Description
Review the following:
- Chapters 7 and 8 in the course text
- Chapter 6 in the Bambrick-Santoyo (2010) text
- Chapters 2, 3, and 4 in the DuFour and Fullan (2013) text
- Chapters 13 and 14 from the Knowles, Holton, & Swanson (2015) text
- The videos (a) Data-driven Instruction and Assessment: Richland II School District—Action planning and (b) Data-driven Instruction and Assessment: Bethel School District—Action planning
- Note descriptions of planning for purposes of improving instruction based on evidence.
- Refer to the Alignment and Achievement Worksheet you completed in Module 1.
Your action plan will be a blueprint on how to achieve your district’s goals. In it, you must complete the following:
- Recommend one significant instructional goal for your chosen district (Gwinnett County Public Schools in Georgia).
- Specify each step or benchmark to reach the goal.
- Identify potential internal and external stakeholders.
- Identify responsible individuals to guide, coordinate, and monitor each activity.
- Include resources for each step or benchmark.
- Provide a time frame for when each step can be completed.
- Describe quality indicators that will be monitored and used to evaluate effectiveness.
Length: 8 to 10 pages
Part 2: Multimedia Presentation to Stakeholder Audience
Data can be intimidating. If data are not presented with the audience in mind, one can quickly lose the opportunity to engage the very people who may be responsible for implementing effective instructional strategies. As a CIA leader, developing data-driven policies and allocating resources needed to deliver a robust evaluation program are critically important. As an effective CIA leader, you will select the data that are meaningful, relevant, and useful to stakeholders. You will present the data so that others can widely understand and consider them. The message communicated through the data you present will tell a district’s story so it can be told, and retold, in support of providing good instruction to all learners.
Develop a 5- to 8-slide presentation that will provide your selected stakeholder audience with an overview of your analysis and the data used to support it.
- Ensure that the presentation is professional and suited for use in a public forum.
- Use a presentation application (PowerPoint, Prezi, Empressr, SlideRocket).
- Demonstrate one identified gap in data, and provide an explanation that is appropriate for an educational audience.
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Action Plan
The primary goals of a CIA leader are to collect information, analyzing as well doing an
analysis of the information. The mission of the Central Intelligence Agency is to disseminate
intelligence within the country with the aim of assisting the president and the policymakers of
the government of United States in decision making. However, the CIA has a great role to play
in improving the education of a district and the country at large. For instance, in Georgia,
Gwinnett is the best performing schools but requires fostering of performance to improve the
overall district performance in education. The main goal here will be the provision of a safe
environment where the students will thrive in their studies as well as learning to become
responsible citizens in the community and the country.
The first step is the identification of the problems that the students are facing in their
learning progress and the management of the school at large. While doing this, the CIA officer
will assess whether the administration has made significant efforts in ensuring a safe
environment where the students, teachers, and parents interact. For the children and more
importantly for adolescents to learn effectively they require a lot of support from the school’s
administration. This is especially for the students who have special needs, for example, those
who come from destitute families. The administration must whatsoever provide a healthy and
supportive environment for the student’s survival. The school should always provide the students
with basic needs, for example, food for the hungry children, and clothing for the poor children as
well as medical healthcare (Gordon, 2013). Counseling and family therapies are efforts that the
administration puts in to ensure that the child is fit psychologically and can learn with very
minimal disturbances. The family services provided by the school administration is usually
collaboration between the parents and the teachers so as to offer the child enough support in the
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academic and social life. When the adults around the children are supportive, the well-being of
the children is ensured and it is also reflected in their academic success.
The second step is a collection of information for the evaluation purposes. Some
procedures will be employed by the CIA agents in the field as they collect information
concerning education system in Georgia as a district in the United States of America. School
system issues do not only affect Georgia academic performance, but it is an issue that affects all
states in the United States of America. Therefore, after identifying the problems that are faced by
individual students, the CIA agency will conduct a comprehensive study looking into every
matter and why it is happening. Additionally, the CIA agency will give a recommendation on the
strategy that should be adopted in the schools in Georgia more specifically in Gwinnett High
School since it is one of the best performing schools in the district.
Some of the strategies that CIA officer will employ in the schools for the collection of
information include interviewing relevant stakeholders. For instance, the parents, the students,
the teachers as well as the non-teaching staff of the school will lead to the collection of
diversified information. Active participation where the CIA agent sits down in class as the
students are being taught will also lead to an identification of various gaps in education
particularly in maintaining a safe learning system. Additionally, the CIA officer requires
familiarizing with school curriculum so as to base the information provided by various
stakeholders that will be interviewed. Looking into the national curriculum that has been
recommended for the usage in the education for all the districts is another procedure that will
lead to the collection of information and analysis while comparing to the current situation of
Gwinnett Secondary schools in Georgia to other schools from other districts. Benchmarking will
also be extended to countries such as Australia whose academic status has been improved by the
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teaching framework employed(AITSL, 2012). Some factors that could also be used in Georgia
will be adopted by the department of education in the district to foster the safety of students in
schools hence, their performance.
