School Improvement Team: Data Analysis
Leadership Teams
Chinita Bascom
Grand Canyon University: EDA 577
August 20, 2014
School Improvement Team: Problem to Address Who is need? Objectives Data Analysis
Affected Process
Principal
To find out why the students were late or absent.
Improve student academic performance.
Student Achievement
Assistant Principal
To know who often the students committed truancy.
Data-Based Decisions-Making
Parental Involvement
Guidance Counselor
To identify ways to help students rise above the act of truancy or lateness.
Retention of highly qualified teachers
Community Involvement
Grade Level Chairpersons
Attendance Policy
Parents
Businesses (Job Opportunities)
SAC President/ Community Members
School improvement …show more content…
is an ongoing process which enables ongoing examination and revision of the schools action plan. The process is based on using current data to meet the educational needs of the students. The action planning process helps my administrators save time by targeting areas for improvement and restructuring the process so they can easily take action to improve student achievement. The school uses the action plan to identify specific issues, steps to make improvements, implement recommendation, and identify the lead person who will coordinate the task completion, establish deadlines and determine method for success. The purpose of the selected team members would be to communicate the schools vision, strategic plan, goals, mission, objectives, and rationale to all stakeholders. The principal and assistant principal are responsible for the implementation of the action plan. It is important that all grade levels are represented on this team; therefore grade chair persons were selected. The guidance counselor was select because she monitors student attendance and reports excessive tardiness and absenteeism to the district presentative. Parent and community member’s role is to encourage their children to attend school daily and be on time. A problem that needs to be changed or address in my school is tardiness or absenteeism. Lateness and truancy are consistently done by many learners in today’s society. In my school, any learner is believed tardy if he/she encounters lateness or truancy, four times a month through the school year, in addition students are considered routinely absent when a student acquires unapproved absences not beyond the acceptable four days in a month without presenting a reason for being late or absent. They are considered exempted if they presented a letter at the time of their return. Many of the learners acquire lateness if they were unable to get up in a timely manner because they didn’t go to sleep at a reasonable time. Some were late because they were on the internet taking with friends on facebook or texting. Occasionally, they were absent or tardy because of illness or emergency issues. Therefore, they would be absent and soon it became a routine. Sometimes student were absent because they were being bullyed by other students, afraid of the teacher, they failed an assignment; they didn’t get enough rest the night before or just did want to come to school. Making modifications for this element can be challenging, but small modifications can have a substantial influence on student achievement Baker, J.
A. (1998) p.25-44. In order to assist the parents, job fair have been offered in the community and at the school. Job opportunities are available through the local businesses. Parents are able to receive monthly trainings in the academic areas. Students need to attend school on a daily basis to be successful. My administrators focus on the idea that attendance leads to a failure and the use of data that could raise the academic performance of our students. Therefore, attendance is a factor that affects the needs of the community. Many student absences are not about missing school deliberately. My school is located in a poverty community. Therefore attendance is affected due to insufficient healthcare, lack of transportation, homelessness and frequently moving Morrissey, T. W., Hutchison, L., & Winsler, A. (2013) p. 3. At my school, we have different classifications to justify absences: pleasure, dislike, and obstacles. With pleasure, parents and students don’t understand importance of attendance, school lack a solid value of attendance, or students just don’t want to come. With dislike, the students are struggling academically, being bullying, or dealing with stress. With obstacles, students lack sufficient healthcare; unsafe route to school; lack …show more content…
transportation. To address the issue of absenteeism, my principal’s first step in the action plan was to obtain the correct information.
He found that most schools tracked daily attendance but didn’t calculate the attendance for the month. Student’s report card usually show the number of instructional days missed. Nevertheless schools and school districts don’t put this data into a report. Data analysis is a key component for addressing absenteeism Data-Based Decision Making (2009). My principal has appointed a team of staff members to meet on a regular basis to discuss at-risk students, investigate causes of absenteeism via email, phone call, and parent meetings. The principal has also reached out to the community for assistance. The principals used his attendance data to pinpoint students who were absent frequently attendance is being and required the support of the community to solve this issue. Schools can make attendance a part of their accountability report for evaluating the
school. The problem or issue at my school affects the needs of the community. School leaders must address these factors in their school accountability plan in order to be an effective leader and improve student achievement. When the school is successful more opportunities become available and more families move into the community. Businesses tend to prosper and therefore, jobs become available. It is important school leaders evaluate the needs of the community and seek assistance from the community. School leaders must address the problems based on importance of the school and the community and how they affect performance of the students.
References
Baker, J. A. (1998). The social context of school satisfaction among urban, low-income, African- American students, School Psychology Quarterly, 13(1), 25-44.
Data-Based Decision Making. (2009). Resources for educators. Retrieved September 25, 2009, from, http://www.ael.org/dbdm/toc.cfm?&q=A
Morrissey, T. W., Hutchison, L., & Winsler, A. (2013). Family Income, School Attendance, and Academic Achievement in Elementary School. Developmental Psychology, 50(3).
