Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready.
School: TES Year: 2016-2017 Current NCLB Status Current ABC Status
Mission: Troy Elementary School will be an inviting school where high expectations, respect for one another, and life-long learning are valued and promoted.
School Improvement Plan Summary Our focus area is: Math Overall goal: (Two year projection): TES will increase composite math growth (i-Ready) from 102% to 140% by the completion of the 2017 -2018 school year.
Target goal : Year 1 (2016-2017): TES will increase composite math growth (i-Ready) to 125%. Year 2 (2017-2018): TES will increase composite math growth (i-Ready) to 140%.
Approaches/Strategies:
Increase fidelity of math intervention plans. Specific attention to i-Ready reports regarding students’ strengths and weaknesses.
Measures:
i-Ready time on task reports
i-Ready growth reports
Student intervention screening reports in i-Ready
Math tasks from NCDPI with spreadsheets with this formative assessment data (these tasks will serve as common assessments as well)
Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready. Mid Year K-2 Assessments
During the 90 day cycle time for cycle 1 and 2 we will revisit/monitor our plan every 4 weeks (at our monthly SIT meeting).
P PLAN:
Data Analysis. Answer the following question using any data and/or information you have about performance in this area 1. In order to meet your Overall Goal, what is the most important area that needs improving and why?
Intervention plans will be put into place for math. Teachers will utilize results from common assessments and PDSA cycles to intervene with students who are struggling to grasp concepts. They will pull students into small groups/one-on-one as needed to fill in these gaps.
2. What approaches/strategies are contributing to your success in this area and what data suggests this?
Implementation of formative math tasks consistently throughout the year and documented/reviewed during PLCs.
This year (year 1 of cycle), curriculum maps will be updated and will be followed consistently.
PDSA Lesson Plan Template: All components of the PDSA process will be evident in every classroom for the 2016-2017 school year via common lesson plan template as well PDSA math boards in classrooms.
Instruction: Math instruction will be planned and aligned with formal and informal data.
Math PD for all staff and on-site refresher PD on 8 mathematical practices. Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready.
Fidelity of initiatives: Instructional expectations , Model of Instructional Excellence, i-Ready
Evidence-based math program: i-Ready, integration of Georgia Math Units (Georgia Units will be discussed and utilized during grade level planning/PLCs and incorporated into lessons weekly.
i-Ready progress monitoring for intervention, PLC, instructional rounds
Interventions: Math intervention and use of i-Ready during intervention lab time (small group instruction as needed).
Increased focus on academic vocabulary: Building background knowledge
Specific learning targets will be representative of student needs and evidenced by planning and data reviewduring PLCs.
Classrooms will demonstrate increased instructional findings from CWT.
Increased focus on technology integration with coaching and modeling sessions by the Digital Learning Coach. Growth Year 2014-2015 133% overall school for i-Ready 2015-2016 102% overall school for i-Ready Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready. Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready.
3. What are opportunities for improvement, gap or barriers are in this area?
Intervention and remediation based on performance noted from formative math tasks.
Lack of vocabulary/background (students)
Redefined instructional facilitators role and collaboration with Digital Learning Coach to integrate best practices and best practices in technology.
Utilizing i-Ready intervention screener to help target students for intervention
The strategies and practices being used are ineffective for approximately 30-40% of students.
Increased awareness on ensuring students enter the next grade with the math skills required for success.
Identify and utilize exemplar classrooms/teachers to build capacity among staff
Regular teacher sharing through PLCs and planning periods
4. What seems to be the root cause of the problem and what data suggests this?
Focusing on solid intervention plans and targeting student deficits consistently throughout the year. Scheduling of math before lunch is now in place.
Reflection: We will create a plan to address needs of students by utilizing MTSS and engaging students in differentiated instruction. 5. What approaches/strategies could you deploy to address the root cause and support meeting your overall goal?
Implementation of formative math tasks consistently throughout the year and documented/reviewed during Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready. PLCs.
This year (year 1 of cycle), curriculum maps will be updated and will be followed consistently.
PDSA Lesson Plan Template: All components of the PDSA process will be evident in every classroom for the 2016-2017 school year via common lesson plan template as well PDSA math boards in classrooms.
Instruction: Math instruction will be planned and aligned with formal and informal data.
Math PD for all staff and on-site refresher PD on 8 mathematical practices.
