Can anyone point me to research about the effectiveness of School Improvement Plans on student learning.

Can anyone point me to research into the effectiveness of School Improvement Plans on impacting student achievement?

I am in a district and school that have been on an improvement plan since I’ve been there. 5 years. I’ve seen district consultants come and go. Building-wide priorities and mandates come and go. It took me awhile to realize that a lot of these things are a consequence of our SIP providing grant money requiring strategies and data to support the impact of the programs we adopted. But none of these programs track their impact longitudinally. Over a longer period of time than one year. I have access to student achievement data in our district and none of these things are making a dent.

We have good leadership. Good Principals. Good support staff. I don’t think these are staffing problems. It seems to me that the SIP system itself contributes to the problem, rather than work towards solutions.

I don’t know where to go to find out if that if that is just an anecdotal observation, if I’m wrong, or if it is a broader problem.

TIA

Submitted February 20, 2021 at 06:13PM by 30thirteen https://ift.tt/3uiQ7kw