Developing An Overview Of Your Magnet Program

Practice:

Set the stage for purposeful evaluation

Key Action:

Identify what you need from an evaluation

TOOL: Developing an Overview of Your Magnet Program

Purpose:

This tool will help stakeholders develop a shared understanding of your program’s background, goals, and components, to set the basis for identifying what you want to learn about your program. Consolidating this information will set a foundation for building your program’s theory of action and developing a logic model.

Instructions:

1. Complete the “Overview of Your Magnet Program” form using previous or existing magnet program documentation. 2. Use the checklist to identify overview information that various stakeholders still need to learn about the magnet program and brainstorm possible ways to communicate this information with them.

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Practice:

Set the stage for purposeful evaluation

Key Action:

Identify what you need from an evaluation

Overview of Your Magnet Program Background/History: What is the district’s experience with magnet schools or programs of choice? What local context has shaped your decision to put this program in place?

Identified Needs and Goals of the Project: What were the needs that led to this specific magnet focus in this/these school(s)? What are the goals of the project?

Magnet Program Components: What is your magnet theme? What curricular or instructional changes did the magnet program require? What professional development has been offered and to whom? How does your program reduce minority isolation? What is your recruitment or student assignment plan?

Which stakeholders still need to learn what about the magnet program? Board Members District Administrators School Administrators School Staff Parents Students Community/Business Partners

Check all that apply. Background/ Needs History

Goals

Components

Best way to communicate information or engage stakeholder with magnet program overview

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