Educational Service Unit #17
Ainsworth , Nebraska
Continuous Improvement Process
Mission Statement: ESU 17 is committed to partnering with its schools by
providing support and resources to enhance teaching and learning.
Improvement Goal #1—The
ESU will strive to promote awareness
regarding available services to member schools.
- (ESU Coop) Facilitate
better communication between Coop coordinator and all school personnel.
- (Health Services)
Provide member schools with general information and contract schools
with specific information.
- (Media)
Create opportunities that promote
- (Special Education)
Create an informational pamphlet for teachers and parents.
- (Staff Development)
Effectively reach all school district personnel regarding specific staff
development services as well as actively promote professional development
opportunities.
- (Technology) Develop a plan to increase the
usefulness of the ESU 17 Home page.
Improvement Goal #2—The ESU will strive to promote user-friendly resources to enhance teaching and learning.
- (ESU Coop)
Make Coop information more available on a local level.
- (Media) Provide
key for success when using
- (Special Education)
Create a SPED link on the ESU 17 homepage to cover a variety of subjects.
- (Staff Development)
Provide information in various platforms in order to reach educators who
possess different degrees of technology expertise.
- (Technology)
Update and expand technology resources available to our member schools.
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.
- (Health Services) Offer varied training opportunities to create and maintain a safe and healthy school setting to schools contracting for health services.
- (Special Education) Determine the training needs for specific school SPED issues.
- (Staff Development) Provide a wide variety of training opportunities for all school district personnel that enhance teaching and learning.
- (Technology) Offer a variety of training that meets the needs of ESU 17 teachers.
Process Goal—ESU 17 will improve its CIP process.
Departmental Goals
- (Special Education)
Create a SPED link on the ESU 17 homepage to cover a variety of subjects.
- (Staff Development)
Provide information in various platforms in order to reach educators who
possess different degrees of technology expertise.
Date
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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Support Data for Selecting this Objective: |
a. 2008 Exit Report |
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Recommendation of
External Visitation Group |
Specific Activity |
Person(s)
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Timeline
Begins-Ends |
Evidence that the
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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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Date
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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Activity/ies to be
Completed |
Person(s)
Responsible |
Needs: Resources, Professional Development |
Timeline
Begins-Ends |
Evidence that the
Activity has been Satisfactorily Completed |
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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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