Dear Principals,   

We had some very productive work done in the last two days.  Most of the teachers worked very hard to bring up their teaching documents (lesson plans & calendars) to state standards.  (Except for 4 teachers who decided to browse the Thrifty Nickel instead of working with their groups)  I would like to suggest a TO DO list as a result of this Inservice:

• Make sure that you SEE curriculum calendars from all your teachers for the first 3 six weeks.  I will bet that the 4 teachers I mentioned earlier DO NOT have theirs up to speed.  
• Make sure that you check lesson plans online….we have some folks who have the SAME lesson plan from September through December….because they think you can’t tell the difference. 
• Make sure that ALL your teachers are benchmarking their students at the six weeks.  This is district policy. 

Site base Issues for Improvement Plans that MUST be addressed in January….so that I can get the District Committee up to speed BEFORE February

• Have committee members type up their needs assessments and submit them to the Campus Committee.  We actually did this during inservice time…so that you would be a jump ahead.
• Have Campus Committees make sure they complete the following tasks – as a result of our Audit from the State
  • Complete a Comprehensive Needs Assessment
  • Identify Strategies for solving Needs
  • Identify Supplemental Financial Resources (by Dollar amount for Title and Compensatory
  • Identify supplemental staff FTE’s by exact % -- but this MUST have documentation as to which students are being served and how often.
  • Timelines for monitoring strategies
  • Formative and Summative Evaluation Criteria – I went over this in the Inservice.  Basically, you need to tell how often you will monitor the strategies, by what method (we have a District Assessment Policy that needs to be followed.  You can read it at:  http://www.arp.sprnet.org/curric/Instr_Assess/testing.htm ), and what you will do if a child falls below the expectation – what OTHER strategies will be used.
  • Staff Development Recommendations & Waiver Days Recommendation (how many & for WHAT?)
  • Make sure that ALL special programs are addressed in plan including:  ESL, GT, AT-RISK, Early Graduation, Acceleration, Summer School, Attendance & Attendance Committee, Recommended High School Program, College Entrance Testing, CATE, Special Ed, Technology Applications (TA TEKS),  Lesson Plan & Calendar Development (Curriculum Alignment), and TAKS preparation.

I WILL ASSIST you in anyway that you need.   Thanks for all you do!  JJY