What is the Whole School Improvement Plan?
 

BPS Whole School Improvement Plan

As Boston Public Schools prepares its strategic plan for the next five years, the emphasis is moving away from whole-school change to whole-school improvement. The shift reflects the district's commitment to promoting higher achievement by improving instruction and making the most effective lessons that have been learned a permanent part of the education of our students.

 

 
 

The Essence of Whole School Change

At the heart of Focus On Children is the student. Every aspect of the plan exists to help students learn better. The plan sets high standards for student achievement and holds schools accountable for meeting these standards by giving schools the support and flexibility to make organizational and instructional changes to best serve the student.

The strategy known as Whole School Change:creates the most effective school organizations and makes the most of existing resources involves assessing progress on an ongoing basis and making changes whenever necessary

For Whole School Change to be effective, everyone must participate… city government, the School Committee, community leaders, parents, the school administration and, at the heart of it all, the student and the teacher.

The plan includes six essential activities designed to build students' knowledge:

  1. identifying an instructional focus
  2. looking at student work and data in relation to the BPS Citywide Learning Standards
  3. creating a targeted professional development plan for teachers and principals
  4. learning and using best teaching practices
  5. aligning resources with the instructional focus, and
  6. involving parents and the community in ways that support the instructional focus

 

Essential Components of the BPS Whole School Improvement Plan

Whole School Improvement involves Six Essential Activities designed to build students' knowledge: (Click the schoolhouse button to explore each essential activity.)

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Identifying an instructional focus

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Looking at student work and data in relation to the BPS Citywide Learning Standards

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Creating a targeted professional development plan for teachers and principals

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Learning and using best teaching practices

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Aligning resources with the instructional focus

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Involving parents and the community in ways that support the instructional focus