Services

1. Improvement Planning -

 

One of the most important responsibilities for a school is the analysis of effectiveness followed by the development of a plan for improvement. This “event” is frequently dry, meaningless and terribly dreaded. Managing state and federal rules for improvement plans often causes educators to become bogged down with an unmanageable and difficult to implement plan.  The result is that many improvement plans are never used and the planning process is viewed as “something we just have to endure and get done.”

 

  • Learning Blueprints can show you how to eliminate ineffective practices and develop a collaborative, meaningful improvement planning process that becomes a way of thinking and being…not a single, one-time event. Beginning with the understanding of how to collect data and which data to collect, this process takes schools from building a comprehensive needs assessment all the way through goal setting and selecting the most powerful strategies. Using an effective planning process is a major key to achieving rapid academic results.  Format:  1 – 2 Day Training
  • Learning Blueprints highly endorses the Plan4Learning District and Campus Improvement Software. (www.plan4learning.com) Improvement planning training can be provided alone or in combination with this software for a day-long comprehensive improvement planning training.  Plan4Learning and Learning Blueprints can help you implement an improvement planning process that truly provides focus and becomes the driving force behind all activities and expenditures on a campus.  Format:  1 day training

 

2. Administrator’s Coaching –

 

Campus and district-level administrators of all experience levels benefit from coaching.  Great schools have great leaders who never stop seeking to be better tomorrow than they are today.  While each coaching experience is unique, Learning Blueprints emphasizes:

 

  • Creating a sense of urgency and unyielding belief that all students can achieve success
  • Establishing nonnegotiable goals for achievement and instruction
  • Strengthening the ability to find solutions in the face of obstacles
  • Enhancing communication and organizational skills
  • Refining instructional expertise including monitoring, evaluating and providing feedback
  • Building exceptional leadership skills

 

3.  Next Steps Review –

 

Unlike traditional reviews that leave you with long lists of things that need improving without solutions, a Next Step Review assists school leadership teams analyze current performance status and determine what next steps are most likely to quickly leverage student achievement.  A Next Steps Review includes a data-driven process in which a team of qualified educators collects information over the course of several days and provides an analysis of:

 

  • curriculum alignment and implementation
  • quality of assessments and use of data
  • monitoring of instruction and process of providing feedback