District+Improvement+Plan+Comparison

After review the Austin ISD Improvement plan and comparing it to the Port Neches-Groves ISD plan several things stood out about both of the plans. Each plan had sections dealing with specific goals and desires, addressed funding and relationships between funding and goals, and many similarities and differences between the two plans. The district goals and desired results in the plans were structured for student success and district improvement. The Port Neches-Groves ISD plan listed goals and ways to meet those objectives more clearly than the Austin ISD’s plan. I found the format and readability of our plan made much more sense, and overall our plan was more easily understood. The Port Neches-Groves ISD plan follows more closely to what has been established in board policy for a district improvement plan. Both plans established funding sources to help achieve the desired results in reaching goals identified in the improvement plans. The Austin ISD plan had specific budget amounts listed and ours did not. They linked goals and funding but they were not clearly and easily identified in the plans. The major distinction between the two plans had to do with format and presentation of content. Information submitted in the Austin ISD 2010-2011 plan came from data as far back as August 2008. Our plan had overall less specific details than the Austin ISD plan and our sequencing and format was more logical. The Austin ISD plan did provide more transparency in terms of membership participation with regards to keeping attendance records for meetings.

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Both plans are working for continued student improvement and overall district success. Each plan demonstrated that a significant amount of time and effort is placed in developing district improvement plans. Many of the differences and similarities are a result of differing points of views on how to satisfy district and school board policies established for school and district improvement. =====