The School Improvement Plan(SIP) Guidebook

This guide is made with you – our school heads, teachers, school staff, and other school stakeholders – in mind. In crafting this guide, we consulted with planning experts and experts from the field – principals, supervisors, and teachers – to ensure that school improvement planning becomes easier and effective for you.

We hope that by improving our planning and implementation processes, our schools will also improve. In this guide we encourage you to first, listen to your learners and stakeholders and second, to base your plans on evidence – on quantitative data you have collected and qualitative data from interviews with your learners and stakeholders. We encourage you not to rush to the solutions. As they say, the planning is just as important as the plan. We believe that you know the context of your schools and learners better. Therefore, we trust that the best solutions will come from your efforts in determining the root causes of your own problems and from planning your activities well.

In following this guide, you will find that the SIP cannot be done without working in teams. We imagine that by building these teams, relationships within your school will be nourished and community spirit will be strengthened.