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Comprehensive Needs Assessment
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Division Name: Suffolk CitySchool Name: Col. Fred Cherry Middle
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A. What is the purpose?
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The purpose of the comprehensive needs assessment is to:
• Provide schools with a clear view of their strengths, areas for improvement, challenges, and successes;
• Assist schools in addressing the gaps between the current condition and the desired state
• Provide a mechanism for both the division and school leadership in determining needs, examining their nature and causes, and aids in the setting of priorities for future action;

This template was designed to support school leaders with a tool to :
• Enable the school and/or division to conduct a systematic review of practices, processes, and systems within both a school and a school division;
• Guide the development of a meaningful division or school plan and suggests benchmarks for evaluation; and most importantly,
• Provide a critical foundation for high quality continuous improvement efforts, ensuring the best possible outcomes for all students.

Guiding Questions:

1. What are we trying to accomplish?
2. How will we know that a change is an improvement?
3. What changes can result in improvement?

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B. How do I get started?
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Directions: Identify relevant data sources and stakeholders for selected focus areas, then begin gathering data to evaluate for trends, patterns. Also, consider subgroup data, if available.
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Planning
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Areas of FocusData SourcesTeaming Structure
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Include all sources of data used to assess the focus area(s) section and subcategory. Select team member to begin meeting and then collect (selected) data sources for analysis. Jamel Gibson - Principal, Marian Looney-Gill - Assistant Principal, Johnetta Vaughan - Assistant Principal
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Primary Data source comes from VDOE final SOL assessment results which depict a deficit in English for our SWD.
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