School and District Accountability Committees (SACs and DACs)

Statutes

Resources

Statute: Making recommendations to the principal on the school priorities for spending school moneys, including federal funds, where applicable

• Colorado Financial Transparency
  Here you will find revenue and expenditure information for each school, district, and BOCES throughout the state.

Statute: Making recommendations to the principal and the superintendent concerning preparation of a school Performance or Improvement plan, if either type of plan is required

• Access Unified Improvement Plans and Performance Frameworks
• Unified Improvement Planning Resources
• External Resources:
  • Process for Data-Based Decision Making in Schools
  • Data Mining Protocol (DOC)
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Statute: Publicizing and holding a SAC meeting to discuss strategies to include in a school Priority Improvement or Turnaround plan, if either type of plan is required, and using this input to make recommendations to the local school board concerning preparation of the school Priority Improvement or Turnaround plan prior to the plan being written

• Parent Notification Fact Sheet (PDF)

Statute: Publicizing the district’s public hearing to review a written school Priority Improvement or Turnaround plan

• Parent Notification Fact Sheet (PDF)

Statute: Meeting at least quarterly to discuss whether school leadership, personnel, and infrastructure are advancing or impeding implementation of the school’s Performance, Improvement, Priority Improvement, or Turnaround plan, whichever is applicable, and other progress pertinent to the school’s accreditation contract

• UIP Evaluation
  • UIP General Resources
  • UIP Quality Criteria Rubric for Evaluation (PDF)
• Leadership and Personnel
  • Educator Effectiveness Resources
• Infrastructure
  • Colorado Facility Insight Tool

Statute: Providing input and recommendations to the DAC and district administration, on an advisory basis, concerning principal development plans and evaluations. (Note that this should not in any way interfere with a district’s compliance with the statutory requirements of the Teacher Employment, Compensation and Dismissal Act.)

• Educator Effectiveness Rubrics
  • State Model Evaluation System (SMES)
  • SMES for Principals/Assistant Principals
  • Principal Quality Standards (PDF)
  • Principal-Administrator Induction Rubric

Statute: Publicizing opportunities to serve and soliciting parents to serve on the SAC (per HB 15-1321, small rural districts may waive this requirement)

• External Resources:
  • Douglas County Handbook – Pg 23 Sample Recruitment Letter (PDF)
  • How to Recruit New Board Members
  • Building an effective Advisory Committee (PDF)
  • Chalkbeat Colorado: understanding School Accountability Committees

Statute: Assisting the district in implementing at the school level the district’s family engagement policy (per HB 15-1321, small rural districts may waive this requirement)

• Policy
  • Family Engagement Policy Critique (PDF)

Statute: Assisting school personnel to increase family engagement with teachers, including family engagement in creating READ plans, Individual Career and Academic Plans, and plans to address habitual truancy (per HB 15-1321, small rural districts may waive this requirement)

• READ Act
  • READ Act home page
  • READ Act information for parents
• Family Engagement
  • ​Family-School-Community Partnership
• ICAP
  • Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP)
  • ICAP Letter to Parents (DOC)
  • ICAP Implementation Toolkit
• Habitual Truancy
  • Dropout Prevention Resources
• External Resources:
  • District Websites about pathways, ICAP, and Graduation Guidelines:
    • Falcon District, D49: 49 Pathways
    • Denver Public Schools ICAP webpage
    • District 11 ICAP webpage
    • Poudre College and Career Readiness = ICAP
    • Northeast BOCES: Northeast Colorado Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Partnership