As Woodbridge Middle School’s SIP member, I was an active participant in setting and improving on our improvement targets. Periodically, throughout the Spring, Summer and Fall we would meet together as a committee and discuss our school’s data and report from the State. When analyzing the data, we compared our data/AMO’s to similar regional schools. Based upon the discrepancies found between the two sets of data, we were able to locate several improvement targets. At the beginning of this school year, we have put our action plan into place and begun monitoring our improvements.
Prior to becoming a SIP member, I was unaware school-based improvement projects existed. It was interesting to see the staff representatives and administration working together as a team to achieve a common goal. At our meetings, I was able to observe our administration taking on a more democratic role in their leadership. I believe our school leaders took this approach because they wanted the staff to own the improvement targets and become intrinsically motivated members.
As a prospective school leader, I wanted to observe how my administrators were able to bring a group of professionals together to work towards a common goal. As a school leader, it is imperative to have a democratic voice during these meetings and move your staff as a team through the SIP process.
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