Tiered Supports district structures to support our schools based on need

Presentation to the Board of Education: 10.17.13

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Agenda

• Tiered Support Framework

• Tiered Supports:

– Intensive Supports

– Strategic Supports

• Tiered Supports: Additional Details

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Tiered Support Framework

Differentiate Support to Schools: We will provide equitable and differentiated supports and interventions to all schools by sharing best practices and piloting new and exploratory ways to improve upon our core practice.

• We will ensure that all of our schools—whether district-run, charter, contract, or innovation—have equity of opportunity, of access and responsibility, and of accountability.

• We will diagnose gaps at all schools that are not meeting expectations (yellow and below on SPF) and provide targeted and differentiated interventions to create sustainable transformation.

• We will focus on the lowest performing schools, providing immediate and dramatic interventions to improve teaching and learning.

• We will focus on turnaround strategies in our lowest-performing schools and welcome high-quality new programs and schools.

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Denver Plan Instructional Priority #4

Denver Plan: Instructional Priority 4

Tiered Support Framework

• An annualized process that provides early warning indicators for identifying and tiering our most struggling schools

• A consistent set of data-driven criteria for all school types (district-managed, innovation, charter)

• A data-driven framework for aligning intensive supports and/or intervention decisions with proactive communications and annual progress monitoring

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Tiered Support Framework: Strategic and Intensive schools fall in the middle tier of support Turnaround supports fall in the top tier of support

#1 ACADEMIC INDICATORS - Is the school meeting academic and enrollment expectations?

Academic Data: 3 year trends on SPF and anticipated growth trajectory

Enrollment data: 3 year enrollment trends, demand, re-enrollment

Intensive school supports,

interventions or enhanced

monitoring

#3 BODY OF EVIDENCE - Does the body of evidence suggest redesign, turnaround, restart or non-renewal/closure?

Academic and School Quality Indicators + Additional Data: history of school and

interventions/support, availability of higher performing options, community engagement

Yes Continuous quality improvement

Good to great support, replication of best practices**

**Schools meeting SPF expectations will still be monitored for leading indicators such as

significant changes in demand, re-enrollment or declines in SPF growth or status

No

Yes

#2 SCHOOL QUALITY INDICATORS - Are the necessary conditions for school success present?

Interim and School Quality Data– interim academic data, SchoolChoice data,

Leadership data, staff turnover, teacher perception data, and school’s capacity to engage in significant, accelerated improvement

No

School on track to improve

No

Implement redesign, turnaround, restart or non- renewal/ closure

Yes

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Early Warning Indicators

The tiering process indicates “early warning” for schools, specifically those identified as in need of intensive supports. By providing a year of enhanced supports, the district will be able to determine next steps in supporting the school based on the SPF the year following the school’s initial placement into the intensive supports tier. In addition we flag a set of schools that either 1. Has had a precipitous drop (10-15 points) on the SPF 2. Has been identified by instructional leaders as a

concern based on quantitative and qualitative indicators

This group of schools becomes our “watch list.” These schools receive more intentional support from their instructional superintendent and team.

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Tiers of Support: Turnaround

Intensive Strategic

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Leadership (Five Foundational Indicators) School Culture and Capacity for Significant Improvement (School Quality Review) Quality of Instruction (LEAP) Parent Satisfaction, Enrollment and School Demand

Academic Indicators

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Strategic Supports

Intensive Supports

School Quality Indicators

Framework for Differentiated Supports

Universal Supports

Turnaround

Turnaround Tier Persistently Red on SPF

3+ years Identified by state for

turnaround

Intensive Tier Current Year Red or

Orange on SPF Red on Growth

Green or blue on SPF

Tier - Strategic

Dramatic drops in performance (10

percent or more into yellow)

Moving from red or orange into yellow

Tiering Supports

Strategic Supports

Intensive Supports

Universal Supports

Turnaround The Board was provided an update on our turnaround efforts on 9/16

Tiering Supports: Schools in “turnaround” were the first to receive specialized district supports, starting in spring 2010

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Strategic Supports

Intensive Supports

Universal Supports

Turnaround Intensive Supports: 1. Development of UIP Plus with

support of a consultant 2. School Quality Review 3. Progress Monitoring

Tiering Supports: Intensive Schools receive either intensive supports on top of current universal level of improvement planning and implementation supports; 2013-14 pilot processes are designed to inform future of tiered supports

