Annual progress measures
Annual progress measures state the improvement your school is aiming for in each year of your Strategic Improvement Plan (SIP), in order to achieve the improvement measures in the expected year of the plan.
Annual progress measures:
- show progression through to the fourth year of the plan
- highlight the improvement your school is aiming for, for each year of the plan
- are achievable in the one-year timeframe
- are measurable against contextual qualitative or quantitative baseline data
- are aligned with your initiatives.
For school-determined targets, the annual progress measures should be backward mapped from the improvement measures.
The annual progress measures for system-negotiated targets will need to be backward and forward mapped depending on their 'Achieve by year'.
Annual progress measures of school-determined targets
This example of the annual progress measures template in SPaRO, is for an improvement measure to be achieved by the end of the School Excellence cycle, after 4 years of progress. This important measure is usually a school-determined target.
In this example, a school is targeting several elements and specific themes from the School Excellence Framework for improvement. The improvement measure has been backward mapped from the fourth year of the plan.
Annual progress measures of system-negotiated targets
System-negotiated targets will be articulated in the 'progress measures' section of the Strategic Improvement Plan (SIP) for the appropriate year in which they are to be achieved. For the 'Achieve by year', see the system-negotiated targets table.
System-negotiated targets are entered in the 'Improvement measures' field in SPaRO and the relevant 'Achieve by year' is selected from the drop down menu. Annual progress measures are backward and forward mapped accordingly.
The following example of the annual progress measures template in SPaRO, is for an improvement measure to be achieved by 2022, the second year of the Strategic Improvement Plan. A system-negotiated target has been populated from the strategic direction page.
This example of the annual progress measures template, is for an improvement measure to be achieved by 2023, the third year of the Strategic Improvement Plan. A system-negotiated target has been populated from the strategic direction page.
Example of 2 year system-negotiated target
In the following example, the Year 2 progress measure is a system-negotiated target that is expected to be achieved in 2022, the second year of this Strategic Improvement Plan (SIP).
| Year 1 progress measure: |
Year 2 progress measure: |
Year 3 progress measure: |
Year 4 improvement measure: |
|---|---|---|---|
| Increase the percentage of students achieving in the top 2 bands of NAPLAN numeracy to be above the system-negotiated target baseline of 59.64%. | A minimum of 64.2% of Year 3 and 5 students achieve in the top 2 bands in NAPLAN numeracy. | Increase the percentage of students achieving in the top 2 bands of NAPLAN numeracy to be above the system-negotiated lower bound target of 64.2%. | Increase the percentage of students achieving in the top 2 bands of NAPLAN numeracy to be trending upwards towards the system-negotiated upper bound target. |
| Note: this has been backward mapped from the Year 2 target. | Note: this system-negotiated target has been auto-populated from the 'Improvement measures' field. |
Note: this has been forward mapped from the Year 2 target. | Note: this has been forward mapped from the Year 2 target. |
| Note: this is a system-negotiated target. |
The annual progress measures will be evaluated by your team at the end of the year to reflect on the impact of the initiatives and resources allocated. This will be auto-populated into the annual report. Find information on annual reflection at Ongoing self-assessment, evaluation and annual reflection.
Reflective questions on annual progress measures
- To what extent do the annual progress measures we have written effectively build progression towards the achievement of the improvement measures?
- To what extent do our annual progress measures appropriately incorporate system-negotiated targets and school-determined targets?
- How are our annual progress measures linked to the initiatives across the school?
- How will we know if annual progress measures are successfully capturing what we set out to improve?
- Will the evaluation of the annual progress measure reflect an improvement in teaching and learning?
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