End of Year Readiness Self-Assessment

Description: The End-of-Year (EOY) Period moves the students from the state Testing Period through the last day of school. In best practice, it is a time to achieve closure and to begin transition and best
practice work for all stakeholders. We sometimes think of this as the beginning of the next school year.

Timeframe: The EOY begins two weeks after testing concludes and ends on the last day of school.

Goals: The goals for the EOY include:
• Bringing the current year’s learning to a close.
• Doing work that helps organize all of this year’s learnings in long-term memory.
• Transition activities to help the students move into an effective summer experience and make a successful transition to the next level.
• Aggregating the current year’s data for summer planning.

– excerpt from Turning Around Turnaround Schools, Volume 2 – Embracing the Rhythm of the Learner Year

The free tools provided on this site are pulled, in part, from our recent book Turning Around Turnaround Schools, Volume 2 – Embracing the Rhythm of the Learner Year. If you have questions about how to use any of these tools, please feel free to contact us, or check out the book, available on amazon.com.

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Frank Desensi

Frank DeSensi is the founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Educational Directions, LLC. which consults with schools and school districts in the southeastern and mid-western United States. A retired educator, Frank spent 35 years in a variety of teaching and administrative positions. He taught at the university, college, secondary, and middle-school levels; worked in the central office as a curriculum specialist; and held both principal and assistant principal positions. From 1993 to 1998, Frank served as a Kentucky Distinguished Educator, helping to turn around schools that were labeled in decline or in crisis under the provisions of the Kentucky Education Reform Act. Frank helped develop the STAR training program for new DE’s and served as a trainer in the Kentucky Leadership Academy. He jointly holds patents for three data-management systems for schools.

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