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Conducting a Comprehensive Needs Assessment . Keeping the Process Effective and User-Friendly.
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Conducting a Comprehensive Needs Assessment Keeping the Process Effective and User-Friendly
Since change is made by individuals, their personal satisfactions, frustrations, concerns, motivations, and perceptions all contribute to the success or failure of a change initiative. ---Loucks-Horsley &Stiegelbauer, 1991,p.18 (Love, 2008) Page 316 Figure 7.2 Swingset Cartoon
Purpose By the end of this session, we will: • develop a picture of what needs assessment processes can look like. • use tools and a process to conduct a comprehensive needs assessment that will lead the building to take action and drive the development of the School Improvement Plan Source: Implementing Change: Integrating Policy, Research and Context to Benefit Students – Denise Ariola (2014) and Questions for Life Powerful Strategies to Guide Critical Thinking - Stephen G. Barkley (2009)
What is a Needs Assessment? A comprehensive needs assessment is a process organizations and schools use to: • Identify gaps between current conditions (what is) and desired conditions (what should be); • Place these gaps or needs in priority order; • Implement interventions, action, strategies and practices aligned to needs; • Target resources to address needs. ESEA Flexibility; USDOE- Title I, Part A 1114; ADE Federal Programs and School Improvement Units
SIP Model Improved Student Achievement • Step 5: Implement Interventions & Actions Step 4: Apply the appropriate funding sources to the actions that require state or federal funding. Source: Roy, P. (2004). A Tool Kit for Quality Professional Development in Arkansas ADE, School Improvement Unit
Needs Assessments can also be referred to as… Tools that can be used to develop a needs assessment: Indistar® Multiple measures of data- Perceptual Student Learning School Process Demographic AMO results Interim Assessments Scholastic Audit TESS Focus Groups & Teams CWTs and Focus Walks • Comprehensive Needs Assessment • Root Cause Analysis • Scholastic Audit • Strategic Planning ESEA Flexibility; USDOE- Title I, Part A 1114; ADE Federal Programs and School Improvement Units
Step-by-Step Process Establish a Leadership Team and sub teams or committees based on needs Clarify the Vision and Mission for reform Create the school profile Identify data, research, resources Analyze the data ESEA Flexibility; USDOE- Title I, Part A 1114; ADE Federal Programs and School Improvement Units
Step 3: Create a School Profile by completing a Comprehensive Needs Assessment ESEA Flexibility; State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG) http://www.arstudentsuccess.org/ ; *USDOE- Title I, Part A 1114
The Leadership team and other stakeholders complete a Comprehensive Needs Assessment Vision and Mission Determine Focus Areas (IMOs) PLCs Leadership Team Identification and Analysis PLCs Safety Team Family & Community Team ESEA Flexibility; State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG) http://www.arstudentsuccess.org/ ; *USDOE- Title I, Part A 1114
Thank youfor participating in the Comprehensive Needs Assessment Session! School Improvement Unit For more information contact your: School Improvement Specialist (501)-683-3434 http://www.arkansased.org/divisions/learning-services/school-improvement Presenters: