This school year, while continuing that process, we have been making preparations for a peer review team to visit our campus March 22 and 23 to assess our school improvement plan and the processes we have developed to improve student performance. This visiting team will be comprised of veteran educators who have been trained to examine and assess all aspects of our school and then provide feedback for our ongoing improvement. After their visit, we will enter the implementation phase in which we will put our action plan in place by using the strategies we have developed to enhance student success. All the while, we will be collecting data on student performance, examining the evidence to determine the effectiveness of our strategies, and constantly revising programs to make them more efficient and successful. It is a cycle.
School improvement is continuous, and it is challenging.
It requires substantive research and honest analysis of the data about ourselves. It requires the examination and implementation of any reasonable approach that might improve student performance. School improvement is not a goal, but a perpetual process. It requires a commitment from all stakeholders - teachers, counselors, administrators, support staff, community members, students, and parents. We are corporately responsible for student success.