Center for Strategic Leadership and Organizational Coherence

100% of these educators raised student achievement over the prior years scores (baseline). The remaining 25% (258 educators) were rated ineffective or needs improvement. A target to increase racial diversity of educators teachings in targeted schools a minimum of 15% by end of grant period was met with the current percentage of racila diveristy of educators teaching in achieve schools is: 65% white, 21% black, 7% hispanic, 3% asian and 4% other.this will be our baseline for comparison of year 2 and 3 results. A target of having 100% of instructional staff and principals/assistant principasl to recieve an annual educator effectiveness rating, using state-approved evaluation tool, each year of the grant was met with all instructional staff and school leaders were evaluated and recived an effectiveness rating in year 1 of the grant. A target of having 100% of educators (instructional and Leadership) to maintain annual professional growth plans that help them reach effectiveness goals. A target to reduce the number of educators who receive a minimally effective or ineffective rating a minimum of 15% compared to previous year was met with 25% of our rated educators were rated unsatisfactory or needs improvement. These educators will be provided with support throughout the year. Their year 1 ratings will become baseline measures and will be compared to year 2 effectiveness ratings for growth. A target to increase the percent of students who achieve ela and math proficiency benchmarks a minimum of 10% by the end of the grant period was met with Arkansas act 89 suspending most of the states academic achievement reporting for 2020-2021, due to covid. A target to increase the graduation rate by a minimum of 10% by the end of the grant period was met with the four-year graduation rates for the high schools in our participating Arkansas districts averaged 82.82% for the 20 -2021 school year. In 2021-2022, the avearge was 87.36%, a diffence of 4.54%.