CSI+Joint+Training+Oct+2011

=Highlights from CSI Joint Training=

The New Process (begins 2012-13 school year)
= = =Next steps for this year:=
 * 1) ASSIST. This template includes the profile, action plan, PD plan and Year-end report. That's it. No "binder" and unnecessary pieces of paper are necessary. Include what works for you, not what you think others want.
 * 2) Monitor strategies/interventions and measure goals.
 * 3) There are grey areas in the standards that have been identified. These areas will be reported to AdvancED by personnel at the "above school level", not at the school level. We identified some areas (specifically system wide governance and system wide curriculum planning) during the training, but DoDEA will give us a thorough review NLT December 1. OFT will continue to work on this with too.
 * 4) Data needed for the CSI/AdvancED will be provided by the district, including graphs and charts.
 * 5) Training on data will be provided. This still needs work on implementation and could include courses for credit.
 * 6) To assist with the process, we are requesting that AdvancED provide samples of exemplars, a glossary, clarification of the evidentiary process and a rubric for data.
 * 7) **//Anything we want to add?//**
 * 1) Clarify expectations and documentation for each goal, and determine what it is that our staff doesn’t understand. A "gallery walk" at next meeting might clarify what each standard is
 * 2) Simplify documentation process: what needs to be taken out?
 * 3) Look at last year’s PRE QAR visit status report
 * 4) Communicate that binders need to be relevant and important to each classroom, but assessment takes place in the goal areas. Some subject areas will only implement and document interventions, but not all will assess using the school wide rubric.
 * 5) Profile needs to be developed by DODEA or researcher at the DSO
 * DON’T HAVE TO OVERKILL ON Self Assessment (SA), keep it concise and brief in SA for THIS YEAR
 * DO NOT HAVE TO USE BINDERS IF IT DOESN’T HELP: if we are analyzing data and have a process for it, they just need to validate what my process is: this is MONITORING for our sake, what is important? What is relevant? (what are some examples of what other schools are doing if not binders: technology? would a wiki suffice?)
 * Weight + volume DOES NOT = value ("Don’t go crazy on things"), don’t have to include 30 pages of minutes of meetings
 * //**anything we want to add or edit?**//


 * ASSIST (not sure which link is the best way to get to ASSIST though)**

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=Joint Training DAY 1: CSI, Accreditation Protocol and Process=

Goal: help understand changes

Accreditation: 2011-12 and prior: 70 countries, international, take very seriously, research driven

school year standards: 56 indicators, and 7 standards • SA, based on rubrics at the standard level • QAR team comes in and evaluates, gives perception
 * Current Process**

• Executive summary, let the DSO read it before sending it • Diagnostics: web based resources in web based tool, online tools to help manage process (includes SA, root cause analysis, etc.) • Improvement plans will be stored in central format • Student performance: what are your results? Not just process but a look at students performance
 * NEW Process**• Standards, 7 down to 5, 56 indicators down to 30 something (majority of points come from this standard

Accredited: 1. Excellence 2. Distinction 3. Accredited 4. on advisement 5. Warned 6. Probation
 * Accreditation, new procedures, new possibilities**

accountability and integrity lead to credibility
 * Rigor and Fidelity**

• executive summary: we have control over what we put in, something that we write prior to visit, make sure every year it stays CURRENT * must be updated • demographic update • assurances: 6 or 7, we have our finances audited, etc. • self assessment w supporting evidence: radio buttons, no longer need to write pages and pages • performance results: coming from DC headquarters instead of locally • perception surveys results: trying to go through the process currently, what do the stakeholders think? • online school improvement plan: ASSIST, every year, we’ll just update it, get incremental growth, not just the SMART goal "in 2015, our school will improve reading comp…"
 * Required Documentation**

greater focus on:
 * QAR visit (Quality Assurance Review Visit)**

•observations •less time in structured interviews •more time in classroom and student observations •AdvancED does NOT do individual structured interviews, only focus group interviews. Some teachers have chosen to show QAR group what they are doing, but it is not structured •Evaluation of evidnce •Quality and relevance: school improvement plan is a non-negotiable •You don’t have to collect paperwork for them, we do it for ourselves •If it’s important to US, then we’ll talk about it w AdvancEd groupThe report needs to be relevant and structured •Dialog and deliberation •Less focus on narrative writing •More focus on individual indicator evaluation evaluation •AEd knows variance, and they are attempting to eliminate it in the training • Reading comprehension (for example): graphic organizers: one doesn’t measure this intervention, one monitors it • Each teacher may implement in the intervention, NOT EVERYONE HAS TO ASSESS GOAL: decide who administers assessment. Not everyone is going to assess. • For example, PE teacher has a word wall, but does not have to give a test on it
 * AdvancED measures goals, and they MONITOR interventions**

=‍Day 2, CSI Joint Training October 19= Dr. Bouling • All the pieces of the puzzle have to work together, one equation • All systems are about the process of learning What are standards? Comprehensive statements of quality practices and conditions that are necessary for schools to improve student performance and organizational effectiveness
 * Data:** system behind what happened on 911, in 1 hour planes were out of the sky: teachers must be in a similar system that works efficiently
 * AdvancEd Standards**
 * Big Picture**
 * The new standards describe a visionary educational process
 * Promoting a culture of continuous learning that is fluid, engaging leaders, staff and students
 * Help you move from “What do I have to do?” to “What do we want to be?”
 * Parents know how their child is doing, but they also want to know how the school is doing
 * Everyone needs to know
 * Standards are set up to create a framework for teaching and learningThe new standards are bold
 * Reflect the vision, mission and identity of AdvancEd


 * Standards for Quality Schools**
 * Purpose and direction – 3 (VISION, guided by Continuous Impr Process)
 * Governance and leadership – 6 indicators (same, no change): called “governance” because it refers to our governance structure, it transcends the school, for DoDEA it would be Pentagon, Congress, HQ, Area, District, School. They help and provide guidance. In Georgia, the governing body was acting inappropriately. They didn’t act collectively as a body, dealt under the table.
 * Teaching and assessing for Learning -12 indicators (the old said “teaching and learning”: formative assessment is in here): using seminar to get to know students, establish connection with EVERY student on our campus. FORMATIVE assessment data will not be collected.
 * Binders and data collection, demonstration: example: writing samples every quarter and the data does
 * Language arts and math classes will carry the burden of the data for the goals, report back to school with results and discuss how we are doing
 * Teachers in other classes need to implement intervention, but Monitoring could just be: writing each quarter, 3 times a year g, get together and discuss results, training, share what’s working and not working, it’s PLANNED OUT. Make it work for you as a teacher. Monitor and adjust, monitor and adjust.
 * **//Monitoring is NOT necessarily throwing papers into a crate, binder//**
 * Resources and support systems – 7 (no change), HQ support?
 * Using results fro Continuous - 5 (used to say “commitment”: combined 4 and 6):
 * New, we need to be trained by DSO in how to interpret data and how to use it
 * They will collect student performance data, and put it through their rubric

Go through the standards and indicators at the school, find gaps, question, visit with ISS, CSI, assistant sups, --to help us understand what the processes are to MAKE US EFFECTIVE and improve student achievement