NCA Accreditation Meeting High Standards Standard 1: Vision

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NCA AccreditationMeeting High StandardsStandard
1 Vision Focus

• September 17, 2008 In-Service
• Nancy Niles

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Readiness for AdvancEd District Accreditation
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Whats Next

• Year 3, 4, 5, and Beyond
• Implement the School Improvement Plan
• Determine baseline performance
• Implement interventions
• Monitor and Document Implementation
• Modify plan as needed
• Monitor short-cycle and long term goals
• Continue to collect and analyze data
• Quality Assurance Review
• Continue the Process
• Identify a new goal

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Year 3 2008-2009

• Implement the School Improvement Plan
• Write an action plan
• Implement interventions
• Document Standards
• Potential evidence
• School-specific evidence
• Indicators of Strengths
• Monitor and Document Implementation
• Modify plan as needed
• Monitor short-cycle and long term goals
• Continue to collect and analyze data
• Quality Assurance Review Continuous Improvement
  Integrated Visit

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Continuous Improvement Integrated Visit

• Programs that can be included in the integrated
  visit
• Accreditation School Improvement
• NCLB Consolidated Program Reviews
• Special Education ILCD
• Career Ed Career Ed OCR
• Early Childhood
• High Ability Learners

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Requirements for Accreditation

• Engage in Continuous Improvement
• Meet High Standards
• Demonstrate Quality Assurance Through External
  Review
• Observations
• Practices
• Environment
• Interviews
• Groups
• Individuals
• Artifacts
• Standards Assessment Report
• The School Improvement Plan
• The Schools Vision and Mission
• Student Achievement Data

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Engage in Continuous Improvement
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Meeting High Standards

• Vision and Purpose
• Governance and Leadership
• Teaching and Learning
• Documenting and Using Results
• Resource and Support Systems
• Stakeholder Communication and Relations
• Commitment to Continuous Improvement
• AdvancEd 2005

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Standard 1 Vision Purpose

• The school establishes and communicates a shared
  purpose and direction for improving the
  performance of students and the effectiveness of
  the school.

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Quality School Indicators

• In fulfillment of this standard, the school
• 1.1 Establishes a vision for the school in
  collaboration with its stakeholders
• 1.2 Communicates the vision and purpose to build
  stakeholder understanding and support
• 1.3 Identifies goals to advance the vision
• 1.4 Develops and continuously maintains a profile
  of the school, its students, and the community
• 1.5 Ensures that the schools vision and purpose
  guide the teaching and learning process
• 1.6 Reviews its vision and purpose systematically
  and revises them when appropriate

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Impact Statement

• A school is successful in meeting this standard
  when it commits to a shared purpose and
  direction. The school establishes expectations
  for student learning aligned with the schools
  vision that is supported by school personnel and
  external stakeholders. These expectations serve
  as the focus for assessing student performance
  and school effectiveness. The schools vision
  guides allocations of time and human, material,
  and fiscal resources.

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Standard 1 Vision Purpose Indicator Rubric

• Please indicate the degree to which the noted
  practices/processes are in place in the school
  system. The responses to the rubric should help
  the school system identify areas of strength and
  opportunities for improvement as well as guide
  and inform the school systems responses to the
  focus questions.

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Standard 1Vision Purpose Focus Questions

• What is the process for establishing and building
  understanding of and commitment to the vision
  statement among the school system and its
  stakeholders?
• What is the systems process for maintaining and
  using information that describes the school
  system, its programs, services, and schools and
  their performance? 
• How does the leadership ensure that the systems
  vision, purpose, and goals guide the work of the
  school system and its schools?
• What process is used to ensure that the vision
  and purpose of the school system remain current
  and aligned with the systems expectations in
  support of student learning and the effectiveness
  of the school system and its schools?

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Examples of Evidence For Districts School
Systems
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Practices

• Involvement by staff and community members in
  formation and/or processing of the vision,
  purpose, and goals
• Indication by staff and community members that
  they are familiar with the vision, purpose, and
  goals
• Wide distribution of the vision and purpose
  statements and goals throughout the district
• Leadership actions that develop commitment to
  the vision, and indications that stakeholders,
  enthusiastically embrace the vision

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Artifacts

• Vision and/or purpose statement
• List of beliefs and/or core values
• Information system
• Surveys/evaluation instruments and results
• Annual and long-range goals
• Stakeholder perception data

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Standard 1 Vision Purpose
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What needs to be done today

• Self-Assessment of Readiness for District
  Accreditation
• Standard 1 Vision Purpose Indicators Rubric
• Standard 1 Vision Purpose Focus Questions
• Standard 1 Vision Purpose Examples of Evidence
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