single Plan for Student Achievement.
Prompt: Evaluate the degree to which the allocation of all resources support the implementation, monitoring, and accomplishment of the Single Plan for Student Achievement.
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| Example Findings | Example Supporting Evidence |
Conclusions
Prompt: Comment on the degree to which this criterion is being addressed.
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| Example Findings | Example Supporting Evidence |
Prompt: Comment on the degree to which this criterion impacts the school’s ability to address one or more of the identified critical learner needs.
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| Example Findings | Example Supporting Evidence |
A4:
A qualified staff facilitates achievement of the academic standards and the schoolwide learner outcomes through a system of preparation, induction, and ongoing professional development.
Indicators with Prompts
Employment Policies and Practices
Indicator: The school has clear employment policies and practices related to qualification requirements of staff.
Prompt: Evaluate the clarity of employment policies and practices related to qualification/statutory requirements of current and potential staff for all programs, including all types of online instruction and specialized programs such as college/career preparation.
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| Example Findings | Example Supporting Evidence |
Qualifications of Staff
Indicator: The school has procedures to ensure that staff members are qualified based on staff background, training and preparation.
Prompt: Evaluate the procedures to ensure all staff members in all programs, including online instruction based on staff background, training and preparation are qualified for their responsibilities within any type of instruction to ensure quality student learning.
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| Example Findings | Example Supporting Evidence |
Maximum Use of Staff Expertise
Indicator: The school has a process to assign staff members and provide appropriate orientation for all assignments, including online instruction and specialized programs so that the expertise of the staff members is maximized in relation to impact on quality student learning.
Prompt: Evaluate the process to assign staff members and provide an appropriate orientation process to ensure all staff are qualified and prepared or their responsibilities including any type of online instruction.
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| Example Findings | Example Supporting Evidence |
Defining and Understanding Practices/Relationships
Indicator: The school has clear administrator and faculty written policies, charts, and handbooks that define responsibilities, operational practices, decision-making processes, and relationships of leadership and staff.
Prompt: Evaluate the administrator and faculty written policies, charts, pacing guides and handbooks that define responsibilities, operational practices, decision-making processes, and relationships of leadership and staff. Determine the degree of clarity and understanding of these by administration and faculty.
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| Example Findings | Example Supporting Evidence |
Internal Communication and Planning
Indicator: The school has effective existing structures for internal communication, planning, and resolving differences.
Prompt: How effective are the existing structures for internal communication, planning, and resolving differences?
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| Example Findings | Example Supporting Evidence |
Staff Actions/Accountability to Support Learning
Indicator: The school evaluates the effectiveness of the processes and procedures for involving staff in shared responsibility, actions, and accountability to support student learning throughout all programs. This includes an evaluation of the kinds of collegial strategies used to implement innovations and encourage improvement, such as shadowing, coaching, observation, mentoring, group presentations.
Prompt: How effective are the processes and procedures for involving staff in shared responsibility, actions, and accountability to support student learning throughout all programs? Provide representative examples and data regarding impact on student learning.
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| Example Findings | Example Supporting Evidence |
Additional Online Instruction Prompt: Evaluate the processes and procedures for involving online staff members in professional development activities that enhance the use of technology in the delivery of instruction and support student learning
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| Example Findings | Example Supporting Evidence |
Evaluation of Existing Processes
Indicator: The school leadership regularly reviews the existing processes to determine the degree to which actions of the leadership and staff focus on successful student learning.
Prompt: To what extent does the school leadership regularly review the existing processes to determine the degree to which actions of the leadership and staff focus on successful student learning?
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Conclusions
Prompt: Comment on the degree to which this criterion is being addressed.
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| Example Findings | Example Supporting Evidence |
Prompt: Comment on the degree to which this criterion impacts the school’s ability to address one or more of the identified critical learner needs.
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| Example Findings | Example Supporting Evidence |
A5:
Leadership and staff are involved in ongoing research or data-based correlated professional development that focuses on identified student learning needs.
Indicators with Prompts
Support of Professional Development
Indicator: The school effectively supports professional development/learning with time, personnel, material, and fiscal resources to facilitate all students achieving the academic standards and the schoolwide learner outcomes.
Prompt: How effective is the support of professional development/learning? Provide evidence and examples.
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| Example Findings | Example Supporting Evidence |
Supervision and Evaluation
Indicator: The school implements effective supervision and evaluation procedures in order to promote professional growth of staff.
Prompt: How effective are the school’s supervision and evaluation procedures?
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| Example Findings | Example Supporting Evidence |