Performance Monitoring and Accountability - The authorizer develops/maintains accountability measures and implements systems that hold the charter school to high standards.
Proficiency: Create/ensure an understanding of a set of performance measures (academic, operation, and finance) that will hold schools accountable while also honoring their uniqueness.
Equity - The authorizer develops/guides the ongoing work of creating system-wide equitable practices.
Proficiency: Create/ensure an understanding of a set of performance measures (academic, behavior, and culture) that will hold schools accountable while celebrating innovation, diversity, and cultural differences.
Learning
Authorizer: Performance Metric Accountability PPT Each video in this course will address certain slides within this PowerPoint. Download these slides and use them as a reference guide for this Buzz Course. Format: Google Slides Length: 28 slides
Guiding Question #1:What authorizer roles and responsibilities are key to monitoring performance? Watch this video that discusses slides 5 - 11 from the Authorizer: Performance Metric Accountability PPT. Reflect on what type of performance standards are executed by a quality authorizer. Further, reflect upon what accountability expectations can be clarified by a charter school contract. Format: YouTube Video Length: 9:57 minutes
Guiding Question #2:What strategies can an authorizer develop to ensure contract metric accountability? Watch this video that discusses slides 12 - 18 from the Authorizer: Performance Metric Accountability PPT. Then reflect upon key performance terms used to measure charter school performance. Additionally, ask yourself if you believe that developing a Performance Framework Policy is a good strategy in your role as an authorizer. Why or why not? Format: YouTube Video Length: 14:56 minutes
Guiding Question #3:What authorizer high stake decisions do performance standards help inform? Watch this video that discusses slides 19 - 23 from the Authorizer: Performance Metric Accountability PPT. Reflect upon the building blocks that form the Authorizer Accountability and Intervention Flow Chart. Then answer the following questions:
What would be the logic for developing comprehensive and negotiated Performance Frameworks prior to negotiating that contract?
Why is a defined and communicated intervention policy helpful to guide both the authorizer and the charter school when a performance concern is expressed and a remedy is necessary?
Should the Annual Report address any required school improvement that developed in that year of performance?
What does an authorizer need to be careful of when providing technical assistance?
Format: YouTube Video Length: 13:23 minutes
Charter School Performance Measure Framework (Detailed) This Performance Framework Guidance has been created to help support Authorizers, Governance Board, and School Leaders with an example framework to ensure transparent, rigorous, and holistic school performance evaluation and communication. Authorizers can use this framework as a starting ping to create a performance framework to measure their own portfolio of charter schools. WRCCS encourages you to make a copy of the framework and personalize it to your situation. Format: Google Doc Length: 10 pages
Charter School Performance Measure Framework (Basic) This School Performance Measures Framework (Basic) is a pared-down version of the charter school framework from above. This framework can be a great start to a simplified system for measuring charter school performance. WRCCS encourages you to make a copy of the framework and personalize it to your situation. Format: Google Doc Length: 4 pages
Authorizer Accountability and Intervention Flow Chart Use this flow chart and the information provided in this course to inform high stakes reports and decision making. This flowchart helps authorizers navigate the performance monitoring process. Format: PDF Length: 1 page
Guiding Question #4: What strategies can an authorizer develop to balance oversight with technical assistance support?
Break into groups (or as an individual): Take 10 minutes to generate suggested strategies for authorizers to balance support and oversight/compliance of charter schools they authorize. Summarize your response.
Guiding Questions to reflect on:
What types of performance metric information sharing/communication is needed by schools and their governance board to ensure student success?
If you could profile an authorizer who effectively balances support and oversight, what are the practices and policies that drive their effectiveness?
Applying
Applying
By using your performance metrics or by reflecting on the WRCCS Performance Framework, consider the following next steps:
Create or refine your current performance monitoring practices to ensure student success.
Develop or refine a communication plan to inform schools about the process, methods, and timing of gathering and reporting school performance and compliance data.
Implement or fine-tune an accountability system that effectively streamlines performance expectations and compliance requirements while protecting schools’ autonomy and minimizes administrative and reporting burdens.
Provide or continuously improve clear technical guidance to schools as needed to ensure timely compliance with contract performance expectations.
Evidence of Learning
Authorizers will be able to develop or revise their current performance monitoring practices to ensure student success.
Authorizers will be able to provide clear technical guidance support to schools as needed to ensure timely compliance with contract performance expectations.
