Local Accountability System
Frisco ISD’s local accountability system is a key component of our Dynamic Organizational Strategy. It is based upon the premise that schools exist to serve students, their parents, and their communities and that accountability should first align with that purpose. Local accountability is a direct response to the fact that test-based state accountability systems fail to offer much information or insight into the actual changes or improvements that need to occur within a school.
FISD’s local accountability system:
Is driven by the unique needs of the students and the values and expectations of the community it serves, as compared to the one-size-fits-all approach that is currently used.
Includes parents, community members and educators working in partnership to identify meaningful indicators of progress and/or successes unique to the Frisco ISD community.
Supports efforts to innovate and customize learning experiences based on the needs and interests of our students and community.
Recognizes that schools are accountable for the capacities, requirements, principles, and infrastructure necessary to create and sustain a successful learning organization.
Is an engine of meaningful change for schools, not another report card.
FISD’s local accountability system recognizes and reports on educational outcomes above and beyond standardized testing by providing information to schools and communities about overall effectiveness through the lens of the Future-Ready Framework.
District Improvement Plan
The Board of Trustees uses the comprehensive needs assessment and stakeholder feedback to annually adopt District Priorities, aligned with our Future-Ready Framework, that represent specific ideals on which district leaders should focus their time, energy, and resources over the coming year.
Once the direction for the year is set, District leaders adopt district-wide goals for improvement, which form our District Improvement Plan.
The District Advisory Council serves as the state-required district-level planning committee that helps leaders develop, evaluate and revise the district improvement plan each year.
Annual District Accountability Report
Whether formal or informal, accountability is one of the most powerful orienting forces within an organization. It molds and orients an organization on how it can be effective, and it can drive meaningful, lasting change.
Previous District Accountability Reports
Annual Campus Accountability Report
Frisco ISD invites families to dig deeper into what makes their school special. The Campus Accountability Report is a report developed annually by and for each campus. It can be found on each campus's website beginning in mid-September. The Campus Accountability Report details accomplishments, key data points related to the Future-Ready Framework, and other highlights that are simply unquantifiable on standardized assessments.
Journey to Local Accountability
2017-18
The Texas Education Agency established a statewide rating system to evaluate the academic performance of Texas public schools. Through this system, campuses and districts are each assigned a letter grade (A-F).
2018
In lieu of creating a new 5-year strategic plan, District leadership partnered with the Schlechty Center to think differently about strategic planning. Leadership began evaluating the capacity of the system to implement a continuous improvement cycle to meet the needs of our school community.
Schlecty and District leadership also trained our District Advisory Council alongside district leadership.
2019
Frisco ISD joined 40 other school districts in the Texas Public Accountability Consortium in an effort to develop community-based accountability systems. District and campus leadership received training by John Tanner of BraveEd and the Texas Association of School Administrators in this process.
District leadership began to envision a strategic change process that would be a “living” strategic plan that evolves to meet the changing needs of our students, staff and community.
FISD began working on our Future-Ready vision by developing Future-Ready Learner, Leader, and Educator profiles that would operationalize the mission of Frisco ISD.
2021-21
Frisco ISD began to meld the future-ready initiative with community-based accountability and created the Future-Ready Framework.
The framework originally consisted of 5 focus areas, each with a set of key questions FISD would hold itself accountable to.
2022-23
District and campus leaders began to operationalize the strategic change process.
Future-Ready Framework as a core tenant of our district.
Frisco ISD solidified the local accountability system, which evolved from community-based accountability and now aligns with our future-ready vision and strategic change model.
The strategic change process is officially named Dynamic Organizational Strategy.