What Happens When the Practice of Providing Improvement Updates to the School Community is delivered with Fidelity

What Happens When the Practice of Providing Improvement Updates to the School Community is delivered with Fidelity

The Practice of Providing Improvement Updates to School Community

Teaching teams have the responsibility to share student progress and accomplishments with the community to provide positive reinforcement from parents and to motivate students to reach higher goals. Sharing the data school wide supports the use of effective teaching and helps teaching teams find new strategies for how to address challenges.

The principal is responsible for setting the community compact and inviting parents to the table to discuss goals and a response from the teaching team on how they will reach these goals. Throughout the school year, the leadership team must collect, analyse and share the data on the improvements made to reach the goals set.

What it achieves

Providing improvement updates to the school community will encourage mutual commitment to student academic success and increase the engagement of parents and the community.

More detail

Effective instructional leaders develop an agreement with families and communities that is based on how they can work together to build a great school.

A compact may set out the family aspirations for their children and then a school’s response as a commitment to it will offer an education that will achieve this. It articulates the school’s vision, its values, the expectations that parties have of one another to achieve that vision and the behaviours they will see that reflect this.  The behaviour and academic improvements must be communicated with parents and the community through regular conversations, special events, social media as well as the notice boards around the school to instil pride and motivate students.