The first step toward school improvement is assessing the current state of professional learning in your school or system.
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Customize your SAI experience by selecting the standards you want to measure.
Our professional learning survey is a confidential, web-based tool that schools and districts use to
- Identify strengths;
- Identify areas of need;
- Plan professional learning that gets results for teachers and students.
Contact us today to see how you can get a detailed needs assessment for your professional development system -- complete with a series of reports, resources, and data analysis tools to ensure impact on teaching and learning in your system.
Additional private consultations are also available for expanded analysis and post-survey planning.
Set your course for implementing the standards by assessing professional learning in your system.
The Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI) is a confidential, web-based survey that provides schools and systems with data on the quality of their professional learning as defined by Standards for Professional Learning.
Taken by school-based instructional staff, the SAI is valid and reliable instrument aligned directly to the 2022 standards and measures whether rigorous content for each learner, transformational processes, and conditions for success are in place in your schools and system for professional learning to impact every educator and student.
SAI results help schools and systems focus on the actions that contribute to high-quality professional learning. The SAI collects school and system data and provides you with a detailed series of reports, resources, and data analysis tools to ensure you use your results to plan improvements that will impact teaching and learning in your system.
Schools use the SAI for:
- Identify clear expectations and specific actions that contribute to high-quality professional learning.
- Get benchmark data that provides a clear picture of what’s working and where to focus resources.
- Inform schoolwide practices and guide school improvement planning.
- Identify next (or first) steps toward standards implementation.
- Introduce instructional staff to Standards for Professional Learning.
- Initiate dialogue and reflection among staff about professional learning.
- Evaluate the impact of professional learning programs.
Districts use the SAI to:
- Identify schools with similar needs and
priorities. - Identify school strengths in certain areas to share exemplary practices with others.
- Assess whether a particular improvement effort has contributed to the quality of professional learning across several schools or systems.
- Recognize schools for quality professional learning.
- Identify next steps for standards
implementation.
Once you administer the SAI in your schools, we help you analyze results, identify areas for improvement, and help determine your next actions to focus your professional learning and maximize the return on your learning investments.
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