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Continuous Improvement
District Initiatives
November 2008 Organizational
Assessment Results
A recent Organizational Assessment reveals Laramie
County School District 1 has made progress over the past year.
The process involves annually inviting a team of external
experts into the district to gain feedback from staff, students,
parents and the community. Conducted for the first time in
2007, the audit provides the district with “growth-evoking”
information used to assess and improve services.
Feedback is received in the form of strengths and
opportunities for improvement. Last year’s assessment helped
guide the district-improvement process and was used to
develop the 2008–2009 strategic plan of work.
Following LCSD1’s 2007 Organizational Assessment, the
Wyoming Department of Education contracted with Krenek
Consulting to conduct its own Organizational
Assessment. In addition, WDE teams
are receiving training so they can offer
Organizational Assessments to other
districts across the state.
Information from this year’s LCSD1
Organizational Assessment will assist
district leaders in developing the
2009–2010 strategic plan and work
toward the NCA AdvancED
district accreditation visit slated
to be held in the fall of 2009.
The report states
many of our
strengths center on
our people—
✔ We seem to
have a very clear and
positive shared vision of
the district we want to become.
✔ We are committed to
collaboration. Professional
Learning Communities seem to
be growing stronger.
✔ Our work aligning triads
and supporting schools with
instructional coaching is helping to
break down barriers and increase
our sense of purpose as a district
community.
✔ We are recruiting and retaining outstanding
people. This increased stability and quality should
help us move forward together to achieve our
mission.
Improvements made over the past year
include—
✔ Aligning supervision of our principals in triads
seems to be helping with district communication,
curriculum implementation and best instructional
practices and goals.
✔ Strategic communications efforts seem
to be improving opportunities for stakeholder
engagement. This includes our monthly meetings,
“sticky” messages and technology improvements.
✔ Our focus on developing a process to
implement a data warehouse appears to be moving
in the right direction.
Opportunities for improvement include—
✔ Continue to work to engage, empower and
include our support staff.
✔ Continue to improve our
communications and engagement of external
stakeholders.
✔ Develop a systematic and systemic
recognition process to celebrate contributions of
support staff, instructional staff, students, parents
and community.
✔ Continue to align our instructional system.
✔ Map and align support operations processes to
ensure we are efficiently and effectively supporting
student learning at every level.
✔ Continue to work on our data and
information systems so employees and customers at
every level have accurate, readily available data.
10 • Report Card 2007–2008 www.laramie1.org