Sheldon Region Improvement Plan

The Sheldon Region has been revising their Regional Improvement Plan for the grant years 2007-2010. Their draft is below:

Sheldon Region Improvement Plan: 2007-2010 - DRAFT

Overall Goal: to narrow the achievement gap.
Regional Goal #1: Create and maintain supportive relationships with each other.
Activity	Person(s) Responsible	Resources Needed	Timeline
"Coffee meeting" (6)	Feeder schools Administrators at Cal Young & Monroe		Monthly, 1st Tuesdays of the month
Visiting each other's buildings (6)	All Administrators		Monthly
Go to conferences together (2)	All Administrators		To be decided
Check-in to start meetings, encourage sharing (9)	All Administrators BJ, Bob, Peter		Monthly
Classroom walk-abouts	All Administrators		Monthly
Phone call check-ins	All Administrators		As needed
Share professional materials	All Administrators		Monthly
Regional Goal #2: Define good (effective) teaching: What does it look like, and how do we support it? [Note: curricular focus area should be Language Arts, instructional focus on reaching diverse learners.]
Collaborate to study, create, or find a common definition of good teaching (10)	Daggett, Danielson		Monthly
Systematic teacher/peer observation and exchange (8)		$ needed	Monthly
Common tool for teacher assessment (1)	BJ, Peter, Bob		June 2008
Common instructional language regionally	BJ, Peter, Bob
Book club	All Administrators - change leadership		Oct 2007 - Aug. 2008
Classroom walk-abouts	All Administrators		Monthly
Support for on-going training		$ needed	Periodic
Common staff development	All Administrators		Monthly