Collaboration Spotlight: Dr. Dottie Critchlow's Network Improvement Planning

In the last blog post, we talked about how it’s that time of year to begin planning for the 2017-2018 school year.  Dr. Dottie Critchlow is taking the SIP process one step further by modeling the collaborative inquiry process with her network principals to establish network improvement goals and plan.

Activating and Engaging

The discussion began by activating prior knowledge with an activity entitled, Got it! Need It!.  Individuals identified what they knew about the SIP process and what they need to know (see below chart). 
 
We also discussed their vision for the network (see below chart).

Exploring and Discovering

During the exploring and discovering phase the critical part is to avoid making inferences and explanations about the data.  Instead, this phase is about sticking to just the facts and reporting observations. 
 
This phase begin with a brief overview of collaborative inquiry and a quick calibrating activity.   Principals then divided into small groups to make observations of their assigned data reports from the MNPS Data Warehouse.  The reports used for this session were:

Dashboard—>School Network Profile

• Demographics
• Behavior
• Support & Intervention
• Benchmark Data

Assessment-->Assessment Summary by Subgroups (District)

• Benchmark
• TLA
• ACT
• FAST math
• FAST reading
  

Attendance-->Attendance Dashboard (district)

Assessment-->MT-RLA Attendance-Behavior

Dashboard—Behavior Dashboard

Dashboard—School Profile

Some excellent observations were made of the data (see below charts).

The observations were used to then discuss causal theories (see chart).

Organizing and Integrating
SMART Goals

With the needs assessment complete, the principals then collaborated to develop SMART network improvement goals.  For the 2017-2018 school year, their goals are:

• Using the district literacy assessment, a decrease of x% of students in the lower quintile; an increase of x% of students will be at or above grade level; and an increase of x% of students will demonstrate growth in literacy by the end of the 2017-2018 school year.  (Note that exact percentages were not set as we wanted to wait to see which benchmark assessment will be used.)
• 100% of schools will develop and implement a comprehensive behavior plan by the end of the 2017-2018 school year.
  

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Exit Ticket Reflection and
Meeting Feedback

• Train teachers on how to make data observations rather than always data analysis.
• Think more about making sure faculty is more culturally competent.
• Looking closely at an assessment for K-1
• Today was informative.  I understand how to approach the SIP better.
• Look at the interventions we are putting in place for our AA students
• Choose restorative practices as our SEL strategy next year
• Great information on responding to data
  

Plus

• meeting was good, very informative with the SIP preparation
• great framework for the activities and discussions
• allowing time for the group struggle
• great collaboration
• great conversation
• great job
• group work around data—pairs to discuss; groups sharing observations
• having data pre-printed so the focus was on the observation/analysis
• love the family picture
• great information on how to write statements for SIP
  

Suggestions for Improvement

• clarity on expectations for responses
• too cold…not your fault
• time
• let us all see all the data since we don’t see network data often
  

Workshop Resources

sip_planning_feb23_2017.pptx
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