DAC Annual Reviews

1
DAC Annual Reviews

• September/October 2005
• DAC Accreditation Training
• Boulder Valley School District

2
Acronyms

• DAC District Accountability Committee
• SIT School Improvement Team
• SIP School Improvement Plan (Annual Report)
• SIPR School Improvement Program Review (DAC
  Subcommittee)
• TIES Tools of Inquiry for Equitable Schools
  (new model being phased in at schools)

3
SIP Review Overview

• Background State Requirements
• Colorado State Board of Education sets high
  statewide goals for improvement of education
• Each local district develops its own goals and
  accountability program tailored to the community
• Each school develops its own goals
• Each school writes an annual report
• The District reports annually to the State

4
BVSD Review Process

• District staff and DAC work together in the
  annual accountability reviews
• DAC reviews and grades SIPs in terms of
  compliance with the accreditation process
• District staff reviews and grades the schools
  progress in meetings its performance targets and
  other indicators of achievement

5
Levels of Accreditation

• Fully Accredited
• Accredited Academic Assistance
• Meet with district support team every 3 weeks for
  review of major decisions
• Accredited Academic Probation
• Annual Site Reviews
• District decides programs/resources for the
  school possible reassignment of personnel
• Non-Accredited
• Failure after one year of Academic Probation
• Possible reorganization reconstituting the school

6
DAC Review

• DAC members use a scoring guide to grade each SIP
  with a maximum of 100 points
• Schools with lt80 are referred for technical
  assistance
• Granted provisional acceptance (due to state
  reporting timeframe)
• Attend a technical assistance workshop in
  October/November
• Review DAC comments, make changes or corrections
  and resubmit report to district staff

7
DAC Members Receive EOY/SIP on Oct. 18 and
Submit reviews on Oct. 25
8
Review Teams

• 3 person teams will be headed by an experienced
  DAC member
• Each team will review 4 reports
• Each team member reads and grades each report
• Team members then meet and consolidate their
  grades and comments on a summary sheet
• Teams may utilize the pick-up and drop-off
  meetings to perform the reviews on Oct. 15 and
  25 or they may choose to meet at an alternative
  site and time
• 3-person team of DAC Exec members will re-review
  any report with a grade of lt80

9
TIES Introduction

• TIES is being gradually phased into the district
• About half the schools in the district have had
  their administrators go through the multiple day
  training
• DAC has two scoring guides
• TES and Non-TIES

10
TIES from a DAC review standpoint

• TIES
• 3 goals
• Achievement
• Equity
• Organization
• Use of data-based inquiry and decision making
  process

• Non-TIES
• 2 goals
• Achievement
• Diversity
• Goal rationale