Welcome NEW USERS Please set up your microphone using the Audio W izard (found in Tools)

1. Welcome • NEW USERS • Please set up your microphone • using the Audio Wizard • (found in Tools) • Webinar Norms… • Keep the audio muted when not speaking • Use headphones so microphones do not re-transmit • Use webinar non-verbal tools • “Raise hand” if you have a question • Use the “Step away from session” button

2. Useful Tools in Blackboard Chat Box:

3. Returning Users Webinar – September 9 & 11, 2014

4. Purpose… • Review STEPP Processes • Update School/Team information • Update Assessed Indicators/Tasks • NEW - Upload Folder • NEW – Flagging • NEW – Spotlight • NEW - Schoolwide Plan Connection • Time for Q&A

5. The Six Domains Include... • Curriculum • Assessment • Instruction • Supportive Learning Environment • Professional Development • Leadership • (Within these domains are 32 performance indicators)

6. Alaska STEPP supports a Continuous Improvement Model

7. Alaska STEPP is a place to build that framework. The indicators of effective practice are the framework that support the school. Like a house, in a school plan something is usually in need of being updated or replaced.

8. Annual Updates: • School Information / Team Information • Needs Assessment • Upload Folder (remove/save old, upload new needs assessment and comprehensive plan) • Indicators (new, re-assessed, flagged) • Tasks (new, completed, revised) • Monitoring (updates, completed) • Meetings (set regular schedule for the year) • SW Plan Review

9. New! – Folders • You will now see 3 folders. • Last year – assurance/needs assessment • This year – assurance/needs assessment • Spare – Misc Documents • Save up to 11 total – BUT – MOVE THEM to your own hard drive at the end of the year.

10. Update School/Team Information

11. School Information: - Includes Principal and Process Manager (who enters information into the system and schedules team meetings, if the Principal does not do this) Team Information: - Includes team members, phone, email contacts. Add a New Team Member – use the button. Delete/Edit a Team Member – Double Click the name to get a popup box.

12. Indicators – New! - Re-Assessed/Flagged • Flagged indicators will appear on the Assess Button • Filters may be selected for Flagged, Key, or Spotlight indicators • Display all indicators will show those that have NOT yet been assessed, or have been flagged, on the “2. Indicators to Assess” tab, and those assessed at Limited or Full (but not yet flagged) on the “3. Indicators Assessed” tab – unless a filter is selected. Flagged indicators will not count as “Assessed” in this column – they are considered ‘Not Assessed’

13. Flagged indicators show up as to be assessed. Past history for a Flagged indicator is here. Remember to Save

14. Updating Tasks Update who is responsible for a task and when it will be completed. Update actual tasks, and whether or not they have been completed.

15. Monitor Progress Monitor button gives a snapshot of objectives and tasks/% completed. Tasks may be updated from here by clicking on the objective.

16. NEW! - Spotlight Indicators Select the Spotlight Indicators Page using one of these two buttons. • Helpful for: • Focusing a team on Key indicators plus one or two • Focusing a team on only 3 indicators per year • Selecting only indicators a Title IA School Wide planning team will need • Focusing a team on Parent Involvement only

17. Indicators must first be added to the Spotlight Indicator List below. Then they may be selected using the filter, which will then show only Spotlight Indicators on Subsequent Pages – Create/Monitor

18. All other pages (Create, Monitor, Reports) will then have the option to remove the Spotlight Indicator filter somewhere on the page. Individual Spotlight Indicators may only be changed/removed from the Spotlight Page

19. STEPP as a School Wide Plan – • 15 Indicators • Assurances • Annual Review http://education.alaska.gov/aksupport/#c3gtabs-stepp

20. New! Leadership Page

21. Alaska STEPP is a teamdriven process for school improvement.

22. MEETINGAGENDA SETUP Video tutorial available

23. Using Alaska STEPP is a Process Teams monitor the implementation of their plan over the course each and multiple years. The plan is never finished and teams continuously assess, plan, and monitor.

25. Resources Patricia Farren – (907) 465-2892 patricia.Farren@Alaska.gov Sheila Box – (907) 465-8743 sheila.box@Alaska.gov EED Webpage – ORANGE Support Star FAQs STEPP User’s Manual School Improvement Handbook Info Sheets STEPP Dashboard – Complete Forms Tab / Documents and Links Tab

26. Quiz Time! On a smartphone or if you have TWO screens at your desk, Go to: kahoot.it And enter the game pin you see and your name.