Appendix D- NCDPI Comprehensive Needs Assessment School Rubric

NCDPI Comprehensive Needs Assessment SCHOOL RUBRIC

DISTRICT AND SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION DIVISION North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

July 2013

OVERVIEW

A comprehensive needs assessment is critical to the development of a high-quality school program. A systematic review of practices, processes, and systems within a school assists school leadership in determining needs, examining their nature and causes, and setting priorities for future action. The needs assessment consequently guides the development of a meaningful school plan and suggests benchmarks for evaluation. Research supports that schools that undergo a careful analysis of data and information make better decisions about what to change and how to institutionalize systemic change.

SCHOOL DIMENSIONS

The NCDPI Comprehensive Needs Assessment has been designed to analyze school-level information framed by five overarching dimensions. Guiding questions address 14 supporting sub-dimensions and are designed to facilitate the identification of root causes in areas where a school program may have identified needs. The dimensions and sub-dimensions are as follows:

PROCESS

Detailed processes and procedures for the NCDPI Comprehensive Needs Assessment can be found in the Notes of Guidance.