Fidelity of initiatives: Instructional expectations , Model of Instructional Excellence, I-Ready
Evidence-based math program: i-Ready, integration of Georgia Math Units (Georgia Units will be discussed and utilized during grade level planning/PLCs and incorporated into lessons weekly.
i-Ready progress monitoring for intervention, PLC, instructional rounds
Interventions: Math intervention and use of i-Ready during intervention lab time (small group instruction as needed).
Increased focus on academic vocabulary: Building background knowledge
Specific learning targets will be representative of student needs and evidenced by planning and data reviewduring PLCs.
Classrooms will demonstrate increased instructional findings from CWT.
Increased focus on technology integration with coaching and modeling sessions by the Digital Learning Coach. 6. What research did you review to support the use of these strategies/approaches? Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready. We reviewed i-Ready Data
We reviewed data from previous years and tracked data by cohort and by math domain
Georgia Math Units
NCDPI Math Tasks
8 Mathematical Practices
7. What performance measures will you use to monitor impact of your approach/strategy?
i-Ready time on task reports
i-Ready growth reports
Student intervention screening reports in i-Ready
Math tasks from NCDPI with spreadsheets with this formative assessment data (these tasks will serve as common assessments as well)
8. What measure will you use to monitor fidelity of deployment of your strategy/approach?
CWTs
Lesson plans
PLC agendas and meeting minutes
Quarterly review (in SIT meetings and Goal Team meetings) Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready.
9. What professional development, if any, will be offered in cycle 1 to support the staff in implementing the approach?
PD on technology integration into math lessons (provided by district/Digital Learning Coach)
PD in PLCs on 8 mathematical practices
10. If funding is required, what funding source will be used? N/A
Messaging: 11. How will you convey intent of this focus area of SIP to stakeholders?
Review during faculty meetings
Weekly focus on newsletters relating to strategies.goals (i-Ready)
i-Ready reports to go home to parents.
12. How will you communicate progress towards goals or course corrections to stakeholders?
Monthly SIT notes posted on school webpage
Review od SIP with faculty during faculty meetings
D DO: Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready. Include the results from Reflection and Messaging section into deployment plan. Approach/Strategies, Impact performance measure, Fidelity measure, Professional development and Messaging.
Step # List the specific steps your team will Person(s) Start Date End complete during this cycle. responsible for Date completion of the step. 1 Fidelity to evidence-based math by utilizing the Principal/IF/All k- 8/29/16 progress monitoring and data reports in I-Ready 2 homeroom based upon the BOY, MOY and EOY assessments. teachers We will also monitor fidelity via classroom walk- throughs (minimum of 20) done by IF, principal and county office personnel per week and reviewed during PLCs quarterly. 2 Increase fidelity of design and delivery of common Principal/IF/Grad 8/29/16 core expectations. Teachers will use a PDSA model e-level chairs (Ms. lesson plan and include specific items that Little, Ms. Harris, encourage Common Core progress (Vocabulary in Ms. Taylor) guide PLAN, research-based strategies in DO, and data grade level analysis/interventions in STUDY and ACT). We will planning. All K-2 monitor strategies via grade-level meetings and homeroom CWT data. Georgia based units will be used by all K- teachers 2 classes. K-2 formative assessments on the DPI implement. website will be used after the corresponding standard is taught, to access where students are and determine next steps. I-ready will also be used during intervention to assign additional work. 3 Observations/PDP written to address specific and Principal/IF/All 8/29/16 identified gaps. IF and principal will help teachers Teachers develop PDP goals via coaching sessions and teachers will monitor progress via their smart goals that they create. Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready. 4 Scheduled intervention time is utilized effectively by Principal/IF/All 8/29/16 engaging students in activities that focus on K-2 Teachers (PLC strengths and weaknesses as evident from i-Ready and grade-level data reports. Teachers will share data and determine planning next steps by grade level during PLCs and common sessions). grade level planning time. Teachers will collaboratively plan lessons and deploy collecting the study data and sharing out next steps. Data will be analyzed at PLCs and next steps will be developed to provide target instruction. 5 Classroom walk-through data utilized with fidelity Principal/IF/PLCs 8/29/16 by printing and analyzing reports from CWT and using the PDSA model for each grade during PLCs (PDSA models will focus on CWT data). 6 Implement Instructional Rounds so that teachers Principal/IF/Teac 8/29/16 can receive feedback on instruction. This will also hers/Central allow for teachers to visit each other’s classrooms so Office Staff that they can receive new ideas. 7 Formative Math Tasks will be done with fidelity. Principal/IF/All 8/29/16 Teachers will complete a spreadsheet each quarter K-2 homeroom that will include tasks done by every teacher in the teachers grade level (these will serve as common assessments for math). They will be shared via Office 365 OneDrive with principal and IF and data will be reviewed at least twice a quarter during PLCs. 8 Implement Multi-Tiered System of Support Principal/IF 8/29/16
9 Monitoring of IEP goals for EC students. EC EC Teachers, 8/29/16 teachers will monitor performance on math taks and Classroom assessments. teachers 10 SAT process in place to develop intervention plans EC Teachers, 8/29/16 for students with deficits in math. Guidance Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready. Counselor, SAT 11 PD/technology coaching sessions lead by the Digital Principal/DLC/IF/ 8/29/16 Learning Coach All Teachers 12 Virtual PLCs to collaborate with teachers from other IF/Teachers 8/29/16 schools within MCS
S Study – Kindergarten data for 1st nine weeks (NCDPI Math Task results):
K.CC.1A – 64% (counting to 25, which includes counting by 10’s) K.CC.3A – 29% (dot cards – subitizing) K.OA.1A – 70% (addition) K.G.1A – 49% (shapes – tell shape, place shape – above, below, etc.) Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready.
