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Coweta County School System

Remote Engagement Review

February 7 - 11, 2021

Dr. Nancy G Golson

Lead Evaluator

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The vision of the Coweta County School System:

Successful Students Empowered for School and Life.

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Knowledge is Opportunity

cognia.org

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Congratulations on Your Growth Mind Set

Moving forward with Cognia Engagement Review

Commitment of time and resources in preparation

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Gather first-hand evidence and information pertinent to evaluating Coweta County School System

performance against the research-based Cognia Performance Standards for Schools. (physical evidence, virtual evidence).

Using the Standards, assess the quality of the learning environment to gain valuable insights and target improvements in teaching and learning.

Interviews (leaders, teachers, students, parents)

Provide valuable feedback to the institution that helps to focus and guide the improvement journey.

The Role of the Engagement Review Team

Accreditation is pivotal to leveraging education quality and continuous improvement. Using a set of rigorous research based standards, the accreditation process examines the whole institution—the program, the cultural context and the community of stakeholders—to determine how well the parts work together to meet the needs of learners.

Through the AdvancED Accreditation Process, highly skilled and trained Engagement Review Teams gather first-hand evidence and information pertinent to evaluating an institution’s performance against the research-based AdvancED Performance Standards.

Using these Standards, Engagement Review Teams assess the quality of learning environments to gain valuable insights and target improvements in teaching and learning. AdvancED provides Standards that are tailored for all education providers so that the benefits of accreditation are universal across the education community.

Through a comprehensive review of evidence and information, our experts gain a broad understanding of institution quality. Using the Standards, the review team provides valuable feedback to institutions that helps to focus and guide each institution’s improvement journey.

Valuable evidence and information from other stakeholders, including students, also is obtained through interviews, surveys and additional activities.

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Your Coweta Team

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Years of Educational Experience

151 years

1 and 1/2 Centuries of work in education

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Reviewed Evidence

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Stakeholder Input

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Thinking Outside the Box

Surprise Magic Day

Bus Driver purchasing reading activities

Maker Space

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Constructive Conversations (via ZOOM)

Stakeholder Group	Number of Participants
Students	30
District Administrators	32
School Administrators	32
Teachers/Other Staff	45
Parents	8
Board	7
Community Partners	8
Total Conversations	162
School Visits	6

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Inspect what you expect

Children and parents are our core business, we put them first

Coweta tries to fill that space that makes a kid successful

Our students become our neighbors and co-workers

Empowered

Informational communication

Focus on careers and college ready

Collaborative

Supportive

Family and Community

Our city is thriving because our kids are well-trained to join the work force and give back

Common planning

Impact checks

Power standards

Drill Down

Fiscally responsible

Cutting edge

Social and emotional health

CEC

Transparent

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Love. Love isn’t what is says, it’s what it DOES” (meaning they take action and care for each other in the school district)
Even though Coweta County is growing, we still operate like a small district because of the relationships we have with each other
Everyone welcomes you in Coweta County Schools. It is a home for ANYONE.
We want to show children “Everything is possible” (through S/E curriculum)
We rally around each other and take care of each other.
Family puts children first and that’s what we do in Coweta County Schools.

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Used Cognia Tools

To Guide our Work

Improvement

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A diagnostic visit conducted remotely to stimulate and guide continuous improvement with a focus on

Leadership Capacity
Learning Capacity
Resource Capacity

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The Standards, varying in number based on institution type, are organized under three Domains:

1 Leadership Capacity

2 Learning Capacity

3 Resource Capacity

The Domains are statements that define the capacity of an organization or institution to provide quality and meet the rigorous demands of continuous improvement. Each Domain is further defined by Standards, which in turn, are defined by Performance Rubrics. The report will provide feedback to the institution with respect to each of the Standards within the domains with a color coded rating of either

Exceeds Expectations (Blue)

Meets Expectations (Green)

Emerging (Yellow)

Needs Improvement (Red)

The AdvancED Performance Standards are research-based statements that describe conditions that are necessary for institutions to support organizational effectiveness and improve student performance.

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Insufficient

Initiating

Improving

Impacting

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Findings:

Through hours of deliberations, we have identified themes about your district.

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To move to the next level

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Positive Culture and Climate

Grounded in tradition, but empowered to change for students
Business Partnerships
Advisory , Community meetings
Empower Staff
Communication Loops
Better together
System chose to grow together

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Coweta County School System is Mission Driven

Data Culture
Align actions based on data
Impact Teams and Effectiveness Reviews
CEC
Coweta Collaborative

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Focus on the Whole Child

Various ways for students to set success goals
CEC– validate choices for post secondary options
Multiple opportunities for diverse learning
Support social and emotional

Additional positions, programs and time

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Monitoring and Supporting Instruction

District expectations on DATA guiding instruction
Curriculum adjustments
Common Assessments
Group work in summer
MTSS
District Writing Program
Ongoing collaborative monitoring
Reflective Process in data and planning loops

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Coweta Demonstrates Strategic Resource Management

Large number of instructional support positions
Employee Identification and Retention
Digital Recourses
Nixon Center
Debt-free
Decrease in millage rate
Stakeholder input in budgeting process and priorities

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An improvement plan that contains specific goals, strategies, activities and measures based on identified needs from the review of multiple forms of data, including student achievement, perception, experience, and organizational data

Defined processes for implementation, monitoring, and revision of the continuous improvement plan based on the analysis and use of data

Next Steps

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-Written report to Cognia within 10 business days�-Final report in workspace in about 30 business � days�-Ratings of each standard�-Index of Education Quality�-Narrative describing themes��-Survey from Cognia regarding your experience��Questions about the report—�Nancy Golson�nancy.golson@cognia.org��

Coming Next

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This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

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And so the adventure continues…