Assessment of Georgia School Standards

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Assessment of Georgia School Standards
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Georgia Assessment of Performance on School
Standards

• Developed 3 years ago based on
• The work of Bob Marzano (meta-analysis of over 25
  years of research)
• The work of selected states (Texas, Kentucky,
  North Carolina and others)
• Expertise of over 2000 collective years of
  experience of the Division of School Improvement
  staff (now re-named School and Leader Quality)

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Purpose of GAPSS

• To measure the degree of implementation of the
  Georgia School Standards (now re-named the School
  Keys)
• To assist in targeting and addressing areas for
  improvement in a school

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GAPSS Analysis Approaches

• External Approach
• DOA External System Approach
• Local School Internal Approach

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External Approach

• GAPSS are mandatory for schools in NI-6 and are
  led by GaDOE personnel.
• GAPSS can be done on a voluntary basis and led by
  GaDOE , RESA, local system personnel who have
  been trained in the process.
• GAPSS can be done in lieu of the SACS CASI
  process at the school level.

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DOA External System Approach

• Training of selected system and/or school level
  administrators in one school system
• Content of the GSS (School Keys)
• GAPSS procedures (including video vignettes)
• A GAPSS is done with a single school within the
  system and conducted by the cadre of trained
  participants led by GaDOE personnel
• De-briefing after the initial in-system GAPSS
• Additional, scheduled GAPSS within the system led
  by the system and/or school personnel without
  GaDOE assistance

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Local School Internal Approach

• Training of selected MCSD school level
  administrators and/or teachers
• Content of the GSS (School Keys)
• GAPSS procedures (including video vignettes)
• A GAPSS is done with an identified school within
  the system and conducted by the cadre of trained
  participants led by MCSD Central Office
  personnel.
• De-briefing after the identified school GAPSS
• The trainees from the selected schools will
  schedule a GAPSS within their school without
  assistance from MCSD Central Office.

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The MCSD GAPSS Model
Select System and/or School Staff
Conduct Training (School Keys and GAPSS)
Conduct Prototype GAPSS with GaDOE
Initiate the GAPSS Process
Schedule GAPSS training for School
Administrators/Lead Teachers to become lead
facilitators
Schedule in-system GAPSS to be led by In-System
Personnel
Debrief after GAPSS is conducted
Develop a monitoring process for School Action
Plans on Identified Target Areas for Improvement
Review System- Level GAPSS Analysis
Process Annually and make Adjustments
Develop five year schedule for DOA External GAPSS
Analysis at Individual Schools
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In All Three Approaches

• Study is based on 4 types of data
• School Profile (Data)
• Interview
• Observation
• Certified Staff Survey (DOE)

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GAPSS Analysis
School Profile
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GAPSS Analysis
Interviews Principal Assistant
Principal Leadership Team Teachers Other
Certified Classified (optional) Students Parents
(optional)

• Interview questions are correlated to the
  standards and elements of the GSS

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Activity 1

• Read the notes from a leadership team interview.
• If the survey and other school data supported
• this, what could you offer as a recommendation
• for the school?
• After you have finished, peruse some authentic
• recommendations (see back) that have been
• offered to leadership teams in real GAPSS
• Analyses. School Keys
  L-4

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GAPSS Analysis
Certified Staff Survey (CSS)
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GAPSS Analysis
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Instructional delivery mode predominantly
observed Instructors role predominantly
observed Students were predominantly engaged
in
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Activity 2

• Review the following 2 pieces of information
  generated in GAPSS Analysis
• Observation Summary
• Survey Data (excerpts)
• How would you deal with the discrepancies in the
  2
• pieces of data?
• What patterns do you see that could serve as the
  basis
• for recommendations.
• Discuss this in a small group and select someone
  to
• report out from your group.

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Data Integration

• GAPSS Team will
• Rate the Standards (Keys) rubrics
• Generate recommendations and commendations
• Prioritize the recommendations and commendations
  and select the most significant ones that could
  be target areas for improvement

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Activity 3

• Review the sample target areas chart that was
  generated from a GAPSS Analysis.
• (HANDOUT)
• Discuss the contents of the chart in small
  groups.
• Identify the first thing that a leadership team
  could do after reviewing it.

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Benefits of the system-level Approach

• A good grounding in the GSS (School Keys)
• A renewed sense of mission / purpose at the
  system level
• Collegiality and collaboration between school and
  system level administrators
• A systematic approach to improvement based on the
  GSS (School Keys)
• Gained expertise in data collection, analysis,
  interpretation and utilization for improvement
• A sustained process of improvement

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Capacity Building

• In the system approach, there are many more
  opportunities for capacity-building.
• In this approach, school and system personnel
  learn to fix their own problems.

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Capacity Building

• In either approach, the result is a group of
  people learning and growing together with a
  common mission to implement a data-driven process
  to improve their schools
• A PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
• COMMUNITY IS BORN.

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MCSD GAPSS Next Steps

• Develop five year schedule for DOA External
  System GAPSS Analysis at selected schools (June
  2007)
• Schedule GAPSS training for first set of school
  administrators and/or lead teachers (August 2007)
• Schedule GAPSS training for second set of school
  administrators and/or lead teachers (November
  2007)
• Schedule GAPSS training for third set of school
  administrators and/or lead teachers (January
  2008)
• After training, trainees will be able to do their
  own Local School Internal GAPSS (2007-2008 school
  year)

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Continued Next Steps

• Develop a monitoring process for School Action
  Plans on Identified Target Areas for Improvement
  (August 2007)
• Review system-level GAPSS Analysis process
  annually and make necessary adjustments
  (throughout year)

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