Writing Program Review

Domains/Subdomains/Demonstrators/Evidence

  1. Curriculum and Instruction
  1. Student Access
  1. School writing policy/plan
  2. Student journals/learning logs
  3. Curriculum documents with student samples of integrated lit. instruction across content areas
  1. Aligned and Rigorous Curriculum
  1. Curriculum documents, school writing policy and or plan
  2. Student communication/ writing collection meeting characteristic being evidenced
  3. Curriculum planning documents with student samples that demonstrate students’ critical thinking, problemsolving
  4. Student generated podcasts, videos, media presentations, documentaries, oral histories
  1. Instructional Strategies
  1. Writers’ notebooks
  2. Video clips of classroom practice
  3. Student products that reflect choice and appropriate use of technology for communicating ideas
  4. School webpages or publications where students have opportunities to publish communication products
  5. Student products from clubs (journalism), writing and speech contests/publications
  6. Master schedule of courses, events, avenues for advanced learning opportunities, and interventions
  7. Recordings of student presentations or student-led events
  1. Student Performance
  1. Student writing and communication products appropriate for content areas
  2. Student developed models
  3. Unit/planning documents that reflect characteristics
  4. Digital media that reflects the collaboration of students and problem solving and generating products
  5. Student products that reflect characteristics
  1. Formative and Summative Assessment
  1. Variety of Assessment
  1. Unit plans/planning documents that show alignment of assessments and instruction to standards
  2. Unit plans/planning documents that reflect integration of formative and summative assessment practices
  3. Professional learning communities/meeting notes and documents developed that reflect collaborative efforts in designing assessments that meet characteristics
  1. Expectations for Student Learning
  1. Student assessment results that reflect students’ reflections on learning*
  2. Student goal setting samples
  3. Lesson plans that describe strategies for involving students in identifying learning strengths and needs and goals for learning
  4. Teachers’ reflections on student assessment data
  5. Samples of co-developed scoring guides/rubrics
  1. Response to Assessment
  1. Professional learning community/team meeting notes/documents that reflect discussions and work around formative/summative assessment, including identification of next steps in instruction
  2. Unit/lesson plans that reflect instructional decisions based on formative assessment results
  3. Student work samples that include teacher and peer feedback and reflection
  4. Students communications folder that includes process of feedback/revision/editing before final product is produced
  1. Professional Development and Support Services
  1. Planning
  1. PD Action plan aligned with school vision for literacy
  2. Documentation of communication of the pd action plan (e.g. emails, staff meeting agendas, plc notes)
  1. Participation
  1. Relative professional growth plans
  2. Relative plc/notes/documents that demonstrate professional learning targeted to improved writing communication/ instruction or 21st c. skills
  3. Relative pd agendas/notes, school board policy or plan that communicates participation of all teachers in the writing program
  4. Curriculum documents that reflect a school-wide emphasis on writing/communication
  5. Book study notes
  6. Action research notes/outcomes
  1. Teacher Leadership
  1. Documentation of professional learning opportunities facilitated by teachers/teacher leaders
  2. PLC notes or developed documents/outcomes
  3. PD action plan with record of implementation
  4. Documentation of pd opportunities that support instructional practices regarding writing and communication skills
  5. Teacher leader planning notes for mentoring, coaching, modeling, facilitating presentations
  1. Administrative/Leadership Support and Monitoring
  1. Shared Vision
  1. Program expectations within the writing policy, writing plan, and or pd action plan
  2. School’s vision/mission regarding the writing program with record of staff involvement
  3. School publications/blogs/bulletin boards that include student and staff participation in communication
  4. Induction process and documentation of new staff acclimation to their role in the writing program
  5. Documentation of events, opportunities, displays that represent a culture of critical thinking, problem solving, and communicating
  1. Time and Resources
  1. Relative SBDM minutes and or supporting documents descriptive enough to support time, staff, resources, devoted to writing program, policy, vision, etc.
  1. Policies and Monitoring
  1. Relative SBDM minutes and or supporting documents descriptive enough to support time, staff, resources, devoted to writing program, policy, vision, etc.
  2. Revised writing policy*
  1. Principal Leadership
  1. Principal communications with staff about writing
  2. PLC or staff meeting notes/minutes that document principal’s leadership regarding the writing program
  3. PLC/meeting notes or outcomes that demonstrate collaborative evaluation of the writing program
  4. Revised professional development action plan*