Establishing Structures to Monitor Progress

Rationale: When educators work toward ambitious long-term goals designed to improve student outcomes, it is important to measure our progress along the way, both as it relates to educator practice and student learning. By developing a comprehensive understanding of how teachers and students are progressing toward priorities identified within their Theory of Change, teams position themselves to meet their ambitious goals for student learning.

Learning Intention: Teams will develop understanding for the rationale behind regularly monitoring progress and will develop specific plans for monitoring implementation of both educator practice and student performance.

Success Criteria: Teams will know they are successful when they…

• can articulate the rationale for regularly monitoring progress of both educator practice and student performance

• understand the role of and rationale for medium-term assessment in monitoring progress

• know how they will use medium-term assessment to monitor schoolwide student progress toward the Common Learning Challenge

• have identified the measures by which they will monitor implementation of key educator practices

• understand the role of a data calendar in monitoring student and educator progress and are prepared to guide their STTs tomorrow to develop a schedule to monitor progress