The SMART School Process Beaver Dam Unified School District Beaver Dam, WI

Background District sent team of 5 to SMART School Academy during 2014-2015 school year District began implementing in July, 2014 Shared at BDUSD Admin Academy in August

Admin Academy Work Isolating the Need Creating Our Goal SMART School Self-Assessment Affinity Process Analyze Gaps to determine GAN Creating Our Goal District Individual Buildings Both based off State Report Card

Evolution of SMART in BDUSD Aligned the SMART process with our Strategic Planning process Added Core Strategic Objectives Student Achievement Student Growth Closing Gaps On-Track Facilities and Operations District and Community Engagement

Data Driven Decision Making Used data to determine GAN State Report Card ACT & Aspire MAP WKCE Found common threads K-12 Deeper thinking and processing skills in reading, writing, and math

Action Plan Determining strategies Professional Learning District Key Performance Objectives (KPOs) Building-level action plans Professional Learning Research-based Leadership Practices Hattie& Marzano’s work

Improvement Data 90 day progress reports to School Board Elementary Movement across AIMSweb bands Middle School MAP progress Academic Rigor PBIS data High School ACT

What Does Data Tell Us? Elementary Middle School High School We are on track with moving kids from the average level into the above-average bands We are not as effective at moving students from low-average to average Middle School Indicates that building will meet growth target for MAP reading and math by Spring 2016 High School ACT targets are challenging to monitor because integration of ACT standards/benchmarks is not pure. Specific target areas identified for growth in writing have shown improvement with moving close to ready to ready with ACT Aspire.

What Remains for 2014-2015 Collect remaining data ACT, AIMS, Aspire, Badger, MAP Getting staff more involved in the process and reviewing data Final SLO review with staff SLOs connect directly to building goal maps

Adjustments for 2015-2016 Focus on having and using more formative assessments K-12 More consistent progress monitoring

Development as SMART Coaches Strengths Resources available to draw upon in district Opportunities to provide feedback and coaching through Educator Effectiveness Needs Time Challenging to “coach” while in supervisor/supervisee relationship