Tennessee Comprehensive Systemwide Planning Process (TCSPP)

In November, 2005, Tennessee implemented a one plan, one process approach at the school system level designed to assess central office personnel effectiveness and to build a professional learning community among colleagues focused on improving student performance for all students.  The TCSPP meets all federal, state and local education agency (LEA) requirements for budgetary planning and requests, program area requirements and which will assess central office effectiveness and efficiency.

With No Child Left Behind, the focus is on accountability, clarity of purpose, and capacity building at the school system level in enabling its schools to make adequate yearly progress and to ensure increased student performance for all students.  In working with state identified High Priority schools, one identified variable in schools was the lack of support and capacity building from the school system’s central office to identified schools.

The TCSPP focuses on personal questions of individual effectiveness, turf protection versus collaboration, and central office personnel’s abilities to support schools and build capacity for improvement.  In providing support and capacity for schools, the ultimate question to be answered by central office personnel is:  “Am I providing adequate support for all students in this school?”

Tennessee has established a track record over ten years of effective planning at the school level with the Tennessee School Improvement Planning Process (TSIPP) which utilizes one plan, one process and common terminology in planning for all Tennessee schools.  This process has been recognized nationally as data driven, concise, and comprehensive, as a research-based approach to planning at the school site level.

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