Disagreements about evidence and the wording of conclusions are often productive since these discussions push the team to be more accurate, and more certain that the conclusion is right. In order for the school improvement process to thrive, the school improvement team must continuously build a larger agreement about where the school is and where it needs to go. The thoughtfulness of the conclusions written by the team will help build this agreement. How Conclusions fit into the SALT Cycle Conclusions are formed by the school improvement team, ideally in an 8-hour time period. They form the basis for the school improvement plan or how an existing school improvement plan should be changed.
Conclusions are the link between self-study activities and school improvement planning.
Once you have completed your self-study activities you are ready to begin building conclusions. Choose between 3-5 issues in each focus area. The team is charged to form the most important conclusions and not conclusions about everything it can think of. If you have more than five issues, decide which ones to include based on the team's judgment of what is most important for the students and the school. Start with focus area 1, Student Learning .