C.A.R.E Model

CARE Model Analysis of District/Campus Improvement Initiatives

Concerns – Review your participation in improvement initiatives or efforts to engage in action research, and list at least three concerns that you have identified from these experiences – a concern may be any matter that engages your attention or interest.

• ·      The district must find a method or methods to communicate the disctrict’s vision to the community and stakeholders.
• ·      The district must make improvements in the hispanic population’s scores on STAAR/TAKS testing.
• ·      The district must make improvements in all students’ performance on STAAR/TAKS testing.

Affirmations - Review your participation in improvement initiatives or efforts to engage in action research, and affirm or identify at least 3 actions that must be sustained and supported to achieve the District/Campus improvement initiatives.

• ·      Continue to investigate and use tools to communicate withing the community and school district.
• ·      A disctrict wide initiative to target areas of concern with hispanic students.
• ·      A district wide disaggregation of the data to target areas of concern within our students and investigate methods to address those areas of growth on the campus level.

Recommendations - Review your participation in improvement initiatives or efforts to engage in action research and describe at least 3 recommendations you would make regarding the District/Campus Improvement plans or action research plans.

• ·      Create a district communication plan that includes media outlets within the district, as well as current digital outlets used already in the district.
• ·      Expanding on the adult ESL classes that are offered in the district to create more parent involvement. Create a partnership with Hispanic parents and perhaps even employ a liasion person to involve more Hispanic families in the schools.
• ·      Create a data committee comprised of members from each campus to find the areas of growth and devise a plan to target these areas on the respective campuses.

Evaluate - Review your participation in improvement initiatives or efforts to engage in action research and identify at least 3 strategies for evaluating the improvement plans or recommendations.

• ·      Expand the current surveys to include members of the community to evaluate the effectiveness of our communication procedures.
• ·      Keep data on the increased involvement of Hispanic parents, as well as reviewing the data of Hispanic test scores to evaluate the effectiveness of the program.
• ·      Review bench mark data at regular intervals to ensure that the target areas are being addressed and that progress is being made.