Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center

Breakout Sessions

Utilizing Standards and Indicators to Provide Technical Assistance
Kentucky uses an instrument to conduct comprehensive reviews of schools and districts in the areas of academic performance, learning environment and efficiency. The process provides specific feedback for strategies to improve teaching and learning. This session provided a description of the instrument and the process, how technical assistance teams utilize the results to work with schools and districts and how a district has implemented the recommendations.

Pauline Carr
Title I Division Director
Kentucky Department of Education

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Supporting Material

How Washington State Delivered An Effective Support System for Schools: The Nuts and Bolts
This highly interactive session focused on how the School Improvement Assistance program selected and trained School Improvement Facilitators (SIFs), and why some SIFs were effective when others were not. Discussion around the data support and training given to school improvement teams was also discussed.

Rob MacGregor
Former Assistant Superintendent
Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction

Supporting Material

Managing the Delivery of Your Scope of Work Across a Regional System
Defining the work that makes up your Statewide System of School Improvement Support is complex. Ensuring the work is delivered with fidelity to the districts and buildings that need it most is even more complicated. This interactive dialogue began with an overview of Ohio's scope of work for their Statewide System of School Improvement Support and how they are communicating expectations and measuring implementation and impact of their Regional School Improvement Teams which are delivered through partnerships with regional service providers. Participants explored elements of their own system in relation to other state systems and were able to exchange ideas and problem solve with colleagues in similar roles across the region.

Keith Speers
Director, Office of Field Relations
Ohio Department of Education

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Accountability Roundtable
The Accountability Roundtable provides a seamless system of technical assistance and support to all LEAs in Alabama, with focused assistance to those in improvement through the State Support Team. On-site coaching is provided to local School Improvement Specialists and assistance is coordinated electronically with Web-based access to current resources.

Deann Stone
Accountability Roundtable Coordinator
Alabama Department of Education

Cheryl Sparks
Team Leader North, Regional School Improvement Coaches
Alabama Department of Education

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