School Improvement Plan s12

School Improvement Plan Approved by Site Council May 2015

Goals (SMART) Actions

Reading Kindergarten and first grade students  Leverage parents on fluency at will meet EasyCBM reading fluency home measures that project a 80/15/5  Use of timed activities to triangle. establish comfort w/ 1 minute in classrooms  Create additional summer outreach for students of need.  Teach Keyboarding, computer skills from K through 5th grade.  Assess teacher professional development needs on fluency  Increase use of technology at 1st grade (ipads) to increase fluency.

Establish a trend and improve  Publish assessments for each schoolwide data sources to include Reading essential skills. OAKs/SB and EasyCBM reading data  Use coordinated assessments (both are included due to change in to determine proficiency of state assessment) essential skills  Write rubrics that establish proficiency for essential skills  A published coordinate K-5 read-aloud list of books with think aloud strategies  Provide Reading Parent Nights  Create and use school-wide annotation for cloze reading  Training on use of gradebook assignments to mark report cards

Writing Students will met end of year writing  Publish high frequency words screen assessment data to reflect a list K-5 for spelling (from 80/15/5 triangle curriculum and from outside)  Create a system of common annotations and headings K-5  Purchase Core curriculum for handwriting  Purchase keyboarding and web safety curriculum Increase writing Smarter Balanced  Train on Smarter Balanced Assessment data over baseline from rubrics. Train/Coordinate 2014-15 school year. types of writing for CCSS modes for published K-5 map

 Transition data input of three assessments per year (with agreed prompts kept in teal portfolios) in data warehouse

 Coordinate how we are teaching effective note taking  Publish assessments for each writing essential skills.

 Provide Writing Intervention

Math Improve OAKs/SB and EasyCBM math data  Use coordinated assessments to (both are included due to change in state determine proficiency of essential assessment). skills  Write rubrics that establish proficiency for essential skills

Increase Smarter Balanced Math  Continue parent outreach for Performance Task Assessment data math strategies with parent over baseline from 2014-15 school math nights year.  Continue leverage of homework to improve math fluency  Create lending library for parents  Create math strategy videos for parent use Social studies Include skills on report card and begin  Identify essential skills baseline data to judge improvement  Create rubrics to define over time proficiency of essential skills  Publish scope and sequence of geography K-5  Publish schoolwide current events K-5 approach  Design assessments to determine essential skills proficiency

Science Include skills on report card and begin  Identify essential skills baseline data to judge improvement  Create rubrics to define over time proficiency of essential skills  Coordinate K-5 Science notebook  Design assessments to determine essential skills proficiency

Technology Create baseline then improve student  Create grade level technology basic computer literacy skills essential skills and assessments  Transition to sharepoint for teacher webpages  Transition to electronic shared calendar (Sharepoint)  Transition to Onenote for collaborative team notebooks: B team, CST, faculty, Site Council, Streamliners  Transition to data warehouse for data use  Purchase hardware: 2:1 tablets at 4th – 5th 2:1 laptops at 2nd -3rd 2:1 ipads at 1st 4:1 ipads at K  Training on smart boards  Train on tablets, ipads Social/Emotional skills Reduce total monthly referral  Strengthen core numbers by 10% per month. emotional/social curriculum  Create mindfulness SW lessons to include (Self Talk, perceptive taking)  Strengthen theme and activities schoolwide  Strength procedures and routines for how we responding to behavior  Provide professional development to faculty on Opportunities to Respond  Continue KLT work and strength formative assessment use  Train all staff on Functions of Behavior  Create an effective Tier Two system of Check In and Check Out (CICO)  Strengthen consistent expectations in cafeteria  Create a “focus room” w/ procedures for time out students  Use Five point scale schoolwide (to include sound levels SW)  Create a video of the “ Walker Way” Instructional practices  Intervention block schedule set prior to leaving for summer  Training on Active participation (engagement)  Continue and strengthen KLT practices  Wednesday schedule incorporate assessment system  PLCs to answer 4 questions for each curric areas  Coordination of fields trips per grade  Train classified staff on poverty needs Facility  Strengthen grade level partners  Playground surface