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: Individual School Planning
: District-Based Planning
: Monitoring and Evaluation Process
: Leadership Coaching for School Reform
: Professional Development
CSRF offers a number of program services specifically designed to build knowledge, collaboration, and skills that boost academic performance. Below is a general overview of some of our services.
Please contact Ann Bickel, Director of CSRF, with any questions.
CSRF provides a comprehensive and individualized school reform planning process to help you construct a school action plan.
Target Audience: Principals, school leadership teams, school staff, district liaisons
Outcomes
- A plan that reflects the input of all stakeholders and describes steps that lead to specific and measurable student achievement outcomes
Components
- Collect and analyze data in a comprehensive school-site needs assessment in four key areas:
- Student achievement
- Curriculum, instruction, and assessment
- School environment and culture
- Family and community engagement
- Work with the school leadership team and school-based task forces to
- Review data
- Identify research-based instruction and reform strategies
- Create specific, measurable student achievement objectives
- Include stakeholders and decision-makers at each step in the process and build consensus among staff
- Facilitate the development of an action plan that details the steps required to implement the plan, the individuals responsible, the timeline, and the sources of funds to support the steps
- Enter the action plan into WestEd's online database where it can be viewed, reviewed, and modified
Documents and Deliverables Provided
- CSRF Report of Findings to the School
- School Action Plan
- Access to Online School Plan Database
Timeline: Individualized. Four-month minimum suggested.
Cost: Provided upon request
CSRF helps groups of schools in a single district create and implement school plans to improve student achievement. Components are provided in both school site and workshop settings.
Target Audience: District educators, principals, and school or district leadership teams
Outcomes
- Comprehensive and focused school plans that help schools improve student achievement in order to meet the requirements for No Child Left Behind
- Increased district capacity to support rigorous and thoughtful school planning processes using tools provided by CSRF
Components
- Collect and analyze data in a comprehensive school-site needs assessment in four key areas:
- Student achievement
- Curriculum, instruction, and assessment
- School environment and culture
- Family and community engagement
- Involve district educators in all components to build capacity to create and sustain systemwide school reform focused on student learning and instructional improvement
Provide group planning and writing workshops on
- Data analysis
- Research-based instructional strategies
- Measurable student achievement objectives and detailed and specific action steps
- Provide an individual plan-writing consultation on site for each school
- Enter each school plan into WestEd's online database where it can be viewed, reviewed, and modified
- Provide one-day evaluation and monitoring consultations for each school
Documents and Deliverables Provided
- District School Reform Capacity Building Packet and Professional Development, including needs assessment, data analysis, planning, and monitoring tools and research
- School Strengths and Barriers Summary
- Site Action Plans
- School Evaluation Plans
- Access to Online Plan Database
Timeline: Individualized. Five-month minimum suggested.
Cost: Provided upon request
CSRF helps schools monitor and evaluate their action plans to track progress and support effective implementation. In this program, we answer these three questions: Is the school doing what it said it would do in its action plan? Is the school doing it well? Is implementation of the plan increasing student achievement?
Target Audience: District and school administrators, leadership teams
Outcomes
- Timely feedback on the way school plans are being implemented
- Recommendations that create opportunities for mid-course corrections
- Increased site capacity for data gathering and analysis
- Increased site capacity for self-monitoring that supports a cycle of continuous improvement
Components
- Prepare a comprehensive checklist of the activities and strategies in the action plan
- Develop a detailed evaluation plan for three of the plan's high leverage strategies (i.e., the ones that will most likely maximize improvements in student achievement)
- Review progress on all activities and strategies, and gather in-depth data to validate implementation of the three high leverage strategies
- Report findings to stakeholders and decision-makers in a timely manner so that appropriate program adjustments may be made if warranted
- Support and build the school's capacity to implement the action plan effectively
- Maintain the school's plan in an online database where it can be reviewed and modified
- Prepare an end-of-the-year impact report that summarizes how well the plan has been implemented, what progress students have made on state standardized tests and other achievement measures, and provide recommendations for the next year
Documents and Deliverables Provided
- Detailed Evaluation Plan
- Site-specific Data Gathering Tools and Protocols
- Site Visit Progress Reports
- End-of-year Impact Report
Timeline: 10 months suggested
Cost: Provided upon request
We provide coaching to both individuals and teams. All coaching is tailored to client needs and begins with a needs assessment so that coach and client agree on priorities. To produce the best results, we recommend that clients contract for a minimum of five coaching sessions. Unless the client prefers otherwise, coaching is generally conducted on site.
Audience: School and district administrators, school and district leadership teams
Outcomes
- Learn and practice a variety of leadership coaching strategies to assist site staff
- Access a variety of tools and resources specific to the needs of administrators
- Enhance confidence and competence as education and instructional leaders
Components
- Provide effective site leadership
- Develop facilitative, instructional, collaborative, consultative, and transformational coaching strategies
- Learn how to communicate and provide feedback
- Understand components of emotional intelligence
- Improve cultural proficiency
- Analyze systemic issues that impact schools and districts
Cost: No charge for one-day needs assessment, $7,500 plus travel for five-day coaching package
Additional days of coaching services are available at negotiated rates.
In the context of our planning, monitoring, or coaching processes, we provide professional development that fits with the needs of the school and its action plan in the following areas:
- Standards-Based Instruction
- Student Engagement
- Shared Decision-Making
- Data Analysis
- Facilitation Skills
- Systems to Manage Change
- Managing Resistance
- Designing a Reform-Based Master Schedule
- Assessment and Accountability for English Language Learners
We also connect schools with high-quality professional development by working closely with other WestEd Professional Development Services.
Audience: School and district administrators, school and district leadership teams,
school and district staff members
Cost: Provided upon request.
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