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Academy Assessment 101
Continuous Improvement Process
Action Plan
Academy Assessment
Evidence
Review Team
Data Center
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Data Center
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Data Center Entries
Data Center Opens Sept 14
Deadline for entries Dec 4
Data entries are linked to
Academy Assessment
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Review Team
Gather
 Academy team
 Administrators-school and district
 Advisory board members
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Review Team
Not private or compilation of input
Changed from a to-do list item to a team
approach
Formed groups
(director, teachers, counselors, admin, AB, c
ollege partner, NAF partner)
Ownership, diverse voices, refocus and
redefined roles
Drives our strategic plan, initiatives, and
areas of improvement/growth
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Review Team
• Convene a 2-hour meeting to complete the tool
• Strengths and weaknesses become evident
• Discussion and synergy flow smoothly
• New ideas and creativity are evident
• Tool is completed on-line by the Director at a
• later date based on consensus answers
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Collect and Store Evidence
AcademyDevelopment
Program offerings
Recruitment and Marketing
Parental engagement
Location, mission, demographics
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Livebinder
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Recruitment Evidence
September
Orientation Team
building Big
picture Why
are you here?
Welcome back
Team building
Big picture
Goal setting
Welcome back
Team building
Big picture
Goal setting
Welcome back
Goal setting
Senior year timeline
& procedures
October
Goal setting Self-awareness - character,
kindness, citizenship,
integrity, responsibility
PSAT
Internships
Resumes
PSAT
Polishing resumes &
essays Choosing
colleges, gather
applications
College applications
November
Learning style
Motivation style
Communication skills
Interpersonal relationships -
friendships, self-esteem,
dating, cliques, bullying
Interview process, mock
interviews
PSAT interpretation
College applications
December
Time & task management
Study skills
Conflict resolution College planning timetable
Post-secondary planning
Financial aid
FAFSA
Scholarships
January
Transcripts, credits, report cards
Revisit goal setting
Revisit goal setting
CAPT preparation -
importance
Revisit goal setting
Preparing for SATs
Revisit goal setting
FAFSA
Scholarships
February
Interpersonal relationships, peer
pressure, bullying
CAPT preparation
Test-taking skills
Reducing text anxiety
Career decision process
Career interest inventory
Employment, labor
market projection
March
CAPT CAPT CAPT CAPT
April
Self-awareness Decision
making
Interest inventory
Work/career exploration
College search
Practice college application
Job searching
Budgeting
May
Work/career exploration
Practice college application
Educational plan
Community service
Practice college application
Educational plan
Community service
Transcript review
Educational plan
Community service
Preparing for college
Transition from high
school
June
Looking ahead
Summer plan
Summer school
Closure
Looking ahead
Summer plan
Summer school
Closure
Looking ahead
Summer plan
Summer school
Closure
Goodbyes!
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Advisory Board
AdvisoryBoard
Membership with contact information
Mission and/or Vision
Minutes of Meetings
Goals and Objectives
Committees
Budget and Funding
Activities
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Curriculum & Instruction
C&I
Demonstrates Integrated learning
Team planning
Student interventions
Strengthens parental engagement
Provides personalization for students
Evidence that students travel together
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Drop Box
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Academy Assessment
Academy Assessment Opens
Oct.1
Deadline for entries Jan 20
Academy Assessment scores
linked to Action Plan
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Academy Assessment
• Prepopulated items
• Answered items
• Evidence to support answers
• Scores for multiple years instantly available
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Academy Assessment
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Professional Development
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Action Plan
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Action Plan
• Planning & Improvement:
Drives strategic plan/thinking
Vision of NAF expectations and directions
that we can strive
Use SA results to focus AB meetings
throughout the year
Ideas
 include students and parents
 AB professional development
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Exercise: Action Plan
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Create Goals and Actions
• Bea’s Action Plan- Goal and Action
• Tim’s Action Plan- Goal and Action
• Create 3 Goals and Actions
 Strengthen Review Team
 Complete AA/DC process earlier this year
 Compile salient evidence

