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ISBE trainer briefs East St. Louis SD 189 board on school-improvement process; Lincoln Middle in implementation year
Summary
An Illinois State Board of Education supervisor walked the East St. Louis SD 189 board through the state's school-improvement cycle on March 18, outlining needs assessments, required plans and available Title I, Part A, Section 1003 funds for districts with schools in intensive status; Lincoln Middle School is in its first year of implementation.
East St. Louis SD 189 welcomed Nicholas Heckel, supervisor in the Illinois State Board of Education's school-district improvement department, who delivered a detailed training on the state's school-improvement process during the board's March 18 meeting.
Heckel said the process is meant to change "adult practices to improve student outcomes," not to "change what kids do," and described a multi-year cycle of needs assessment, root-cause analysis, plan writing and multi-year implementation. "Good school improvement, good solid school improvement is 3 to 5 years," he told the board.
The presentation concentrated on designations that appear on the Illinois Report Card (exemplary, commendable, targeted, comprehensive, intensive) and the additional steps and supports that follow when a school moves into intensive status. Heckel identified Lincoln Middle School as the district building currently in intensive status that completed a planning year in 2024 and is now in the first year of implementation; report-card results in October 2027 will…
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