In order to select the best strategies for your school, you should base your selection on the data analysis and problem clarification outcomes. Once the action plan has been created, the SIT needs to make sure the implementation plan is doable. This would include making sure that the implementation calendar does not overload staff or students during any one month and that your priorities are clear in how you are asking staff to use their time. In most organizations, what gets monitored gets done. Even clearly stated curricular goals will lose their potential to drive the efforts of a school if no effort is made to collect and analyze accurate information about student achievement that is reflective of those goals.
Staff learn what principals value by observing what they pay attention to.
Paying attention to the core values and priority goals of the school is the most important way for leaders to communicate effectively. When a school devotes considerable time and effort to the continual assessment of a particular condition or outcome, it notifies all members that the condition or outcome is considered important. Conversely, inattention to monitoring a particular factor in a school indicates that it is less than essential, regardless of how often its importance is verbalized. Principals have numerous opportunities to pay attention to school improvement goals. Agenda topics might include analyzing and sharing data results, problem solving barriers and solutions, recognizing efforts of staff and stakeholders and celebrating successes, sharing of successful practices, and surveying staff for awareness and understanding of efforts.