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uContinuous Improvement and Effectiveness Study (05-06)

District #16 is committed to learning the best ways to educate students in order that all graduates are prepared to successfully attend higher education if they so desire, while we are doing our day to day business the best we know how.  As we decide to adopt new beliefs, attitudes and practices and let go of established ones, we adapt and adjust. 

TLT
The TLT is the Teaching and Learning Team.  The purpose and roll of the TLT is to oversee and implement the school’s continuous improvement plan.  This is learning and adaptive work.
SOC
The SOC is the School Operations Committee.  The purpose and role of the SOC is to assist administration in managing the school’s day to day operations.  This is control work.
Continuous Improvement and Effectiveness Study

The CIT is a short-term task force that is to create a report for the district administration and school board by March 1, 2006.  The report, in collaboration with the Middle School CIT, will be the result of a study of evidence-based best practice, benchmark high schools (locally and nationally), and current local practices to identify future directives that will result in all graduates of SLPHS being prepared to successfully attend higher education if they so desire.
Framework for the Future
This document defines the purpose, vision, and directions for the school district.  This defines the what of the district’s efforts.  It also includes the structures (committees, task forces and councils) in the district and in the buildings that will accomplish the purpose, vision and directions.  This defines who will do the work.
Continuous Systems Improvement Framework

This is the plan for how the work gets done in order to accomplish the district’s purpose, vision and directions.  It was developed in 2004-2005 by the district TLA (Teaching and Learning Team).  This document guides the work of the TLT.
TLA

The TLA is the Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee.  It is a district-wide committee with representatives from each building.  They develop and oversee the Continuous Systems Improvement Framework, which includes the professional development and curriculum development framework.
PLC

A PLC is a small group of teachers who teach the same course to a group of students. By working collaboratively on a continuing basis, they focus on student work (as gathered through common assessments), analyze the results of the common assessments and strategically change their instructional practices accordingly in order to get better results. Professional Learning Communities are a new way of “doing business”, thinking, acting and interacting.  PLC’s in each school will develop common standards/outcomes, essential learner outcomes, common assessments for learning, map curriculum, provide vertical articulation between schools and work with a choice-making model.
Smart Goals
       
  S = strategic and specific
  M = measurable
  A = attainable
  R = results-based
  T = time-bound
       
Research/Articles/Movers and Shakers

People, organizations, studies of best practices our district is using for our framework for the future.
Organizations

  • ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is a community of educators, advocating sound policies and sharing best practices to achieve the success of each learner.

  • NSDC (National Staff Development Council) 

  • NAESP (National Association of Elementary School Principals) 

  • NASSP (National Association of Secondary School Principals)

  • NMSA (National Middle School Association)

  • ERIC(Education Resources Information Center)

  • IBO (International Baccalaureate Organization)

  • Achieve.org Created by the nation's governors and business leaders, Achieve, Inc., is a bipartisan, non-profit organization that helps states raise academic standards, improve assessments and strengthen accountability to prepare all young people for postsecondary education, work and citizenship.