Ohio's Accountability System
Details the four factors within a school district or building's
local report card that collectively determine its designation.
Value-Added Presentation
Value-Added, a component of Ohio's accountability system,
measures growth or improvement over a period of time to
determine the "value" gained by a student during that time period.
Value-Added Toolkit (18MB Zip file)
Value-added analysis is a statistical method used to measure a school’s impact on the rate of student progress from year to year. Value-added analysis has the potential to be one of the most important school improvement tools...(more)
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How to Interpret Your School's Value-Added Score (PDFs)
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Word documents taken from CD-Rom
OFR's School Improvement e-Newsletter
Information and resources around six essential areas of school improvement...
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Tools for School Improvement
Suggestions to assist with each of the six school improvement processes.
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Support for Conditions and Climate
The SST's support for creating safe learning climates,
establishing community partnerships, engaging parents and
communities, and developing supportive learning communities.
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Support for Curriculum
Support for Instruction
Support for Assessment
The SST's support for alignment, equal access to learning,
formative and summative assessments, student engagement
and monitoring standards-based education.
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Support for Leadership
The SST's support for data-driven decision making, continuous improvement planning, resource alignment,
implementation and monitoring, coordination, developing expectations, and High Quality Professional Development.