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Unified Improvement Planning - General Resources
UIP Timelines
Learn more about UIP timelines including extensions for public posting of UIPs and permanent timeline shifts.
New UIP Guidance and Requirements
Quick Reference Planning Guidance 2020-2021
This guidance includes flexibility and suggestions for improvement planning during the accountability pause, including identifying priority performance challenges; target setting; action planning and more. Detailed, comprehensive guidance will be released within the coming weeks. View this planning guidance.
New Read Act UIP Requirements 2020-21
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Beginning in the 2020-21 school year, districts must report K-3 literacy programming in their UIPs. Learn more about these requirements.
- Districts may use this template (XLS) to submit information about their K-3 instructional literacy programs.
- If a district is not submitting a 2020-21 UIP due to biennial flexibility or participation in a Local Accountability System grant, use this template to submit the 2020-21 READ Act reporting requirements.
- The following instructions have been provided as a tool to support districts in reporting K-3 literacy instructional program data as described in the READ Act. See this document for detailed guidance.
- See this document for detailed submission guidance for the new district READ Act Requirements.
- For information on training and office hours to support these new requirements, please visit the UIP Training Page.
Unified Improvement Planning Guidance Documents
UIP Guidance
- 2019-20 UIP Handbook (PDF) (Updated: September 11, 2019)
- UIP 101 Webinar (Updated Sept 2019) This webinar gives a helpful, comprehensive view of the Unified Improvement Plan.
- Statute and Policy Guidance References for UIP (PDF) (Updated: October 6th, 2020)
- Performance Watch Summary (August 2019) An overview of adjustments in the submission process for On Clock and On Watch schools.
- Accountability Clock: Year 4 Requirements (PDF) This document provides guidance and instructions for schools and districts in year four of the accountability clock.
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Early Learning Needs Assessment This website provides resources for conducting an early learning needs assessment as a part of the UIP process, as well as guidance for meeting expectations for k-3 serving schools with priority improvement/turnaround plans and their districts.
- Parent Notification and Public Hearing Requirements Fact Sheet (PDF) (Updated: July, 2020)
- Student Course Participation and Achievement Report Guidance
- Guidance for using School and District Performance Frameworks in Educator Evaluation (PDF) (Updated: August 19, 2014) In response to many questions about the use of School and District Performance Frameworks in educator evaluation, CDE has put together guidance to support districts by identifying several possible approaches for using SPF/DPF data in evaluations. This guidance is intended to highlight some of the benefits and concerns associated with some common approaches. Because this guidance was not available to support districts for the 2013-14 school year, districts are encouraged to use this as they plan for future school years.
- SAC Roles (PDF) An excerpt from the CDE District Accountability Handbook that describes the roles for School Accountability Committees in unified improvement planning (including quarterly monitoring progress)
- UIP Process for New Schools (PDF) (Updated: January, 2018) The intent of this guidance is to help new schools "plan forward" for their improvement efforts - even with limited data.
Quality Criteria/Rubric
The Quality Criteria have been created to offer guidance on creating improvement plans that incorporate state and federal accountability requirements. The QC Rubric is used by CDE to evaluate Unified Improvement Plans.
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Quality Criteria |
(Updated: 08/21/2020) |
(Updated: 08/17/20) |
QC Rubric for Review |
(Updated: 10/12/20) |
(Updated: 10/12/20) |
Flexibility for UIP Completion and Submission
- 2020-21 Biennial and Combined UIP Eligibility (XLSX) This document includes biennial, combined, and enrollment based flexibilities for schools and districts. (Updated: Sept 11, 2020)
- Biennial Flexibility for the UIP (PDF) (Updated October 2018) Provides guidance on the eligibility criteria for the submission of the UIP on a biennial basis.
- UIP Process for Small Systems (PDF) (Updated: May 2018) The intent of this guidance is to provide guidelines for creating and updating Unified Improvement Plans (UIPs) that take into account some of the unique circumstances that schools and districts with smaller student populations (e.g., districts with less than 1,200 students, small schools in large districts) may encounter.
Archives
- Archived Resources
Resources from previous planning years that are no longer considered "current."
For More Information
Please contact Lisa Medler, medler_l@cde.state.co.us or 303-866-6993.
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