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- Project Overview
- Data Collection
- School Selection
Schools Identified
Research Findings
 
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Strategies
- Focus Groups/Interviews (what, why, factors, etc.)
- Principal, superintendent, state agency staff, school board members, school advisory group, regular educators, special educators, student advisory group, community members, special education coordination (school and district)
- Surveys - NSSE (satisfaction, opinion, climate, etc.)
- Teachers, parents, students, community members, principal
- Observations - EBASS (interaction between student and school)
- Teacher Practice Survey
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Framework for Coding Interviews/Focus Group Results
- Leadership - School-based leadership system and actions of the leaders.
- Strategic Planning/School Improvement - How the school sets it directions, identifies priorities, allocates resources, takes actions to meet a goal and plans to track progress.
- Student and Stakeholder Focus - The manner in which the school addresses the needs and expectations of all stakeholders.
- Information and Analysis - The way in which a school uses data and other information to monitor and improve its performance.
- Faculty and Staff Focus - Characteristics of faculty and staff when tied to job (hard working, committed), process for hiring, compensation, faculty and staff development, expectations for job performance, physical/social/emotional design of the work .environment to meet faculty needs, faculty satisfaction
- Educational and Support Processes - School efforts regarding supporting the needs of students (educational program, teaching methods, support practices).
- Performance Results - Specific data or other results used by the school to assess its performance.
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