Beyond the Minimum Requirements Ideal Performance Statements IMPACT Training Beyond the Minimum Requirements Ideal Performance Statements

Alabama System Planning Assist Guide Jeanne Clark jclark@sun-associates.com Jeff Sun jsun@sun-associates.com www.sun-associates.com/alsde/pioneer2 Alabama System Planning Assist Guide Link on the above URL or from ALSDE

Objectives for Today Understanding the point and function of Ideal Performance Statements (IPS) as a means for evaluating the impact of your instructional technology plan Exploring a process for creating Ideal Performance Statements Connecting data collection efforts to Ideal Performance Statements

What is an Ideal Performance Statement? A descriptive statement that describes what you would expect to find once a goal has been achieved An indicator of achievement that goes beyond simply stating that you’ve done something…but goes on to describe the overall impact of a goal What are you evaluating? Whether or not you did each action? The quality of individual products from each action OVERALL IMPACT of the plan (as categorized by goals) Understanding where you are is more than just knowing what you’ve done

The EvALLIGATOR

Ingredients for an IPS Vision - overall, what are you hoping to achieve (the big picture into which this IPS and its related goal fits Goal Statement - the focus of this section of the plan Objectives - more specific things (objectives) you want to focus on Action Steps - the things that you’re going to do to achieve this goal and its related objectives Your understanding of where you want to go (this comes from the committee and its discussion)

Sample Goal 1 IPS Students and teachers make regular and flexible use of technology to support learning and mastery of standards in all content areas.Teaching methods and student activities exhibit compelling evidence of proficiency and comfort with technology as a means of expression, analysis, collaboration, communication and presentation. Improved teaching practices and administrative productivity throughout the system reflect the integration of technology in such areas as assessment, Special Education, planning and decision making. Emphasize this is intended to reflect the ideal at the end of your 5 year plan’s goals. It’s NOT possible to achieve the full Ideal Performance in one year.

Why Variance? Why doesn’t the state write an IPS that works for everyone? Objectives are different from system to system Choose a different three? Write your own? Geographic, socio-economic, etc. differences translate into different priorities…and these are reflected in different objectives that relate to each goal Each system may be starting from a slightly different point Your objectives should address what you need and want to do…not what you’ve already accomplished Everyone needs to do something different (I.e., everyone has different needs), and therefore their objectives will be different…and therefore what constitutes ideal performance will be different.

Connecting Data Collection to the IPS How will you know that the things in the IPS are happening….or not? You need to report progress in next year’s tech plan (and every year thereafter) The IPS is the thing against which your data will be collected This is why your data collection plan needs to include more than just the state survey data The state survey is keyed to the state objectives…which may not be your objectives What other data will you gather that responds to the more qualitative aspects of the “lower jaw”?

So, What Kind of Data? Primarily qualitative Opinions Measures of attitudes Helps get at the why…why have things happened or not? Measures of things that aren’t measured on the technology surveys Inventories PEPE data Student achievement data Budgets etc. So, go back to example…. What kinds of things there beg something other than survey data? What we’ve heard from Pioneers is that once they started to walk around and talk to people they got the kind of information that they needed to reflect on ideal performance. Remind them of pg 27 in IMPACT

Help? List of data collection possibilities in IMPACT (page 27) www.sun-associates.com/alsde/pioneer2 Email us!