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The WINSS School Improvement Planning Tool:

The WINSS School Improvement Planning Tool:. An Overview. A Collaboration Between. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction North Central Regional Educational Laboratory North Central Regional Technology Education Consortium. The School Improvement Planning Tool Framework.

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The WINSS School Improvement Planning Tool:

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  1. The WINSS School Improvement Planning Tool: An Overview

  2. A Collaboration Between • Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction • North Central Regional Educational Laboratory • North Central Regional Technology Education Consortium

  3. The School Improvement Planning Tool Framework • The Characteristics of Successful Schools • The CESA Data Retreat Model

  4. Allows continuous planning. Research-based planning process. Plan meets federal requirements for schools identified for improvement. Comprehensive online data. Enhances Data Retreats. Flexible, easily edited and shared. Benefits of The School Improvement Planning Tool

  5. Ways to Use the School Improvement Planning Tool • As a guide for integrating data review and decision making throughout the school year. • As a focus for school improvement teams.

  6. Other Uses • To record consensus decisions when conducting improvement planning. • To monitor the progress and impact of school improvement efforts. • To share improvement planning decisions with parents and community members.

  7. Special Features • Allows Wisconsin schools or districts to create customized plan. • Plans are password protected and cannot be viewed or edited without entering the password.

  8. Getting Started . . . . .

  9. Step 1: Review Data and Identify Concerns • Review both WINSS and local data. • “Evidence of Success” data: • Describes student achievement and behavior. • Data in other characteristics: • Provides a picture of potential influences on student performance.

  10. Data Sources • WINSS Data Analysis Section • WINSS Characteristics of Successful Schools Surveys • WINSS School Climate Surveys • enGauge

  11. Step 2: Refine Concerns • After all data has been reviewed and the team has listed concerns, Step 2 allows the user to combine, delete, or edit concerns to a final list. • These concerns can be further edited at a later date if needed.

  12. Step 3: Prioritize Concerns • Only concerns about “Evidence of Success” data are shown in this step. • The others are stored and become available in Step 4: Developing Hypotheses. • In this step, the team designates a FEW concerns as priority for development of improvement goals.

  13. Step 4: Develop Hypotheses • For each priority concern: Agree on an explanation or hypothesis for why the problem is occurring. • Each accepted hypothesis must be supported by data. • Accepted hypotheses should focus on factors within the school’s control. • Hypotheses lead to improvement strategies.

  14. Help! • Most steps have a help box with suggested ideas for completing the step. • They contain activities, worksheets, and other helpful resources.

  15. Step 5: Set Goals • Users must establish an improvement goal for each priority concern. • Goals must meet specific criteria.

  16. Step 6: Identify Strategies • For each goal: Decide what improvement strategies will be implemented. • To generate ideas for strategies: Review the agreed upon hypotheses. • Strategies must be research based.

  17. Users define the criteria that will determine if goals and strategies have been successful. Strategies often require multiple evaluation criteria. Step 7: Evaluation Criteria

  18. Additional Features…. Reflection Questions Plan Manager Download Feature

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