Using Data to Evaluate and Improve Programs Presented by Lynnette Harris Naviance Summer Institute July 2015

2. Using Data to Evaluate and Improve
Programs
Lynnette Harris, Project Manager
Fairfax County Public Schools
July, 2015

3. Introduction

4. Fairfax County Public Schools

5. FCPS Portrait of a Graduate
• Creative and Critical
Thinker
• Collaborator
• Communicator
• Ethical and Global
Citizen
• Goal-Directed and
Resilient Individual
ETHICAL
AND
GLOBAL
CITIZEN
Portrait of a Graduate
CREATIVE
AND
CRITICAL
THINKER
COLLABORATOR
COMMUNICATOR
GOAL-­‐DIRECTED
AND
RESILIENT
INDIVIDUAL

6. Starting Point

7. 2007 Student Learning Plan
● FCPS Student Achievement Goals
o Goal 1 - Academics
o Goal 2 – Essential Life Skills
o Goal 3 – Responsibility to Community and World
● Virginia Department of Education Mandate
o Regulation 8 VAC-20-131-5 et seq
§ Each middle and high school student must have a personal learning
plan that aligns academic and career goals with the student’s
course of study
§ Beginning with the 2013-2014 academic year, all Virginia public
schools shall begin development of a personal Academic and
Career Plan for each 7th Grader
§ The Plan shall be included in the student's record and shall be
reviewed and updated, if necessary, during the ninth and eleventh
grades.

8. Identified tasks to satisfy requirements
Middle School Tasks
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Create an Academic SMART Goal
o Reflect on SMART Goal progress in a Journal entry
Add activities/accomplishments to the Resume
Complete Strengths Explorer Survey to discover the top three strengths
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Review or create a new Academic SMART Goal
o Reflect on SMART Goal progress in a Journal entry Update or
begin the Resume with new activities/accomplishments
o Participate in recommended 15 community service hours and document hours
Complete the Career Cluster Finder to find careers that match strengths and interests
o Add careers to their favorite career list
Create a Course Plan for high school
High School Tasks
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Review or create a new Academic SMART Goal
Review or create a new Responsibility to Community SMART Goal
o Reflect on SMART Goal progress in a Journal entry
Update the Resume with new activities/accomplishments
o Participate in recommended 10 community services hours and document hours
Review Strengths Explorer Survey results from Grade 7 to continue to develop their talents and explore
careers related to those themes
Complete the Game Plan for after high school
Review the Course Plan for high school
9 Review or create a new Academic SMART Goal

9. Lessons Learned
• Involving others beyond
counseling staff is crucial
• Gathering from all
stakeholders including the
business community is
necessary
• Training for staff needs
to be job-embedded
and available 24-7
• Providing additional
resources for parents,
students, and staff is
important for success

10. Where are we now?

11. Next Steps
additional needs.
• Purchased Naviance/Family Connection for grades 7
and 8. Already purchased for high school.
• Conducted focus groups with students, parents,
teachers, counselors, administrators, community
business partners.
• Based on information from focus groups, curriculum
writing teams developed lessons, scope documents,
and other resources for grades 7-9.
• Trained teams (administrator, teacher, counselor,
SBTS) from all middle and high schools.
• Continued feedback is gathered from schools on

12. Task Data
Completion percentages
• Need to include more school-based staff in
working with students to develop, revise, and
implement their SLP – teacher accounts
• Need strategic resources for certain schools –
mini-grants
• Need very targeted scope
Career survey
• Career days,
service learning,
speakers

13. Using data to improve decisions

14. Task Data
Career Data
• Identifying students for Academies
• Targeting STEAM initiatives to schools/students
• Targeting speakers/activities for career days
Strengths Explorer Data
• Identifying student groups for project work and
career exploration/career days
• Supporting parent/teacher conferences
Course Plans
• Offering/deleting courses
• Accessing rigorous classes
• Accessing Academy classes

15. Task Data
Goal Setting
• Identifying students for targeted intervention
• Helping students to tie their goals to their future
plans
Resume Building
• Supporting students to identify areas of need:
leadership opportunities, service learning
opportunities, academic goal setting

16. School Measures of Success
• Class grades and State assessment scores
• Access to rigorous classes
• Successful completion of college level courses
while enrolled in high school (IB, AP, Dual
Enrollment)
• Completion of industry certification

17. Identified Needs
• All students in grades 7-12 developing and
implementing their Student Learning Plans
• Purchase Naviance/Family Connection for 6th grade to
be phased in over the next three years
• 1 to 1 computing capability
• Identify ways to support Special Education and EL
students – varied tasks, different ways to use
Naviance/Family Connection
• All teachers supporting students with their plans
• College and Career Readiness Curriculum
• Access to Naviance for all staff
• All parents supporting their children
• Access to technology/wireless networks
• Translate documents

18. Questions?