August Leadership Institute
Quality School Plans
Ross Wilson
Educator Effectiveness
Mary Dillman
Data & Accountability
BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Office of Educator Effectiveness
Overview
Background
Structure
Inquiry & the QSP
Identify focus areas
Define student learning needs
Set school-wide student learning goals
Resources to Support Educator Professional Growth
BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Office of Educator Effectiveness
Background
Quality School Plans align and articulate district priorities
for schools’ prioritization, implementation, and monitoring
through the BPS educator evaluation system and inquiry
cycles:
District Priorities
MA
Curriculum
Frameworks
QSP
Data Inquiry
QSP
Family &
Community
Engagement
QSP
Inclusive
Practices
QSP
QSP
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Background (continued)
All BPS schools will complete the QSP because it:
+ supports implementation of district priorities in
response to the needs of your students
+ communicates school priorities to staff and partners
+ will be continuously revised to support schools’
meeting the needs of every student in two-year
cycles
+ aligns district priorities to the educator evaluation
process
+ provides NAS with a starting point for monitoring
visits
+ connects schools with similar student learning
challenges and improvement goals
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QSP Structure
The QSP contains five sections:
1) Data Analysis
2) School-wide Assessment
3) Action Plans for each priority
4) Plans for:
 Family & Community Engagement
 OIIT
 Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks/Common
Core
 Health & Wellness
5) Communications Plan
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Inquiry & the QSP
School-wide Focus Area
School-wide SL Goal
Team Student Learning Challenge
Team SL Goal
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Think big, focus small
Piles and Piles of Data
Data Packet
School-Wide Focus Area
S.W. Student Learning Goal
Standard, Item, Subgroup Data
Team Student
Learning Challenge
Team Student
Learning Goal
Quality School Plan
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Quality indicators: Focus area
• Broad enough so all staff members can see
themselves playing a role in addressing the
focus area
• Based on multiple data sources
• Focused on knowledge and skills you want to
students to acquire
• Directly related to instruction
School-wide Focus Area
School-wide SL Goal
Team Student Learning Challenge
Team SL Goal Setting
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Non-Examples of Focus Areas
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English Language Arts performance
Mathematics performance on MCAS
Close reading strategies
Identify and compare different authors’
points of view
School-wide Focus Area
School-wide SL Goal
Team Student Learning Challenge
Team SL Goal Setting
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Examples of Focus Areas
Critical thinking skills
College readiness in Mathematics
Argumentation skills
Math performance of students receiving
Resource support
• Writing skills for ELL students
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School-wide Focus Area
School-wide SL Goal
Team Student Learning Challenge
Team SL Goal Setting
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Examine an example QSP
School-Wide Focus Areas:
• How do the listed Focus Areas stack up against the
four quality indicators?
• How could you improve the listed Focus Areas?
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School-wide SL Goals
School-Wide Focus Area
Math performance of students receiving
resource room support
School-Wide Student Learning Goal
Based on recent MCAS trends of low growth
and low performance in Math for students
receiving Resource support, our goal is that
the 2014 Math median SGP for Resource
students will increase 12 points from 39.0 to
51.0.
School-wide Focus Area
School-wide SL Goal
Team Student Learning Challenge
Team SL Goal Setting
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Putting it all together…
School-wide Focus Area
- Broad
School-wide SL Goal
- Multiple data
sources
Team Student Learning Challenge
- Knowledge and skills
- Multiple-sources of
data
- Related to
instruction
- Focused on skills for
CCSS mastery
- Close a persistent
achievement gap
- Meet your larger
goals
Team SL Goal Setting