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View All Tools Get Ready Building Level Indicators of Effective Practices This tool is a straightforward self-assessment for school leaders to rate their own school in order to inform improvement. Author: Milligan, S., Fink, D., Delconte, V., Korenich, R., Salisbury, C., et al. Publication Date: 2000 Publisher: Principal's Project Data Primer The Data Primer is a North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) instructional website designed to help educators become more comfortable with thinking about and using data for the purposes of instructional decision making. Publisher: Learning Point Associates School Data Inventory Activity  Conducting a data inventory is an important step in knowing what types of data should be considered for use in decision making and school improvement planning at your school, as well as which are available and ready for analysis. The purpose of this activity, which accompanies the School Data Inventory tool, is to introduce strategies and tools for conducting an inventory to determine what data in the school and district are readily available, somewhat available, and not available. See the related tool listed below this activity in our Get Ready list of tools, or go directly to the School Data Inventory Tool. Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: WestEd School Data Inventory Tool Conducting a data inventory is an important step in knowing what types of data should be considered for use in decision making and school improvement planning at your school, as well as which are available and ready for analysis. This School Data Inventory tool lists data sources that are helpful for making some of the basic decisions to optimize school functioning and planning. For more information, see the accompanying activity listed above this tool in our Get Ready list of tools, or go directly to the School Data Inventory Activity. Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: WestEd School Reform Readiness Assessment A tool that will help you assess your school's readiness to begin the process of school improvement. It will also help you get organized. Author: Sylvie van Heusden Hale Publication Date: 2000 Publisher: WestEd Determine Needs Academic Program Survey The Academic Program Survey (APS) is a rating tool that can be used to evaluate how well a school is doing in nine areas ("essential program components") identified by the California State Department of Education as critical to student success. CDE's related High School Essential Program Components Resource Kit supports districtwide planning and implementing the Essential Program Components of a high school academic program, and can serve as guidelines or ideas for any state. Author: California Department of Education Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: California Department of Education Arizona Department of Education: Standards and Rubrics For School Improvement This document is intended to help schools identify the strengths and limitations of their instructional practices and organizational conditions. The document serves three primary functions: 1) as a blueprint to communicate the high expectations of the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction for all Arizona schools; 2) as a self-assessment tool to be used by the educational community at the local level; and 3) as an external assessment tool to be used by ADE School Improvement Teams. Author: Arizona Department of Education Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: Arizona Department of Education Building Level Indicators of Effective Practices This tool is a straightforward self-assessment for school leaders to rate their own school in order to inform improvement. Author: Milligan, S., Fink, D., Delconte, V., Korenich, R., Salisbury, C., et al. Publication Date: 2000 Publisher: Principal's Project Data Primer The Data Primer is a North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) instructional website designed to help educators become more comfortable with thinking about and using data for the purposes of instructional decision making. Publisher: Learning Point Associates How Does Your School Eliminate Barriers? A tool to help learn how homeless students are identified, enrolled in school, and supported to attend school, as well as how to identify ways to further reduce barriers homeless students may encounter. Author: BethAnn Berliner with Treseen McCormick Publication Date: 2001 Publisher: WestEd Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) Guide to Self-Assessment Tool Guide for using the LRE Self-Assessment Tool to examine site practices for serving students with disabilities in general education environments. This guide was developed by the California Department of Education in collaboration with the LRE Resources Project at WestEd. This guide was developed to be used in conjunction with the self-assessment tool. See the related tool listed below this guide in our Determine Needs list of tools, or go directly to the Least Restrictive Environment Guide to Self-Assessment Tool. Author: WestEd Publisher: California Department of Education Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) Self-Assessment Tool The LRE Self-Assessment Tool is used to examine site practices for students with disabilities in general education environments. This tool was developed by the California Department of Education in collaboration with the LRE Resources Project at WestEd. The LRE Self-Assessment Tool comes with a guide for using the tool. See the guide listed above this tool in our Determine Needs list of tools, or go directly to the Least Restrictive Environment Guide to Self-Assessment Tool. Author: WestEd Publisher: California Department of Education Providing for Basic Needs A tool to help learn what the basic needs of homeless students are and how to ensure that the students get what they need. Author: BethAnn Berliner with Treseen McCormick Publication Date: 2001 Publisher: WestEd Writing Student Achievement Goals This tool will help you create short-term (annual) student achievement goals that will set the foundation for action plan steps. Author: Comprehensive School Reform Facilitator Initiative Publisher: WestEd Investigate Solutions Developing a Report-Card-in-Progress A tool to help teachers engage in the development of an informal assessment and reporting system that can be readily and easily communicated to families in transition and to new and prospective teachers. Author: BethAnn Berliner with Treseen McCormick Publication Date: 2001 Publisher: WestEd Identifying and Implementing Educational Practices Supported By Rigorous Evidence This guide, developed by the US Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, provides educational practitioners with the tools needed to distinguish interventions supported by scientifically-rigorous evidence from those that are not. Author: Institute of Education Sciences Publication Date: December 2003 Publisher: U.S. Department of Education Write Plan Allocating Resources A tool to help allocate resources (people, time, materials and money) in such a way that improvement strategies with the greatest potential for increasing student achievement can be adequately supported. Author: Sylvie van Heusden Hale Publication Date: 2000 Publisher: WestEd TechPlan Builder WestEd TechPlan Builder (TPB) is designed to help school districts in California write and update their technology plans; however, the TPB will work for ANY district, lending a hand to ensure compliance with requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act's Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT). Author: WestEd Writing Student Achievement Goals This tool will help you create short-term (annual) student achievement goals that will set the foundation for action plan steps. Author: Comprehensive School Reform Facilitator Initiative Publisher: WestEd Implement/Monitor Collaborative Evaluation Led by Local Educators: A Practical, Print- and Web-Based Guide A guide for "collaborative evaluation," a process that engages teams of educators in a dynamic inquiry focused on assessing the effectiveness of local initiatives. It begins with the baseline stage of "Gathering Together and Planning," and continues on through "Preparing to Collect Data," "Collecting Our Data," "Making Sense of Our Findings," and "Making Improvements." Author: Ann Brackett and Nancy Hurley Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: WestEd Designing an Enrollment Brochure A tool to help clarify and improve the school's student enrollment process, especially for students who are homeless, and publish and disseminate a brochure that accurately outlined this process. Author: BethAnn Berliner with Treseen McCormick Publication Date: 2001 Publisher: WestEd |
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