1. Comprehensive Needs Assessment

2. Comprehensive Needs Assessment
A study to estimate the importance or value of…

3. TEAMS for Needs Assessment
Student Issues
Staff Issues
Parent/Community Issues
Climate/Safety/Facilities

4. Teams are Challenged to…
Question the system
Be “data driven”
Involve parents/students
Work as a “team” – involve everyone
Have “honest/open” discussions
Stay “student-focused”

5. “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”
-George Patton

6. Framework The framework was developed As a “self-evaluation”
As a “continuum for progress”
As a “template for planning”

7. Ten Components Critical Attributes
Critical parts that underscore each component
Descriptors
Descriptors of observed behaviors and/or events

8. Framework
Is NOT an external evaluator’s tool to evaluate/inspect a school’s planning effort
IS a tool to facilitate a school staff’s discovery of where the school is in its planning efforts
A guide to assist the school in determining where it might go next
A tool developed with research in mind…