Support Meetings Dates

Technical Assistance Visit  Spring – Fall 2007
The purpose of a High Schools That Work technical assistance visit is to help school leaders and teachers take stock of where they are and where they want to go in school improvement. A technical assistance visit is not evaluative; rather, it represents efforts by the visiting team and the school to improve student learning.

Read SREB’s Technical Assistance: A Guide for Local Sites. The guide explains "who does what" and describes expectations before, during and after the visit.

The state HSTW Coordinator will develop a visitation team of academic teachers, career/technical teachers, counselors, administrators, and post-secondary partners to participate in the two-day visit.  The visitation team will interview students, teachers, counselors, administrators and parents.  The team will also visit every classroom at the school.  A draft report is developed at the end of the visit identifying the schools Promising Practices and Challenges. 

The visitation team member will pay for their lodging, travel and other expenses.  The only minor cost to your school is food.

Technical Review Visit Spring – Fall 2009
The purpose of the Technical Review Visit is to assess the progress a site has made in implementing the HSTW  framework for school improvement. Specifically, this follow-up visit assesses how the school has addressed the challenges identified during the Technical Assistance Visit and outlined in the Technical Assistance Visit report. The Technical Review Guide begins on page 36 of the Technical Assistance Guide.  This guide gives a school a step-by-step process to prepare for the Technical Review Visit and includes forms, checklists and sample agendas.