Core Group Training

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• Core Group Training
• for
• Implementing
• MI-Plan

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Acknowledgements

• Result of partnership between
• Center for Education Performance and Assessment
  (CEPI)
• Michigan Department of Education (Office of Field
  Services)
• Michigan North Central Association
• MGT of America

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Training Purpose

• Provide training for
• The use of MI-Plan as a management tool for the
  school improvement planning process
• Facilitating technical use of the MI-PLAN
  web-based tool.
• Using MI-Plan processes and techniques for
  developing systemic school improvement plans.

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What is MI-Plan?

• Time saving, easy to use web-based management
  system for creating, implementing, and monitoring
  school improvements plans.
• Creates a single planning environment that meets
  multiple reporting requirements.

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Why Use MI-PLAN?

• Combines expectations of Revised School Code
  (Public Act 25), NCA school improvement
  protocols, Title 1 requirements in No Child Left
  Behind, and Education YES into a web-based
  planning process.
• Helps insure coordination of effort and
  resources.
• Automatically downloads school data (MEAP,
  MI-Access, Alternative LEP).
• Provides common planning process.

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MI-Plan Benefits

• Creates a collaborative, continuous improvement
  culture to ensure that all students are achieving
  at high levels.
• Encourages innovation through research-based
  practices.
• Focuses and aligns staff development and
  resources.
• Increases public participation in planning.
• Provides data to support and document continuous
  growth.

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MI-Plan
What are the steps in the MI-Plan Process? This
is a testThis is only a test!
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MI-Plan Web Tool Process Flow
Achievement
Student Performance Goals ------------- Strategie
s Interventions
Demographic
Contextual (Ed Yes)
Professional Development
Perception (Aligned to Ed Yes)
Research
Reporting
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MI-Plan
An 8 Step Process
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Step 1 Assess Readiness to Benefit (Foundation
for Planning)
Essential Process Activities SIP Guide Step 1

• Establish a school improvement team.
• Assess schools readiness to plan.
• Determine SIP team/steering committee level of
  knowledge in school improvement process and
  research-based practices.
• Develop a School Introduction.
• Create a school improvement planning calendar
• Define/clarify the schools decision making
  process.
• Verify/validate the schools mission statement.
  
• Create a school vision statement.

- Required Activities
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Why do we plan?

• To be more intentional and focus on whats
  important
• To professionalize the culture by learning
  together and deprivitizing our practice
• To build learning environments of inquiry, trust,
  and mutual respect

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Building a Continuous Improvement Culture
The most compelling factor leading to school
success is functioning in a collaborative
family-like atmosphere. -Bridging the
Opportunity Gap
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The Importance of Trust
Strongest Level of Trust
1 in 2 chances of making significant
improvements in student learning
Weakest Level of Trust
1 in 7 chances of making significant
improvements in student learning
(Source Bryk and Schneider)
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Assess School Readiness
School Readiness - the extent to which a schools
staff has the ability and willingness to
accomplish a specific task. Two major components
of readiness are ability and willingness.
Hersey, Paul and Blanchard, Kenneth, Management
of Organizational Behavior, Utilizing Human
Resources, Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall, 1988.
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Assess School Readiness

• Ability is the knowledge, experience, and
  skill that an individual or group brings to a
  particular task or activity.

Hersey, Paul and Blanchard, Kenneth, Management
of Organizational Behavior, Utilizing Human
Resources, Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall, 1988.
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Assess School Readiness

• Willingness is the extent to which an individual
  or group has the confidence, commitment, and
  motivation to accomplish a specific task.

Hersey, Paul and Blanchard, Kenneth, Management
of Organizational Behavior, Utilizing Human
Resources, Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall, 1988.
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Assess School Readiness
Sometimes, people arent really unwilling, its
just that theyve never done a specific task
before. They dont have any experience with it,
so theyre insecure or afraid.
Hersey, Paul and Blanchard, Kenneth, Management
of Organizational Behavior, Utilizing Human
Resources, Fifth Edition, Prentice Hall, 1988.
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Se Hace Camino al Ander -Antonio Machado
We Make the Road by Walking
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Checking for Understanding
What are your questions about Laying the
Foundation?
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MI-Plan
An 8 Step Process
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Essential Off-line Process Activities SIPP Guide
Step 2

• Schedule SIP Team Meetings.
• Determine readiness to benefit.
• Determine What to Collect.
• Collect, sort, and select data from a variety
  of sources.
• Inventory programs and processes.
• Review rational for data choices.
• Evaluate quality/value of data.

- Required Activities
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MI-Plan Data Domains
Demographics
Contextual
Perceptions
Student Learning
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Checking for Understanding
What are your questions about Collecting and
Selecting Data?
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MI-Plan
An 8 Step Process
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Essential Off-line Process Activities SIP Guide
Step 3

• Determine readiness to build and analyze the
  school portfolio. (Consider conducting a mini
  lesson on writing narratives)
• Conduct data carousel.
• Write non-evaluative narrative statements to
  describe the data. (Achievement, demographic,
  perception, and contextual)
• Prioritize challenges.
• Analyze school profile.
• Evaluate school profile.

