The School Improvement Plan; Special Purpose Schools Standard and Criteria.

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SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN

The school is committed to developing and implementing an improvement plan that emphasizes student learning. The school community accepts that school improvement must be pursued continually and aggressively.

SIP 1	Each school conducts a continuous improvement process that focuses on enhanced learning for all students. At all times the school is engaged actively in some phase of the school improvement process (planning, internal analysis, external review, implementation, and documentation).

SIP 2	The school has a standing committee that is responsible for initiating, planning, and coordinating the school's improvement efforts.

SIP 3	The current school improvement initiative:
	Involves all groups in the community. Begins with the development of a student profile drawn from the school's information system (see information system criteria). Identifies a challenging set of goals that focuses on enhanced learning for all students. Develops an improvement plan that details the changes that will be made in the process of schooling such that improvement can be documented in those goals. Provides a specific assessment system designed to document increased student success on the goals identified.

SIP 4	All schools host a peer review team on a schedule that is consistent with the selected endorsement. Such review is monitored by the respective state committee. Each school submits the appropriate documentation for peer review at the state and regional level.

SIP 5	The school is able to document, in a variety of ways, that student performance goals are met. For example:
	A larger proportion of entering students is placed in challenging programs in which they can be successful. Improvement occurs for all students in the school. Students are successful with ever more challenging instructional materials and programs. A larger proportion of student learning time is spent on interdisciplinary inquiries and extended investigations. Students become increasingly self-directed as learners.

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