SSI Mission, Vision & Theory of Action

School Support and Improvement

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Vision

All Arizona students are empowered to create limitless futures.

Mission

Transform LEA and school systems ensuring equity, excellence, strengths based leadership and innovative continuous improvement.

Theory of Action

If the SSI Unit provides:

• high-quality professional learning to empower and support schools and LEAs by offering evidence-based practices, equity centered decision-making, and a multitude of resources;
• training and ongoing support of the CNA, RCA, and IAP continuous improvement process and implementation; and
• the opportunity for the co-creation of high expectations and accountability measures

And the LEA and school sites:

• conduct a thorough and reflective data analysis to determine needs;
• implement necessary systems change with evidence-based practices throughout the continuous improvement process;

Then, equitable, strength-based LEAs and schools will increase system and individual capacity ensuring equity, excellence and innovation resulting in increased student outcomes.

So that, All Arizona students are empowered to create limitless futures.

CNA to RCA to IAP

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The Comprehensive Needs Assessment, Root Cause, and Integrated Action Plan for all Title I Schools

Title I, II, III, IV-A, School Improvement and Move on When Reading schools will use the 6 Principles, Indicators and Elements to identify strengths and needs in order to increase student achievement and strengthen school systems leading to sustainable improvement.  The primary needs identified in the Comprehensive Needs Assessment become the foundation for the Schools Integrated Action Plan.  The LEA Integrated Action Plan is based on the School/s’ Comprehensive Needs Assessment findings.  It supports the implementation of the School Integrated Action Plan.

Comprehensive Needs Assessment

• FY22 CNA Rubric with Full Details
• FY22 CNA Planning Tool
• FY22 CNA, RCA and IAP Guidance

State Accountability Guidance and Resources for D and F Schools

ARS §15-241 requires the Arizona State Board of Education to adopt a methodology to assign letter grades for Arizona schools each year. District and Charter Schools assigned a letter grade of D or F must meet the following requirements, per ARS §15-241.02

School Improvement Training Resources for D and F Schools

Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI)

Click Here for CSI Identified List

Click Here for CSI Guidance Document

Click Here to Find your CSI Specialist

Comprehensive Support and Improvement - CSI Low Achievement

Title l schools with student proficiency/percent passing, ELA and Math combined, in the lowest 5% on the statewide assessment plus all “F” schools.

ESSA requires states to identify Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) schools based on a single set of criteria regardless of the school’s population or mission.

• Title 1 schools with student proficiency rate in the lowest 5% on AzMERIT.
  • The combined ELA and Math proficiency/passing rate was calculated using the following formula 

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  • The bottom 5% cut score is 13% combined proficiency/passing rate for identification in 2017

Exit Criteria:

• a minimum of two consecutive years of increased student proficiency on the state assessment
• implementation of school improvement goals, strategies and action steps in state required Integrated Action Plan
• proficiency rate above the state bottom 5 percent of Title I schools on the state assessment

CSI schools are identified every three years

FY21 CSI Grant

FY21 CSI Grant - 4212020

FINAL FY21 CSI Low Achievement Rubric 1.7.20

FINAL FY21 CSI Low Achievement Grant Application 1.7.20

Comprehensive Support and Improvement - CSI Low Graduation Rate

All schools with a five-year cohort graduation rate of less than or equal to two-thirds.

Exit Criteria:

• a minimum of two consecutive years of increased graduation rate
• implementation of school improvement goals, strategies and action steps in state required Integrated Action Plan
• Graduation rate of two-thirds or greater.

CSI schools are identified every three years

FY21 CSI Graduation Rate Grant

FY21 CSI Grad Rate Grant - 4212020

FINAL FY21 Grad Rate Rubric 1.4.20

FINAL FY21 CSI Grad Rate Application 12.19

Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI)

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Click Here for TSI Guidance Document

Click Here to Find your TSI Specialist

FY21 TSI Grant

FY21 TSI Grant - 4212020

FINAL FY21 TSI Rubric 3.3.20

FINAL FY21 TSI APPLICATION 3.3.20

School Improvement Grants (SIG)

ELEVATE: Arizona's Executive Leadership Network

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Theory of Action

Vision: ELEVATE seeks to improve LEA and school systems in order to significantly increase and sustain quality outcomes for all Arizona Students.

Mission: ELEVATE develops and empowers LEA and school leaders to focus on equity, improving teaching and learning that results in rapid and significant gains in student achievement

ELEVATE Theory of Action

If we develop equity-focused leaders’ skills and competencies to facilitate systemic change by creating and sustaining a high quality, cohesive instructional infrastructure a strong culture of learning and high expectations for all, a strategic, evidence-based talent management system

Then student achievement significantly improves, and student subgroup achievement gaps are eliminated.

COHORT 6 APPLICATION

ELEVATE is a two-year executive leadership program developed and supported by the Arizona Department of Education and WestED. The program focuses on developing the knowledge, competencies and skills of leaders as they work toward systemic change within schools and LEAs.

How is the Program Structured?

The two year program includes a two day  LEA Leadership Team Boot Camp and four two and a half day LEA and School Leadership Team convenings each year.

Participants:

• LEA Leadership Team, Superintendent plus key LEA leaders, SPED, Teaching and Learning, Federal Programs as meets the needs of individual contexts
• School Leadership Teams, Principal plus a 3 or 4 person school leadership team

ELEVATE focuses on the levers of LEA and school systems

• Culture
• Talent Management
• Instructional Infrastructure

MTSS: Multi-Tiered System of Support

MTSS is an instructional system with a tiered infrastructure that uses data to help match academic and social emotional supports to address the needs of the whole child.

•  Universal Support – All students in All settings
  • Highly effective Core academic instruction and social emotional learning 

• Additional Support
  • Rapid response small group evidence-based academic and social emotional learning

•  Intensified Support
  • Individualized high intensity evidence-based academic instruction and social emotional learning

Additional and Intensified support is in addition to Universal support

Click Here to Visit the MTSS Website

MTSS Training Resources