Attachment A- Project Milestones and Deliverables - Technical Expert.pdf

Attachment A: Project Milestones and Deliverables

This attachment shows a summary of the deliverables required under Section F.1. -- Contract Requirements. Milestones are represented in each blue row.

Date Deliverable Responsible Party August 2025 (or September 2025, depending on contract execution)

Attend scheduled Core Planning team meeting(s).

Technical Expert

September- December

Attend Core Planning Team meetings.

Technical Expert

Provide technical expertise during stakeholder advisory group meetings held every other week.

Technical Expert

Attend Core Planning Team debrief meetings held every other week (scheduled after each advisory group meeting).

Technical Expert

Assist ISBE with forming a principal preparation technical advisory committee.

Technical Expert

Begin analysis of Annual Performance Report (APR) and Educator Licensure Information System (ELIS) applications.

Technical Expert

Create APR User Guide pertaining to submission of principal preparation data;

create Principal Preparation Reauthorization Guide.

Annual Publication of the IEPP (December) Principal Preparation Data Collection Period – Pilot Year 1 (February-April 2026)

January- May 2026 Attend Core Planning Team meetings.

Technical Expert

Provide technical expertise at stakeholder advisory group meetings. (Meetings will occur once every three weeks.)

Attend Core Planning Team debrief meetings (to be held after each advisory group meeting).

Technical Expert

Refine completer survey in collaboration with ISBE and stakeholders, Technical Expert

Conduct surveys and focus groups to evaluate usefulness of ISBE’s completer survey data.

Conduct surveys and focus groups with institutions of higher education (IHEs) to evaluate principal preparation pilot year.

groups with APR and ELIS stakeholders.

Technical Expert

June- August 2026 Conclude APR and ELIS analyses and submit Recommendation Reports to ISBE.

Technical Expert

Principal Preparation Program Pilot Year 1 Report due.

Attend Core Planning Team meetings (two in August).

Technical Expert

September- December

Attend Core Planning Team meeting.

Technical Expert

Provide technical expertise at stakeholder advisory group meetings. (Meetings will occur once every three weeks.)

Technical Expert

Attend Core Planning Team debrief meetings (to be held after each advisory group meeting).

Revise existing teacher completer survey.

Create educator preparation provider (EPP) guidance documents for entering data into ELIS and

APR.

Create Technical Guide for Principal Preparation.

groups with users to inform improvement of APR and ELIS applications.

Attend and provide technical expertise and score/weight modeling during principal preparation technical advisory group meetings (up to six meetings).

Technical Expert

Create Reauthorization Guide for principal preparation.

Technical Expert

Develop Action Plan electronic template for

APR.

Develop reporting form for small programs.

Principal Preparation Data Collection Period – Pilot Year 2 (February-April 2027)

School Support Personnel, Teaching, and Administrative Program Data Collection Period – Pilot Year 1 (February-April 2027)

January-May 2027 Create Scoring Guide for principal preparation.

Technical Expert

Provide completer survey recommendations report to

ISBE.

groups with IHEs to evaluate school support personnel, administrative, and teaching programs pilot year.

Conduct surveys and focus groups with completers, novice teachers, school support personnel, administrators, and supervisors to evaluate usability and understanding of the new novice and supervisor surveys.

Create school support personnel and administrative completer surveys.

Create novice teacher, school support personnel, and administrator surveys.

Create supervisor survey. Technical Expert

Work with ISBE to write business rules for APR and

ELIS.

June- August 2027 Work with ISBE to write business rules for APR and

ELIS

Create APR User Guide for EPPs

Create ELIS and APR data-entry guidance document for EPPs

Create Reauthorization Guide for all programs

Create Technical Guides for all programs

Begin analysis of the IEPP.

Analyze results of piloted novice, supervisor, and completer surveys.

Report on usability/understanding of novice, survey, and completer surveys due.

School Support Personnel, Teaching, Administrative Program Pilot Year 1 Report

Principal Preparation Program Pilot Year 2 Report meetings (two in August).

Technical Expert

September- December meetings.

Provide technical expertise and score/weight modeling at stakeholder technical advisory group meetings (up to 12 meetings).

debrief meetings (to be held after each technical advisory group meeting).

Create Technical Guides for school support personnel and administrative programs; revise Teaching Technical Guide.

Technical Expert

Create Reauthorization Guides for school support personnel, teaching, and administrative programs.

Create APR User Guide Technical Expert

Create guide for understanding program performance.

groups with users to understand how the IEPP is used with target audiences and to recommend enhancements to improve visibility, communications, and data transparency.

Technical Expert

Complete analysis of the IEPP; write and submit Recommendation Report.

Principal Preparation Data Collection Period – Implementation (February-April 2028)

School Support Personnel, Teaching, and Administrative Program Data Collection Period – Pilot Year 2 (February-April 2028)

January –June 2028 Create Scoring Guides for teaching, school support personnel, and administrative programs.

Technical Expert

Conduct surveys and focus groups with IHEs to evaluate school support personnel, administrative, and teaching programs in Pilot Year 2.

School Support Personnel, Teaching, Administrative Program Pilot Year 2 Report due.

Technical Expert

Conduct focus groups and surveys with users to evaluate perceptions of changes made to ELIS, APR, and the IEPP.

meetings.

Technical Expert

Provide technical expertise and leadership at stakeholder technical advisory group meetings (up to four meetings).

Attend Core Planning Team debrief meetings (to be held after each technical advisory group meeting).

Technical Expert

Attend and provide technical expertise and score/weight modeling during technical advisory group meetings for teaching, school support personnel, and administrative programs (up to four meetings).

groups with users to evaluate effectiveness of improvements to APR and ELIS applications.

groups with users to evaluate the effectiveness of IEPP changes.

Technical Expert

Evaluation Report of stakeholder perceptions about changes to IEPP, APR, and ELIS due.

Work with ISBE to write business rules for the IEPP.

Technical Expert

Report about usability/understanding of novice, survey, and completer surveys due.