AVRSB School Success Planning and Accreditation

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AVRSB School Success Planning and Accreditation
An introduction
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AVRSB school improvement planning for 10 years
BUT

• Not based on evidence/research/data
• No release time granted
• No money provided to implement plan
• Plans often failed or faded away
• Goals were primarily administrator-driven
• Not enough Board-level support
• SSP and its PD were additions to other
  initiatives

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What is School Accreditation ?

• A made in Nova Scotia approach
• to school improvement. It is about
• enhancing school performance
• and student achievement.

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AVRSB participation

• There are already 20 schools participating in the
  accreditation process.
• 10 new schools are beginning in 2008-2009.
• All AVRSB schools will be in the accreditation
  cycle as of September 2009.

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2009-2010 Schools

• Berwick
• Brooklyn
• Dr Arthur Hines
• Glooscap
• LE Shaw

• New Minas
• Northeast Kings
• Pine Ridge
• Port Williams
• Wolfville

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School Accreditation Cycle

• Year One
• Internal Review
• Academic achievement of students
• School performance as a learning community
• Establish Priorities for Improvement
• Develop a multi-year School Success Plan
• Write an Internal Review Report
• External Team Review

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School Accreditation Cycle

• Years Two, Three Four
• Implement the SSP
• On-going data collection and analysis
• Monitor assess the plans effectiveness and
  revise as necessary
• Principal reports annually on progress
• Year Five
• Accreditation Team visit
• Preparation for the next cycle

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To Complete the Accreditation Cycle

• The school presents convincing evidence (data)
  that indicates they have achieved growth in
  relation to the improvement goals identified in
  their school success plan.

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Accreditation Cycle
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Dr. Arthur Hines is in the Gap year in 2008-2009

• What does being in
• the Gap year mean?

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Gap Year tasks in preparation for accreditation

• By Spring
• Choose co-chairs
• Decide on other Internal Review Team members
• Inform parents
• Conduct DOE survey (choose method of
  distribution, incentive, etc.)

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Collect Data

• Student Achievement
• To what extent is the provincial curriculum
  implemented consistently throughout the school?
• How well are our students achieving the
  curriculum? (Report card analysis assessment
  results, etc.)

• School Performance
• To what extent is the school functioning as an
  effective learning organization?

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What data can you collect at DAHS to provide
information about ?

• School Performance (Culture)
• Student Achievement ( Teaching Learning)

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Data Collection and Organization

• Existing goal data collection
• Annual reports
• Report card data
• Observation surveys
• Running records
• Provincial assessment results
• In-school rubrics
• Behaviour tracking
• Resource referrals
• Parent attendance/involvement at all events
• Student participation in all events/activities

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Quantitative Data
Qualitative Data

• DESCRIPTIVE
• Interviews
• Focus Groups
• Observational data
• Case studies
• Program evaluation

• NUMERIC
• Test scores
• Records
• Frequencies
• Percentages
• Survey results

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Collect Data to help respond to the following
questions

• School Performance
• 1. To what extent does the school meet the
  individual learning needs of students?
• 2. To what extent does the school meet the
  non-academic needs of students?
• 3. To what extent does the school provide for a
  safe, healthy, and positive learning environment?
• 4. To what extent is the school organized to
  maximize student learning?
• 5. To what extent are parents/guardians involved
  in their childrens learning and their childrens
  school?
• 6. To what extent does the school facilitate
  communications with the school community?

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Collect Data to help respond to the following
questions

• 1. How well are our students achieving in Active
  Healthy Living?
• 2. How well are our students achieving in Arts
  Education?
• 3. How well are our students achieving in
  Business Education, Family Studies, and
  Technology Education?
• 4. How well are our students achieving in
  English?
• 5. How well are our students achieving in
  Mathematics?
• 6. How well are our students achieving in
  Science?
• 7. How well are our students achieving in Second
  Languages?
• 8. How well are our students achieving in Social
  Studies?

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The School Accreditation Process

• Internal Review (14 Questions to Address)
• Schools Strengths and Areas Needing Improvement
• School Improvement Plan
• External Review
• Implementation of School Improvement Plan
• Annual Reports on Progress
• External Review
• Accreditation

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Roles Responsibilities School

• Establish an Internal Review Team
• Full participation by the school community
• Develop, implement and assess the plan
• Full involvement and support of school
  administrators throughout the process

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Roles Responsibilities Principal

• Involved in all aspects of the process
• Serve on the Internal Review Team
• Lead the implementation of the School Success
  Plan
• Maintain open communication with the school
  community about the school improvement activities
  and results achieved in the Accreditation process

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Roles Responsibilities IRT Co-Chairs

• Lead the Internal Review process (4 training days
  and 8 sub release days for working on the report)
• Lead in the organizational matters of the IR
  process holding meetings, gathering
  information, analyzing data and drafting of
  reports
• Serve as primary writers for the Internal Review
  Report
• Organize / facilitate School Success Planning
  sessions
• Develop first draft of the School Success Plan
• Write final copy of SSP in cooperation with the
  staff, Internal Review Team and principal

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Thank you very much for your participation!
Best of luck to Dr. Arthur Hines School !