Comprehensive%20Needs%20Assessment

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Comprehensive Needs Assessment
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Comprehensive Needs Assessment

• A study to estimate the importance or value of

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TEAMS for Needs Assessment

• Student Issues
• Staff Issues
• Parent/Community Issues
• Climate/Safety/Facilities

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Teams are Challenged to

• Question the system
• Be data driven
• Involve parents/students
• Work as a team involve everyone
• Have honest/open discussions
• Stay student-focused

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• If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody
  isnt thinking.
• -George Patton

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Framework

• The framework was developed
• As a self-evaluation
• As a continuum for progress
• As a template for planning

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Ten Components

• Critical Attributes
• Critical parts that underscore each component
• Descriptors
• Descriptors of observed behaviors and/or events

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Framework

• Is NOT an external evaluators tool to
  evaluate/inspect a schools planning effort
• IS a tool to facilitate a school staffs
  discovery of where the school is in its planning
  efforts
• A guide to assist the school in determining where
  it might go next
• A tool developed with research in mind

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• http//www.tea.state.tx.us/student.support/