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External Review Team Conference Call:Preparing the Team for Off-site Review Work

<insert date>

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Purpose

• Prepare team members for off-site review work

• Discuss External Review Team Workspace

• Provide context of the system • Discuss schedule/logistics• Q & A

External Review Team Member Training

• Online team member training is optional for fall, 2014.

• Online team member training is required beginning January, 2015.

• Asynchronous training sessions

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Home Tab

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School and System Expectations

<insert appropriate information about school – see examples below>• New state mandates – Common Core Standards– Assessment System– Program Review– Teacher Evaluations

• School closings and reconfigurations• Systems Accreditation used to validate

and guide strategic direction

• Meet AdvancED Accreditation Standards for Quality

• Implement a continuous improvement process • Conduct Internal Review

• Executive Summary• Standards Self Assessment • Stakeholder Feedback Diagnostic• Student Performance Diagnostic• Improvement Plan• Assurances

• Host External Review• Respond to Improvement Priorities

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<insert name of system>

<insert appropriate information about school – see examples below>• New state mandates – Common Core Standards– Assessment System– Program Review– Teacher Evaluations

• School closings and reconfigurations• Systems Accreditation used to validate

and guide strategic direction

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Index of Education Quality™

The Index of Education Quality provides a holistic measure of overall performance based on data aggregated from each AdvancED Standard and diagnostic results from student, parent and staff/teacher surveys

The work of the External Review Team will be centered around the Domains of the IEQ.

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Team Member Assignments

• Team Members will be assigned to a Standard and an IEQ Domain.– Standard assignment – responsible for leading

the team in the discussion and analysis of the evidence found.

– IEQ Domain – responsible for working with the Domain team to make connections between related Indicators and supporting evidence.

• All Team Members will individually rate every indicator and Evaluative Criteria.

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Team Member Assignments

Team Member

1 – insert name, insert name2 – insert name, insert name3 - insert name, insert name4 - insert name, insert name5 - insert name, insert name

Standards and IEQ DomainsTeaching and Learning Impact• Standard 3 – Teaching and

Assessing for Learning• Standard 5 – Using Results for

Continuous ImprovementLeadership Capacity• Standard 1 – Purpose and

Direction• Standard 2 – Governance and

LeadershipResource Utilization• Standard 4 – Resources and

Support Systems

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Team Member Off-site Review Work

• Review/study Self-Assessment (SA) and Executive Summary (ES)– Are the artifacts relevant to standard indicators?– Does the artifact(s) inform the standard indicator?– How?

• Use the External Review Team Workbook to record your review work:– Questions to ask stakeholders– Artifacts to review– Patterns and/or trends– Successes and/or challenges– “Listen for’s” during interviews and presentations– Potential powerful practices and opportunities for improvement

• Review institution’s website – Insert website address

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• Review additional documents– Stakeholder Feedback and Student

Performance diagnostics – System Improvement/Strategic Plan– Assurances

• Team members should be prepared to share an overview of the evidence for their assigned standard and IEQ Domain during team meeting on-site (Sunday

• Bring your laptop (optional)

Team Member Off-site Review Work

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Observing Effective Learning Environments

Purposes of observation• Team members will use the Effective Learning

Environment Observation Tool™ (eleot™) • Identify and document observable evidence of the

classroom environments conducive to student learning

• Results used to corroborate information obtained from

• Interviews• Artifacts• Student performance data• Stakeholder feedback data

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External Review Schedule

Sunday - Arrival at hotel Team work session # 1 / Prepare for Day 1

Monday System presentation/Leadership interviews Interviews with stakeholders (BOE, System Level

stakeholders) Evening work session # 2 / Prepare for Day 2

Tuesday School presentation Interviews with stakeholders / classroom

environment observations Evening work session # 3 / Prepare for Day 3

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External Review Schedule

Wednesday Clarify unknowns / interviews Work session # 4 (Final work session) -

Discussions / Deliberations Prepare Exit Report Meet with Head of System / Superintendent Deliver Exit Report to stakeholders

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Logistics

Insert the following information:• Hotel name, address, phone, website

Check-in time• LE cell number• Team Work Session # 1 – insert meeting

time• Team Dinner – insert time

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