KIPP’s Healthy Schools and Regions Managing for Performance 2014: Transforming Education Through Data-Driven Performance Management

KIPP history and context

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The challenge

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1 in 10 of students from low income families graduate from college by their mid-20s

1994

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1995

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KIPP Academy Bronx

KIPP Academy Houston

2000

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KIPP’s national mission

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To create a respected, influential, and national network of public schools that are successful in helping students from educationally underserved communities develop the knowledge, skills, character, and habits to succeed in college and the competitive world beyond.

2013-14 school year: 141 KIPP Schools in 20 states and DC…

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…serving over 50,000 students

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Why

Healthy Schools

and Regions

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Critical questions from KIPP leaders inspired this work

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Beyond state test score performance, what constitutes a

healthy KIPP school?

We’re revamping our math program. What schools in the KIPP network are driving the highest student growth in 5th grade math?

How do I know if I’m preparing my students to be successful to and

through college?

We’re revamping our on-boarding and teacher development processes. What

schools are doing a great job supporting and developing new and experienced

teachers?

More broadly: why Healthy Schools & Regions?

Ensure we are focused on what matters; create accountability to our mission

Create common language and comparative data, especially given we operate in 20 states and DC

Leverage comparative data to identify promising practices, facilitate sharing and learning within our network (and beyond)

Ensure that a broad set of data informs decision-making – school health goes beyond test scores

Be real and acknowledge our challenges 11

Introducing our

Six Essential Questions

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Several years ago, we began by developing a comprehensive framework…

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Healthy Schools allows us to track progress toward our ultimate outcome—success to and through college, and in

life—as well as intermediate outcomes and leading indicators

High school and college attainment (matriculation, persistence, graduation) and life success

Attendance & persistence | Academic progress & achievement | Character & life skills

Leadership & organizational systems | TalentCulture & climate | Teaching & learning

Site Management

…are reached

through excellent

practice in these

areas.

We believe

that these

outcomes…

Long-term outcomes

Short and mid-term outcomes

Inputs / indicators

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…which was supported by a set of data collection and reporting tools

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MAP Assessment

Stakeholder surveys

Quality reviews

Quantitative metrics

Alumni tracking platform

A few years ago we “launched” our Healthy Schools & Regions Essential Questions

Question 1

Are we serving the children who need us?

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Question 2

Are our students staying with us? Question 3

Are our students progressing and achieving academically? Question 4

Are our alumni climbing the mountain to and through college? Question 5

Are we building a sustainable people model?

Question 6

Are we building a sustainable financial model?

Question 1

Are we serving the children who need us?

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SY 2013-14 Demographics

87% 95% Free or Reduced

Price Lunch African-American

or Latino

10% 15% Receive Special

Education Services English Language

Learners

Question 2

Are our students staying with us?

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+4 pts in 6 years

88% Returned or completed highest grade

Question 3

Are our students progressing and achieving academically?

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Mathematics

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Percent of KIPP students making/exceeding typical growth MAP- 2012-13 Fall-to-Spring

Question 4

Are our alumni climbing the mountain to and through college?

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93% 82% 47% Have graduated from high school

Have matriculated to college

Have graduated from college

(5+ years after completing 8th grade)

(5+ years after completing 8th grade)

(42% BA / 4.5% AA, 10+ years after completing 8th grade)

Question 5

Are we building a sustainable people model?

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Teacher Retention

Retained in Network

Retained in School

Total retention

69% 71% 69% 69% 67%

6% 6% 6% 6% 7%

75% 78% 74% 75% 74%

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13

Question 6

Are we building a sustainable financial model?

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Examining several financial health indicators

• Student enrollment ratio

• Non-philanthropic revenues as a percentage of operating expenses

• Current ratio

• Liquidity ratio

• Months of cash on hand

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Network Impact:

Leveraging HSR

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Healthy Schools & Regions taking hold throughout the KIPP network

More and more KIPP regions and schools utilize HSR in sharing their results and establishing their priorities

Nationally, HSR impacts how we set our national priorities, manage growth, and create network-wide focus via shining a spotlight

HSR is important frame for how we communicate about KIPP performance externally

Increasingly, HSR is key vehicle for how we identify promising practices for sharing and dissemination

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Sharing Our Story Externally

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Sharing Our Results Internally

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Lessons

learned

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We wanted to share five lessons learned

1. Tremendous power in developing shared language and alignment on “what matters”

2. Incredibly valuable – in terms of adoption, internalization, and impact, and in terms of strengthening the design – to engage leaders at all levels via an iterative design, pilot, refine, and rollout process

3. We found our succinct, six question framework made Healthy Schools and Regions much more accessible – still lots of richness and nuance below the surface, but simplicity of the overarching questions really resonated with our leaders 30

Five lessons learned

4. Senior leadership constantly reinforcing the shared language and performance indicators matters – multi-year area of focus. Alignment also matters – performance-driven decisions need to be explicitly tied to the key performance indicators.

5. Knowledge is power

• Being transparent about challenges as well as successes leads to innovation and dissemination of promising practices

• Tremendous power in a system of schools in generating insights via de-averaging performance data

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