1. Implementing your school improvement plan
Strategies to secure success

2. TODAY Using the Improvement Handbook Implementation Monitoring

3. Stage 4- Improve practice and monitor impact
The tricky bit!
The plan is continually being implemented, monitored and adjusted based on new evidence.
Are we doing what we said we would do? Are we improving student learning? What are our next steps?

4. How will you know it’s working?
Teachers and leaders are taking the actions outlined
You can articulate progress against success criteria
There is evidence that plans and practice are continually adjusted to reflect changes arising from implementation and monitoring
You are securing consistent and embedded are changes in practice

5. What are the implementation and monitoring processes you are putting in place to know the impact of your work by the end of the year?

6. Discussion

7. Some implementation activities
Every classroom, every day
Planning your staff meeting sequence to ensure you have full coverage of your priorities
Focus on now and next- articulate business and the current priority
Implement class data discussions with teachers- do you have a shared understanding of what PAT is telling you?
Ensure PDP is fully related to the plans
Share ownership of sections of the Site Improvement Plan- e.g. faculty teams
Student ownership of self and school improvement

8. More on implementation
Develop a site improvement team to implement the plan- have someone from outside the leadership team on the group
If you have PD or PLCs- how will you secure impact with your wider team and influence others
Check teachers programs are consistent with actions in the plan
Filter distractions
Carry on using the guidebooks!

9. PDP- make use of the new formats linking to SIP

10. Where are you positioning yourself?
How are you communicating the key messages?
How are you promoting leadership of others while staying in touch?

11. Monitoring activities
Talking to groups of students
Looking at student work
Observation of student learning
Discussions with teachers
Sitting in on staff meetings or PLCs
Discussion focussed on your success criteria
Twice per term
Have a balance of whole staff and improvement team reviews

12. More monitoring activities
Expect evidence gathering before or within monitoring meetings
You don’t have to monitor it all at once
Identify trials to further investigate
Think about the validity of assertions
Think about the consistency of the practice
Write summaries about your evidence

13. What will your evidence look like?
What will you be able to share with us to demonstrate your work?

14. Discuss

17. Our site visits
We’ll engage in an instructional leadership activity to monitor an aspect of your plan
focus on monitoring one area in depth
guided by you depending on what your focus is
see evidence of your plans for implementation and information about how it’s influencing student achievement
Peers will be involved in term 2 and 3

19. AOB Site plans- we’ll upload from today - share and use ideas
PLCS / Facilitators
Agreement about graduation
Primaries passing information onto secondary
Meeting with Ian May
Internet rollout

20. Preparing for the Partnership Review
What to look out for:
Briefing document
Review of previous partnership activities
Data story for the partnership
Partnership preparation meeting
Draft agenda
Your prep- think about your contribution and the partnership effectiveness

21. Our focus this year
Professional Learning Communities directly related to the work of the guidebooks
Instruction leadership capabilities of leadership teams
Early years focus: collaboration between preschool and school, play, and early reading / phonics
Literacy focus: Phonics and phonological awareness in Semester 1, Writing in Semester 2
Mathematics focus: STEM 500 in Semester 1 followed by Number sense / mastery focus in semester 2