Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

Introduction to District’s plan for identifying targets, collecting performance
data and then analyzing/using the measures of success.
As part of the development of the district’s strategic plan, Tulsa Public Schools embarked upon a
comprehensive performance management initiative to create a shared accountability system where
every district employee, including non-instructional staff, is responsible for supporting student
achievement. Tulsa Public School’s strategic plan outlined five core goals:
• Student achievement,
• Teacher and leader effectiveness
• Performance-based culture
• Financial Sustainability
• Safe and Secure Schools
Under each of these core goals, strategic objectives were developed and used to derive at a set of
district-level measures which are tracked and monitored. Similarly, the strategic objectives also provided
a roadmap for departments to develop goals and metrics to quantify performance.
District-level measures: Measures of Success
The executive team identified key performance indicators under each of the district’s five core goals.
These measures of success contain the most pertinent indicators the district will track to monitor its
continuous improvement process. Following the development of the measures of success, departments
began collecting baseline information and setting targets, a process that is currently underway and will
be completed by the summer of 2012. Some of the data collected through the district’s accountability
department and the student management system is currently housed in a data warehouse that
produces daily reports for principals and administrators. The district plans on this data warehouse to be
the repository for most of the district performance data once it is collected. The ongoing data collection
process will be automated in early summer with the purchase of a longitudinal data system (LDS) which
will link data from relevant existing systems to produce advanced analytical reports. The district expects
the LDS system to greatly facilitate the process of collecting, reporting and analyzing leading and lagging
indicators, and provide departments and schools with immediate feedback on progress against target
goals.
Department and individual-level measures: Balanced scorecards
Concurrently, departments also began the process of developing balanced scorecards to align individual
and team goals to the strategic core goals. Departments will use scorecards to transform the district’s