MICIP Training Opportunities to Help Shift
​Your School Improvement Mindset

​​MDE is offering a series of professional learning opportunities to assist our shift in mindset around continuous school improvement.  Further into the year MDE will offer more learning around process and platform The first of these will address the MICIP Mindset, including moving from annual district and school improvement to year-round continuous improvement, focusing on systems, and considering the whole child.  We would like to invite you to a webinar on this topic on Tuesday, September 10 from either 9:30 – 11:00 am or 1:00 – 2:30 pm.  Please feel free to invite anyone from your ISD/ESA who you think could benefit from this information, including any consultants.  The sessions will be identical so staff members need to attend only one. 
 
In addition, we are offering a two other opportunities on Wednesday, September 18 from either 9:00 – 10:30 am or 1:00 – 2:30 pm.  While ISD/ESA personnel could also attend these sessions (they will be identical to those on September 10), we might also encourage you to consider inviting district personnel to view the webinar with you on September 18.  This could then be followed by a conversation with those personnel about what this might mean for them during the 2019-2020 year even prior to the rollout of the actual platform.  Once the webinars are over, we will also be making them available through on-line modules so if none of these sessions work for you, you will also be able to access them that way.
Click below to see the one page document with graphics and timeline

MDE  MICIP One Page Guidance Document!!
September 10, 9:30 – 11:00 am
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Meeting ID: 354 389 907
September 18, 9:00 – 10:30 am
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Continuous Improvement

 A continuous improvement process is systematic and aligned.  Engaging in this process encourages assessment of needs, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.  Comprehensive strategic planning informs district systems to support school level implementation. Benefits of a continuous improvement process include:

  • Bringing together pre-populated data in one location to facilitate needs assessment process
  • Providing a continuous improvement process focused on the whole child
  • Providing evidence-based practice guidance
  • Providing alignment across compliance requirements resulting in time savings – allowing greater focus on improved student outcomes
  • A highly functional multi-year cycle of continuous improvement, reducing reporting
The process that works for an individual child, parallels the process that works for the school system.  Note the relationship between the "Collaborative Problem Solving Approach" and the new process rolled out by MDE at the Fall School Improvement Conference.
September 10, 1:00 – 2:30 pm
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Meeting ID: 711 145 037
 
September 18, 1:00 – 2:30 pm
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Meeting ID: 320 402 541
The process begins with assessing your needs which should inform a continuous improvement plan that articulates the vital behaviors of implementation for staff to support and monitor throughout the year.  Towards the end of the year, strategies should be evaluated for fidelity and the impact on the whole child.  These stages overlap each other and tend to be more complex and less linear in nature.

Supporting pages for requirements 

Needs Assessment (complete throughout the school year) consists of the Comprehensive Needs Assessment (Demographic, Process, Perception, & Achievement data)

Continuous Improvement Plan (complete mid-May) at both the district and school level, articulating the vital behaviors in response to our assessed needs.

Implementation with fidelity using principals from implementation science and tools such as implementation guides.

Monitoring and supporting the vital behaviors found in the continuous improvement plans.

Evaluating state and federal programs using the Program Evaluation Tool (PET) or the compact version.  

Annual Education Report (Due lpikely in Jan or Feb)