Lever 1

Planning and Performance Management through Strong Leadership

The campus aligns its goals and priorities with the district’s vision for student success. It develops actionable campus plans that include key strategies and incorporates planning and performance management routines to monitor initiative progress and student achievement.

District Commitments

The district creates a clear and compelling vision for student success. It develops a strategic road map with key strategies and emphasizes the importance of implementation planning, project management, and continuous performance assessment. The district aims to instill a culture of ongoing improvement throughout the organization.

This commitment includes systems, guidance and expectations in the following areas:

  • Vision, mission, and guiding principles (EDF, 1.1)
  • Strategic planning (EDF, 1.2)
  • Implementation planning and project management (EDF, 1.3)
  • Performance management (EDF, 1.4)
  • Organizational foundations for continuous improvement (EDF, 1.5)

Essential Actions and Key Practices

Each lever is defined by a set of Essential Actions (EA) and Key Practices (KP) that describe what effective implementation looks like on a campus. Together, these components provide clear guidance for how systems and practices come to life to support strong student outcomes.

Vision and Mission

KP 1.1.1 Vision and Mission

Campus messages, policies, and practices reflect the district’s mission and vision, demonstrating high expectations and shared responsibility for student success.

KP 1.1.2 Campus Leadership

Campus leadership ensures alignment to the district’s mission and vision by ensuring that all campus messages, policies, and practices consistently reflect and uphold that mission and vision.

Campus Improvement Plan

KP 1.2.1 Campus Improvement Plan

Campus has a focused improvement plan with clearly defined strategy and priorities, timelines, milestones, metrics, and task owners that directly address the root causes of low performance.

KP 1.2.2 Goals

Campus goals are specific to the campus, focused on improving student outcomes, and directly aligned to the district’s multi-year student outcomes.

KP 1.2.3 Strategic Priorities

Campus strategic priorities are specific to the needs of the campus and aligned to the district’s strategic priorities, ensuring campus-level actions support the district’s vision for student success.

Campus Implementation Planning and Project Management

KP 1.3.1 Implementation Planning

Campus develops clear implementation plans with roles, responsibilities, timelines, and project management structures, as outlined in their Campus Improvement Plan.

KP 1.3.2 Project Management

Campus establishes and uses project management structures and tools to plan, monitor, and ensure timely, high-quality completion of campus initiatives and accountability for progress.

Performance Management of Campus Improvement Plans/Goals

KP 1.4.1 Measurement Plan

Campus leaders monitor implementation of improvement plans/goals by reflecting on progress and hold task owners accountable for execution of the work.

KP 1.4.2 Data Collection

Campus leaders use data systems to collect and analyze data that tracks progress toward campus goals and improvement plan outcomes.

KP 1.4.3 Data-Driven Decisions

Campus leaders use data to analyze progress, identify barriers, and adjust strategies when milestones and benchmarks are not met to ensure goals are achieved.

1.4.4 Performance Management Routines

Campus establishes systems that routinize initiative progress reflection and iteration on implementation tactics as needed.