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SPOTLIGHT 2006-2007 Available |
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EDUCATION FOUNDATION INITIATIVES
The Illinois Business Roundtable Education Foundation continues its two-pronged focus on improving the quality of our teaching workforce and improving school performance information systems. Commitment to Education Best Practices and Data Based Decision Making Best Practices In 2004, the IBRT Education Foundation started its first year of support to the National Center for Education Accountability/Just for the Kids website. This site, in addition to providing school performance data in easy to use formats, features Best Practices studies of Illinois Schools done by a team of Illinois State University researchers. In 2004 Best Practice studies were done in elementary schools, in 2005-middle schools. Illinois State University is completing the high school visits in the spring of 2006 and fall of 2007. Similar research has been completed in over 20 states. Illinois and other states’ Best Practice studies are available as a link from the JFTK-Illinois site. Workkeys® We are continuing to enhance our web-based efforts on school performance by working with School Data 4 All, Inc. to report Workkeys® results for all high schools in Illinois. Currently 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 Workkeys® results are reported and able to used by both professionals in the education and business sector. School Improvement School Data 4 All, Inc. also provides an online school improvement plan. The School Improvement plan is being upgraded once again based on requests and feedback from the educators who are using the plan. Student Data Again in 2007, the IBRT Education Foundation is working with School Data 4 All by financially assisting schools to offset the costs of putting their assessment data on the School Data 4 All's Student Performance site. SD4A’s Student Performance section enables teachers, administrators, and school districts to successfully manage, analyze, report, and apply data at the classroom level to their school improvement initiatives. It empowers school administrators and teachers to find the information that will help them make real change in the classroom. SD4A’s Student Performance section provides educators with a visual explanation of student demographic categories, such as Gender, Free and Reduced lunch, race, and time spent in the district, which directly relate to many of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) initiatives. Educators are able to sort by these demographic categories to examine students based on NCLB criteria. A unique feature of the Student Performance section of the SD4A site is the ability to track individual students overtime. Once a school has loaded more than one year of data into the system, teachers can see the progress of a particular student in all of their assessments. Training In addition to financial assistance, the IBRT Education Foundation pays for the schools that are sponsored with data cost loads, to also be trained. Through these trainings, over 3000 teachers and administrators are gaining access and knowledge to the websites supported by IBRT including www.schooldata4all.org and www.just4kids.org. This unique training feature continues in 2007-2008. For more information on training please send an email to: info@schooldata4all.org.
Recent Springfield 186 training
Recent Springfield 186 training
Recent Springfield 186 training What They Are Saying “Illinois Business Roundtable's Just for Kids Project provides information that allows teachers to analyze testing scores of all students in the district. Normally you have access only for the school where you are teaching making it difficult to compare test scores across the state. Just for Kids Project web site allows us to study the entire spectrum of scores to look for patterns as we make choices about improving teaching and student learning. Teachers can then further search the web site for best practices used by other high performance schools for new ideas to help as we work to improve weak areas.” ~National Board Certified Exceptional Needs Teacher, 2004 “The training provided by the Illinois Business Roundtable Education Foundation is an excellent tool for initiating school improvement, curriculum mapping and identification of weaknesses in specific subject areas. In addition, identification of weak skill areas of individual students, including those with special needs, is extremely valuable for creating a plan for improved student success. For teachers and administrators, the ability to access best practices of successful schools, similar in size and demographic make-up to our own school, provides an excellent resource for improving our school and our students’ learning. The support of the Illinois Business Roundtable through training sessions such as this one and their continued support of National Board Certification for teachers is a positive influence on education system in Illinois. As a teacher, I value the efforts of the Illinois Business Roundtable as partners in the improvement of our education system.” ~National Board Certified Science Teacher, 2003 “The academic performance of any group is improved “one child at a time.” SchoolData4all is a valuable tool that has made it possible for Macomb CUSD #185 to “load” several years of achievement data from state and nationally-normed assessments onto the password protected web site. Our teachers can access academic achievement trend data for individual students and can make informed decisions about the instructional program they deliver to each child based what they know about the academic performance of that student over time. SchoolData4all is one more venue for helping teachers help students to achieve!” ~Fran Karanovich, PhD, Superintendent, Macomb CUSD # 185 “I was impressed with the Administrators looking at the District data and how each Principal moved directly to the data for his or her own school. They looked at classroom data and then data for each student and could identify quickly with each student and that student's needs or strengths. The immediate acceptance of accountability was evident and the desire for all their staff to be trained as soon as possible so they could start working to fill in the gaps and make necessary changes.” ~Norm Jones, Retired CEO, GROWMARK, IBRT sponsored training attendee In the News The Illinois Business Roundtable Education Foundation is invited to submit a full proposal for the Pre-AP and AP Training and Incentive Grant of the National Math and Science Initiative.
The Illinois Business Roundtable assists schools with data loads and trainings! The following school districts are sponsored
by the ALEDO CUSD 201 BARRY COMM UNIT SCHOOL DIST 1 BLOOMINGTON SCH DIST 87 CARLINVILLE CUSD 1 CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOL CLINTON CUSD 15 DALLAS CITY ELEMENTARY DANVILLE C C SCHOOL DIST 118 DECATUR SCHOOL DISTRICT 61 ELVERADO CUSD 196 MACOMB COMM UNIT SCH DIST 185 MCLEAN COUNTY UNIT DIST NO 5 MONMOUTH-ROSEVILLE CUSD 238 MORRIS COMM HIGH SCH DISTRICT 101 NAUVOO-COLUSA CUSD 325 OAK GROVE SCHOOL DIST 68 PEKIN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT 108 PEORIA SCHOOL DISTRICT 150-WOODRUFF HIGH PLEASANT PLAINS C U SCHOOL DIST 8 QUINCY SCHOOL DISTRICT 172 RANTOUL TOWNSHIP HSD 193 SPRINGFIELD CUSD 186 SOUTH FORK SD 14 UNITED CUSD 304 URBANA SCHOOL DIST 116 VIRDEN COMMUNITY UNIT DISTRICT 4 WEST CENTRAL CUD 235 WEST PIKE COMM UNIT SCH DIST 2 WESTMER CUSD 203 YORKWOOD COMM UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT 225 If you would like
additional information about these sites or training for these
sites, please contact Jennifer Ross at School Data 4 All, Inc. Commitment to Teacher Excellence In 2004, the IBRT awarded over $135,000 in scholarships support for teachers who seek to become Nationally Board Certified, bringing our total scholarship commitment over the past three and a half years to well over a half million dollars. These funds, leveraged with state support, have grown the national board certified teacher core in Illinois from 35 in 2000 to 1,555 currently. In addition to funding these scholarships throughout Illinois, IBRT members hosted recognition dinners around the state for those teachers who received their National Board Certificate in 2003 and 2004. |
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