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

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

3. 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

4. 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

6. 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

7. 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

10. 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

12. 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.

13. 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

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

15. 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