First Grade Data for 1st nine weeks (NCDPI Math Task results):
1.OA.3B – 61% (adding and subtracting within 20) 1.NBT.2B – 72% (place value) 1.MD.1A – 71% (measurements – lengths; short, shorter, longer, etc.) Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready.
Second Grade data for 1st nine weeks (NCDPI Math Task results):
2.OA.16A – 70% (addition and subtraction facts from 0-20) 2.NBT.2B – 17% (skip counting by 5’s and 10’s and 10 more or 10 less) 2.MD.1A – 76% (measurement tools; which tools to use and why?) 2.MD.2A – 74% (using inches and centimeters) 2.NBT.1A – 56% (place value; hundreds, tens, ones) Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready.
Insert formative data here from performance and fidelity measures identified in the Reflection section; questions 7 & 8 for this cycle or provide link to appropriate data. 1. What worked and how do you know?
We have been doing well with reaching the 45 minute time in i-Ready and have been monitoring time on task weekly.
PDSA math is looking great and boards have been kept up-to-date
Teachers have been planning and utilizing NCDPI Math Tasks as formative assessments.
2. What didn’t work and how do you know?
We would like to monitor more closely progress monitoring results and individual i-Ready profiles to differentiate instruction more effectively in math.
Although we have done a great job planning math tasks as formative assessments for each grade level, we need to plan for re-teaching of the standards and alternative tasks to use for re-assessment.
3. Do you need any additional assistance as you look at your results and start planning for the next Cycle? If Yes in what areas or topics do you need coaching or P.D. in?
Teachers will work with Instructional Facilitator on differentiated instruction in math as well as planning formative math assessments (including re-teaching and re-assessment). 4. What improvements could be made to the following areas: approach/strategy/process/support/professional development/monitoring…?
Instructional Facilitator and Principal will support staff by providing feedback.
Instructional Facilitator will support staff my review best practices and strategies during PLCs. Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready. Digital Technology Specialist will provide support to increase intergration of technology as needed.
Reflect on the answers in 1 - 4 above for the previous cycle and place an X in front of which option best describes what you will do in your plan for the next cycle. Target goal has been met and is changed to a new target goal. Target goal not met but current plan is effective so we will continue current plan and repeat it for the next cycle. Target goal not met so we will continue current plan. We will make improvements to the plan based on what didn’t work as identified in #2 and #4 above. Target goal not met and information indicates that we need to abandon the current plan and identify a new approach.
A Act – Revise or continue with implementation plan based on data analysis.
1. For the next cycle are you continuing with the approach from previous cycle? If yes continue to deployment plan. If no, address questions #2-5.
Yes, however a couple strategies were added to include re-assessment of standards as well as monitoring i-Ready data more closely. 2. What improvements could be made to the following areas: approach/strategy/process/support/professional development/monitoring…?)
We would like to monitor more closely progress monitoring results and individual i-Ready profiles to differentiate instruction more effectively in math. Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready. Although we have done a great job planning math tasks as formative assessments for each grade level, we need to plan for re-teaching of the standards and alternative tasks to use for re-assessment.
