Diagnostic Tool Institute
OVERVIEW & AGENDA
The DTSDE Institute is a mandated training program for all NYSED district and school review team members, district superintendents and staff members and outside educational experts supporting focus and priority schools and focus districts. Regional Bilingual Education Resource Network (RBERN), Regional Special Education Technical Assistance Support Centers (RSE–TASC) and Special Education School Improvement Specialist (SESIS) staff members that are charged with participating in DTSDE visits are expected to participate.
The six tenets of the Diagnostic Tool are:
- Tenet 1: District Leadership and Capacity
- Tenet 2: School Leader Practices and Decisions
- Tenet 3: Curriculum Development and Support
- Tenet 4: Teacher Practices and Decisions
- Tenet 5: Student Social and Emotional Developmental Health
- Tenet 6: Family and Community Engagement
Days one and two of the December Diagnostic Tool for School and District Effectiveness (DTSDE) will help attendees understand the school and district review process using the DTSDE tool from skilled facilitators and leading experts in the field. DTSDE will focus on two areas. The first area is the content and practices embedded in the six (6) tenets which are foundational to evaluating a school and district’s practices. The second area is the process of conducting the review and evaluating low-inference data to evaluate school and district practices.
Days three and four will focus on training around the calibration and fidelity of the final reports based on the review of school and districts.
School Improvement Specialist (SESIS) staff members that are charged with participating in DTSDE visits are expected to participate.
The table below summarizes who should attend which training sessions:
Participants |
December 18 and 19 Training for Integrated Intervention Team (IIT) Members |
December 20 and 21 for Calibration Assurance Team Members |
Outside Educational Experts (OEE’s). (Note: All OEE applications submitted to date have been approved by NYSED) |
Mandatory for all persons who will serve as OEEs, including those who were unable to attend November Training. |
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Districts with Four or More Focus and Priority Schools (See below for a list of districts with four or more Focus and Priority Schools) |
Mandatory for District staff who will participate on Integrated Intervention Team and District-led reviews. In addition to participants who attended training in November, districts may send up to three persons who did not attend the November Training. |
Mandatory for at least one District staff member to attend. Districts may send a maximum of three staff members. Persons who attend the Calibration Assurance Team meeting will typically be selected from persons who attended the November and December IIT training. |
Districts with Three or Fewer Focus and Priority Schools |
Mandatory for Districts that did not send representatives to the November training. Voluntary for Districts that did send representatives to the November Training. (Districts may send a team of up to three persons.) |
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RBE-RN and RSE-TASC Staff |
Mandatory for persons who did not participate in the November training and will be members of an IIT and/or District-led review team. |
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District staff and OEE’s who will be members of IIT’s or District-led review teams and were unable to participate in the November training should register for the December Institute, which will have a special strand to orient them to the DTSDE.
We ask that superintendents ensure that their District staff and OEE's are aware of the December Institute and register using the procedures specified on this website.
The following represent groups who have been prioritized to register for this training:
Attachment A: Focus Districts with Four or More Focus or Priority Schools:
- Albany City CSD
- Amsterdam City CSD
- Auburn City CSD
- Binghamton City CSD
- Buffalo City CSD
- Central Islip UFSD
- Elmira SD
- Gloversville City SD
- Hempstead UFSD
- Jamestown City SD
- Kingston City SD
- Mt. Vernon SD
- Newburgh City SD
- New York City
- Poughkeepsie City SD
- Rochester City SD
- Rome City SD
- Schenectady City SD
- Syracuse City SD
- Utica City SD
- Yonkers City SD
Calibration Assurance Team (CAT) - The Calibration Assurance Team (CAT) ensures the DTSDE's quality by reviewing school and district debriefing documents, final reports and improvement plans (SCEP/DCIP). They ensure the final report is internally consistent and written to the standards required by NYSED. School-based CATs review those reports produced by district self-reviews.
| Early Registration: December 17, 2012 | |
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| Time | Location |
| 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Second floor outside Stonehenge meeting room |
Day 1: December 18, 2012 |
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| Time | Simulated School Review |
| 8:30 am-10:00 am | Understanding the Events of the School Review: Learning about the Pre-Document Review Process |
| 10:00 am-10:30 am | Understanding the Events of the School Review: Interviewing the School Leader |
| 10:30 am-10:45 am BREAK |
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| 10:30 am -12: 00 pm | Understanding the Events of the School Review: Collecting Low Inference data during the Classroom Visitation & Applying the Tri-State Rubric |
12:00 pm-1:00 pm LUNCH |
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| 1:00 pm-1:45pm | Understanding the Events of the School Review: Observing the Grade Level Meeting |
| 1:45 pm-2:30 pm | Understanding the Event of the School Review: Connecting with the students about the Learning |
2:30 pm -2:45 pm BREAK |
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| 2:45 pm-3:45 pm | Understanding the Events of the School Review: Mid-Day Check-In with Principal |
| 3:45 pm-4:30 pm | Review Team End of Day One Meeting |
5:00 pm-6:00 pm DINNER |
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| Day 1: December 18, 2012 | |
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| Time | Evening Activity |
| 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | DTSDE Wheel of Fortune |
| Deconstruction of the Tenets-New Participants only | |
| Panel discussion from Pilot districts and IIT reviewers | |
Day 2: December 19, 2012 |
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| Time | Simulated School Review |
| 8:30 am-9:00 am | Understanding the Events of the School Review: Team Meeting |
| 9:00 am-9:45 am | Understanding the Events of the School Review: Collecting Low Inference data during the Classroom Visitation & Applying the Tri-State Rubric |
| 9:45 am-10:05 am | Understanding the Events of the School Review: The Parent Perspective |
10:05 am -10:20 am BREAK |
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| 10:20 am-11:05 am | Understanding the Events of the School Review: Conducting the Vertical Teacher Team Meeting |
| 11:05 am-12:00 pm | Reviewer Team Debrief: Synthesis of IIT notes for all of the events and interviews |
12:00 pm-1:00 pm LUNCH |
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| 1:00 pm-1:45 pm | Developing the Preliminary Rating |
| 1:45 pm-3:00 pm | The Art of the FEI Genre Writing |
| 3:00 pm-3:30 pm | Large Group Share-Out |
| 3:30 pm-4:00 pm | Q & A |