1. Week 4 Assignment, Part 3: Evaluation Planning for Action Plan
As a future assistant principal I would use SIMS (Student Intervention Management Systems) to
evaluate if discipline has dropped, if benchmark scores have increased, if inventions have
decreased, failures have decreased and the teacher usage.
I would then search by department and teacher to see who, how often and what data is being
entered. If a teacher is not using this valuable tool I would then ask why and what I could do to
help that teacher utilize it more often and list the benefits. I would also be able to use this
technology software during department meetings to readdress questions and concerns that are
affecting certain subject areas, grade levels or specific classes. I would be able to monitor student
tutorial attendance, modifications, benchmark recovery, and class recovery.
I could also use it as a tracking tool for the benefit of the individual students. I would be able to
monitor their attendance, track student academic grades, TAKS scores, benchmark scores, AEIS,
at risk and LEP. I would then have the ability to filter students based on any demographic make
ups such as; grade level, classes, Special Education, gender, ethnic, teacher and so many more.
The tool that I would use the most in my daily meeting with students would be being able to log
interventions, such as disciplinary referrals and Saturday School, referrals. I would be able to
monitor student tutorial attendance, modifications, benchmark recovery, and class recovery.
SIMS makes the RTI process easier. An administrator could look to see if people are tagging,
benchmarks are increasing, the number of interventions decreased because of the lack of
referring for interventions, failures decreased, and interventions used.