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Teaching and Learning Coaches and School
Accountability and School Improvement
Jenny Flint 29 February 2008
Purpose
• To deepen our understanding of the School Accountability and Improvement Framework.
• To discuss School Accountability and Improvement in relation to our roles.
School Accountability and Improvement
What contribution did you make in your role to whole school planning in your school/cluster in 2007?
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What Does ‘School Accountability and Improvement’ mean to you?
1. Use a Mind Map or suitable thinking tool to document what you know about ‘School Accountability and Improvement’
2. Add/ delete or modify as this session progresses
3. At the end of session: What 3 factors will influence your work as a T & L Coach? Why have you chosen these 3 factors? How will you use them?
Three Core Beliefs
Core beliefs that frame all of our work whatever our responsibility:
• All children can learn
• Work hard get smart
• Failure is not an option
How do the statements informed by these core beliefs impact on our work?
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School Accountability and Improvement Framework
AnnualCycle -
Implementation and Reporting
Four Year Cycle -
Planning and Review
School Strategic
Plan
Year 3
Year 2Year 4
Review and Planning Year School Self Evaluation School Review School Planning
Annual Implementation
Plan
School Compliance
Checklist
Annual Report
How well owned and understood are the accountability processes across our school communities?
Levels of School PlanningLevels of School PlanningFour Year School
Strategic Plan
Annual Implementation Plan
School Policies
Principal Performance & Development Plan
Sets the Direction
Staff Performance & Development Plan
Operationalises the Strategic Plan
School Level PlanningSchool Level Planning
Individual PlanningIndividual Planning
Detailed Project Plans
Design Principles of the Framework
Sharpen the focus on student outcomes Differentiate accountability and compliance Recognise school difference Use of resources to support improvement Strengthen collaboration Integrate planning and reporting within single processes in the
framework. Sharing responsibility
Sharpen the focus on student outcomes Differentiate accountability and compliance Recognise school difference Use of resources to support improvement Strengthen collaboration Integrate planning and reporting within single processes in the
framework. Sharing responsibility
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/standards/
Year in Self-Evaluation, Review and Planning
DecNovOctSepAugJulJunMayAprMarFebJan
School Self-Evaluation
School Review
School Strategic PlanAnnual Report & AIP
Annual Implementation Plan
Annual Imp. Plan
What are the challenges that face a leader in a school in a review year and subsequent years?
Key questions asked of each student outcome area:~
“What did we aim to do?” “What did we achieve?”
“Why did we achieve / not achieve our aims?”
“How effectively did we manage our resources to support the achievement of our aims?”
“What can we do in the future to continue to improve?”
Three areas can be interrelated as evidenced in the data.
School Self Evaluation
Student learning
Pathways & Transitions
Student engagement & wellbeing
Effective Schools
1. Professional Leadership
5. High expectations of all learners
2. Focus on Teaching &
Learning
7. LearningCommunities
3. PurposefulTeaching
4. Shared Vision & Goals
6. Accountability
8. Stimulating and
secure learning environment
necessary but not sufficient
School Self Evaluation
Activity
Use the ‘Effective Schools Model’ questions to discuss your role in 1,2 and 3.
SOMEthing
“A strategically focused school is one that is educationally effective in the short-term but has a clear framework and processes to translate core moral purpose and vision into excellent educational provision that is challenging and sustainable in the medium- to long-term.”Brent Davies (U.K.)
Add key words/ phrases to your Mind Map
School Strategic Plan
Annual Implementation Plans 2009-2011
Four Year School
Strategic Plan
2009 - 2011
Annual Implementation Plan - Year 1
Strategic Intent
Goals Targets One Year Targets
Student Learning
Student Engagement and Wellbeing
Student Pathways and Transitions
Implementation
Key Improvement Strategies & Significant Projects
What
(Actions)
How
(Resources)
Who When Achievement milestones
(Changes in practice &
behaviours)
# 1
# 2
# 3
Where would your role fit into the AIP?Is your role acknowledged in the AIP?
AIP
My role as Teaching and Learning Coach
• Which 3 factors will influence your work as a T & L Coach?
• Justify have you chosen these 3 factors
• How will you use them?Highlight factors/ Key word on Post It noteShare factors/ ideas with one other personCategorise in Sub RegionsRepresent those categories
Poem/ song/ drawing…
Activity
School Accountability and Improvement
REMEMBER:
School Improvement happens at a school level and not at a system level…
“The essence of accountability is looking forward, using data to inform judgements about current performance and formulate plans for reasonable actions.”
Earl and Katz, 2003