For the second year in a row, the board has completed the WSSDA Board Self-assessment survey.
WSSDA’s Online Board Self-Assessment is a user-friendly tool that helps school boards assess and strengthen their performance in governing for improved student learning.
The online tool offers a straightforward way for each board member to assess his or her board’s performance based best practices as outlined in the Washington School Board Standards.
The board will take the opportunity to review the collective responses to the survey, compare board perceptions as they compare to last year, and identify areas for growth in board function. The recommended protocol from WSSDA is found on page 2 of the document:
Analyzing your Results: Looking at Data
Start with the following page, which shows your district's aggregated data for each of the five standards. Identify standards that capture strengths, growth areas and or divergent perspectives, then work through the benchmarks and indicators for those standards.
Here is a simple protocol for your use.
Step 1: What do you see?
Describe what you see in the data, identify where it is located to the group. This is not about interpretation at this stage, only what you see.
List the descriptions on chart paper.
Step 2: What does the data suggest?
Discuss what the data suggests and try to generate different interpretations. Ask clarifying questions of one another to increase clarity and understanding of one another’s perspectives.
List responses on the chart paper.
Step 3: Identify goal areas from the lists generated.
Step 4: Build two to three goals using the SMART goal framework.
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time bound