Getting Results is a continuous improvement process that guides school and district level planning teams as each develops results-oriented improvement plans. A diagram showing the flow of the Getting Results continuous improvement process may be obtained by clicking here.

Beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, Getting Results is being applied to the District Level Comprehensive Planning Process, and for the first time, all schools will be using the Comprehensive Plan web application to document and submit school level improvement plans. Contact your local Intermediate Unit representative for more information about training, support, and implementation of district and school level planning using the Comprehensive Planning Process.

School Level Planning Guide

Click on the appropriate link under “Documents” to download the School Level Planning Guide (SLPG). This is a WORD document that SIP Teams can use as a guide for their planning as well as a document that can be used to record components of an improvement plan. When the Comprehensive Plan (CP) web application becomes available May 1, 2012, what has been documented in the SLPG can be copied and pasted into the CP online tool. The SLPG mirrors the CP online tool and follows the Getting Results continuous improvement process.

SIP Assurance of Implementation

Click on the appropriate link under “Documents” to download the SIP Assurance of Implementation document and the accompanying directions for its completion and submission. PDE requires that this document be submitted by schools currently implementing 2011-2012 school improvement plans to assure the Department that the plan submitted this past summer is being implemented as designed, or as revised if warranted by 2011 AYP-related data obtained after the plan had been submitted.
The due date for submission of the SIP Assurance of Implementation is October 30, 2011.

Quality Review Criteria

Click on the appropriate link under “Documents” to download the list of criteria that SIP Teams should use to guide the development of school level improvement plans.

School Level Guiding Questions with System Characteristics

Click on the appropriate link under “Documents” to download the list of School Level Guiding Questions with System Characteristics that have been excerpted from the School Level Planning Guide. Some SIP Teams have found it useful to use this document either as paper or electronic documents during structured discussions about system characteristics in their schools. Discussion participants can highlight characteristics or record marginal notes as needed in order to document discussion findings. In addition, this document can be used to share the Guiding Questions with interested parties without having to share the entire School Level Planning Guide.

District Supplement

Schools in Corrective Action are no longer required to submit a District Supplement, because the required information formerly reported in the District Supplement will be reported in the Comprehensive Plan web application. For details, see the School Level Offline Planning Guide available 10/1/2011 via the appropriate link under “Documents.”