The Comprehensive Needs Assessment Report

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The Comprehensive Needs Assessment Report
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Objectives

• Understand the partnership between DPI and
  leadership
• Give an overview of continuous quality
  improvement
• Understand the Comprehensive Needs Assessment
  (CNA) Framework
• Learn to use the CNA report
• Understand the role of leadership in linking the
  CNA report to school improvement

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Partnership
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The Continuous Improvement Cycle
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Continuous Improvement

• The simple but important questions which support
  school improvement
• How are we doing?
• How do we know?
• How good can we be?
• How do we get there?

The Comprehensive Needs Assessment (CNA) is the
script to answer these critical questions.
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• Understanding the
• CNA Report

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Guiding Principles of the CNA Process

• Rubric based (framework of the CNA process)
• Evidence based
• Triangulation of evidence
• Transparency
• Relationship between teaching and learning
• Impact on students
• Not compliance based

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Framework for Comprehensive Needs Assessment
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Key Language of the CNA Rubric Process

• Impact
• Monitoring (does not mean compliance)
• Teaching and Learning/ Student Learning
• Evidence

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Teaching and Learning

• Teaching Learning
• Cause Effect
• Teaching Impact

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Evaluating and documenting the impact of
instruction
The teacher posts the NCSCOS objectives on the
board, but does not refer to them at any time.
When students are asked what they are learning,
they point to the objective on the board, but
cannot explain it. Consequently, the NCSCOS
objective was not used effectively to help
students understand what they should be learning,
leaving some students disconnected from the
process.
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Evaluating and documenting the impact of
instruction
The teacher posts the NCSCOS objectives on the
board and uses this as a guide for learning by
referring back to them throughout the lesson.
Therefore, students are well aware of what
their learning targets are for this lesson and
are engaged in the learning process.
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Teaching is only effective when students are
learning
Consider this
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What does it mean to educate in your school?
Refocus the Lens
How do you determine if students are learning
enough?
What is good teaching?
Who determines what high quality teaching and
learning look like?
How do you determine if students are learning?
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Where are we now?

• How have you shared the CNA report?
• What are your plans?
• What are your concerns and/or potential barriers
  in using the CNA report?

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• Using
• the CNA Report

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Previews and Coming Attractions

• The UNPACKING workshop will
• aid participants in understanding the CNA rubric
  as a framework and tool for assessment
• identify and examine key evidence in your CNA
  report and
• develop questioning techniques to identify what
  is working well and where improvement is needed.
  

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• Send Red Carpet Invitations to

• Individuals eager for change
• Creative thinkers
• Nontraditional leaders
• People with influence

Change Agents
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• The Role of Leadership Focusing the Lens

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Refocus with Questions

• Whats the impact?
• Whats the outcome?
• So what?
• How do you know?

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• There are risks and costs to a program
• of action, but they are far less than the
• long-range risks and costs of
• comfortable inaction.
• John F. Kennedy

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UNPACKING the CNATo Schedule Contact Ellen
Stone ellen.stone_at_dpi.nc.gov(919) 835-6124
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Questions
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