School Improvement Plan
Essentials of Effective teaching and Learning
• Creating successful lessons
Guidelines should be clearly stated for creating successful lesson plans
e.g. how to begin the class
action verbs for writing instructional objectives
Learner centred lessons
Rules for effective visuals
Internet resources
Review techniques
• Guidelines for closing the lesson
• Mind mapping techniques
• Differentiating instructions
• Guidelines for dealing with multiple intelligences
• Guidelines for dealing with emotional intelligence
• Preferred learning modalities
• Instructions on collecting and grading homework
• Guidelines for fair use of copyrighted educational materials
Teacher and teaching
• Teacher attendance
• Teacher allocation
• Teaching aids availability
• Teachers CPD Participation
• Classroom observation Score
• Lesson plan
• Classroom management
• Pedagogical skills
Administrative / leadership and school
support
• Head Teacher attendance
• Non-teaching staff availability
• Instructional leadership
• School improvement plan
• School council meetings
• Funds disbursement
School environment
• Security and safety arrangements
• Dangerous buildings
• Electricity availability
• Writing boards visibility
• Availability of sufficient furniture
• Availability of clean toilets/ safe drinking water
• Provision of play area/ grounds
• Cleanliness of school facilities
Student participation and personal
development
• Student attendance ( portals / data )
• Student representation in external and internal events
• Student result data
• Student involvement in leadership roles ( school societies , events
management)
• Establishment of student councils and societies for co-curricular and
extra curricular activities
School councils / Need & Importance
• useful way for schools to provide leadership and development
opportunities for their pupils. Student councils are a great way for
students to take on leadership roles, promote the voice of the student
body, problem solve and impact their community.
• assist in the efficient governance of the school. ensure that its
decisions affecting students of the school are made having regard, as
a primary consideration, to the best interest of the students. enhance
the educational opportunities of students at the school.
Duties of Students Councils/ School Council Meetings
EFFECTIVE MEETING STRATEGIES
• helps share students' ideas, interests, and concerns with teachers and
school principals.
• help raise funds for school wide activities, including social events,
community projects, helping people in need and school reform.
• Make sure that parents know and understand the purpose of the
meetings.
• have clearly established missions, goals and objectives
• pursue activities and events that support student success – don’t let
personal issues or the concerns of individual parents dominate the
meetings.
• set council meeting dates (and topics, if possible)
• early in the year and publicize them regularly
• develop a dynamic and proactive action plan at the
• beginning of the year – and follow it
• set an agenda for each meeting and send it out ahead of time
• keep meetings short – start and finish on time
• use the agenda to set time limits for reports and discussion – try to stay
within those limits
• set up sub-committees to handle more involved issues and have most of
the discussions at that level
Classroom Management
• the process teachers use to ensuring that classroom lessons run
smoothly without disruptive behavior from students compromising
the delivery of instruction.
• prevention of disruptive behavior preemptively, as well as effectively
responding to it after it happens.
• building strong relationships with your students, encouraging them to
take part in their own learning
5 Principles of Classroom Management
• Take Care of Yourself to Take Care of Your Students. As the airline
safety videos say: Put on your own oxygen mask first. ...
• Focus on Building Relationships. ...
• Set Rules, Boundaries, and Expectations (and Do It Early) ...
• Take a Strength-Based Approach. ...
• Involve Parents and Guardians.
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• Use metrics that you can monitor on a weekly basis rather than on a
bi-annual basis, For most schools currently progress monitoring data
is limited to twice per year. It does not work, and it places immense
amounts of stress on teachers and leaders. Add a low-stakes, weekly
metric.
• Build sustainable systems with documented processes rather than
relying on talented individuals ,
• A documented process is critical: a process that can be picked up,
utilized, refined, and passed on to ensure success continues
• Weekly coaching calendars
• Sample student work products
• Instructions related to classroom walkthroughs
• How to use the RigorWalk® (or whichever tool is being used) to
capture target/task alignment data
• Suggested ways to share the data
Inspect classrooms regularly and provide
feedback on progress toward the goal
• In a distributed system maturity model, the principal’s most critical
function is regular leadership inspection and feedback on progress
toward the goal.
• Leading the team towards continuous improvement with daily
stand-ups where the principal should gather the team and they have
to do a stand up in front of the action board and give feedback on
things to be done and which have been done.
