When developing an effective school plan, it is necessary to factor in the importance of several goals. For a school plan to become precise, all areas that need improvement must be identified. The development of a school plan relies on staff brainstorming questions that will aid in allowing administration to develop appropriate goals. Having questions asked about the data and the goals it will help conclude attainable goals and decided when goals have been mastered. By creating a goal, testing it, collecting data, and examining the data it will allow staff to revamp the school improvement goals and stimulate improvement.
Once staff has brainstormed questions, the questions must be arranged into categories to see if they can be tested with computable outcomes. It then is up to the staff to unite and acknowledge which questions will be placed in the chart to decide if they are within the scope of relevance, achievable, and it will be statistically significant in creating an efficient school goal. GOALS
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• Model for preference: 1- Relevant 2- Achievable 3- Statistically Significant Brainstorm Questions
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• Rating Scale: 1- High 2-Medium 3-Low Once the goals have been determined, responsibility of what testing needs to be administered and who is held accountable for collecting-analyzing the data. An example of finding the right data that Camden City Accelerated Academy decided upon was to increase the number of 11th grade students who meet or exceed the HSPA State Test by 5% each year. The goal-brainstormed questions included if the HSPA State Test scores would increase if we included benchmark assessment questions that were structured like the ones on the state test. Who will be in charge of establishing the