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2002-2003 DILT Action Research ISSUES

  • Improve attendance rates for students and employees for the 2002-2003 and make recommendations by May, 2003 to sustain the improvement in future school years.

Truancy is becoming more and more of a problem, especially in upper grades. This team will examine attendance data over the last two years to determine patterns/trends of truant students and chronic truant students. They will examine the effectiveness of strategies that have been employed to address student attendance. They will recommend strategies that might improve the truant problem. The team will also address the effectiveness of city and county programs that are in place to assist schools with truant problems. They will recommend strategies that might make those programs and services more effective. Related to staff attendance, the team will examine group attendance data over the past three years to determine if staff attendance is an area in need of further study. They will examine staff absenteeism data related to sick, personal leave, professional leave status.
  • Make application for state and national awards to validate and celebrate the quality of the district.

The State Board of Education offers opportunity for schools and districts to make application for two awards. The school award is for student performance results that exceed state expectations related to student demographic information. The state then recommends schools for a National Blue Ribbon School award through the United States Department of Education. The district award is related to the Baldrige quality assurance process. It provides recognition at three levels for progress toward achieving organizational excellence. This team will review the application expectations and process to determine if a school or schools or the district as a whole should make application. The team will facilitate the application process.

  • Strengthen the public trust and confidence in the district in an effort to attract new staff and new residents to Pekin and keep current residents satisfied. Present findings and recommendations by May, 2003.

This team will examine district and school practices to use public relations tools and strategies to support student success. The team will gather data around current practices and explore other practices in an effort to make recommendations for improvement. The Five areas to be explored include:
    • Explaining what schools are all about
    • Being open and accountable
    • Delighting customers
    • Sharing with parents ways to help their child succeed
    • Focusing on internal communication.

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  • Improve the use of time available for communication and collaboration among and between staff, students and parents. Present findings and recommendation to sustain improvement in future school years by May, 2003.
There is no argument that having staff members communicate and collaborate together every day and every week can improve performance results. Finding the time and other resources to get the job done is a problem. This team will examine the current use of:
    • Banking time
    • Buying time
    • Common time/ planning time/ team time
    • Added time to the day and year
    • Freeing teachers form instructional time during the day
    • Existing time: Staff meetings, retreats, meetings, other

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They will explore other ways to address time to make the time more effective and better meet the needs of students and staff. They will make recommendations on retaining existing and employing new strategies to address this problem.


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