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It makes a link between the application and initial planning that a school completes in order to register with Cambridge International, and ongoing processes of quality assurance and school development. The starting point for school development planning is the requirement that the school fully meets Cambridge quality standards defined in the registration process. Once this is achieved school development planning becomes an ongoing cycle involving evaluation, planning and development designed to improve student learning and achievement. The school development planning process should fit naturally with, and complement, the school’s ongoing quality assurance policies and practices. These are considered in detail in subsequent chapters.  \n2.1 An overview of school development planning  \nProfessor David Hopkins, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Education, University of London (2006) defined the purpose of the school improvement process as being:“... to improve the learning and achievement of all students and enhance the school’s capacity to manage continuous improvement. The focus is upon school level factors (e.g. leadership, planning, professional development) and classroom level factors (teaching, learning and student feedback). These two areas are united through a process of enquiry.”In this guide school development planning is the overarching process of enquiry, evaluation, prioritisation, planning and execution of plans designed to improve student learning and achievement.  \nEnquiry is the first part of the process of evaluation. Evidence is gathered and interpreted to ensure judgements are reasonable and accurate. A school needs to create a flow of data and evidence about how it is performing in key areas. This evidence will be generated annually from processes like those described in Chapters 5 and 6, which consider in detail how student learning can be improved through assessment and evaluating teaching. Evidence will lead to judgements about what is working well and what needs attention. The process helps a reflective school to:  \n• take ownership of monitoring and evaluating its own performance and to plan effectively for improvement  \n• gather information and evidence to review progress in terms of the whole-school experience as well as learner outcomes  \n• build up a picture of the quality of provision in the school over time – this will provide the school and its community (the stakeholders) with a measure of how well learners are performing and the standards being achieved  \n• identify good practice so that it can be shared throughout the school.  \nDevelopment plans map out how issues identified during the evaluation phase are followed up. They should be a response to the following questions:  \n• What specific aspects of our work do we need to develop (priorities and intended outcomes)?  \n• How are we going to develop them (processes)?  \n• What resources do we need to achieve this (resources)?  \n• How long will it realistically take to achieve (timescale)?  \n• Who is going to lead and manage the achievement of each objective and the overall plan (responsibilities)?  \n• How will we know that we have achieved the plan (evaluation)?  \nAnnual development cycles and periodic whole-school evaluation  \nDevelopment planning can just be based on an annual review using evidence generated in the process of running the school. One limitation of this is that it does not allow for a more complete evaluation of the school system as a whole. It also uses a limited number of sources of evidence. For this reason we advise schools to periodically (usually every five to 10 years) have a major whole-school evaluation.  \n8 Developing your school with Cambridge learner attributes A guide for school leaders  \n2: Creating the school development continued  \nHow this is organised will depend on the school context. Normally the proc","cbCaihB6WBcVqpMV","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihB6WBcVqpMV","pdf",614716,"English","# Creating the school development plan\n## An overview of school development planning\n## Annual development cycles and periodic whole-school evaluation\n## Roles in comprehensive school self-evaluation\n## Accreditation and external validation\n## Strategic development plan and timescales","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the school improvement process described in this chapter?\",\"answer\":\"It aims to improve learning and achievement for all students and enhance the school’s capacity for continuous improvement. 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