School Improvement Plan /Family Curriculum Guides
Green Acres School Improvement Plan
Progress Report
2007-2008
Student Local Assessment Results
Practice |
Tri. 1 - Evidence of Success |
Tri. 2 - Evidence of Success |
Tri. 3 - Evidence of Success |
| Use of communication notebook between administration and teachers for grade level meetings. | Communication has increased and become more effective as is evidenced in the communication notebooks. | Continuation from 1st trimester | Continuation from 1st trimester |
| Use of special education communication folders for all identified students in order to document growth. | Communication has increased between specialists and classroom teachers as is evidenced by contents of special education folders. | Ongoing use of communication folders.
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Ongoing use of communication folders. |
| To increase parental awareness of student assessments to include NECAP and rubrics for the writing assessments. | Parent information nights. Open House and distribution of Parent's Guide to Curriculum. | NECAP results (parent copy) were distrubuted in Feb. 08 Parent Guides to Math and Language Arts curriculum at each grade level is available on the G.A. school website. |
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| To provide professional development in the area of Math Recovery strategies. | Teacher's attendance at First Steps workshops as outlined in the G.A. professional development schedule. | Continuation of First Steps program with District Math Implementation specialist. | First Steps PD program concluded. |
| To provide professional development in the reading intervention programs. | Bernadette Grizzell from U.S. Department of Education hosted an inservice for G.A. teachers entitled "Building Reading Fluency and Intervention..." Multi-sensory educator and reading specialist provided training on Fundations. |
Teachers visited other schools for guided reading training. Special Educators and paraprofessionals attended LLI training. |
Guided reading training was provided for all staff including special educators and paraprofessionals. |
| Analyzing assessment data | Professional development training in use of Performance Tracker by Data Team with time provided for grade level collaboration as is evidenced by NECAP grade level worksheet. | Data Team attented state sponsored inservice regarding interpretation of NECAP data scores/results. Staff participated in item analysis review of NECAP data to with the goal to improve instruction.
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Staff continued to utilize Performance Tracker to enter local assessment data, run reports, and analyze data to improve instruction and meet student needs. |
| To provide teachers with materials to support both math and language arts curricula. | Purchase of Daily Word Problems, Daily Math Warm-ups, Daily Language Warm-ups for all teachers through Green Acres School funds. | Continued use of resource materials provided by G.A. in first trimester. | Continued use of resource materials provided by G.A. in first trimester. |