Attention superintendents and principals. This is a reminder that your School Improvement Plan (SIP) is due on September 1, 2014. You can access and complete the School Improvement Plan through the ASSIST MDE School Improvement/AdvancED website. Please note that the SIP is one measurement used on the Michigan School Accountability Scorecards. You already may have submitted your School Improvement Plan for Title I planning purposes to meet the early obligation date of July 1, 2014. Please disregard this message if you have completed and submitted the SIP. Also, if you submitted a Single Building District Improvement Plan you have met your reporting requirement. For additional information regarding resources and tools for all of your reporting needs, please click here.

If you need further assistance, please contact the Office of Education Improvement & Innovation’s School Improvement Support Unit at 517.373.4213 or the AdvancED/MDE technical support toll free line at 866.773.1128.

Although the Program Evaluation Tool has not been assigned yet to your specific school or school system you are still able to start the diagnostic. The official due date is June 30, 2015.

Please be sure to update the Education Entity Master with the current administrative staffing information if your school or school system has a new principal or superintendent. ASSIST uses a weekly information regarding the staffing of principals and superintendents.

Mark your Calendar for the AdvancED Michigan Fall Conference 2014 scheduled for November 6-7. Additional information is available on the conference website.

The Michigan Department of Education has schedule their annual Fall School Improvement Conference on November 17-18. Additional information is available on their conference website.