1. School Performance and Accountability | Washington, DC
August 3–4, 2009
Optional Post-Conference Working Group: August 4, 2009
Measure, Manage and Report Performance to Secure Funding
You Will Learn to:
Examine the Recovery Act and Its Impact on Align Performance Measures with Your Strategic Vision
Your School Create a management system that links evaluation,
Prepare, anticipate, obtain and manage funds to improve planning and performance to your mission
your educational programs
Improve Achievement Results through Family-School-
Utilize Performance Measures to Close the Community Partnerships
Achievement Gap Engage administration, teachers, parents and community
Monitor your school’s achievement and progress through leaders to build and establish resources to drive positive
performance based initiatives outcomes
Featuring an Interactive and Comprehensive Working Group:
Effective Educational Grants Management Under the Recovery Act
Utilize Appropriate Data to Assess Performance Standards
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2. School Performance and Accountability
Who Day One: Monday, August 2, 2009
8:30
Should Attend: Conference Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00
Keynote Address
Examine the Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on
• Superintendents & Assistant
the Educational System
Superintendents
With a platform on reforming education opportunities for today’s youth, the Obama
Administration has made early strides to bring education performance and reform issues
• Principals and Assistant to the forefront. The current focus is on promoting performance and accountability to help
Principals schools achieve the highest results possible. What does that mean for your school system?
How will the President’s agenda of the next four years help aid your commitment to education
progress? During this keynote address, discuss the future of school performance and
• School Board Members accountability and:
• Understand the current landscape for reinvestment in nationally sponsored educational
activities and programs
• School Business Managers
• Capitalize on the President’s agenda and obtain new resources to further your mission
and goals
• Operations Directors
• Utilize federal assistance to revitalize current school performance activities to mirror
federal progress
• Planning, Assessment and
Research Directors
10:00
Break and Refreshments
• Division/Department Chairs
10:15
Develop a Strategic Plan to Meet District and School Performance Goals
• State & Federal Education
• Determine vital elements of a sound strategic plan using performance management framework
Department Personnel
• Establish outcome goals to drive mission-aligned organizational results
• Ensure that responsible fiscal management is a priority in your strategic plan
• School Performance and
Accountability Personnel
11:15
Create Performance Measures Using the Logic Model Approach
• Develop quality performance measures that help drive results in your agency
• Identify and define intermediate and end outcomes for your financial management framework
• Analyze ways to audit and evaluate your measures to build a more successful performance
management system
12:15
Lunch Break
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3. School Performance and Accountability
Top 5 Day One, Continued: Monday, August 2, 2009
Reasons to Attend: 1:15
We have the Data Now What?: Collect and Evaluate
Performance Information
1. Formulate a Performance- • Apply principles to execute collection practices that align local, state and federal data
Based Framework for Your • Analyze how the use of data can assist in clearly defining transparency and accountability
School District • Identify and implement comprehensive data collection tools to evaluate performance
2. Comply with Federal 2:15
and State Performance Break and Refreshments
Accountability Standards
2:30
3. Craft Performance Measures Close the Achievement Gap Through Data Analysis
that Promote Your Mission • Evaluate data analysis strategies within your district to improve achievement
• Encourage district wide data collection standards and initiatives to manage the
analysis process
4. Discover the Fundamentals
• Understand how your data collection and analysis fits into the national education data
of Performance-Based Pay
collection infrastructure
5. Utilize Benchmarks to
3:30
Assess the Performance of Develop a System to Report Performance Measures and Outcomes
Your School District • Communicate how your performance to align with the overall mission and goals of
performance initiatives
• Align priorities and results from the top down for efficient reporting practices
• Determine your different audiences and the frequency to collect and report
performance data
4:30
Adjourn
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4. School Performance and Accountability
Day Two: Tuesday, August 4, 2009
“Given our economic
circumstances, it’s 8:30
Continental Breakfast
critical that money
go out quickly but it’s 9:00
Keynote Address
even more important Make the Grade: The Future of Pay- for -Performance
that it be spent President Obama has called for increasing high performing teacher pay as a part of an
initiatives o help U.S. students and educators reclaim an edge in the global classroom.
wisely...The first step However many unions are opposed to increased pay for top-performing educators. What
will this mean for the future of pay-for-performance under the Obama administration? Will a
toward real and promise of triple spending on education in the 2010 fiscal year be impacted by potentially
incentivizing more and more teachers? During this keynote address you will:
lasting reform that will • Learn what an implementation of pay-for-performance standards will mean for teachers
• Determine if allotted budgetary dollars must be used to execute potential
ensure our students’ monetary mandates
• Understand how to have a dialogue with union representatives and educational leadership
competitiveness to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of pay-for-performance implementation
begins with absolute
transparency and 10:00
Break and Refreshments
accountability in how
we invest our dollars, 10:15
Forge Family-School-Community Partnerships to Improve Outcomes
educate our children,
• Engage all stakeholders to leverage resources to meet performance outcomes
evaluate our teachers, • Discuss strategies that build mutually beneficial partnerships to ensure lasting success for
performance initiatives
and measure our • Ensure you and your partners are utilizing the same measures to evaluate critical
program success
success. We must be
much more open and 11:15
honest about what Closing Dialogue
Race to the Top: Innovations in School Performance
works in the classroom • Discuss how the “Race to the Top” stimulus money aids classroom innovation
• Understand the criteria you must follow in order to be eligible for 5 billion in funds
and what doesn’t.”
