Educational Improvement and Assistance
School Improvement
School Improvement Process
- Entails commitment by all stakeholders: administration, faculty, parents, and community.
- Is continual and recursive.
- Reveals where a school is and where it must go.
- Is led by the principal, but all members of the staff and community are involved in the design and implementation.
- Requires collaboration with the district office, the school’s District Assistance Team, and other
assistance partners, if such personnel are in place.
- Is based on data.
- Involves the change process.
- Requires commitment to the vision of what the school can become.
The School Improvement Process has three distinct yet overlapping phases: planning, implementing, and evaluating until the changes become institutionalized as part of the school’s culture.
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School Improvement Process in Louisiana
As required by Louisiana RS 17:10.2, "each school and each school district shall develop, modify, or both, any existing educational improvement plan for academic achievement.”
The School Improvement Process
- Results in a defensible plan that is collaborative among representative school stakeholders who serve as the School Improvement Team (SIT).
- Is led by a functioning SIT.
Note: The SIT can seek external assistance in conducting needs assessments and in validating the SIT’s interpretation of data. A District Assistance Team (DAT) can serve in this capacity.
- Often depends on the expertise of a District Assistance Team (DAT) in collaboration with the SIT.
Note to schools in School Improvement and with Comprehensive School Reform Program (CSRP) grants: These schools must use the SIP Template for revising and updating plans, beginning in the spring of 2001.
Districts that have developed their own template formats or schools that are engaged in Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) self-studies must ensure that all of the components of these processes are aligned with those required by the LA Department of Education (LDE). Districts are required to review and sign School Improvement Plans before submitting them to the LDE.
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