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T.C. Chappelear
School Improvement Coordinator
740-439-3558, ext 246
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Center on Innovation & Improvement (CII)
is pleased to announce that the Handbook on Effective Implementation of School Improvement Grants is now available on the CII website at www.centerii.org. The Handbook was developed by CII along with the cooperation of and contributions from all five content centers, including The Center on Instruction, The National High School Center, The Assessment and Accountability Center, and The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality. In response to a request from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Secondary and Elementary Education, the user-friendly volume is meant to provide practical and useful guidance on the models and strategies required and recommended for use in applying for School Improvement Grant (SIG) funds, and include references to the underlying research and connections to useful resources. To access the Handbook from the CII home page, click on the red bar marked "SIG Handbook." Users have the option to download sections of the document or its entirety.
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Ohio Improvement Process (OIP)
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Ohio is committed to the implementation of a unified state system of support directly focused on improving the academic achievement of all students and student groups. The Ohio Improvement Process (OIP) is Ohio’s strategy for ensuring a systematic and coherent approach for building the capacity of all districts and schools in meaningful and real ways that allow districts to improve instructional practice on a district-wide basis, and make and sustain significant improvement in student performance against grade-level benchmarks aligned with academic content standards for all students across the district.
The OIP offers a structured process for enacting the essential practices, outlined in the Ohio Leadership Development Framework, by giving districts time to review their data and make more informed decisions, requiring a district leadership team (DLT) and then Building Leadership Teams (BLTs) to participate in the process of improvement, and offering a more time effective and efficient process for districts in completing a comprehensive needs assessment as part of their comprehensive continuous improvement plan (CCIP).
Ohio’s state support system, including State Support Teams (SSTs) and Educational Service Center (ESC) personnel are being trained in the OIP process and on the use of a connected set of tools so they can assist all districts and schools in the state to improve instructional practice and student performance on a continuing basis.
The following documents provide more details about Ohio's Improvement Process and other supporting information. They include:
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