The Pacific East District transitioned the IRV to focus on continuous improvement and quality assurance. Since this school year was the first school year that IRVs were conducted in all schools throughout the district, the focus was on developing an understanding of the district as a whole.

Based on the Pacific East District’s reflection of information gleaned from our preparation for our first system review, from the External Review Report, and the status of our four district goals, district leadership committed district resources in SY 2017-2018 to the implementation of the rigorous DoDEA College and Career Ready Standards (CCRS) and the implementation of the CCRS Summative Assessments, two cornerstones for our improvement journey.

In the spring of 2018, Cognia provided a district-wide training to introduce the revised Cognia standards and School/System Quality Factors (SQFs).

Due to the committing resources on implementing our CCRS system and Cognia Training, the district did not implement IRVs for SY 2017-2018.

For SY 2019-2020, the Pacific East District addressed the needs identified from the IRVs conducted in SY 2018-2019:

• • Focused Collaboration (FC) by reshaping our FC process, implementing a “tight” structure, dedicating district-wide professional sessions to FC, and having all job-alike sessions throughout the district

  • Communication by embedding communication monitoring and discussions in the IRV process

  • Strengthening the goal process by having professional learning instructional systems specialists (PL ISSs) take the lead in continuous-improvement work with their schools

In the fall of 2019, Cognia presented training on the i3 Rubric to CSI chairs, administrators, and the ISSs.

In the spring of 2020, the district completed IRVs for 6 of the Pacific East District schools. The district had planned on engaging in visits for the remaining 9 schools that did not host IRVs in SY 2018-2019, but the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic prevented the completion of the internal review visit plan. A positive outcome as a result of the COVID-19 challenge was that the district implemented a IRV hybrid approach, which resulted in having IRV team members from the local area conduct ELEOTs and students interviews IRV team members located in other parts of the district conduct the school discussion, teacher feedback sessions, and parents feedback sessions virtually.

In March of 2020, the Pacific East District had to redirect attention to maintaining quality learning for all students as our schools transitioned to remote learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the PL ISSs and the Assessment and Accountability ISS initiated the work of League 2022 to conduct a deep dive in the Cognia standards, which resulted in the Forward Journey Report.

The observation was made from IRV participants that the components of schools leading a discussion about their progress on the improvement journey was too general and needed to be tightened and better aligned with the improvement journeys of the district.

For SY 2021-2022, the Pacific East District addressed the needs identified from the IRVs conducted in SY 2020-2021:

• • Making data easily available to education by developing the Pacific East Dashboard

  • Implementing a process for collecting, analyzing, monitoring, and using data to impact student learning by implementing the Pacific East Data Management System (PEDMS)

  • Strengthening the professional learning structure by implementing the Professional Learning Critical Initiative Working Group

  • Increasing stakeholder (students, parents, faculty) participation in the educational and decision-making process by increasing stakeholder in the IRV process and adding faculty members to the components of the Pacific East Strategic Plan

The Pacific East District is proud of the capacity we have built over the last five years. We further built capacity through the IRV process by increasing the IRV team and having school administrators, CSI Chairs, Data Chairs, and Instructional Systems Specialists (ISSs) each serve on multiple IRVs throughout the district. Consequently, the Pacific East District committed resources to make the IRV process an essential catalyst for building capacity. In addition, the IRV process was modified by having faculty and parent stakeholders provide feedback through a questionnaire, which greatly increased the number of stakeholders who participated in the feedback process.

The outcomes of the IRVs conducted in the fall of 2021 indicated that the areas of greatest need were:

1. 1. 1. Continue to implement the Pacific East Data Management System (PEDMS) consistently with fidelity (85% of the schools visited indicate a need)

      2. Continue to formalized and documented implemented processes (45% of schools visited indicated a need)

The Pacific East is addressing these two areas of greatness need by implementing professional learning of and support with PEDMS and by continuing to implement the Pacific East Strategic Plan.