School improvement & Reform
The Winter 2012 OSI Newsletter offers updates, kudos, and a new feature created especially for principals with a timeline of important milestones. Be sure to check it out on the School Improvement News.
The Virginia Dashboard is a web-based data analysis and reporting tool being developed for schools and divisions. At an annual cost of $500 per school, the Virginia Dashboard will provide a single platform for collecting and analyzing multiple types of longitudinal student data. The tool can be purchased by any Virginia school, regardless of improvement status and will take the place of the quarterly report and VEWS tool as required from schools in improvement or schools accredited with warning.
- Virginia Dashboard Training
- Virginia Dashboard recorded webinar – for technology staff and administrators
- Information on the state contract for this tool (PDF)
- Frequently Asked Questions (PDF) from webinars held September 19-22, 2011
- Availability of a New Web-based Data Analysis and Reporting Tool – Superintendent's Memo #222-11, Aug. 12, 2011
The Office of School Improvement offers a training opportunity for twelve selected school divisions on the Student Growth Percentile model in addition to trainings that have taken place across Virginia. The sessions are broadcast through 
live streaming video, at 9am and 1pm on February 10, 2012. See Training page for information and materials.
VDOE assists chronically low-performing schools and school divisions to implement effective instructional strategies and best practices to increase student achievement.
Under federal Elementary & Secondary Education Act / No Child Left Behind (ESEA / NCLB) legislation, low-performing is defined as being a
- Title I school in improvement
Under the Standards of Accreditation (SOA), low-performing is a school that is rated:
- accreditation denied,
- accredited with warning in one or more content areas, or
- a school that is conditionally accredited.
VDOE support and technical assistance includes school-level and division-level academic reviews, school improvement planning and innovative programs such as the Partnership for Achieving Successful Schools (PASS).
- Technical Assistance Guide for Local Educational Agencies (PDF) – Updated October 12, 2011
View VDOE's Expenses