Using Data for Improvement:

• Identify the specific help students, parents, teachers and administrators need to succeed.

• Adjust classroom instruction to address student strengths and weaknesses and attract parental involvement.

• Focus professional development and resources on student, parent, teacher and administrator needs.

• Aid in creating content-rich individual education plans that are aligned with the Standards.

Increasing Effectiveness:

• Create conditions that foster a burning desire among students, parents, teachers and administrators for educational effectiveness.

• Encourage and support students, teachers, parents and administrators via small learning communities, networks, mentoring and coaching.

• Establish partnerships and/or further engage parents and stakeholders via a variety of activities.

Keeping the Bar High and Monitoring Progress:

• Increase student, parent, teacher and administrator awareness levels of the Standards - to include in-depth knowledge/discovery of "What?"  "To what degree?"  and "How?"

• Aid students, parents, teachers and administrators in using Standards and assessment to track and improve performance - every period, of every day, of every week, of every month!

• Increase student, parent, teacher and administrator participation in college and career readiness activities at the elementary and secondary level.

*To ensure sustainability,  job-embedded professional development

augments all workshops, seminars & conferences.