These subcommittees work to provide guidance to the school Councils and to develop bylaws for the Councils to follow.
The Training Team is responsible for training all district employees. Parents and community members who want to be involved, are also trained. The training topics include:
Every member of a Q-SITE Council must participate in this one-day training session.
SELECTION OF COUNCIL GOALS
The Q-SITE Council at each school meets a minimum of one time per month for approximately one hour.
The Council is guided by the Altoona Area School District's Mission Statement and each school's Vision and Value Statements. For a particular school's vision and value statements, click on that school below:
Altoona Area Junior High School
Using these statements as a guide, the Council then examines the critical systems and processes at their school. Information and data is gathered by one, all, or a combination of the following:
Discussion with all stakeholders (staff, parents,
community)
Conducting surveys based on the 11 Correlates of
Effective Schools and/or Indicators of Schools of
Quality
Examine existing data (e.g., grades, standardized tests,
attendance)
A goal is then established based on the data collected. The goal will be designed to improve their school within a critical system or process.
AASD / Q-SITE CYCLE FOR IMPROVEMENT
AIM-
What goal does the Council want to accomplish? How does the goal
relate to a correlate, condition, system?
INVESTIGATE-
Provide data to show the need to pursue the goal.
DEVELOP-
Provide an Action Plan. Determine Key Indicators (specific data that
will show the progress of the goal).
EXECUTE-
Summarize their findings. Evaluate the data. Plan revisions for
continuous improvement.
This plan, once developed, is carried out and executed by ACTION TEAMS who report back to Council at the scheduled meetings.
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