IAD Program
Intensive
Assistance to Districts (IAD) Program
MSBA's IAD program is Missouri's only research-based professional development sequence specifically
designed and delivered to school boards and superintendents of districts
performing at Provisionally Accredited or Unaccredited levels. Participants also include those districts who
are fully accredited, but whose Annual Performance Report shows current
performance in Provisional ranges.
Because the reasons for low performance vary, IAD is highly customized to respond to the unique demographic and achievement profiles of participant districts. IAD is grant-funded by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and is provided at no cost to qualified districts.
The IAD program consists of a minimum of five (5) work sessions, delivered on-site by MSBA facilitators to the board, its superintendent, and up to three additional participants of their choice. Each work session lasts approximately two (2) hours and focuses on a different topic or group of topics. Several sessions incorporate PowerPoint presentations; all handouts are provided at each session, free of charge.
Session I: Research-proven approaches to Board Governance for maximum achievement; current performance profile data (district-specific); opportunities to apply best practices in your district.
Session II: Performance-based Evaluations: briefly examines the history and purpose of Performance-based Evaluations; relates current requirements and practice for evaluation of district staff by Administration; focuses on requirements, standards, best practices, and implementation "how-to's" for evaluation of the Superintendent by the Board, using a research-based Performance-Based Superintendent Evaluation (PBSE) tool.
Session III: Comprehensive School Improvement Plan (CSIP) and Community Engagement: Briefly explores the history and fully explores the function of the CSIP, the fundamental blueprint for all district action. Focuses not only on the approved CSIP as a work product, but also on the required CSIP revision process as an important step to uniting administrators, boards, and communities in the single agenda of school improvement.
Session IV: Board Roles, Responsibilities, and Tools: as Sessions I and II clarify crucial differences in role and responsibility between the Board and its Superintendent and Session III clarifies the mission, direction, and strategic plan of both, Session IV focuses on the Board itself: responsibilities that rest solely with the board; questions board members should ask; standards board members must meet; and the specific governing documents that are used to address them.
Session V: IAD Session V is completely customized to the specific needs and circumstances of the participant board. Session V may focus on a topic of the Board's interest that has not been covered in earlier sessions, or it may provide additional time for focus on topic(s) previously covered, or Session V may be a targeted session on the execution of a specific governing document or task (i.e., a goals-setting session for the CSIP, a board work session on the PBSE, standardized test performance analysis, implications of state intervention and/or accreditation attainment and maintenance strategies, etc.)
If your district is currently performing at or below Provisional levels, the IAD sequence is designed for you, endorsed by DESE, and free. If you serve a qualified district but are concerned that the program description provided here includes elements that would prevent your district's participation, you should contact us as indicated below; many elements of the sequence may be reconfigured to individual district needs.
Participant board members have recently commented:
"We're always told what to do, but we've never been shown how. This is the first time anyone has helped us to know how to do what we're supposed to."
"I've been on the board twelve years, and this is the first time I feel excited about what we're doing."
"Where we are now, compared to where we were before, it's like night and day. It's everybody that's doing it: the board, the staff, the superintendent, the community, but it's really been the work that we started in IAD that's gotten us on track and making progress to where we need to be."
Grant funding limits participation to twenty districts per year. If your district qualifies, or if you need further information, contact us today!
IAD Program
David Lineberry, Director
MSBA Academy of Public School Governance
(800) 221-6722, ext. 314
lineberry@msbanet.org
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