School Name

[School name] Credential Site Visit Landing Page

Month Day - Month, Day, 2025

City, State

  • School Profile

    The School Profile offers a high-level overview of the school’s particular context, and includes key data gathered thus far through the Credential process. All participants must review the School Profile before attending the site visit.

    View SCHOOL NAME Profile

  • Workplan

    The workplan holds a school community’s vision, goals, and strategic planning for Continuous Improvement for Equity. Each year, the workplan is co-created and modified in collaboration with the EL Education Coach or School Designer.

    View SCHOOL NAME Workplan

  • Calibration Training Tools

    [Links will get added once finalized]. All members who will support a school are required to complete calibration training prior attending a site visit

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  • Site Visit Documents

    EL Education has developed an array of tools for the Site Visit, including but not limited to:

    SV Planning Guidance for schools

    SV Overview, Components, & Roles

    Data Processing & Synthesis Tool

    Click to upload photo’s taken during the site visit

    SV Walkthrough & Focus Group Tools

PRE - TRAVEL CONSIDERATIONS

Dress & Packing List

[FOR EACH SCHOOL UPDATE 3 BULLETS BELOW SEE & DELETE EXAMPLE FROM STEVENS]

  • Dress is Business Casual (this is what Stevens staff tends to wear) Though NO suits or heels. Also suggested to wear layers (in case it gets cold/hot throughout the day)

  • Pack enough layers to spend time outside during the site visit. (see anticipated weather below)

  • Bring your laptop, charger, nametag and Core Practices book. We also recommend bringing layers, sun hat, sunscreen, water bottle, and snacks.

EL will Provide the Following Materials

  • Notebooks & clipboards

  • Printed copies of this webpage

  • Printed copies of the school’s profile.

  • Lunch to be delivered on both days of site visit.

Coding Expenses

(air & ground travel, lodging & meals):

  • The Executive team will use their own budget

  • Director/Coaches will use the regional budget

  • Credential School Leaders please email @dashley@eleducation.org to get reimbursed (itemized receipts will be needed)

  • The Credential Team will use codes listed below:

    • Category: 001: Staff Travel

    • Department: 011: Credentialing

    • Partners: [TO BE UPDATED WITH SCHOOL NAME]

    • Funding Source: 001- No Funding Source

    • Institutes & Meetings: 034- Credential Site Visits

    • Description: (please describe cost)

Additional Good to Know’s

    • Virtual site visit calibration training (Wednesday, March 5, 2025 @ 10:15am PST)

    • Virtual Site Visit Huddle [xx]

    • Site Visit Dates: [xx,xx}

    • Traveling members will arrive to reserved hotel by evening prior to site visit day 1.

    • Virtual Site Visit Participant Debrief [xxx]

    • Name of Hotel:

    • Check-in: XX / Check-out: XX

    Please note- Every member staying will need to provide their card upon check-in to pay for incidentals and fees

  • [update per each site visit location]

    • Traveling members will either drive rental vehicles or coordinate carpools with designated drivers. Additional details can be found in the logistics packet and the next section of the webpage

WHEAT RIDGE, CO Weather

    • school name (hyperlink address)

    • hotel name (hyperlink address)

    • airport name (hyperlink address)

  • Noted Drivers:

    • XX

    • XX

    Noted members to carpool:

    • XX

    • XX

    • the airport is XX minutes/ XX miles from the hotel

    • the hotel is XX minutes / XX miles from the school

    • school is XX miles / XX miles from the airport

    • Click here to see dates of stay at the reserved hotel

    • Click here to see your hotel confirmation #

    Please note- Every member staying will need to provide their card upon check-in to pay for incidentals and fees

Food Insight Below

  • **Hotel offers complimentary breakfast (UPDATE WITH DETAILS)

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    Nearby Coffee Shops

    • NAME (hyperlink website) XX min walk / XX miles

    • NAME (hyperlink website) XX min walk / XX miles

  • EL Education provide lunch for both dates of the site visit.

    Closer to the site visit date you will receive an email from [UPDATE NAME] to collect your lunch order requests.

    • On day 0 (UPDATE DATE) self organized dinner for those who are available and near the hotel. Please align in group chat thread.

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    Recommendations (Walking distance from hotel)

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    • add name

    • add name

DAY 2:

UPDATE [Day, Month, Date]

  • Complimentary (buffet) breakfast at hotel (XX-XX)

  • Meet in the XX of SCHOOL NAME BY XX-XXAM (XX min drive from hotel)

  • Lunch will be delivered

  • Site visit team departs at XXpm

  • Core team debriefs between XX-XXPM

  • Ground Transportation/Suggested carpool alignment:

    • Catch flight to AIRPORT NAME : XX (Uber/lyft )

    • Catch flight to AIRPORT NAME before XX pm: xx, xx,xx

ONSITE LOGISTICS & SCHEDULE

DAY 0 (Travel Day)

[Day, Month, Date] [Ex: Tuesday, April 3]

  • Those flying are suggested to land at XX airport

  • Hotel team will be staying at : XX (Arrival before EOD)

  • Ground Transportation alignment: For those flying into XX AIRPORT landing times will differ (please see [school name] Site Visit Logistics Packet for exact flight times)

    • Suggested Lyft/Uber riders:

      • ADD NAMES (OR DELETE IF NO UBER/LYFT)

    • Rental Drivers: (OR DELETE IF NO RENTALS)

      • XX (arrival date)

      • XX (arrival date)

  • Self-organized dinner for those who are available and near the hotel: HYPERLINK HOTEL NAME .

    • UPDATE WITH DINNER DETAILS. Please align in gchat group thread

    • Recommendations (walking distance from hotel) : ADD NAMES OF RECCS

DAY 1:

UPDATE [Day, Month, Date]

  • Complimentary (buffet) breakfast at hotel (XXam- XXam)

  • Arrive at SCHOOL NAME BY XXAM (XX min drive from hotel)

  • Lunch will be delivered

  • Depart SCHOOL NAME between XXpm-XXpm to XX ADD HYPERLINK (Door Code: XXX)

  • Dinner & Debrief at XX from XX-XXPM

  • Members going back to hotel:

    • Drivers: XX, XX

    • Members to carpool: XX, XX

Introducing Ourselves

We have shared this document (displayed below) with the SCHOOL NAME crew to give them a sense of who will be attending this site visit.