1. Denver Public Schools
Potential New Schools
March 14, 2013

2. Progress Monitoring What is it? Why is it important?
Progress monitoring is a systemic approach to determining current levels of performance and related goals.
Progress toward meeting the goals is measured regularly (weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc.) by comparing expected levels of performance to actual performance.
Why is it important?
Research shows that effective progress monitoring is key to increasing student academic achievement.
Progress monitoring is a key strategy among DPS schools with the highest growth on TCAP.
ARE and a body of research from the field
General sense of progress monitoring ….not RTI and special needs’ specific flavor of progress monitoring

3. Progress Monitoring and Your UIP
32% ELL Students Proficient or Advanced
on TCAP
Are we setting appropriate targets?
Target Setting
Interim Measures
Implementation Benchmarks
How are students progressing towards the targets?
Are we implementing action steps?
Are we effective at implementation?

4. Progress Monitoring: Setting Appropriate Targets
How do we know we’ve set appropriate targets?
An appropriate target:
Meets the minimum targets set forth by the district
Adheres to CDE’s 5-year accountability clock (turnaround and priority improvement schools only)
Is based upon the school’s long term goals and major improvement strategies
Is set for disaggregated groups (if gaps exist)

5. Progress Monitoring: Setting Appropriate Targets
Revisit end of year TCAP target in relation to where you are mid-year.
Setting Targets
Interim Measures

6. Progress Monitoring: Action Steps/ Implementation Benchmarks
Add focus
Action Step:
What we said we would do.
How we determine the Action Step was implemented and effective.