- Required Activities
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Data Carousel Activity (SIP Guide Step 3. pp.
9-15)
Tables with data for groups to review
Each table reviews the data individually, think
about strengths and challenges.
Group discusses data and develops non-evaluative
narrative statements.
Strengths and challenges are recorded.
Narrative tally sheets are collected and compiled.
Synthesize and prioritize challenges.
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Prioritize Challenges
Prioritized Challenges After Data
Carousel (Example)

• Reading achievement 16
• Math achievement 10
• Attendance 6
• Student discipline 4
• Parent involvement 2
• Curriculum planning 2
• Conflict resolution 2
• Time to do all this 2
• Home-school relations 2
• Team functioning 2
• Closing minority gap 2

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Quality School Profile
Profile complete, well organized, and concise.
Sufficient data from multiple sources been
collected (students, instruction, community,
former students, etc.)
Data been disaggregated.
Data been analyzed and implications determined.
Data can be presented in graphic tables and
charts.
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Checking for Understanding
What are your questions about Analyzing Data?
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MI-Plan
An 8 Step Process
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Step 4 Set Student Performance Goals
Essential Off-line Process Activities SIP Guide
Step 4

• Schedule a SIP Team to review narratives
• Assess readiness to set and prioritize goals.
• Group challenges into emerging goal target
  areas (i.e., Math).
• Write student performance goal statements.
• Review goal statements goals with all staff.

- Required Activities
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Step 4 Set Student Performance Goals
Essential Off-line Process Activities SIP Guide
Step 4 (Contd.)

• Determine the essence the goals.
• Align goals to the Education YES Measures of
  School Performance.
• Rank quality of student performance goals.
• Evaluate goals in terms of schools mission.

- Required Activities
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Checking for Understanding
What are your questions about writing goals?
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MI-Plan
An 8 Step Process
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Essential Off-line Process Activities SIP Guide
Step 5

• Determine study approach (Options Engage all
  staff or just use SIP team).
• Determine readiness for research.
• Create a plan for study with timelines
• Dig Deeper into the data to better understand
  the essence of the goal.
• Become familiar with types of research? (i.e.,
  gold standard quantitative research using an
  experimental design)

Do study teams know how to unpack a goal?
- Required Activities
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Essential Off-line Process Activities SIP Guide
Step 5

• Investigate and document effective
  strategies/interventions, best practices, and
  activities from multiple sources such as site
  visits and content area specialists.
• Complete study team report, share and discuss
  findings with all stakeholders
• 8. Evaluate strategies/interventions.

Do study teams know how to unpack a goal?
- Required Activities
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A Plan for Study
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Checking for Understanding
What are your questions about the research
process?
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MI-Plan
An 8 Step Process
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Step 6 Develop Action Plans

• Develop action plan readiness.
• If Title 1 School, complete Title 1 Target
  Assistance Requirements.
• If School Identified for Improvement, complete
  NCLB AYP Two-Year Plan Requirements.
• Complete Michigan School Improvement Requirements
  descriptors.
• Review Action Plan examples.
• Develop Professional Development Plan and
  Calendar.
• Complete Action Plan assessment.

Essential Off-line Process Activities SIP Guide
Step 6
- Required Activities
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Checking for Understanding
What are your questions about developing action
plans?
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MI-Plan
An 8 Step Process
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Essential Off-line Process Activities SIP Guide
Step 7

• Determine readiness to monitor implementation of
  the action plan.
• Review and adjust plan if necessary to implement
  strategies/ interventions.
• Monitor activities timelines.
• Survey implementation effectiveness.
• Evaluate implementation of action plan.

- Required Activities
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Checking for Understanding
What are your questions about developing
monitoring the plan?
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MI-Plan
An 8 Step Process
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Step 8 Evaluate Impact on Student Achievement
Essential Off-line Process Activities SIP Guide
Step 8

• Evaluate readiness to determine impact of Plan on
  student achievement.
• Complete improvement planning process survey.
• Complete plan evaluation rubric.

- Required Activities
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Checking for Understanding
What are your questions about evaluating the
plan?
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MI-Plan
An 8 Step Process
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Checking for Mastery

• We possess skill in the use of MI-Plan for
• Administering and facilitating site use.
• Collecting and selecting data.
• Analyzing data and identifying goal target areas.
• Identifying and prioritizing school improvement
  goals.
• Using research to identify and select improvement
  strategies and practices.
• Developing an action plan.
• Monitoring implementation of the plan.
• Evaluating the impact of the plan on student
  achievement.
• Creating School Improvement Reports.