2016-2017 Differentiated Accountability Roll Out

During the 2015-16 school year, the Statewide School Improvement Team successfully completed a pilot of 12 Differentiated Accountability Intensive on-site school visits.  The team received a significant amount of positive feedback and several process enhancements were made.  Now that the pilot process has been completed, we are ready for the statewide roll out during the 2016-17 school year.  

1.     In 2016-2017 we will use 3 of the 5 Healthy Indicator petals with all districts.

a.     Assessment/DBDM, Universal Instruction, and Intensification

b.     Assessment/DBDM and Universal Instruction will be used immediately.

c.     Intensification -  Full statewide implementation by spring.

2.  We believe we can manage a maximum of 5% of districts ( approx. 16-18 school districts) in intensive support, which will also align us with ESSA’s expectation for intensive support.

3.  We will hold a 3-day PD opportunity for targeted schools in the fall of 2016.  This will be the same type of training that will occur in April of 2016.  The intent is to build the capacity of the LEA districts who will not have on-site SSIT visits.  

To prepare districts for this rollout, Mark Crady and Amy Williamson will do a series of Zoom meetings in the spring of 2016.  These Zoom meetings are opportunities to learn and ask questions about the new process.   

Below are the dates, times, and Zoom links.

a.     March 31 - (9-10:30 AM) - What is DA, what we’ve done, what’s happening next year

b.     April 8 - (1-2:30 PM) - Extensive what is happening next year with schedule

c.     April 22 - (1-2:30 PM) - Healthy Indicators and support you might get

d.     April 29 - (9-10:30 AM) - Desk audits - what and when and how to prepare

e.     May 20 - (1-2:30 PM) - Site visits - what and when and how to prepare - it is not bad