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WHAT IS INDISTAR™?
LIGHTING OUR PATH TO STELLAR LEARNING™ |
OVERVIEW
Indistar™ is a web-based system that state agencies use with districts and schools to inform, coach, sustain, track, and report improvement activities. Similar to a global
positioning system (GPS), Indistar™ tells you where you are and helps you get to where you want to be—every child learning and every school improving. Indistar™ is stocked
with indicators of evidence-based practices at the district, school, and classroom levels to improve student learning. But Indistar™ is also customizable, so that states can populate or enhance the system with their own indicators of effective practice. States can differentiate the system to accommodate “zones” of districts or schools. The bottom line is that Indistar™ will guide improvement teams — whether district, school, or both—through a continuous cycle of assessment, planning, implementation, and progress tracking. Focus will be clear, responsibilities assigned, efforts synchronized.
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1. Is a structure to guide high-quality work by school and district teams with built-in flexibility to encourage local innovation.
2. Builds the district’s capacity to support the improvement of its schools while directly guiding a school’s improvement activities.
3. Provides practical documentation through built-in mechanisms for creating agendas, recording minutes, assigning responsibility, setting timelines, allocating resources, coaching, and monitoring degree of implementation.
4. Delivers the “other side of the data equation,” the district, school, and classroom behaviors and practices that contribute to student learning. Performance must improve in order for results to improve.
5. Becomes the state’s unique system, accessible through the state’s website, named by the state, and aligned with existing improvement initiatives.
6. Includes a state administrative page that allows for convenient monitoring of each district and school’s progress and access to electronically submittedreports. |
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