This includes: • Establishing a regular, predictable process to track the impact improvement efforts have on student achievement • Closely monitoring the systematic collection and analysis of data by staff to assess whether progress toward attainment of objectives is satisfactory for all groups of students • Continuously collecting and utilizing data to inform instructional decisions at the building and classroom level and provide academic interventions for individual and groups of students • Using a variety of tools including technology to monitor progress • Facilitating the use of data to continuously evaluate and revise the school improvement plan • Aligning all resources (monetary, staff, time, and staff development opportunities) to maximize attainment of school improvement priorities • Supporting staff in making the instructional changes necessary to support school improvement efforts. This includes: • Ensuring that the school improvement plan is based on data analysis and problem clarification • Facilitating the development of an improvement plan in which goals, evidence of attainment, objectives, and strategies are clearly aligned and articulated • Identifying with staff the knowledge and skills that teachers need to implement the school improvement instructional strategies • Ensuring that the school improvement plan has identified activities to support strategies, milestones to assess progress toward goals, staff development to support staff needs, and staff responsible for each implementation step • Ensuring that assessment, curriculum, and instruction are aligned • Providing opportunities for staff to learn about research-based strategies that address the identified problem(s) • Providing opportunities for staff to seek successful strategies data from similar schools that have outperformed them.