PowerPoint explaining Comprehensive Needs Assessment

1. Wall School District Comprehesive
Needs Assessment:
The Year-Long Process
2021-2022

2. Comprehensive
Needs
Assessment
(CNA)
• Comprehensive Needs Assessments (CNA) are
required for all Schoolwide Title I schools.
• The purpose of the CNA is for Wall School
District's team to gather information in order
to develop an action plan to implement strategies
that will impact student learning.
• The CNA process focuses on a framework that is
composed of:
1) Effective Leadership,
2) Curriculum and Instruction,
3) Talent Development/Staff Development, and
4) Family, Culture and Climate.

3. Framework
Components
1. Effective Leadership – The set of skills and actions to
promote and ensure student success, teacher
effectiveness, and management and operations and
resources.
2. Curriculum and Instruction –Instruction and purposeful
direction of the learning process, refers to the practices
and strategies teachers use to impact student learning.
3. Talent Development/Staff Development – Enhances and
supports building the capacity of the entire school staff to
impact student outcomes.
4. Family, Culture, and Climate – A student centered
environment is essential for school improvement and
student achievement and growth. Parents and families
make key contributions to student learning and success
especially when schools work to build partnerships
between home and school in meaningful and culturally
respectful ways.

4. CNA Process
• The process involves 5 phases designed to engage
all stakeholders to improve Leadership,
Instruction, & Student Learning
1) Plan,
2) Collect and Organize Data,
3) Analyze Data,
4) Prioritize Needs, and
5) Connect to Implementation

5. Planning
1. Identification of Wall School's CNA team: Mr.
Ragland, Ms. Heathershaw, Ms. Roseth, Mr.
VanRosendale, Mr. Sykora.
2. Timeline Development:
a. September – Introduction to SD CNA
b. October – Data Collection Planning that will
include but is not limited to reviewing district
test scores, graduation rates, attendance rates
and surveys.
c. November – Zoom Meeting to discuss next
steps and data management and site visit from
the School Success Facilitators assigned to the
district.
d. December – Data Fact Digging
e. December/January – Analysis Data and
Prioritize our district needs.
f. March Action Planning
e. Individual School Support

6. Where we are
now:
• The team has attended two meetings in Rapid
City.
• September – The team was introduced to the
process
• October – The team identified strategies to
gather information from school staff,
students, parents/guardians, and community
stakeholders, which includes but is not limited
to surveying the groups listed.
• October – Teachers were surveyed during the
October 22nd Teacher In-Service.
• October – School Success
Facilitators (SSF) from the Dept. of Education
will visit the district on November 17th

7. Surveys
• The school will survey students in grades 3-12.
NOTE: No surveys request "protected information"
and are compliant with the Protection of Pupil
Rights Amendment (PPRA). Students will not be
asked to disclose any personal information about
their families, friends, illegal behaviors, beliefs,
classmates, etc.
Information regarding the PPRA can be found at the
following locations:
a) Page 6 of the 6-12 Handbook.
b) Page 11 of the Big White Elementary School
Handbook.
c) Page 12 of the Wall Elementary School
Handbook.
d) https://wall.k12.sd.us/Files/Handbook/Handboo
k-(6-12).pdf#page=5 (at the bottom of the page).

8. Summary
• The Comprehensive Needs Assessment is a federal
requirement for all Schoolwide Title I schools.
• Information will be collected from a variety of sources so the
school can develop a plan that will help improve learning
throughout the school district.
• The CNA process focuses on a framework that is composed
of:
1) Effective Leadership,
2) Curriculum and Instruction,
3) Talent Development/Staff Development, and
4) Family, Culture and Climate.
• The process occurs in 5 Phases:
1) Plan
2) Collect and Organize Data
3) Analyze Data
4) Prioritize Needs and
5) Connect to Implementation

9. Conclusion
• As stated previously we are currently in the
data collection phase. As we make our way
through the process, updates and findings
will be sent out.