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SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN


The school is committed to developing and implementing an improvement plan that emphasizes student learning. The school community is committed to school improvement that must be pursued continually and aggressively.

Membership Criteria
SIP 1 Each school conducts a continuous improvement process that focuses on enhanced learning for all students. At all times the school is engaged actively in some phase of the school improvement process (planning, internal analysis, external review, implementation, documentation).
   
Improvement Criteria
SIP 2 The school has a standing committee that is responsible for initiating, planning, and coordinating the school's improvement efforts.
   
SIP 3
The current school improvement initiative:
  • Begins with the development of a student profile drawn from the school's information system (see information system criteria).
  • Identifies a challenging set of goals that focuses on enhanced learning for all students.
  • Develops an improvement plan that details the changes that will be made in the process of schooling such that improvement can be documented in those goals.
  • Provides a specific assessment system designed to document increased student success on the goals identified.

SIP 4 All schools host a peer review team on a schedule that is consistent with the Protocol. Such reviews are monitored by the respective state committee. Each school submits the appropriate documentation for peer review at the state and regional level.
   
SIP 5 The school is able to document, in a variety of ways, that student performance goals are met. For example:
  • A larger proportion of entering students is placed in challenging programs in which they can be successful.
  • Improvement occurs for all students in the school.
  • Students are successful with ever-more challenging instructional materials and programs.
  • A proportion of student learning time is spent on interdisciplinary inquiries and extended investigations as well as on content mastery.
  • Students become increasingly self-directed as learners.


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