Academic Improvement and Accountability

District Assistance and Intervention Team (DAIT)

What is DAIT?

A DAIT is a team of organizational leaders who provide targeted technical assistance and support to Program Improvement (PI) districts in Corrective Action (Year 3 of PI). The team works with the district to examine current practices at both the district and school levels; evaluate the effectiveness of those practices; identify and prioritize the district’s major areas of need; develop and implement actions that target those needs; and, ultimately, help the district exit PI status.

How Does a District Enter Program Improvement?

PI status first occurs when a district that receives Title I, Part A, funds fails to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for two consecutive years. Should a district make AYP in any year, the district will maintain its prior-year PI status. However, should it fail to make AYP in one year, it will advance in PI.

What is the Purpose of DAIT?

The central premise of the DAIT initiative is that the district is the nexus for educational improvement. It provides the leadership, along with the fiscal, human, and technical resources, to fully implement a solid instructional program for all students.

The district’s capacities for self-examination and its willingness to implement educational changes to promote the academic achievement of all students are prerequisites to deep and sustainable reform.

How DAIT Begins…

The DAIT process begins with a comprehensive needs assessment and continues with the identification, prioritization, and implementation of actions that have the potential to bring about dramatic improvements in district and school operations.

What is the Expected Outcome?

The intention is that through the DAIT process, districts will make significant improvements in many areas of their work. These areas include governance and leadership; alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment; data systems and achievement monitoring; alignment of human and fiscal resources with district goals; meaningful parent and community involvement; and targeted professional development for teachers and administrators.

Through this process student achievement will improve, district infrastructure will be strengthened; and district resources will be allocated more effectively

BCSD DAIT Sanctions

BCSD failed to make AYP for two consecutive years and was identified for PI. BCSD has entered PI Year 3, and it is now subject to Corrective Action.  SBE is required to select and impose one or more of the following federal sanctions and has selected the one bolded sanction for BCSD.

SBE has selected the following bold federal sanction. 

·         Replacing district personnel who are relevant to the district’s failure to make AYP

·         Removing schools from the district’s jurisdiction 

·         Appointing, by the SBE, a receiver or trustee 

·         Restructuring or abolishing the district

·         Instituting and fully implementing a new curriculum that is based on state academic content standards (Correction Action F)

·         Deferring programmatic funds 

Corrective Action F Actions

·         Fully Implement New Curriculum

·         Provide Professional Development 

·         Improve Achievement for High Priority Students

·         Amend LEA Plan or Plan Addendum

·         Assign Technical Assistance District: Assistance Intervention Team  

·         Reserve Right to assign additional corrective action

Corrective Action F: BCSD Implications

Fully Implement most recent SBE adopt text

Phase-in of new SBE curriculum: Math Adoption by 2007 ELA Adoption by 2010

Provide Professional Development (SB472): Math, EL, ELA

Assign WestEd as Technical Assistance District: Assistance Intervention Team  

Works w/ District Leadership Team (DLT) to:

               Examine & Assess current district work to include:

·         Revision of LEA Plan Addendum 

·         Assess Progress

·         Pathway: Instructional Support/Needs

·         Assessments: Learning Support/Needs

·         Implementation of LEA

·         Compile District and State Progress Reports