ABSTRACT

The School Portfolio Toolkit is a book that includes over 300 tools, strategies, templates, and examples for use in building school portfolios and for planning, implementing, and evaluating continuous school improvement. The Toolkit was written to support school personnel with the mechanics of putting together a school portfolio, as well as to offer processes and strategies to move whole school staffs into and through continuous improvement. The tools in the Toolkit will help staffs create, implement, and maintain school portfolios and begin the journey of continuous improvement. Each chapter deals with one topic related to the school portfolio and comprehensive school improvement, with related documents and tools.  The School Portfolio Toolkit book provides templates, tools, examples, and strategies that will help you analyze your school's data, create a vision that is truly shared by the school staff, build a continuous school improvement plan to implement the school vision, formulate a leadership structure to implement the vision, involve parents, community, and business in implementing the vision, embed up to forty different powerful professional development designs into your school plan, evaluate your continuous school improvement work, and create a School Portfolio that will organize and serve as a framework for the continuation of this work

chapter Chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

Why a Toolkit?

chapter Chapter 2|9 pages

Continuous School Improvement

Understanding the Big Picture

chapter Chapter 3|24 pages

The School Portfolio

Getting Started

chapter Chapter 4|51 pages

Information and Analysis

The Data

chapter Chapter 5|18 pages

Student Achievement

Creating a Vision

chapter Chapter 6|24 pages

Quality Planning

Planning to Accomplish the Vision

chapter Chapter 7|34 pages

Professional Development

Implementing the Vision

chapter Chapter 8|22 pages

Leadership

Building a Leadership Structure to Implement the Vision

chapter Chapter 9|11 pages

Partnership Development

Involving Partners to Implement the Vision

chapter Chapter 10|12 pages

Continuous Improvement and Evaluation

Evaluating the Implementation of the Vision

chapter Chapter 11|19 pages

Updating the School Portfolio

Maintaining the Momentum

chapter Chapter 12|28 pages

Implementing the School Portfolio

Case Studies from Around the Country