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GV BOCES School Improvement
Service Information
What Is School Improvement?
Why Use The School Improvement Department?
Who Is On The School Improvement Team?
What Services Does School Improvement Provide?
Embedded Work
In addition, embedded work could include creating short and long-range goals/plans for initiatives at the systematic level, and instructional level. Embedded work could occur at building-level faculty meetings, department meetings, grade-level meetings, after/before school, conference days, summer curriculum hours, or online.
Below you will find several specific examples of ways in which districts can utilize the SIT.
Continuous Improvement Support Could Include:
- Leading educators in tackling pressing problems of practice using improvement science, a process for solving complex, persistent challenges by learning deeply about a problem and the system that produces it, and then designing steps to address it (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2020).
- Supporting the establishment of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) and their ongoing continuous improvement work.
- Developing and leading action research teams to serve as a continuous improvement model.
Curriculum Design Could Include:
- Custom-designed facilitation of the creation or revision of a guaranteed and viable curriculum based on the "Rigorous Curriculum Design (RCD)" or "Understanding By Design (UbD)" processes (developing units of study/pacing guides that include: prioritized and unpacked standards, unit-level learning intentions/success criteria, and assigned assessments of quality).
- A curriculum audit of pre-selected area of interest.
- Supporting districts with developing and strengthening their local Seal Pathways & PBLA design.
Instructional Support Could Include:
- Customized professional learning (CTLE Hours) on tier-one topics such as classroom management, student engagement, instructional models, explicit instruction, high-leverage teaching practices, cognitive science, formative assessment tasks, and quality questioning to name a few.
- Provide non-evaluative classroom walkthroughs in an effort to collect improvement science baseline data.
- Instructional Teacher Consultation could include sharing resources/tools, answering questions, and offering suggestions to improve instructional/assessment practices.
Analysis of Data Could Include:
- Support district/school/classroom data teams to leverage data analysis for improvement purposes (large-scale accountability data through classroom data).
- Collaboration to establish or safeguard district/school level systematic fidelity regarding MTSS-I with a focus on prevention, enrichment, and intervention.
Regional Professional Learning Opportunities (PLOs)
Regional Cohorts
Administrative Technical Assistance
- Coaching/Mentoring New School Administrators
- Long-Range Planning
- Faculty Meeting Planning
- Support with APPR learning and Collaboration
NYSED Liaison
State Level Communication Could Include:
- Sending new information to regional leadership listservs
- Relaying state-level information in the monthly School Improvement Newsletter
- Disseminating new learnings and understanding at regional cohort meetings, curriculum council meetings, and Superintendent Instructional Sub-Committee (SISC) Meetings
Follow SIT!
Questions or Requests for Support
Director of School Improvement
Genesee Valley BOCES
Email: sburns@gvboces.org
Website: www.gvboces.org
Location: 80 Munson Street, Le Roy, NY, USA
Phone: 585.344.7923
Twitter: @stephburns410