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
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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
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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
I attended many meetings with my preceptor that offered provided me a better understanding of our hospital’s organizational development through leaderships eyes. The administrative team meeting discussion was based on the
Identifies skills, theories of change, program designs, partnerships, and ways of building schools where students achieve.
The plan outlines five goals that we have found for our school district. These goals show our commitment to provide the highest possible standards of education for all students in our district and to ensure the fair and equitable treatment of all members of our community. We consider understanding individual differences in each student and teacher so that we can adopt the appropriate programs of study for them of the utmost importance.
Headland Middle School completed our School Improvement Plan in May 2014. The school leadership team (including parents) reviewed the 2013-14 School Improvement Plan to assess if implemented strategies have been met. This information has been shared with faculty members and interested parents. In September 2013, the school leadership team and school faculty met to examine state assessment data and other data.
The text states that it is essential that superintendents and school board members communicate effectively to find the best solutions to problems. Effective communication requiring everyone to be heard in an honest and forthright exchange of viewpoints has proven to be best for children. Therefore report on Curriculum by Dr. Byron Haynes and reports on start of the year were given by Principal J. Griffin, Principal B. Cleark and Principal M.
As mentioned in previous writings, East Bridgewater has gone through a reorganizational period throughout the last 4 years. Although positive aspects have emerged including an increase in technology to meet the needs of the 21st century student, a new state of the art building, and an increase in funding for the school district to sustain the new building, there has also been negative facets as well. After the reorganization of the district in the 2012 - 2013 academic year, East Bridgewater Jr/Sr High school went from a Level 1 9-12 school to a Level 2 7 - 12 school. Student enrollment, which has increased due to the new building and school choice, currently serves approximately 1016 students
Campus is need of educating parents the importance of 8th graduation requirements and have parents come to the school to speak with the Transitional Counselor about their child's four-year graduation plan. In math the campus continues to increase rigor and align assignments and assessments to the TEKS and making sure students are receiving an intervention, if needed. In ELA the campus is seeking to increase instruction to higher cognitive levels and increase scores on all assessments throughout the year. Campus need to have data to make sure that each student gets an intervention, if needed and need to study the evidence to see if the interventions are having an impact on student learning beyond the primary classroom instruction. The campus need of assistive technology in the classrooms (when utilizing Read Write 11 Program for text to speech/speech to text software) especially for SPED students. Students placed in general education (from Read 180) aren't receiving support in areas of literature and language arts. ELA and ESL need more workshop model as their instructional design and delivery to maximize student engagement, so students are doing the majority of the reading, writing, talking, and
In addition the three main goals, several strategies for achieving each goal are listed. For goal one, the strategies include: improve academic performance, increase consistency with district initiatives, evaluate school calendar options, develop student personal management skills, and create an online school. Secondly, the goal two includes the following: create an “East Noble Story” for all stakeholders, and provide opportunities for stakeholders to experience “East Noble” stories. Finally, goal three has one strategy: to develop and maintain facilities to effectively serve the students of ENSC.
The leadership team discussed specific outcomes that they want accomplish, taking into consideration the issues they want to address. After careful deliberation, they decided that they wanted to create a process of implementation with a feedback loop in which teachers and staff discuss each lesson. Documentation would be written down of what worked and what did not work and modifications could be done for the upcoming lessons. This could be accomplished by setting time for staff to meet and discuss lesson implementation, areas of strength and weakness. After discussion the staff would discuss and change the lesson plans to meet the needs of classroom. By crating this process of implementation staff can course correct
There will be two million dollars in cuts, of which one million will be in transportation. Owensboro Public Schools plan to do joint work with Daviess County Public Schools in order to discuss combining the state budget and adopting joint priorities. I was pleased to see that two separate districts would be willing to work together on a common goal. Along with the discussion of money, the need for more technology was discussed. The district is in need of new educational technology which requires money that is not available. I could see the worry on several faces of those in
Destination 2025 outlines several goals that SCS hopes to achieve. Those goals are as follows, 80% of seniors will be on track to learn in a post-secondary classroom or enter the workforce straight out of high school, nearly twice as many as in 2014; 90% of students will earn their high school diploma on time compared to just 68% in 2014; and every college or career-ready graduate in the class of 2025 will enroll in a post-secondary opportunity. With these goal targeting specific age groups and grades, the impact will be greatly seen. Parents, community members, and teachers alike are joining forces to ensure that the perfect level of high-leverage priorities are set in place to better focus on achieving the goals set forth. There is a 10 year gap between SCS standards now and standards in 2025, but those teaming up are making it known that it is important to have all efforts and resources evenly spaced out to guarantee early literacy, post-secondary readiness, teacher and staff development, high quality schools, and community engagement.
For SCPS to move forward, four key questions must be answered: Where are we? Where do we want to be? How will we get there? And how will we measure our progress? The “Where are we” question has been answered over the past year as an environmental scan of the school system was conducted via the resource utilization study, the shared services study, the analysis of programs, the climate survey, the staffing plan, the class size analysis, division benchmarking (including SOL, SAT, ACT, AP and IB testing results) and the student accommodation plans.
Marketing Objectives: delivering 2,700 students, 47,800 Student Program Days (SPDs) and $3.4 million in revenues. Strategic Objectives: Maintain school leadership within the Outward Bound System and Build-off season business
The process of developing a school improvement plan includes collaboration with various teams, including the School Improvement Team (SIT) and the administrative team. The first step is determining your vision, mission and goals. The next step will include analyzing data from a variety of sources. These sources include TWCS, parent and student surveys, NC Report Card, Graduation Rates, EOC and NC Final Exam data, as well local school discipline and demographic data. Utilizing this data and aligning it with the school and district vision, mission and goals will create an opportunity to improve the educational environment for all stakeholders.
At the end of every week, the team held a meeting to discuss the affairs of the research department. Among the things that we discussed were the achievements of each sub- team. The departmental head and her assistants chaired the meeting. They