SIP Goals and Action plans

This year we will be maintaining our focus on proficiency-based progress.  The work we are doing with proficiency tables will help us continue to improve ours and our students’ ability to know what the focus of learning is and what the next steps in the learning process are.  While the proficiency tables do not need to be fully completed by the all-in goal completion date to achieve our goal this year, the work we will undertake to complete them will help us focus our thinking and provide more specific feedback.  As the proficiency tables are completed they will help hone our focus and feedback methods even further.  

We also wanted to maintain our focus on the learner profile this year.  However, we learned last year
that it is difficult to ask staff to fully maintain two goals of this magnitude.  We also learned that we
have some foundational work to do in order to ensure the learner profile is accessible and useful at all
levels.  For that reason, our administrative staff will be taking on this work as part of their
administrative goals. In each building, work will look different as we continue to support this tool and
its implementation in Kaneland.

The pathway for selecting goals this year is as follows (You need at least two growth goals for a
total of 30% of your formal evaluation per state law):

Goal 1:  15 %

Option A:  Select the district all-in goal.  Utilize the district planning and support structures
and adopt the district-wide benchmarks as your growth goals.  Provide as part of your goal
statement how you will individually support the attainment of this goal.  There will be a
mid-year check-in this year to ensure that our initial goals are attainable.

OptionB:  Complete the opt out form first.  Then create your own student growth goal either
as a job-alike team or an individual.

Goal 2:  15%

Option A:  As a job-alike team, align your goal to the work being done with the Learner Profile
by the administrative team.  Utilize the planning and preparation done by the administrative
team and adopt the district-wide benchmarks as your growth goals.  Provide as part of your
goal statement how your team plans to support the attainment of this goal.  There will be a
mid-year check-in this year to ensure that our initial goals are attainable.

Option B:  Create your own student growth goal either as a job-alike team or an individual.