The SARC liaisons' survey the CDE conducted in the
summer of 2006 reported that the average district spent 39 hours
to compile and publish the SARC for one school. Working with
School Wise Press, you, your principals and your team should
spend no
more than 4 hours per site.
Cut your worries and your workload. Let us …
… do the heavy lifting. All data your district
has already sent to the CDE is already in our hands. Let us
retrieve it, validate it, and calculate local benchmarks for
the county and school level. No need to scramble for data buried
in your student information system or your instructional management
system.
… present it to your public, interpret its
meaning, and visualize the important trends and comparisons
in the data. If your school did not make AYP, or is in Program
Improvement, let us explain it to your public. No need to write
unravel the complexities of AYP or PI.
… untangle the messy reporting of CST results in
the CDE template, which lumps together all math or science
courses taken in middle or high school, regardless of the difficulty
of the classes your students take. No need to suffer the indignity
of having your high school students' English/language arts
scores compared with E/LA scores of all students in grades
2–11. We sort it out for you, comparing test results
only at the same school level.
… build professional documents for you, with
designs that we’ve refined, based on research, and tested each
year for eight years. Let our document engineers encode links
into your SARCs that pave the road for the more curious readers
to relevant content that answers their questions. No need to
cut-and-paste words and numbers into a CDE template that was never
designed to be read. In fact, research
from UCLA’s law school indicates the CDE SARC template discourages readership and fosters
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Even the principals who are your most
reluctant writers will take heart from our support system.
We treat principals as authors. In fact, we function like a
university press that helps faculty members the old-fashioned
way: by matching them up with a professional editor who knows
how to coax their ideas onto paper. If need be, we will rewrite
your principals' writing. And for an extra fee, if necessary,
we will interview them, bypassing the act of writing entirely.
By the time your principals have given just two
hours to the task, they will have made their way through our
workbook, filled
with prompts that guide them to short responses that meet the
requirements of law, and what your public expects. When combined
with our own writing, the text from your weakest-writing principals
will read as clearly as the writing of your most lucid school
leaders. Polished prose and clear communication from all principals
will be the end result.
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