1. Indistar Upgrades
January 2019

2. The latest upgrades include:
Indicator Filter Tags
Planning Description Additions
Action Steps Sorting
Feedback: Next Steps and Formatting
NEW Leadership Team View
Document Sharing with Leadership Team

3. Indicator Filter Tags
If indicators are identified by state-specific filters, a filter tag will display at the end of the indicator.
Filter tags will display in the following places:
Set Direction – Step 3
Resources
Success Cycle grid
Indicator Assess-Create-Monitor page
Comprehensive Report

4. Assess-Create-Monitor: Language Updates in Create section….
Language has been added to “Describe below how it will look” section to remind Leadership Teams to include data, resources, and other evidence needed to determine and support full implementation.
including data, resources, and other evidence.
Did you notice the required field alert is a little more noticeable?

5. Assess-Create-Monitor: Ability to sort Action Steps
Actions created by the Leadership Team automatically sort and display by the Target Date. However, Actions may now be sorted by the Completion Date by using the sort feature next to the column headers “Target” and “Completed.”

6. Coaching Feedback Updates: Rich Text and Next Steps
A new item has been added to the drop down menu under Reference: Next Steps. This will help to alert Leadership Teams to next steps that have been determined with the Coach.
Comments written in the “Comments” field will now be able to utilize rich text features such as highlight, bold, add link, or create list.

7. Document Upload: Share Files with Leadership Team
Site administrators (principals and superintendents) and process managers can now choose to share selected files with the Leadership Team members.
Login
Go to DocUpload
See the “Share” column
Place a check next to any/all folders to share contents with the Leadership Team members
*If a specific file should not be shared, either do not share the entire folder or move the file to a separate un-shared folder.
And….the Document Upload page got a little makeover! Check it out!

8. Did you hear?
Leadership Team members now have a new way to view the work of the team.

9. Leadership Team Page
The old way…
The new way…

10. Why change the Leadership Team page?
The Leadership Team is a vital part of the Indistar process and should have access to see the moving pieces and parts of the plan. The new access will give all Leadership Team members VIEW ONLY access to:
The Plan
Vision, Mission, Values, & Goals
Meeting Agendas & Minutes
Coaching Feedback
Shared Files
Required State Forms & Submissions

11. Meeting Agendas & Minutes
The Plan: Indicator assessments, plans, action steps, target dates, and responsibility assignments
Shared Files
Meeting Agendas & Minutes
Vision Mission Values Goals
Forms & Submissions
State &/or Coach Feedback

12. Indistar
When district and school Leadership Teams adopt the Indistar® mindset, they soon discover the joy of engaging in deep discussion about the things that matter most—the professional practices of all staff in providing students with the education they deserve. Arriving at that mindset requires the right message, the right tone, and the right level of support.
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