Technical Assistance Toolkits

Crafting Effective Performance Measures for Magnet Schools

This toolkit assists Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP) applicants and grantees as they craft and refine their project-level objectives and performance measures to develop implementation plans, track fidelity of implementation, and report annual performance data. Non-MSAP magnet programs can also use the principles of effective measurement to create performance measures to plan for and evaluate their programs.

MSAP New Grantee Toolkit

The MSAP New Grantee Toolkit introduces MSAP project directors or grant managers to MSAP and to MSAP grant administration. This guide is a companion piece to the Magnet School Development Framework, which is designed to help grantees develop and implement magnet programs. This toolkit helps grant administrators to understand their role and responsibilities, communicate necessary information to stakeholders successfully, and plan for project implementation and management.

Magnet School Development Framework

The Magnet School Development Framework helps LEA and school personnel understand what is involved in designing, planning, and implementing a magnet school and how the school will evolve over time to achieve desired outcomes. It includes a conceptual model and actions to take across the different stages of magnet school development. Reviewing this guide will enable the user to understand how the elements of successful magnet schools shape the core magnet school components in each stage of development.

Using Logic Models to Build Strong Magnet Programs

Understanding and creating effective logic models is a key part of magnet program design, and is foundational to successful program implementation, evaluation, and sustainability. This guide introduces program theory concepts, shows how to develop program theory, details the steps for creating the logic model, and provides tools to help you create your logic model.

Student Recruitment

This toolkit provides guidance on how to target magnet school marketing and recruitment activities to meet Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP) minority group isolation objectives. When you know your recruitment targets, understand your audience, build assessment into marketing campaigns, and collect and analyze data, your MSAP project can achieve its goals of diversity, excellence, and equity. The toolkit includes a calculator that will help you define your targets.

Planning for Sustainability

This toolkit provides magnet staff with the information and resources necessary to create a written sustainability plan that covers all aspects of sustainability. The toolkit also provides timelines for implementing the sustainability plan and tools for determining the cost of all program components that must be sustained.

Personal Device Initiatives

As magnet schools integrate more technology use into their theme-based curricula, they may consider initiatives that provide each student with a personal technology device. These initiatives not only increase technology integration, but they also increase student engagement and academic achievement. This planning brief provides a step-by-step guide for the successful implementation of personal device initiatives in magnet schools, including vision, considerations, and implementation strategies.