Just Do The Right Thing

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Just Do The Right Thing

• Cory Green, Senior Director
• Division of NCLB Program Coordination, TEA

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Reasons to do the right thing

• lessons learned from the past five years of SIP
  implementation

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Reasonsto do the right thing

• Calling the TEA SIP staff and getting your
  answer, then emailing the same staff and asking
  the same question, then calling another SIP
  staff, and then another, and then the SIP
  Director, then the division director, then
  calling your ESC staff to call us and confirm our
  answer takes time away from assisting other
  campuses.

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Reasonsto do the right thing

• Failing to (or choosing not to) use the required
  TEA parent notification letter causes TEA to
  require you to send a second, or maybe a third,
  letter of notification to parents.

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Reasonsto do the right thing

• Forgetting to remove the instructions in the
  letter
• ltinsert campus name heregt
• or forgetting to change the campus name in the
  letter requires you to send multiple letters to
  parents.

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Reasonsto do the right thing

• You do not want to explain to the press why you
  cannot spend the school improvement funds
  provided to you or why you spent the money the
  way you did.

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Reasonsto do the right thing

• A strong focus on instruction and student
  learning has a greater impact on meeting AYP than
  purchasing large amounts of capital outlay
  itemsfurniture, iPods, tractors, garage for
  school van, barbecue grill, etc.

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Reasonsto do the right thing

• Playing card games during the SIP orientation
  meetings and SIP trainings does not improve
  student academic achievement or assist the campus
  in meeting AYP.

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Reasonsto do the right thing

• Blaming the campus SIP status on a group of
  students or on one particular student is never
  the right thing to do.

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Reasonsto do the right thing

• Notifying the parent of school choices that do
  not exist does not increase parent involvement.

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Reasonsto do the right thing

• You are required to use the TEA Parent
  Notification Letters as they are written.
  Spending hours trying to unlock the letters
  wastes time that could be spent improving the
  campus.

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Reasonsto do the right thing

• Parents, and their students, deserve to have all
  the choices available to themfor school choice
  options and for choosing supplemental service
  providers.

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Reasonsto do the right thing

• Supplemental Educational Services providers can
  file a complaint against the district and TEA
  will investigate the complaint.

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Reasonsto do the right thing

• Contracting issues with Supplemental Educational
  Services providers is not an acceptable excuse
  for denying services to students for months.

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Reasonsto do the right thing

• Your district documentation must be detailed
  because you never know what Supplemental
  Educational Services provider will be interviewed
  by USDE during the audit visit.

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Reasonsto do the right thing

• It is required.

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Reasonsto do the right thing

• You accepted the funding.

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Reasonsto do the right thing

• Plain and simple, it is federal law.

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Its the right thing to do

• Just Do The Right Thing!

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Parents Deserve it

• Just Do The Right Thing!

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It is the Law

• Just Do The Right Thing!

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It is required

• Just Do The Right Thing!

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Continuous identified problems can cause an
on-site review by TEA.

• Just Do The Right Thing!

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Students Deserve it

• Just Do The Right Thing!

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Students Deserve it

• Just Do The Right Thing!

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Students Deserve it

• Just Do The Right Thing!

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You do not want to recognize your school in next
years presentation

• Just Do The Right Thing!

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You do not want to recognize your school in next
years presentation

• Just Do The Right Thing!