Schoolwide Programs

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Schoolwide Programs
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Comprehensive Plan Development

• One-year development period
• Exception
• - Reorganization of schools in a district
• Opening of a Title I school with more than 50
  returning teachers from another Schoolwide
  program
• New PSA, in its first year, must operate as a
  targeted assistance Title I school

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Schoolwide Planning Team/Roles

• Leadership
• Staff Representation
• Parent Representation
• Community Representation

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Core Elements

• Comprehensive Needs Assessment
• Comprehensive Plan
• Outlines how components will be implemented
• Title I and multiple funding sources must be
  included
• Evaluation

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Schoolwide SchoolsMandated Components

• 1 Comprehensive Needs Assessment
• 2 Schoolwide Reform Strategies

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Schoolwide Schools

• 3 Instruction by highly qualified teachers
• 4 Strategies to attract highly qualified
  teachers to high needs schools

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Schoolwide Schools

• 5 High Quality and Ongoing Professional
  Development
• 6 Strategies to Increase Parent Involvement
• 7 Transition Plans for Preschool Children

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Schoolwide Schools

• 8 Teacher Involvement in Academic Assessment
  Decisions
• 9 Timely Additional Assistance
• 10 Coordination and Integrationof Services and
  Programs

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• COMPREHENSIVE PLAN REQUIREMENTS

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Plan Requirements

• There are four comprehensive plan requirements
  that must
• Describe Components
• Describe Resources
• List Related Programs
• Describe Parent Support

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Plan Requirements

• To comply with Comprehensive Plan Requirement 1
  - Describe Components, the plan must contain
  the following
• An index of page numbers that indicates where to
  locate each of the required10 Schoolwide plan
  components

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Plan Requirements

• To comply with Comprehensive Plan Requirement 2
  - Describe Resources and Requirement 3 - List
  Related Programs, the plan must contain the
  following
• A list of Federal, State and local resources that
  will be used to implement the plan as well as a
  list of Federal, State and local programs that
  will be consolidated in the Schoolwide program.

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Plan Requirements

• If only Title I funds are used to support a
  Schoolwide program, the school is not eligible to
  become or remain Schoolwide

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Plan Requirements

• To comply with Comprehensive Plan Requirement 4
  - Describe Parent Support, the plan must
  incorporate the following into Schoolwide
  Component 6 - Parent Involvement
• A description of how the school will provide
  individual student academic assessment results in
  a language the parent can understand, including
  an interpretation of these results, to the
  parents of a child who participates in the state
  academic assessments

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Required Evaluation of a Schoolwide Program

• Annual evaluation of
• Implementation of Schoolwide program
• Program effectiveness based on student
  achievement results from State and other
  assessments
• Revise plan as necessary

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Questions Answers
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Contacts

• Regional Field Services Consultants
• Region 1 . . . . . . . . . . 517-373-4009
• Region 2 . . . . . . . . . . 517-373-0161
• Region 3 . . . . . . . . . . 517-373-6341
• Region 4 . . . . . . . . . . 517-373-4004
• Region 5 . . . . . . . . . . 517-373-4212