3. What performance measures will you use to monitor impact of your approach/strategy?Progress monitoring for individual students in i-Ready, MOY benchmark results as well as formative math task results. 3. What measure will you use to monitor fidelity of deployment of your strategy/approach?
The indicators relating to the specidic steps listed below. 5. What professional development, if any, will be offered in this cycle to support the staff in implementing the approach?
Include Approach/Strategies, Fidelity measure, Professional development and deployment plan. Discussions and data talks in PLCs as well as technology professional development (PD) from Digital Learning Coach (DLC).
Step # List the specific steps your team will Person(s) Start Date End complete during this cycle. responsible for Date completion of the step. 1 Fidelity to evidence-based math by utilizing the Principal/IF/All k- 11/1/16 progress monitoring and data reports in I-Ready 2 homeroom based upon the BOY, MOY and EOY assessments. teachers We will also monitor fidelity via classroom walk- throughs (minimum of 10) done by IF and principal Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready. per week and reviewed during PLCs quarterly. 2 Increase fidelity of design and delivery of common Principal/IF/Grad 11/1/16 core expectations. Teachers will use a PDSA model e-level chairs (Ms. lesson plan and include specific items that Little, Ms. Harris, encourage Common Core progress (Vocabulary in Ms. Taylor) guide PLAN, research-based strategies in DO, and data grade level analysis/interventions in STUDY and ACT). We will planning. All K-2 monitor strategies via grade-level meetings and homeroom CWT data. Georgia based units will be used by all K- teachers 2 classes. K-2 formative assessments on the DPI implement. website will be used after the corresponding standard is taught, to access where students are and determine next steps. i-Ready will also be used during intervention to assign additional work. 3 Observations/PDP written to address specific and Principal/IF/All 11/1/16 identified gaps. IF and principal will help teachers Teachers develop PDP goals via coaching sessions and teachers will monitor progress via their smart goals that they create. 4 Teacher will group students using the i-Ready Principal/IF/All 11/1/16 grouping feature based on student profile for K-2 Teachers (PLC interventions. Teachers will share data and and grade-level determine next steps by grade level during PLCs and planning common grade level planning time. Teachers will sessions). collaboratively plan lessons and deploy collecting the study data and sharing out next steps. Data will be analyzed at PLCs and next steps will be developed to provide target instruction. 5 Classroom walk-through data utilized with fidelity Principal/IF/PLCs 11/1/16 by printing and analyzing reports from CWT and using the PDSA model for each grade during PLCs (PDSA models will focus on CWT data). Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready. 6 Implement “Fish Bowl” rounds so that teachers can Principal/IF/Teac 11/1/16 receive and reflect on ideas for instruction. This will hers also allow for teachers to visit each other’s classrooms. 7 Formative Math Tasks will be done with fidelity. Principal/IF/All 11/1/16 Teachers will complete a spreadsheet each quarter K-2 homeroom that will include tasks done by every teacher in the teachers grade level (these will serve as common assessments for math). They will be shared via Office 365 OneDrive with principal and IF and data will be reviewed at least twice a quarter during PLCs. 8 Formative math tasks will be planned for re- assessment of standards not yet mastered. Data will be reviewed during the quarter.
9 Continue implementation of Multi-Tiered System of Principal/IF/Teac 11/1/16 Support (MTSS). hers
10 Monitoring of IEP goals for EC students. EC EC Teachers, 11/1/16 teachers will monitor performance on math taks and Classroom assessments. teachers 11 PD/technology coaching sessions lead by the Digital Principal/DLC/IF/ 11/1/16 Learning Coach All Teachers 12 Virtual PLCs to collaborate with teachers from other IF/Teachers 11/1/16 schools within MCS
S Study – Analysis of data after implementing an approach
Insert formative/summative data from performance and fidelity measures identified in the Act section; questions 3 & 4 for this cycle or link to trend data. Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready.
A Act – Continue with the Target Goal or revise the Target Goal for next year.
Reflect on the data analysis for the year so far and place an X in front of the option below that best describes your direction for the 2016-17 SIP.
Overall goal has been met and School Improvement Plan focus will change for next year. Target goal has been met and is changed to a new target goal. Target goal not met but current plan is effective so we will continue current plan and repeat it. Target goal not met, so we will continue current plan for 2016-17. We will make improvements to the plan based on what didn’t work through this year. Montgomery County Schools School Improvement Plan A continuous improvement strategic plan, that communicates the approach we will use to ensure all our students are career and college ready.