IMPACT will evaluate aspects of your school that you would like to know more about:

• School Culture
• Community members’ perceptions of the school
• Students' perception of safety, academic rigor, preparedness for college, etc.
• Teacher satisfaction
• Attendance
• Parent Participation
• After school activities
• Discipline referrals

IMPACTS evaluation methods are as follows:

• Collect and analyze data
• Write evaluation reports
• Use a variety of methods that might include surveys, shadowing, cultural walks, focus groups, or interviews
• Analyze the data through a collaborative and reflective process

Based on the research IMPACT will then make data-driven decisions designed to:

• Help staff make connections between standardized assessment results (ISAT, PSAE, ACT, EXPLORE, PLAN) and instructional strategies
• Create and implement Common Core Standards
• Make connections between student achievement and school-wide professional development

Create Rubrics

• Design rubrics for teacher and student behaviors, assessment of student work, school culture, academic rigor, teacher feedback, student dialogue, etc.
• Engage in collaborative use of the rubric to achieve satisfactory outcomes
• Analyze rubric data and make connections to relevant factors and other sources of data.
• Create common vision, vocabulary and expectations

Leadership Training

• Coaching for success
• Coaching protocols
• Norming observation practices
• Literacy coaching
• Roles of lead teachers/department chairs
• Administrator as coach

Working with parents and community groups

• Asset-Based strategies to improve parental and community involvement
• Community Asset Maps: A key to uncovering a community’s resources
• Excavating parent and student gifts for school improvement
• Mobilizing social and human capital

Pedagogical

• Content Area Literacy
• Writing Instruction—Writing to learn and learning to write
• Vocabulary Instruction
• Data Driven Instruction
• Text Structures
• Inquiry based instruction/the art of questioning
• QAR/Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Socratic Seminars
• Active Reading Strategies
• Grammar

Scoring Student Work

• Design or refine powerful tools to score student work
• Engage in a protocol for teachers to score student work together
• Increase the consistency of grading across classrooms, grades and school years
• Define what ‘excellent’ work looks like
• Increase teacher and student expectations

• Data Collection
• Data Entry
• Data Analysis, descriptive and inferential
• Statistical Modeling
• Data displays & Report Writing
• Analysis of standardized assessment results: ISAT, PSAE, ACT, EXPLORE, PLAN, Work Keys
• Cohort Analysis of students or members

• Literature Review
• Needs Assessment
• Survey design, web survey, and web-based data management
• Sampling design and execution