Collaboration /7 Strategies to Build on
Student Collaboration in the Classroom
• takes place when members of an inclusive learning community work
together as equals to assist students to succeed in the classroom.
• 1. Deliberately select which students will work together
• 2. Size the groups for maximum effectiveness
• 3. Teach your students how to listen to one another
• 4. Set the rules of language and collaboration
• 5. Make goals and expectations clear
• 6. Assign roles to the members of each group
• 7. Use real-world problems, not imaginary ones
Follow up Assessments\ how do you monitor
the success of school improvement plan
• Stages for monitoring include the following:
• Creating checkpoints.
• Ensuring implementation.
• Creating new tasks.
• Adjusting goals.
• Identifying points of progress.
• Evaluating the plan.
• Creating a report.
How to ensure effectiveness of an SIP
• Checking each key issue against its main finding and reporting section
• An honest report about school’s present capabilities and its capacity to move
ahead with internal / external support
• Using staff expertise in a realistic way/ knowing strengths and acknowledging
shortcoming
• Assigning responsibilities to ensure action
• Assessment of the resources required
• Clarity about the assessment of progress
• Making sure of full implementation of the plan
Types of SIP
• Academic
• Administrative
• Infrastructure
• Staff development
• Collaborative
Academic SIP
• a road map that establishes the changes that the school needs to
improve student achievement and shows how and when these
changes will be made
• a strategic plan that provides information and strategies in order to
make the project or the outcome a success. This strategic plan not
only provides but also outlines the basis of the strategies and how we
may want to view the action when it is done.
• outlines the courses and grade point average (GPA) needed to
comply with Satisfactory Academic Progress standards.
Steps to Academic Success
• Learning Objectives. First up ...( what these could be )
• Instructional Materials ( books, worksheets, AV aids, ….)
• Teaching Strategies/ 5 E’s Model(Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend (or
Elaborate), and Evaluate.
• Academic Skills (effective written communication; research and
analytical skills; critical thinking and problem solving; and teamwork.
• Assessment and Evaluation
• Closure.
Identification of academic strengths
• learning from mistakes, honesty, integrity, responsibility,
commitment, time management, kindness, problem-solving, ability to
follow directions, openness, and creativity.
Foundational concepts of academic performance
• context, level of knowledge, levels of skills, level of identity, personal
factors, and fixed factors.
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Stakeholders of SIP
Additionally, local businesses, local government officials, and health and social service providers
are also affected by the quality of education in a community.
Targeting and specificity are essential for persuading stakeholders to help make school
improvements.
some stakeholders may feel as though they don't need to contribute. Sending a vague, general
message can reinforce this belief.
Better public schools and facilities can produce smarter students, reduce dropout rates and control
crime; create a sense of pride and gratitude toward the community, and promote higher earnings
and thus more revenues.
Stakeholders
• Be sure to share specific benefits with specific
stakeholders and note that mentioning outstanding
contributors in school mailings, naming facilities after
donors, and sending notes or small gifts of gratitude
helps a lot in building an image of the school.
Follow Up and Report Back
• Creating a feedback loop can help promote sustainability
in your outreach efforts.
• Reporting on progress and thanking stakeholders can
make them feel more involved in the process and help
demonstrate the value of their contributions.
• Consider publishing a stakeholder newsletter or Web
page.
Key Elements of SIP Vision
• without a clear picture of the destination, any step is likely
to be in the wrong direction.
• Everyone involved, need to develop a focused image of the
goal and create a map that will lead them there together.
This concept, known as shared vision, fosters success
because everyone becomes part of the process
• “clear direction and expectations of what the district
leaders want in terms of student achievement, derived
from a dialogue with all stakeholders.”
• it can lead a school to improved student achievement.
Comprehensive Needs Assessment
• A “need” is a discrepancy or gap between “what
• is” and “what should be.”
• A “needs assessment” is a systematic set of procedures that
are used to determine needs,examine their nature and
causes, and set priorities for future action.
• Needs Assessment focuses on the ends (i.e., outcomes) to be
attained, rather than the means (i.e., process).
• leads to action that will improve
• programs, services, organizational structure and
• operations
Prioritizing Needs
• List your expenses:
• Make a list of all your expenses, including bills,
transportation and any other regular expenses.