Coding of information is the second step of the action plan. The information that has been
collected from all the above sources will be put together. The comparison will be made and the
data put together according to the similarities. Also, the CIA agents will look critically into the
data which is different from the other to check if there is relevance concerning the promotion of
education in Georgia and the United States at large. The officers are also required to thoroughly
why the activities that have been identified are happening and their likelihood to disrupt the
safety of the students as they study in various schools across Georgia. The officers should also
predict what is likely to occur next after analyzing the information thoroughly. The actions
should be identified one after the other to ensure that the information that will be given to the
department of education in the district is free of biases. Additionally, the officers must prove the
honesty of the information to avoid giving data that could incite the students against the school
curriculum as well as lead to delinquencies in the student fraternity.
The senior officer of the department of education in Georgia has the role of writing the
reports about the finding of the CIA investigations and assessments. The role of the CIA agent
will end at the analysis and dissemination of information(Brunner, 2009). Once the CIA agencies
have reported what has been happening in the district education system, the implementation of
the findings will be left in the hands of the department of education. District education
department and the department of higher education in the United States are the policy makers.
Therefore, the information that is collected by the CIA will be useful in decision making about
school promotion in the United States of America. Additionally, through this information, the
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district of Georgia through the Department of Education can come up with the right scheme to
foster learning in secondary schools.
The final step will be monitoring of the implementation of the action plan in the schools
that are located in Georgia. The framework that will be conducted will look into various factors
to ensure it is being implemented effectively. For instance, the competence of teachers will be
gauged by the learning outcomes in the district. Therefore, the framework that will be provided
by the department of education at the district level in Georgia should foster the performance of
teachers as this will be reflected by how well or how poor the performance of the students will be
at the end of the term. There is also need to apply the framework for all schools in Georgia
including the private and public schools to increase equity. Additionally, the students from the
rural areas were initially marginalized due to inadequate access to the resources. For instance,
earlier on, the education materials and resources were only accessible to the schools in the urban
centers.
Additionally, the private schools were more privileged than the public schools regarding
the implementation of the active programs in the school systems. The new curriculum that will
integrate all the stakeholders will play a significant role in bringing in balance where inequality
was practiced. The program and goals of CIA evaluation and analysis about the safety of
students emphasize on the outcome of the students. Any approach to academics is mainly related
to the student performance as it is the only unit that can be used to quantify the competitiveness
of the teachers. The positive impacts of teachers on academics especially in Georgia are highly
advocated for and require to be emphasized in the framework implementation (AITSL, 2012).
Engagement of students to fellow students and their teachers is the approach that is relied upon
while implementing the framework in learning institutions.
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The CIA officer will present the report to the education department and allow the team to
make decisions concerning the school performance in Georgia. The school programs will require
integration of all stakeholders including the students while formulating the curriculum (Ledgar,
2013). The district is also required to empower the learning processes with materials such as
books, pens, textbooks in the libraries as well as computers to facilitate the e-learning in schools.
Teachers and parents need to identify the problems of their children by watching their behavior
and creating a safe learning environment for the students. School safety is not only focused on
the students, parents, and teachers but also includes staff and the community as a whole. While
promoting security in the school, the administration has formulated policies and strategies
improve communication within the school as well as in the community. This is connected by
creating a friendly and optimum environment for the staff and teachers to work in because the
working condition of teachers highly affects the students learning environment as well as their
overall performance.
Implementation of the action plan in Schools in Georgia
Implementation of goals is associated with close monitoring of the roles of all
stakeholders. Parameters such as the performance of the students and the teachers’ teaching skills
should be monitored closely (Ferreira, 2013). Additionally, the conduct of the students within
and outside the school compound is also subjected to evaluation. The trend of the district’s
performance after the adoption of the new policy should also be closely assessed to rate the
effectiveness of the system in the district. Comprehensive support from the administration is
essential for the children whose families are not financially stable. All the stakeholders have an
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important role to play especially in creating support for the students to foster their performance.
In this evaluation, the administration should communicate to the parents, teachers, and students
about the learning model and strategy so as to empower it. Dedication, competence, excellence
and timely communication are some of the attributes and values that the administration dwells
upon in providing a supportive and healthy learning environment.
The teachers should establish their goals such as making students confident and creative
in different fields through a creation of a safe learning environment for the students. Students
should have the capacity to get involved in various patriotic duties and service to their
communities. These schools are institutions where the responsibility of nationalism and
accountability is sensitized in the students especially through the involvement of the students in
making education policies. The system in Georgia should be utilized in all schools to improve
the academic and social aspects of the students. Additionally, the teachers should look forward
toward improving the performance of the students. The reason why the teachers should majorly
emphasize on the fulfillment of the students is that it is termed as a reflection of the teaching
performance.
The administration has to carry out the daily assessment of the student’s behavior. This
ensures that there are no delinquencies in school. In the case of some students who do not behave
accordingly, their parents, teachers and counseling departmen...