• Examine how the stimulus money impacts federal government reach on local
school performance
Arne Duncan,
Secretary of Education
12:15
Conference Adjourns/Lunch Break/Working Group Registration
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5. School Performance and Accountability
Sponsorship Day Two, Continued: Tuesday, August 3, 2009
Opportunities 1:15
Working Group
Effective Educational Grants Management Under the Recovery Act
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is boasting unprecedented funds of $787
As a conference and training billion. As a presidential promise, our nation’s schools are seeing a portion of those funds
provider, The Performance being invested in their future to increase results.
This workshop will provide tools necessary to determine how your school can benefit from the
Institute is an expert in bringing
Recovery Act and how to efficiently manage funding through the grants lifecycle to achieve
together leaders to share
enhanced educational performance. You will be prepared to identify the ins- and -outs for
and discuss best practices applying and receiving the stimulus money. You will also learn to:
and innovations. We connect • Understand the Recovery Act and track the distribution of funds from Federal agencies, like
the Department of Education
decision-makers with respected
• Learn requirements and guidance to effectively manage activities under the Recovery Act
solution providers.
• Examine critical action steps necessary to obtain and maintain funding under the
accelerated timeframes of the stimulus plan
The Institute offers four different
• Outline communication process to comply with transparency and reporting requirements
pre-designed sponsorship
packages:
4:15
Working Group Adjourns
• Event Co-Sponsor
• Session Sponsor
Understand the Recovery Act and Its Impact on
Your School
• Luncheon Sponsor
• Exhibit Booth Sponsor
For more information on
sponsorships or to get started,
contact Jessica Ward at
703-894-0481 ext. 215 or
Ward@PerformanceWeb.org
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6. School Performance and Accountability
Bring this Program to Your Organization
One of the more popular vehicles for accessing the Institute’s educational offerings is the delivery of on-site trainings
and management facilitations. Bringing a training or facilitation in-house gives you the opportunity to customize a
program that addresses your exact challenges and provides a more personal learning experience, while virtually
eliminating travel expenses. Whether you require training for your department or for an organization-wide initiative,
the advanced learning methods employed by The Performance Institute will create an intimate training atmosphere that
maximizes knowledge transfer to enhance the talent within your organization.
Customization
We realize that not all obstacles can be overcome by applying an “off-the-shelf solution”. While many training
providers will offer you some variation of their standard training, The Performance Institute’s subject matter experts will
work with you and your team to examine your programs and determine your exact areas of need. The identification of
real life examples will create a learning atmosphere that resonates with participants while at the same time providing
immediate return on your training investment. Using interactive exercises that employ actual projects or scenarios
from your organization, instructors can address specific challenges and align the curriculum of each session to your
objectives. While the majority of on-site trainings are focused on smaller groups, The Performance Institute also has
the ability to accommodate organizational-wide training initiatives. Utilizing multiple instructors, The Institute has the
capacity to deliver courses to groups of up to 300 participants per day.
Areas of Expertise
On-site delivery of single courses, certification programs and entire packages of specialized courses are available in
the following areas:
• Strategic Planning
• Performance Measurement
• Project Management
• Lean Six Sigma
• Workforce Management
• Performance-Based Budgeting
• Performance-Based Contracting
• Performance Reporting
• Program Evaluation
• Administrative Management
• Leadership and Change
For more information about in-house training options available to you, please contact Jennifer Mueller at 703-
894-0481 x 223 or email her at Mueller@PerformanceWeb.org.
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7. School Performance and Accountability
Logistics & Registration REGISTRATION
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building for $10/day. Continental breakfast and refreshments will be provided for
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8. About The Performance Institute
Called “the leading think tank in performance measurement for government” on
OMB’s ExpectMore.gov, The Performance Institute has been a leader in Performance
Management training and policy since the 2000 administration transition. As part of
the Government Performance Coalition, a group of good government organizations, the
Institute worked in 2000 to deliver recommendations to the then new administration on
what would become the President’s Management Agenda.
In 2009, the Institute is leading Innovations in Government: From Transition to
Transformation, or InnoGOV.org, a collection of forums, research and recommendations
to bring insight and transformation to the federal government. The goal of InnoGOV.
org is to centralize the importance of performance, accountability and transparency in
government and to disseminate the leading best practices to government managers.
The Performance Institute has published several research reports regarding performance
management initiatives and trains over 10,000 government managers per year on
performance-based topics. Dedicated to improving citizen services and taxpayer
transparency, the Institute uses a best-practices foundation to deliver the most effective
and tested methodologies for improving performance.
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