Merge Your Plans Title I, Part A Targeted Assistance & Indistar

Title I, Part A Targeted Assistance Programs Built on Proven Strategies for School
Reform
Title I, Part A targeted assistance programs consolidate proven educational reform strategies into a
rigorous operational framework able to improve teaching and learning. With funding for targeted
assistance, educators can integrate services and interventions designed to meet the needs of students
who struggle with the basics. When targeted assistance is successful, low-achieving youngsters often
make tremendous academic and personal gains.
Federal law Elementary and Secondary Education Act Section 1115


8 Title I, Part A Targeted Assistance Components & 8 Indistar Folders
Component 1 Ensure that Title I, Part A resources help participating children to meet the states
academic achievement standards expected for all children
Component 2 Incorporate planning for students served under Title I, Part A within the school plan
Component 3 Use effective methods and instructional strategies based on scientific research that
strengthen the core academic program of the school
Component 4 Coordinate and support the regular education programcould include services for
transition from preschool to elementary and between grade levels
Component 5 Instruction by highly qualified teachers and paraeducators
Component 6 Provide opportunities for professional development
Component 7 Provide strategies to increase parent involvement
Component 8 Coordinate and integrate federal, state and local services and programs


Component Principles & Indicators
Component 1
Ensure Title I resources
help participating
students
P1-ID03
All teams have written statements of purpose and by-laws for
their operation.
P3-IVD02
The school provides opportunities for members of the school
community to meet for purposes related to students learning.

P3-IVD04
The school ensures that teachers use extra time effectively
when extended learning is implemented within the regular
school program by providing targeted professional
development.
Component Principles & Indicators
Component 2
Incorporate planning
for students served
under Title I within
school plan
P1-ID10
The schools Leadership Team regularly looks at school
performance data (disaggregated by subgroups) and
aggregated classroom observation data and uses that data to
make decisions about school improvement and professional
development needs.



P3-IVD05*
The school monitors progress of the extended learning time
programs and strategies being implemented, and uses data to
inform modifications.
P3-IVD06*
The school has established a team structure for collaboration
among all teachers with specific duties and time for
instructional planning.
Component 3
Use effective methods
and instructional
strategies
P4-IIA03*



P4-IIIA07*
The school leadership team regularly monitors and makes
adjustments to continuously improve the core instructional
program based on student needs.

All teachers differentiate assignments (individualize instruction)
in response to individual student performance on pre-tests and
other methods of assessment.
Component 4
Coordinate and
support regular
education program
P5-IID07






P5-IID08*




P5-IID12*


Leadership team reviews student data to recommend
appropriate support for each students transition from pre-K to
Kindergarten, grade to grade, or school to school, for example
elementary to middle level.


Instructional teams use student learning data to assess
strengths and weaknesses of the curriculum and instructional
strategies.

All teachers monitor and assess student mastery of standards-
based objectives in order to make appropriate curriculum
adjustments.
Component 5
Instruction by highly
qualified teachers and
paraeducators
PI-IE06*


PI-IE07
The principal keeps a focus on instructional improvement and
student learning outcomes.

The principal monitors curriculum and classroom instruction
regularly.

Component Principles & Indicators
PI-ID12
Instructional Teams meet for blocks of time (4 to 6 hour blocks,
once a month; whole days before and after the school year)
sufficient to develop and refine units of instruction and review
student learning data.

Component 6
Provide opportunities
for professional
development
P2-IF11*


P2-IF12*

Professional development is aligned with identified needs
based on staff evaluation and student performance.

School provides all staff high quality, ongoing, job- embedded,
and differentiated professional development



P2-IF14*


School sets goals for professional development and monitors
the extent to which it has changed practice

Component 7
Provide strategies for
parent involvement
P7-IVA01*
P7-IVA02*
Parent (Family) representatives advise the School Leadership
Team on matters related to family-school relations.

The schools key documents (Parent Involvement Policy,
Mission Statement, Compact, Homework Guidelines, and
Classroom Visit Procedures) are annually distributed and
frequently communicated to teachers, school personnel,
parents (families), and students

P7-IVA04*
The schools Compact includes responsibilities (expectations)
that communicate what parents (families) can do to support
their students learning at home (curriculum of the home, with
learning opportunities for families to develop their curriculum
of the home).
Component 8
Coordinate and
integrate federal, state
and local services and
programs
P3-IVD03
The school creates and sustains partnerships to support
extended learning.


Targeted Assistance Components 1 through 8 must be included in the
comprehensive plan.
Table 1, identifies Title I, Part A Targeted Assistance components which
are aligned and have corresponding Principles/Indicators that are
allowable under Title I, Part A.
o A minimum of one of the corresponding indicators for each
Targeted Assistance component must active in the comprehensive
plan. Once an Indicator has been fully implemented and evidence
has been provided, the team selects another Indicator within the
corresponding Targeted Assistance component so that there is an
active corresponding Indicator in the schools plan at all times.
o Indicators with an asterisk (*) are Office of Student and School
Success Expected Indicators, and therefore must be given
preference when selecting a corresponding indicator to include in
the plan.



Steps to Integrate Student and School Success Action Plan and Targeted
Assistance Plan and Corresponding Indistar

Action
Step in Action Planning


Corresponding Indistar

Action


1. Upload current Targeted Assistance
Plan to Indistar.
Open Document Upload tab
Create a folder titled, Targeted Assistance Misc.
Upload current plan to folder

2. Open and review webform Title I
Targeted Assistance Plan Required
Components Checklist of
Evidence/Actions

Open Forms to Complete tab
Click on Title I Targeted Assistance Plan Required
Components Checklist of Evidence/Actions to open the
webform

3. Ensure your Indistar Action Plan
addresses a minimum of one
corresponding indicator that aligns to each
of the 8 Components


In Indistar, use the indicator filter feature to extract the 17
Title I Targeted Assistance Plan corresponding indicators
(refer to the table that identifies all corresponding indicators by Component)
Consider giving preference to those corresponding indicators
that are Expected.
Write objectives with S.M.A.R.T. goals, Tasks, and Timelines
to ensure alignment with Title I Targeted Assistance Plan
requirements.
Ensure your written objective connects to the reform
Strategies youve chosen to address reading, writing, and
math.
Reflect upon the stem questions associated to each
component on the form as you develop tasks to implement
the objective youve crafted for the indicator.

4. Collect required evidence for each of the
8 Components. Communicate evidence for
each Component on the Title I Targeted
Assistance Plan Required Components
Checklist of Evidence/Actions



Open Document Upload tab
Upload evidence to a corresponding folder youve created for
each Component folder in the Document Upload tab, using
naming protocol to label each document
Check applicable boxes in the Title I Targeted Assistance
Plan Required Components Checklist of Evidence/Actions for
each Component.
Save changes to checklist before closing webform

5. Complete Title I Targeted Assistance
Plan Required Components Checklist of
Evidence/Actions

Click save on the webform
Go to the Submit forms and Reports tab on the Indistar
Dashboard
Click the Submit button for the appropriate Targeted
Assistance Plan reporting period

6. Implement Student and School Success
Action Plan/Title I Targeted Assistance
Plan and monitor implementation and
impact
Monitor active Indicators in Indistar

and revise/add tasks if
needed
Upload annual evaluation (Core Element 3 for Title I
Schoolwide Programs) to a Title I Targeted Assistance -
Ongoing Evaluation folder youve created in Indistar