Intensive Supports: Detail (16 elementary, middle, and high schools)

A UIP Plus takes a school through a comprehensive strategic planning process, including • Identification of short-term and long-term school goals • Tools for comprehensive data analysis, including embedded process for analyzing qualitative

data provided through the site visit/review • Structured action planning • Tracking tool for monitoring progress A School Quality Review • An opportunity to access qualitative data to enhance improvement planning • Includes interviews, classroom, and school observations • Two types:

– SIS-grantee schools engage in a “Critical Friends” process – Other tiered schools receive a third party review

Progress Monitoring • More frequent schools visits, including focus on one area/aspect of the plan to identify

evidence of implementation • Sharp focus to monthly CIG meetings, and use of modified UIP Tracker as focus of site visits • Will be driven by ISs and may include additional members of Tiered Support team

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Strategic Supports

Intensive Supports

Universal Supports

Turnaround Strategic Supports: 1. Enhanced supports with data

disaggregation and managerial planning

2. School Quality Review 3. Regular on-the-ground support in

aligning UIP, budget and implementation

Tiering Supports: Strategic Schools receive either strategic supports on top of current universal level of improvement planning and implementation supports; 2013-14 pilot processes are designed to inform future of tiered supports

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Strategic Supports: Detail (3-4 PSR schools)

Enhanced supports including data disaggregation and managerial planning • Closely connected to a schools’ UIP • Data disaggregation and analytics designed to support school in deep analysis of

proficiency bands with ability to address specific student needs • Focus on organizational approach, including goal setting, initiative mapping, and

structuring the school to meet goals A School Quality Review • Is an opportunity to access qualitative data to enhance improvement planning and

implementation • Includes interviews, classroom, and school observations Regular on-the-ground supporting in aligning UIP, budget, and implementation • Small ratio of schools to allow frequent, real-time course corrections

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Tiered Supports: Additional Details

Categories of tiered schools with identified supports for 2013-14

Strategic Tier

Intensive Tier Turnaround schools that are red/orange on SPF

Charter Schools Tiered through the TSF

Merrill George DCIS TJ

College View Amesse Johnson Cheltenham Castro Valverde Columbine Fairview Munroe Manual Maxwell (no SQR) Henry (no SQR) Kepner (no SQR) Ashley (no consultant) Centennial (no consultant) Escuela (no SQR/con)

Bruce DCIS Ford Gilpin Greenlee Lake Trevista West Gen

Wyatt Academy Sims-Fayola SWEC SOAR GVR SOAR Oakland Colorado HS

School Quality Review Data support Implementation activity Tiered Support Team

School Quality Review Consultant UIP Plus Tiered Support Team Implementation activity

Will receive implementation supports “on top” of current level of turnaround supports

School Quality Review Annual performance goals/contracts UIP Intensive Support Tiered Support Team Charter board engagement Su

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Note: “Watch list” schools (yellow/green) flagged through tiering include: Eagleton, Harrington, Beach Court, Barnum, Schmitt, and Morey. The supports for these schools will be determined by the school’s IS.

All tiered schools receive funding for implementation in 13-14

• Each school participating in either the intensive supports pilot or the strategic supports pilot will receive funds to support implementation in the 13-14 school year.

• The implementation strategy must emerge as a priority through the strategic planning process.

• The identification of, categorization of and funding for these strategies will supported by the district.

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Funding sources for tiered school supports in 2013-14

• General fund (foundational for internal systems and structures, including dedicated staff)

• Title I for red/orange schools – Unspent SES – 1003a School Improvement Support and Diagnostic

Grants – 1003g Tiered Intervention Grant

• Leverage General Fund – For strategic supports tier (pilot) – For development of training of internal team to

perform school diagnostics

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Building Internal Capacity: School Quality Reviews

• In 2013-14 the district will partner with a provider that will conduct our School Quality Reviews in the fall and then will design and implement a training this winter for school- and district-level educators to conduct School Quality Reviews on our own in the future.

• The provider will also create an approach that is based on current district indicators, including teacher and leader performance indicators.

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Questions