School Improvement in Maryland

Lessons Learned from School Teams Using Monitoring Tools

Under the leadership of Title I director, Chris Richardson, principals in 18 Title I schools in Montgomery County engaged in the process of developing monitoring plans for individual student progress on their school improvement goals. School leadership teams workedworked through a process of determining what they needed to monitor, how frequently, and how they would use the data to inform instruction and staff development. The following discussions might be useful to other schools trying to develop similar monitoring plans for classroom level data.

Discussion of Monitoring Plans with Title I Leadership Teams

Gaithersburg Elementary School

Pine Crest Elementary School

Harmony Hills Elementary School

Kemp Mill Elementary School