ABSTRACT
To systemically improve, a school must do all the hard work of gathering and analyzing data, getting all staff on board to create a shared vision, develop empowering structures to implement the vision and effectively use data, and to continually monitor and improve—all those components are spelled out in the continuous school improvement framework. Cutting out parts of the continuous school improvement framework is really not an option if you want systemic results. Schools need to understand where they are right now to know how they are getting the results they are getting, so processes can be improved to get even better results. All staff members need to review schoolwide data. The Data Leadership Team can organize and then facilitate a whole-staff meeting to provide an overview of the Continuous School Improvement Framework and comprehensive data analysis, and to have staff analyze the schoolwide data in the data profile.
