What sets Indistar® apart?
Process plus practice
Local Empowerment
Research-based practices (rather than programs) that predict improved student achievement.
Guided high-quality work by school/ district Leadership Teams with built-in flexibility.
Continuous improvement process
Recognition of strengths
Does not end with a new year, but continues to build from previous work.
Recognizes strengths in current practice as well as areas needing improvement.
Broad engagement and transparency
Focus on drivers of improved student achievement
Team-directed with shared responsibility and guest site for transparency.
Focuses attention on numerous, specific practices rather than reducing the focus to a small set of hoped-for outcomes.
As educators, we contribute to students’ success by elevating our own professional practice. Indistar® guides a Leadership Team through effective practices, specific indicators, and Wise Ways®, all in a web-based platform. Indistar® focuses the Team on the principles that matter.
What is Indistar®?
The magic of Indistar® lies not in its technology but in the assistance it provides for a district or school team to efficiently drive improvement. Indistar® is a tool for people working in teams.
Go beyond using a product-
own the process.
Indistar® is a structure to guide high-quality work by school and district Leadership Teams with built-in flexibility to encourage local innovation.
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Indistar® encourages a "culture of candor" which allows district and school personnel to talk openly and honestly about professional practices that contribute to student learning and success.
Indistar® Wise Ways® technology links each indicator to a succinct synthesis of the related research, examples, and resources.
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Local Empowerment & Innovation
Focused Team Collaboration
Aligned Research & Resources
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Coaching & Support
Reporting & Progress Tracking
Make It Your Own
Indistar® allows a district to view its own progress and that of its schools. District coaching for school teams is an essential feature of Indistar®.
Oversee each school’s progress and view reports and charts that track and display improvement.
Indistar® becomes the district’s unique system, linkable through district’s own website, and given its own identity.
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How does Indistar® work?
Preview the system and features before starting:
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