George Hancock (SERVE Center) received new funding from Alamance-Burlington School System for the project “Haw River Elementary School Comprehensive Needs Assessment.”
Hancock also received new funding from Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools for the project “Moore Magnet Elementary School Comprehensive Needs Assessment.”
These projects are a systematic assessment of practices, processes, and structures within a school to assist school leadership and key stakeholders in determining needs, examining their nature and causes, and setting priorities for future actions. The assessments guide the development of a genuine school improvement plan that is grounded in data and provides a road map to future progress. Research supports the fact that schools who undertake a true comprehensive needs assessment make better decisions, resulting in improved outcomes relative to the achievement of their students.
An assessment team (2-3 team members) will visit each school, providing an opportunity for teachers, support staff, school improvement team members, and other stakeholders to outline current perceptions relative to leadership, instruction, professional development, planning, and operations, and family and community engagement.
