EAD 510 topic 4 assignment (2)
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Zackery Castor
Grand Canyon University
EAD-510
Professor Donald
01/08/2024
Part 1
My collaboration time was spent with the Principal and Dean of Students.
Part 2 The needs assessment was given to the Principal, Dean of Students, The Math chair, P.E Chair, EL Chair, and The head of custodial. Part 3
Clinical Field Experience B The school I work at is Quail Valley Middle School. This school is where I will be serving all of my observation hours. Quail Valley is located in a rural town named Phelan which is located in the High Desert area of California. The school is 47% Female
and 53% Male. The minority enrollment is 78% and 72% of the students at the school are faced with an economic disadvantage. Although the school faces disadvantages it is
close to the state averages for proficiency. State proficiency for Math is 35% and Quail Valley scored at 33%. Then state proficiency for Reading is 44% and Quail Valley scored at 41%. These numbers are close and the needs assessment goal is to fulfill these areas by then providing programs and resources to excel past the state average. When observing I spent time collaborating with the Principal and the Dean Of Students. We started off by discussing the current school budget. Firstly, we went over the expenditures of the budget. This included the improvements made to campus to improve safety for the students. Additional fencing was added to ensure the risks of possible intruders would be lowered. This was essential to allowing the students and the
community to feel safe while the students were on the school campus. Next was the resources needed to close the gaps to meet the state average of proficiency this year. Programs such as Mobymax, IXL, and a discipline program named Ripple Effects were added to the schools resources. Teachers will be able to use Mobymax and IXL to track
students on their improvements. These programs will also tailor to the students personal
learning experience. Each student will work at their level to increase chances of overall improvement. This will allow the students to close the gaps and reach the ultimate goal of surpassing the state average. Another area that was discussed was additional support for the English Language learners. These supports added quite a strain to the school budget as students had an additional English class added on when they were an
English Learner. This meant that another teacher was required to become part of the team. Immediately there was Return on Investment shown. By the halfway mark of the school year 80% of the EL students gained at least .75 of their grade level. This will significantly close the gap of proficiency we were looking for. When working with the budget the ultimate goal is to spend the exact amount of revenue that is provided. When looking at revenue the total revenue or total funds provided to meet goals within the SPSA is $332,511.00. This revenue will easily cover the expenditures of the school that are needed. This is where a needs assessment will really become beneficial
to the school. This allows the school to provide resources that are commonly found needed by many staff members. When bringing resources that are commonly needed it will allow the gaps to close and overall student achievement to go up. The school budget also gives an allotment to each department to enable them to purchase supplies
that will be needed. For example, the Physical Education department was able to
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purchase new lacrosse gear this year that they never had before. This allowed the department to add an additional sport to the lessons that they are teaching. As a leader this would brighten my day as teachers were using resources to further better the program. When looking at revenue it is essential as the leader to give these departments the funds necessary to always be improving. When comparing the overall budget from last year to this year it decreased by a small margin. This margin was about eight thousand dollars, but this should not affect any of the plans that the school has made. The school improvement plan is part of a program in California called a SPSA. This stands for School Plan for Student Achievement and is completed every year. In the SPSA for Quail Valley Middle School it
states “Quail Valley Middle School will work together through the PLC process to provide equitable access to rigorous curriculum and high quality, standards-based instruction and assessments by aligning all resources to ensure that all students are prepared to be successful in college and/or career”. With that being said it is the goal to collaborate to align the resources obtained to reach the school objective. The needs assessment will allow us to gather the material needed to do so. This is where PSEL standard 1 will come into action. The school's vision includes that we will continuously improve instruction through collaboration. This will be done by having highly trained professionals hold professional development training. When looking at the success rate of the SPSA for the last year there was an increase of student achievement of 3.2% which allows us to find that we are indeed closing the desired gap. BY continuing to collaborate and provide professional development that is essential to improving
teachers it will allow the gap to even close this year. By the end of the year statistically we shall close the gap and meet the state average and plan to surpass it. When looking at the needs assessment that I have administered I believe that there are a couple areas that I would suggest improvement. The first is students oftentimes can become overwhelmed while on campus. This can be due to stress, having a bad day, or even a bad interaction with peers. I believe a great idea is to introduce a student wellness center on the campus. This will allow the students to have an area to go to release stress or emotions and stay on target academically. Another area I would like to improve is creating more times for students to come together on campus and all be together to interact. The students simply are not feeling they have enough time to interact with each other. This can bring a strain to the academics on campus as students need to socially interact to learn. I believe this can be done by providing games before school or at lunch. Another great option would be to bring some
pep rallies to campus that will allow the student to have fun while learning about what is happening on campus. Overall this observation time was well spent and I learned many critical aspects about the school budget. When working towards improving the school it is essential to collaborate with all staff members on campus. Another critical area is parents and the community being stakeholders within the school. By all coming together as a community
on the school campus it will allow the highest rate of success.
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