Academy Assessment 101

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    #nafnext Academy Assessment 101 ContinuousImprovement Process Action Plan Academy Assessment Evidence Review Team Data Center
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    #nafnext Data Center Entries DataCenter Opens Sept 14 Deadline for entries Dec 4 Data entries are linked to Academy Assessment
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    #nafnext Review Team Gather  Academyteam  Administrators-school and district  Advisory board members
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    #nafnext Review Team Not privateor compilation of input Changed from a to-do list item to a team approach Formed groups (director, teachers, counselors, admin, AB, c ollege partner, NAF partner) Ownership, diverse voices, refocus and redefined roles Drives our strategic plan, initiatives, and areas of improvement/growth
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    #nafnext Review Team • Convenea 2-hour meeting to complete the tool • Strengths and weaknesses become evident • Discussion and synergy flow smoothly • New ideas and creativity are evident • Tool is completed on-line by the Director at a • later date based on consensus answers
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    #nafnext Collect and StoreEvidence AcademyDevelopment Program offerings Recruitment and Marketing Parental engagement Location, mission, demographics
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    #nafnext Recruitment Evidence September Orientation Team buildingBig picture Why are you here? Welcome back Team building Big picture Goal setting Welcome back Team building Big picture Goal setting Welcome back Goal setting Senior year timeline & procedures October Goal setting Self-awareness - character, kindness, citizenship, integrity, responsibility PSAT Internships Resumes PSAT Polishing resumes & essays Choosing colleges, gather applications College applications November Learning style Motivation style Communication skills Interpersonal relationships - friendships, self-esteem, dating, cliques, bullying Interview process, mock interviews PSAT interpretation College applications December Time & task management Study skills Conflict resolution College planning timetable Post-secondary planning Financial aid FAFSA Scholarships January Transcripts, credits, report cards Revisit goal setting Revisit goal setting CAPT preparation - importance Revisit goal setting Preparing for SATs Revisit goal setting FAFSA Scholarships February Interpersonal relationships, peer pressure, bullying CAPT preparation Test-taking skills Reducing text anxiety Career decision process Career interest inventory Employment, labor market projection March CAPT CAPT CAPT CAPT April Self-awareness Decision making Interest inventory Work/career exploration College search Practice college application Job searching Budgeting May Work/career exploration Practice college application Educational plan Community service Practice college application Educational plan Community service Transcript review Educational plan Community service Preparing for college Transition from high school June Looking ahead Summer plan Summer school Closure Looking ahead Summer plan Summer school Closure Looking ahead Summer plan Summer school Closure Goodbyes!
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    #nafnext Advisory Board AdvisoryBoard Membership withcontact information Mission and/or Vision Minutes of Meetings Goals and Objectives Committees Budget and Funding Activities
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    #nafnext Curriculum & Instruction C&I DemonstratesIntegrated learning Team planning Student interventions Strengthens parental engagement Provides personalization for students Evidence that students travel together
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    #nafnext Academy Assessment Academy AssessmentOpens Oct.1 Deadline for entries Jan 20 Academy Assessment scores linked to Action Plan
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    #nafnext Academy Assessment • Prepopulateditems • Answered items • Evidence to support answers • Scores for multiple years instantly available
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    #nafnext Action Plan • Planning& Improvement: Drives strategic plan/thinking Vision of NAF expectations and directions that we can strive Use SA results to focus AB meetings throughout the year Ideas  include students and parents  AB professional development
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    #nafnext Create Goals andActions • Bea’s Action Plan- Goal and Action • Tim’s Action Plan- Goal and Action • Create 3 Goals and Actions  Strengthen Review Team  Complete AA/DC process earlier this year  Compile salient evidence

Editor's Notes

  • #6 Two examples
  • #9 Location. Mission. Student outcomes.Program offeringsRecruitment and MarketingParental engagement
  • #13 https://www.dropbox.com/home/AA%20evidene%202012-13