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Strategic School Improvement Plan

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Bridget Purdy
EDL 8810: School Strategic Plan
October 17, 2015

Strategic School Improvement Plan
The document that sets forth the vision, mission and plan for achievement is no longer referred to as the School Improvement Plan in Cobb County Schools. In 2009, the Cobb County Board of
Education requested that the Superintendent develop a systems approach in developing improvement plans for Cobb County schools. In the past, school improvement plans for Cobb County schools were based on a single template; however, the end plans produced by the individual schools were quite different than each and they were not focused in on a system wide goal. Often you would find schools using many different types of assessments that would not give a clear …show more content…

After the training, the administrators in my building met to discuss the direction of Russell
Elementary and how it ties into the District's direction and focus. Next, administration looked at our goals from the School Strategic Plan from the previous year and our end of the year local data. Our student achievement goals from the previous year were to improve student achievement in math, closing the achievement gap between our special education students and English learner students and to become a STEM certified school for the 2015-2016 school year. Our school performance goal was to reduce the amount of behavior referrals and increase the amount of instructional time and focus on meaningful summative assessments using learning focused School (LFS) strategies. After looking at previous data, administration decided that they would present to the leadership team for
2015-2016 school year, an SSP that focuses on improving student performance in math and reading comprehension, along with increasing student performance in writing through integration across the content areas. Furthermore, administration is going to continue to focus on collaboration and increase parent participation for the school performance …show more content…

The program has different activities that reinforce math facts and reading comprehension activities. In order to monitor our progress in achieving our goal and the implementation of our strategies, the leadership team agreed to use the common performance assessments created by each grade level to monitor our student progress. Teams suggested that we should pull monthly reports on My Skills Tutor to monitor student usage of the online resource. Lastly, they agreed that lesson plans and learning walks could be used to monitor the implementation of Guided Math and Guided Reading.
In order to meet our school performance goal of improving collaboration between teachers, the leadership team agreed to implement a collaborative team planning day for every Wednesday. On every
Wednesday, grade levels met for forty-five minutes to collaborate. The goal of the meeting is to discuss strategies and share ideas to help those students who are struggling and push the other students to excel. During this time teachers can also develop standard based lessons that were based on LFS strategies. The leadership team had some initial difficulty on how we could monitor the

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