Assistance Plus January 2005

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Assistance PlusJanuary 2005
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Assistance PlusAgenda

• Assistance Plus
• District Improvement Plan
• Accessing the midyear report
• Completing the midyear report
• Submitting the midyear report

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Assistance Plus

• Required by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
  (NCLB)
• States are responsible for monitoring the
  progress that schools and districts make in
  bringing all children to proficiency in the core
  academic subjects.

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Assistance Plus

• Title I schools that have not achieved Adequate
  Yearly Progress (AYP) for two or more years will
  be identified for school improvement (SINI).
• Progressively more comprehensive interventions
  after the second year are identified as
  corrective action and restructuring.

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Assistance Plus

• SINI schools must make AYP for two consecutive
  school years in order to exit SINI status.

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Assistance Plus

• When a school is identified for school
  improvement status, the District must
• Offer public school choice
• Conduct a peer review of the school improvement
  plan
• Develop and implement a District Improvement Plan
  and Intervention and Assistance Plan

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Assistance Plus

• When a school is identified for school
  improvement status, the school must
• Complete the School Improvement Plan (SIP) on the
  State template, respond to peer review
  recommendations, and submit the SIP by the State
  deadline
• Complete a midyear report of the implementation
  of the SIP

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Midyear Report is due
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District Improvement Plan and Assistance
Intervention Plan

• Required by P.L. 107-1116(c)(7)(A) and by PL
  107-110 Sec. 1116 (b)
• Distributed to SINI principals in a Memorandum
  dated December 3, 2004

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District Improvement Plan and Assistance
Intervention Plan

• The plan includes
• scientifically based research strategies
• professional development
• specific measurable achievement goals and
  targets 
• activities before school, after school, and
  during the summer  
• the responsibilities of the State and District
  and
• strategies to promote parental involvement.

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District Improvement Plan and Assistance
Intervention Plan

• The District Plan was developed in collaboration
  with district staff, in consultation with
  parents, school staff, and others.

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District Improvement Plan and Assistance
Intervention Plan

• The District Plan is located on the FDOE School
  Improvement Web site at http//www.osi.fsu.edu

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Accessing the Midyear Report

• Go to the FDOE School Improvement web site
  (http//www.osi.fsu.edu) and click on Quarterly
  and Mid-Year Report Guidance Directions (PDF
  format).

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Accessing the Midyear Report
Directions
Guidance
Report Format
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Accessing the Midyear Report

• Rename and save the 2004-2005 Quarterly Report
  Format to a document that you will complete and
  later attach to your on-line school improvement
  plan.

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Completing the Midyear Report

• The report has eight sections
• Highly Qualified Administrators
• Teacher Mentoring
• Reading Goal
• Middle Grades Rigorous Reading Goal (Middle
  Schools only)
• Mathematics Goal
• Writing Goal
• Parent Involvement Goal
• Other

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Completing the Midyear Report

• For each section
• Describe what progress your school has made to
  accomplish the goal. Provide data or other
  evidence to support the progress to date.

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Completing the Midyear Report

• For example Reading Goal
• List baseline data collected in the fall and
  winter of the 2004-2005 school year.
• Describe student performance data trends as
  determined by using comparable data.
• Address specific performance objectives for the
  subgroup/s that did not make AYP targets.

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Completing the Midyear ReportSample Narrative
Through the implementation of reading strategies
such as guided reading, shared reading, FCAT
Explorer, students have made significant progress
during the semester as shown by the test results
reported below. Grade 6 students made the
highest gains.   The fall Scholastic Reading
Inventory (SRI) and the SSS Diagnostic Test were
administered in September 2004. The winter SRI
and SSS Diagnostic tests were administered in
December 2004.   In addition, teachers
administered teacher-developed tests and common
assessments to assess students comprehension of
materials and identify individual student
weakness and areas of strengths.   Specific
Performance Objectives for ESE and ESOL students
performing in levels 1 and 2 in Reading These
students will participate actively in class
reading and buddy reading. Specific attention
will be made to strengthen their phonemic
awareness, phonetics skills, fluency, vocabulary,
and comprehension at grade level. Progress will
be assessed by the teacher using a variety of
methods (FCAT like quizzes, informal reading
inventory assessments, Cloze test, Scholastic
Reading XL materials, FCAT Explorer data, etc).
Weekly assessments will track the students
progress.   Each student is expected to make at
least two year gains, indicated by their SRI
lexile scores or score at least level 3 on the
2005 FCAT. Teachers have used the SRI lexile
scores to determine individual growth goals for
each student so they can monitor the students
progress toward their goal.  
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Completing the Midyear ReportSample Baseline Data
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Activity

• List strategies you have implemented to improve
  subgroup performance for one of the content areas
  below
• Reading
• Math
• Science
• Writing

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Submitting the Midyear Report

• Go to the FDOE School Improvement web page and
  log onto your SIP.
• http//sip.osi.fsu.edu/sip_template/login.aspx

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Submitting the Midyear Report

• On the left-hand navigation bar on the first page
  of your school improvement plan, click on
  Quarterly Reporting.

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Submitting the Midyear Report

• In the Quarterly Reporting section,

Find Report for Quarter Ending in January
Click on the browse button and find the completed
midyear report for your school.
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Submitting the Midyear Report

• In the Quarterly Reporting section,

Select the midyear report and then click
Upload. The report is attached when the View
Attached File label appears.
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Viewing and Editing the Midyear Report

• To view the midyear report, click on View
  Attached File.
• To make edits to the report, open the original
  Word document on your computer, and edit the
  document and save.
• Go into the SIP template and reattach the Word
  document.

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Department of School Improvement
For additional information please
contact Sharon Brannon, Manager 561-434-8848 bra
nnon_at_mail.palmbeach.k12.fl.us Elaine Persek,
Director 561-357-7642 persek_at_mail.palmbeach.k12.f
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