1. District Leadership Team 2011-12
Session #1
September 8th, 2011
Stakeholder Involvement in the District Strategic Plan!

2. Welcome! Introductions
Name, Stakeholder Group, School
Find someone you don’t know and introduce yourself
Share why you are interested in serving on the District Leadership Team

3. Housekeeping… Use of email Web site/electronic materials posted
Possible Sub-Committees
Future Meetings
November 3rd, 2011
6-8pm
February 9th, 2012
April 5th, 2012

4. Agenda

5. Our Purpose
The purpose of the District Leadership Team is to provide oversight and the “voice of the customer” during the implementation of the 3-5 year District Strategic Plan.

6. 2011-12 Key Tasks/Timelines Monitor the District Strategic Plan
SMART goals & Action Plans
Balanced Score Card
Provide Input on District Initiatives
Serve as the “Voice of the Customer”
Provide insight/perspective into:
Stakeholder Satisfaction Surveys
Other key decisions

7. Characteristics of High Performing Schools
Common mission, vision, values and goals.
Ensuring achievement for all students with systems for prevention and intervention.
Collaboration focused on teaching and learning.
Using data to guide decision-making and continuous improvement.
Gaining active engagement from family & community
Building sustainable leadership capacity.

8. Set and Communicate Direction!
Vision & Mission
Core Values
Goals & Strategies
District Strategic Plan!

9. District Strategic Plan
“The focus is on achieving a shared vision, and all understand their role in achieving the vision”

10. PLC’s (Grade/Content) Classroom Learning Community
District Strategic Plan
District Leadership Team
School/Dept. Leadership Teams
PLC’s (Grade/Content)
Classroom Learning Community

11. Classroom learning community
In Action!

12. Systemic Alignment!

13. Goal Alignment

14. District SMART Goals/Action Plans

15. Dunlap Balanced Scorecard
Each of the 5 goals in the strategic plan have identified “indicators” or “measures”
Historic data as well as projections (coming soon!)
DLT will review the scorecard and data when it is available
Moving toward a data warehouse that will provide real time “dashboard” of results

17. Monthly Review Calendar

18. Dunlap Community Unit School District #323
Harris Poll Stakeholder Satisfaction Results

20. Voice of the Customer Scorecard measures satisfaction levels
2.A Increase elementary students overall satisfaction with school
2.B Increase middle school students overall satisfaction with school
2.C Increase high school students overall satisfaction with school
2.E Increase the % of students who feel safe and accepted at school
3.B Increase certified staff satisfaction
3.C Increase support staff satisfaction
4.A Increase parent overall satisfaction
4.B Increase community member overall satisfaction
4.C Increase the % of parents who agree that "school is welcoming and friendly"
4.D Increase effective communication with parents
4.E Parents feel positively about school safety and climate

21. Harris Interactive School Poll Topic Areas
Students
School Atmosphere
Equipment/Facilities
School Bus
Computer Technology
Main Teacher/ Teachers (five subjects)
School Leadership
Counselor
Other Staff
Other Issues
Teachers/Staff
School Atmosphere
Equipment/Facilities
Computer Technology
School Leadership/ Administration
Communications/ Involvement
Parental Support
Career
Students
Other Staff
Other Issues
Parents
Equipment/Facilities
School Bus
Computer Technology
School Leadership/ Administration
Communications/ Involvement
Child’s Teachers
Curriculum/Training
Budget
Other Issues
The survey is comprehensive and covers the areas listed here… Wherever possible, questions are worded in similar fashion toward all stakeholder groups for comparison.
Essentially, we inventory the experiences that the stakeholder has within these areas of the school experience, followed by a question asking them to give an overall rating for that area on a letter grade scale of A-F.
At the end of this inventory, we gather the attitudinal measure – a satisfaction rating.
The crux of our analysis is relating the two – using a regression. A sophisticated statistical tool, but all it really does is show which experiences lead to the attitude. What experiences, if changed, would increase satisfaction?
Our questionnaires contain hundreds of experiences that could be going on in the district. The analysis will distill this down to a handful that really matter.

22. Elementary Students: School Atmosphere
Please give an overall rating for your SCHOOL ATMOSPHERE by filling in one oval on the A to F scale provided?
You may recall that all of this data is collected through questionnaires set up like this…
Here is an example of questions posed to your teachers and staff at Cedar Rapids in the school atmosphere section of the survey…
They were asked questions regarding their experience with school atmosphere in a Yes/No format, followed by a question asking them to give an overall rating for that area on a letter grade scale, A-F. The letter scale is converted to numerical values (0-10) for the mathematical calculations.
After rating a number of functional areas, an overall rating question is asked at the end of the survey.
Harris Interactive Inc.

23. Sample

24. Sample

25. Sample

26. Sample

27. Stakeholder Response Rates
Surveys were conducted in April 2011
Students in grades 3-12 completed online surveys
Parents completed paper/pencil surveys
All teachers and staff asked to complete an online survey
Response Rates:
Elementary Students 92%
Secondary Students 80%
Teachers/Staff 90%
Parents 30%

28. Dunlap Community Unit School District #323
Results - Key Overall District Findings

29. Rules of Thumb on Ratings
Above 9.0: Exemplary
: Strong compared to the nationwide database.
: Average, in need of continuous improvement
: In need of a defined focus and improvement plan.
Under 6.0: Sign of a serious issue within the district. *

30. Overall Satisfaction Ratings- All Groups

31. Overall Student Satisfaction

32. Overall Teacher Satisfaction

33. Overall Parent Satisfaction

34. Comparative Data

35. Next steps with stakeholder satisfaction data

38. Reviewing Results Activity
Number off by 4
Group 1: Elementary Student Results
Group 2: Secondary Student Results
Group 3: Staff Results
Group 4: Parent Results

39. Team Directions What are the top areas of concern?
What might be some “root causes” for these concerns?
How might these concerns be addressed?