goals ...

In pursuit of its goal to eliminate the achievement & preparation gaps in Hawaii's public schools and ensure all students graduate college, career and citizenship the Foundation developed a theory of change that articulates a series of outputs and outcomes we believe are necessary elements in a strategy for statewide school improvement.

They are:

Desired Outputs

All principals & vice-principals participate in leadership programs & form peer cohorts across their complex
% of teacher Leader Academy graduates go into principal preparation programs consistently increases
Every principal actively identifies emerging leaders and supports their entrance into leadership training programs
Multiple pathways exist to principal licensure including an accelerated process of mainland certified principals seeking secondary school positions
Achievement gap data needs are identified and capacity is built for data collection
The complex is established as the unit of change for schools and systems

Desired Outcomes

Schools have the capacity and tools to move the lowest-performing quartile of students forward
P-20 pipeline is repaired, students are progressively achieving work and college benchmarks
Policies and practices at school and DOE level support innovative leadership and data-driven decision making
All schools have effective Leadership Practice Communities and teacher turnover is reduced in challenged schools
All indicators on the Foundation Education Dashboard consistently demonstrate positive trends

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*Disclaimers

Department of Education Hawaii State Assessment (HSA) drawn from the Hawaii DOE - ARCH Website.
Derived by subtracting the Hawaii DOE 9th grade retention statistic's from 100% of 9th grade students as reported on the Hawaii DOE Website
Graduation rates as reported by the DOE - ARCH Website
Post Secondary Success data is currently drawn from the University of Hawaii Trend Data, indicating only the percentage of Hawaii's graduating high school seniors who have accepted admissions to the UH system. In the near future, this data source will be replaced with National Clearinghouse data indicating the number of Hawaii's high school graduates currently enrolled in 2 or 4 year post-secondary programs across the country.
* Department of Education ARCH 2008 - Data for schools with less than 40 students in a grade have been suppressed for confidentiality purposes State performance averages reported on this Dashboard may vary slightly from state data reported by the Hawaii State Department of Education and/or the State's Charter School Administrative Offices as not all Charter schools report their data to the DOE, so it was not readily available to the Foundation at the time of this Website's development.