CARE Model Analysis of District/Campus Improvement Initiatives

CARE Model Analysis of District/Campus Improvement Initiatives or Action Research Plans

Please review your intern plan. In the first course, students were encouraged to engage in some action research, or participate in district or campus improvement initiatives. Each of you has had some experiences with such initiatives or action plans. Please review those experiences and complete the following analysis:

Concerns – Review your participation in improvement initiatives or efforts to engage in action research, and list at least three concerns that you have identified from these experiences – a concern may be any matter that engages your attention or interest.

1. Improve in meeting the needs of special education students.
2. Correlate campus afterschool programs.
3. Time management of technology web-based network programs for reading and math.

Affirmations - Review your participation in improvement initiatives or efforts to engage in action research, and affirm or identify at least 3 actions that must be sustained and supported to achieve the District/Campus improvement initiatives.

1. Closely monitor inclusion practices
2. Organize (ACE) and after school tutorial programs with a more effective collaborative approach among ACE Coordinators and After School Program Administrators.
3.  Provide flexibility in weekly schedules to accommodate criteria for network programs usage time.

Recommendations - Review your participation in improvement initiatives or efforts to engage in action research and describe at least 3 recommendations you would make regarding the District/Campus Improvement plans or action research plans.

1.  Provide staff development to teachers that model best practices for differentiated instruction.
2. Involve all coordinators with opportunities to work in partnership to create action plans that will promote the effectiveness of campus afterschool programs.
3. Provide ongoing technology professional staff development.

Evaluate - Review your participation in improvement initiatives or efforts to engage in action research and identify at least 3 strategies for evaluating the improvement plans or recommendations.

1. Analyze benchmark assessments; walk through observation data, PDAS evaluation reports, and ARD committee.
2. Pursue guidelines for the ACE grant and Title I district procedures that support after school programs.
3. Use diagnostic and progress monitoring assessments that measure student’s academic performance in the areas of reading and math.