State Support of School Improvement Planning USDOE
Published Curated on April 29, 2015
This collection provides toolkits, guides, and rubrics used by State Education Agencies to support their schools and districts with improvement planning. The United States Department of Education’s Reform Support Network (RSN) gathered these resources as part of their effort to distribute learning from the Race to the Top initiatives to all States by sharing promising practices and lessons learned.
These State resources and many others can be found in the RSN’s School Turnaround Performance Management Toolkit, an online resource developed by the RSN’s School Turnaround Performance Management Work Group and organized around the RSN’s School Turnaround Performance Management Framework.
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A Guide to Eight-Step Planning and Problem Solving USDOE
This document explains Florida’s Eight-Step Problem-Solving Process and how their continuous improvement process integrates with the SIG process.
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SIG Proposal Design and Structure Presentation
This presentation describes Florida’s experience with the SIG application process.
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Comprehensive Needs Assessment
This website provides guidance, rubrics and a self-evaluation form to support the North Carolina's Comprehensive Needs Assessment (CNA) process...
Website
Michigan School Turnaround Toolkit
This toolkit is updated every month with new articles, videos, tools, worksheets and resources to support Michigan’s Priority and Focus schools and...
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Comprehensive Success Review Rubric
This assessment tool helps Delaware identify the strengths and weaknesses of a school or district on eight research-based rubric elements.
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Student and School Success Action Planning Handbook
This handbook provides school teams with guidance as they implement and sustain turnaround programs.
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Quality School Review Rubric
This rubric was developed as a needs assessment tool for Priority and Focus schools based on Federal turnaround principles.
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Unified Improvement Plan Website
This website provides templates, training tools, case studies, and videos supporting Colorado's Theory of Action and Unified Improvement...
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Delaware Department of Education Turnaround Guide
This document provides the lowest performing schools in Delaware with specific guidelines for planning.
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School Improvement Grants: Guidance and Tools for the 2015 Amended Regulations: Maximizing the Optional Planning/Pre-Implementation Year CST
The purpose of this guide is to provide states, districts, and schools with information and support to prepare applications for 2015–2016 School...
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