School Improvement / Overview

MATH ACHIEVEMENT

Student Performance Goal #1:

In grades 1 – 5, we will increase the number of students meeting their RIT* projections from 59% to 62% on the Mathematics MAP.

HCS Strategic Priority:

Unify Henry County around excellence in public education
Strengthen our core business of student learning
Ensure a high performing environment for all students

HCS Core Beliefs and Commitments:

Core Belief 1

We believe each student can learn at or above grade level and will have an equal opportunity to do so.

MATH ACHIEVEMENT cont’d

Actions, Strategies, and Interventions

Expected Learning Outcomes of Actions, Strategies, and/or Interventions

Professional Learning

Needed

Methods of Monitoring

Implement professional learning communities to ensure the utilization of instructional strategies for an academically challenging environment and assessment to produce college and career ready students.

Specific instructional expectations & resources

Teachers will collaborate to...

· Identify priority standards for each grade level or course

· Create an essential standards unit plan

· Implement the team teaching-assessment cycle to develop a results oriented team.

· Give common end-of-unit assessment for essential standards

· Identify students for Tier 1 support by student, standards, and learning targets. (intervention & enrichment)

· Home-School connection for math resources and communication to help parents

Teachers will use the time allotted on the master schedule to implement the balanced model for mathematics instruction.

Students will...

· Students show growth on district created pre-test and post-test data.

· Students will compute with numbers accurately, efficiently, and flexibility.

· Students will be able to develop and demonstrate their understanding through the use of manipulatives, models, numbers and words to explain their mathematical thinking.

· Students will learn through problem solving which promotes the development of mathematical practices.

· Students will be engaged in rigorous, purposeful, and meaningful math work.

· Students will be engaged (both independently and collaboratively) in productive struggle in rigorous tasks as they are provided with strategies to help them become successful problem solvers.

· Students will apply their mathematical knowledge to authentic contexts and situations.

· Students will be engaged in both whole group and small group instruction of core knowledge and skills.

· Students will be able to communicate about mathematics verbally and in written form.

Professional Learning

· Collective teacher efficacy will be developed through the use of backwards planning as teams work to align instruction, tasks, and assessment in a way that provides scaffolding, enrichment, and transfer strategies.

· Attendance, agendas, & meeting minutes for the following:

o Professional learning

o Focus Team

o K-5 PLCs

o Leadership

o Faculty meeting

· Walk-throughs

· Student assessments

o Diagnostic assessment

o Student products(rubrics)

o CFA

o MAP

· Priority standard templates

· Essential standards unit plans

· Teacher feedback surveys

· SMART goals for each unit

READING ACHIEVEMENT

Student Performance Goal #2:

Reading: In grades 1 – 5, we will increase the number of students meeting their MAP Reading RIT* projections from 61% to 64%.

Writing (TBD): The percentage of students in grades Kindergarten-5th grade scoring proficient and above using the GA DOE Writing Rubrics will increase from 29% to ___ for the opinion writing genre & 25% to ___ for the informational genre.

HCS Strategic Priority:

Strengthen our core business of student learning.

Ensure a high performing environment for all students.

HCS Core Beliefs and Commitments:

Core Belief

We believe each student can learn at or above grade level and will have an equal opportunity to do so.

Commitment

Each student will learn at or above grade level and have an equal opportunity to do so.

READING ACHIEVEMENT cont’d

Actions, Strategies, and Interventions

Expected Learning Outcomes of Actions, Strategies, and/or Interventions

Professional Learning

Needed

Methods of Monitoring

Specific instructional expectations and resources

Teachers will collaborate to...

· Identify priority standards for each grade level or course

· Create an essential standards unit plan

· Implement the team teaching-assessment cycle to develop a results oriented team.

· Give common end-of-unit assessment for essential standards

· Identify students for Tier 1 support by student, standards, and learning targets. (intervention & enrichment)

· Home-School connection for ELA resources and communication to help parents

Teachers will use the time allotted on the master schedule to implement the balanced model for ELA instruction.

· Students will show growth in their reading levels.

· Students will show growth on CFAs for priority standards.

· Students will be able to write in response to reading.

· Students will receive on grade level standards-based reading instruction every day.

· Student tasks will contain DOK levels 1-4 and be aligned to the purpose of the standard.

· Students will be engaged in rigorous, purposeful, and meaningful literacy work.

· Students will understand that learning targets are their learning goals for lessons and units.

· Students will engage with a variety of complex texts to build and foster independent reading.

· Students will apply a range of comprehension strategies to deepen and enrich their understanding of what they are reading.

· Students will engage in meaningful discussion around texts.

· Students will increase their ability to respond to passages with written text using appropriate grade level vocabulary, language conventions, and textual evidence to support ideas.

· Students will acquire grade level vocabulary and build reading fluency.

· Students will improve the writing abilities by participating in standards based writing instruction and writing each day based off of this instruction.