Improvement Goal #1—The
ESU will strive to promote awareness
regarding available services to member schools.
Improvement Goal #2—The ESU will strive to promote user-friendly resources to enhance teaching and learning.
Improvement Goal #3—The ESU will strive to provide a wide variety of training opportunities for all school district personnel that enhances teaching and learning.
Process Goal—ESU 17 will improve its CIP process.
Departmental Goals
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6.25.2008 Department CIP Process
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1. Correlating ESU Improvement Goal: The ESU will strive for improvement of process in future CIP plans. |
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a. 2008 Exit Report |
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Recommendation of
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Communication: While good communication exists among department staff on daily operational issues, time should be deliberately scheduled for the entire staff to plan jointly and develop improvement initiatives instead of having each department working independently. The status of these improvement initiatives should be reported to the ESU Board monthly. |
Build CIP work time for all staff into the ESU calendar. |
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Integration: Three unit-wide goals have been identified. Goal One is Awareness; Goal Two is User-friendly Resources; and Goal Three is Training. Each department has independently prepared an action plan for each goal, resulting in 15 separate plans. Consideration should be given to reorganizing the action plan process by having the departments collectively prepare one coordinated action plan for each goal. Integrating departmental strategies could establish unity and coordination of effort. |
Development of one common action plan by all departments. |
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Action Planning: The effectiveness of an action plan will depend on the specificity of the strategies to be implemented. While a goal should be a broad statement of intent, an action plan should clearly identify the strategy (what is to happen), person responsible (accountability), needed resources (support), timeline (motivation and progress), and evidence of completion (success). Care should be taken to ensure that an action plan is not used as an instrument to demonstrate what has been done in the past, but developed as a specifically designed plan (not a random selection of activities) as to what is to happen in the future in a coordinated and timely manner. |
Action Plans represent a design for the future (and do not reflect a historical perspective). |
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In the awareness action plans, consider strategies to disseminate information regarding services to schools. Share the “good story and good news” with the area media! |
Use various media to promote ESU awareness. |
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The internal assessment of the goals in 2007 was actually a review of the degree of accomplishment of the strategies in the action plans initiated in 2003, with an “assumption” that the degree of accomplishment of the strategies would indicate that the goals had been met. That is the ideal, but how do you know that this happened? For the 2008 goals and properly prepared action plans, it is suggested that an evaluation instrument be developed for each goal. For example, to determine if the goal regarding “awareness” has been accomplished, information should be gathered from those who were to have become “aware.” Without baseline data, measurement of success cannot occur. |
Develop an evaluation instrument to measure the degree to which each goal has been met in order to determine goal effectiveness. |
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To make the ESU 17 Strategic Plan “continuous” rather than “random acts of improvement”, consider reporting progress on the action plans at each meeting of the ESU Board. This helps maintain momentum and accountability. |
Report CIP progress at each ESU Board meeting. |
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To build ownership of the “Continuous” Improvement Plan, develop a rotation plan for the facilitator and reporters of the Strategic Plan. This helps distribute knowledge and ownership |
Create a CIP Committee with rotating membership and responsibilities. |
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updated 5.20.2008 Department ESU 17 COOP
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1. Correlating ESU Improvement Goal: The ESU will strive to promote awareness regarding available services to member schools. |
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2. Specific Department Objective: Facilitate better communication between Coop coordinator and all school personnel. |
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Support Data for Selecting this Objective: |
a. Question 1 Table—less than 50% answered “unaware” of year-round programs |
b. Pg 29 #13 “ . . . possibly purchase throughout the school year” IS AVAILABLE AND POSSIBLE |
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Information made available in ESU newsletter Emails – new program information and updates |
Jan Foster, Brenda Libolt |
Receive more information from Statewide Coop |
Year-round |
Increased sales in all program areas |
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updated 5.20.2008 Department ESU 17 COOP
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1. Correlating ESU Improvement Goal: The ESU will strive to promote user-friendly resources to enhance teaching and learning. |
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2. Specific Department Objective: To make Coop information more available on a local level. |
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Support Data for Selecting this Objective: |
a. Respondent comments |
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Revision of Coop Link/Page on ESU #17 Homepage |
Jan Foster Technology Department Coop Staff |
NE ESU Coop Website NE ESU Coop Staff |
Now – Indefinite Complete by Aug. each year |
A new page/link completed/usable on ESU #17 website. |
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Create a local Coop brochure to distribute at the beginning of the school year |
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updated 5.20.2008 Department HEALTH SERVICES
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1. Correlating ESU Improvement Goal: The ESU will strive to promote awareness regarding available services to member schools. |
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2. Specific Department Objective: Health services will provide member schools with general information and contract schools with specific information. |
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Support Data for Selecting this Objective: |
a. Non-contract schools’ lack of knowledge re: available health services. |
b. Staff indicate desire for nurse presentations in classroom on identified district-specific health/safety concerns. |
c. Staff indicate desire for teacher inservices by nurses on district-specific health/safety concerns. Inservices could include general health information, as well as emergency response to student-specific needs. |
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Needs: Resources, Professional Development |
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Write current health article for each ESU quarterly newsletter. |
ESU nurses, on a rotating basis |
Current Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) regulations and professional health sources |
Quarterly, ongoing |
Article in newsletter |
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Communicate with staff regarding nurse availability for health teaching needs in the classroom. |
Nurse assigned to district |
Mass communication tool, such as faculty bulletin or daily announcements |
At beginning of each semester, ongoing |
Feedback from staff and prompt response by nurse |
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Communicate with administration regarding nurse availability for health teaching needs of staff. |
Nurse assigned to district |
Phone, email |
At beginning of each semester, ongoing |
Feedback from administrators and prompt response by nurse |
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Create and Maintain current health page on schools’ websites |
Nurse(s) assigned to district |
Current DHHS and CDC information |
Ongoing |
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updated 5.20.2008 Department HEALTH SERVICES
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1. Correlating ESU Improvement Goal: The ESU will strive to provide a wide variety of training opportunities for all school district personnel that enhance teaching and learning. |
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2. Specific Department Objective: Schools contracting for health services will be offered varied training opportunities to create and maintain a safe and healthy school setting. |
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