Chinita Bascom
Grand Canyon University: EDA 577
August 20, 2014
School Improvement Team: Problem to Address Who is need? Objectives Data Analysis
Affected Process
Principal
To find out why the students were late or absent.
Improve student academic performance.
Student Achievement
Assistant Principal
To know who often the students committed truancy.
Data-Based Decisions-Making
Parental Involvement
Guidance Counselor
To identify ways to help students rise above the act of truancy or lateness.
Retention of highly qualified teachers
Community Involvement
Grade Level Chairpersons
Attendance Policy
Parents
Businesses (Job Opportunities)
SAC President/ Community Members
School improvement …show more content…
is an ongoing process which enables ongoing examination and revision of the schools action plan. The process is based on using current data to meet the educational needs of the students. The action planning process helps my administrators save time by targeting areas for improvement and restructuring the process so they can easily take action to improve student achievement. The school uses the action plan to identify specific issues, steps to make improvements, implement recommendation, and identify the lead person who will coordinate the task completion, establish deadlines and determine method for success. The purpose of the selected team members would be to communicate the schools vision, strategic plan, goals, mission, objectives, and rationale to all stakeholders. The principal and assistant principal are responsible for the implementation of the action plan. It is important that all grade levels are represented on this team; therefore grade chair persons were selected. The guidance counselor was select because she monitors student attendance and reports excessive tardiness and absenteeism to the district presentative. Parent and community member’s role is to encourage their children to attend school daily and be on time. A problem that needs to be changed or address in my school is tardiness or absenteeism. Lateness and truancy are consistently done by many learners in today’s society. In my school, any learner is believed tardy if he/she encounters lateness or truancy, four times a month through the school year, in addition students are considered routinely absent when a student acquires unapproved absences not beyond the acceptable four days in a month without presenting a reason for being late or absent. They are considered exempted if they presented a letter at the time of their return. Many of the learners acquire lateness if they were unable to get up in a timely manner because they didn’t go to sleep at a reasonable time. Some were late because they were on the internet taking with friends on facebook or texting. Occasionally, they were absent or tardy because of illness or emergency issues. Therefore, they would be absent and soon it became a routine. Sometimes student were absent because they were being bullyed by other students, afraid of the teacher, they failed an assignment; they didn’t get enough rest the night before or just did want to come to school. Making modifications for this element can be challenging, but small modifications can have a substantial influence on student achievement Baker, J.
A. (1998) p.25-44. In order to assist the parents, job fair have been offered in the community and at the school. Job opportunities are available through the local businesses. Parents are able to receive monthly trainings in the academic areas. Students need to attend school on a daily basis to be successful. My administrators focus on the idea that attendance leads to a failure and the use of data that could raise the academic performance of our students. Therefore, attendance is a factor that affects the needs of the community. Many student absences are not about missing school deliberately. My school is located in a poverty community. Therefore attendance is affected due to insufficient healthcare, lack of transportation, homelessness and frequently moving Morrissey, T. W., Hutchison, L., & Winsler, A. (2013) p. 3. At my school, we have different classifications to justify absences: pleasure, dislike, and obstacles. With pleasure, parents and students don’t understand importance of attendance, school lack a solid value of attendance, or students just don’t want to come. With dislike, the students are struggling academically, being bullying, or dealing with stress. With obstacles, students lack sufficient healthcare; unsafe route to school; lack …show more content…
transportation. To address the issue of absenteeism, my principal’s first step in the action plan was to obtain the correct information.
He found that most schools tracked daily attendance but didn’t calculate the attendance for the month. Student’s report card usually show the number of instructional days missed. Nevertheless schools and school districts don’t put this data into a report. Data analysis is a key component for addressing absenteeism Data-Based Decision Making (2009). My principal has appointed a team of staff members to meet on a regular basis to discuss at-risk students, investigate causes of absenteeism via email, phone call, and parent meetings. The principal has also reached out to the community for assistance. The principals used his attendance data to pinpoint students who were absent frequently attendance is being and required the support of the community to solve this issue. Schools can make attendance a part of their accountability report for evaluating the
school. The problem or issue at my school affects the needs of the community. School leaders must address these factors in their school accountability plan in order to be an effective leader and improve student achievement. When the school is successful more opportunities become available and more families move into the community. Businesses tend to prosper and therefore, jobs become available. It is important school leaders evaluate the needs of the community and seek assistance from the community. School leaders must address the problems based on importance of the school and the community and how they affect performance of the students.
References
Baker, J. A. (1998). The social context of school satisfaction among urban, low-income, African- American students, School Psychology Quarterly, 13(1), 25-44.
Data-Based Decision Making. (2009). Resources for educators. Retrieved September 25, 2009, from, http://www.ael.org/dbdm/toc.cfm?&q=A
Morrissey, T. W., Hutchison, L., & Winsler, A. (2013). Family Income, School Attendance, and Academic Achievement in Elementary School. Developmental Psychology, 50(3).