• Categorise your expenses:
• Group your expenses into categories, such as needs and
wants. This is to help you prioritise all the expenses that
you need to survive and develop
7 steps to effective prioritizing
• Step 1: Identify the decision. You realize that you need to
make a decision. ...
• Step 2: Gather relevant information. ...
• Step 3: Identify the alternatives. ...
• Step 4: Weigh the evidence. ...
• Step 5: Choose among alternatives. ...
• Step 6: Take action. ...
• Step 7: Review your decision & its consequences.
Setting Goals and Timelines
• Learning goals are the intended purposes and desired
achievements of a particular course, which generally identify
the knowledge, skills, and capacities a student in that class
should achieve.
• Learning objectives written with the ABCD approach have four
components: the audience, behavior, condition, and degree.
Learning objectives should be observable, specific, and
measurable.
• Monitoring and evaluation goals
• Infrastructure development goals
• Marketing goals
5 critical strategies missing from SIP Goals
• Distributed responsibilities
• Weekly metrics
• Sustainable systems with documented processes
• Classroom walks & feedback
• Continuous improvement meetings
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Philosophy / Aims
& Role
Simon Sinek’s Start With Why.
visionary companies focus on their “why.” According to
Sinek, great organizations begin with their “why,”
then align their “how” and “what” to the efforts and
initiatives necessary to align with the identified “why.”
schools gain the systematic support for their “why”
through building their “how” and “what.”
Why? The Reason
In a school setting,it
exhibits in the form of a
why an organization exists
vision or purpose
is a purpose or belief that
statement, or some sort of
drives its internal
symbol that represents the
motivation.
ideological objectives of the
organization.
Philosophy of SIP
A clear, unique, well-aligned, active and living statement of philosophy, vision, mission,
goal and objectives
2. A philosophy that expresses the school community’s shared values and beliefs about
education and student learning
3. School goals and objectives that are supportive of the educational system process and
are consistent with national and global development goals
A system process involving the participation of various stakeholders for reviewing and
revising when appropriate the philosophy, vision, mission, goals and objectives
Why SIP?
01 02 03
A system for horizontal a point where we feel like we are It is natural to ask what schools or
alignment between standards, spinning our wheels, constantly organizations can specifically do to
competencies, assessment, trying to adapt to new changes or avoid or counteract these tendencies,
finding our community beginning to which can lead to a failure to obtain
instruction and resources in all question the needs and effectiveness goals, evolve, or promote the school
learning units of existing initiatives and changes. It purpose. We know that, as leaders, it
is inevitable that strong but elastic is critical to create environments
organizations will succeed at meeting where deliberate planning meets
the needs of stakeholders, while visionary progress. However, where
others will either fail to ever do we even begin in this process?
actualize their efforts or never reach Isn’t this the purpose of the school
a level of internal sustainability to improvement Plan?
avoid becoming stagnant.
How?
Organizations accomplish Some create social contracts, the agreed-upon acts or actions “how” is incorporated with four
their “how” in many ways. while others create elaborate each individual within the guiding principles
trainings and professional organization engages in
developments. regularly
What ?
Be Decisive and Take Risks—Make
Empower and Excite—Sustainable decisions based on facts, listen to all
Develop Communication and
Be Accountable to Each organizations build culture and stakeholders, and take action based
Trust—Build strong teams and
Other—Cultivate and maintain community. This means a culture upon what is best for students.
accountability through clear and
leadership with colleagues, where everyone acts confidently, Decisiveness and risk-taking are
consistent communication to all
students, and the school community. demonstrates adaptability, and paramount to the success of an
stakeholders of school community.
promotes leadership. organization and failure is a process
for learning.
Four Models of SIP
A grassroots movement is one that uses the
people in a given district, region or community
THE GRASSROOTS SITE-BASED as the basis for a political or economic
REFORM MODEL movement. Grassroots movements and
organizations use collective action from the
local level to implement change at the local,
regional, national, or international levels.
Grass Root Model was proposed by Hilda Taba
in her book Curriculum Development ; Theory
and Practice in 1962. The main feature of her
model is to include the needs of students at the
grassroots level in the curriculum and bring it
to the core.
