2010-2011 School Improvement Plan - Highland Elementary (PDF)

Highland Elementary School Improvement Plan 2010-2011FOCUS ON LEARNINGGOALS, ACTION STEPS, RATIONALE, ACCOUNTABILITY, RESULTSACADEMIC CONTENT GOAL: MATHEMATICSSTUDENT ACHIEVEMENT PROBLEM:Students at Highland Elementary have scored below the state average (fourth and fifth grades) in the following strandnumbersense and algebraic sense, and below the state average (third and fourth grades) in the following strands-“measurement, geometric sense, and statistics”. Additionally, students scored below the state average (fourth grade) in thefollowing strand- “procedures and concepts”.STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT GOAL:• 80% of our third grade students at Highland Elementary will meet or exceed standard in the area of mathematics asmeasured by the 2011 MSP.• 80% of our fourth grade students at Highland Elementary will meet or exceed standard in the area of mathematics asmeasured by the 2011 MSP. (71.4% on 2009 MSP)• 70% of our fifth grade students at Highland Elementary will meet or exceed standard in the area of mathematics asmeasured by the 2011 MSP. (52.8% on 2009 MSP)Action Specific Activities/Strategies to ReachStepAcademic Goal1 Grade level teams will utilize commonformative assessment data from quizzes,end of unit assessments, and the districtassessments given three times during theschool year to create grade-level plans fortimely intervention. (Resources- time,building funds, Eric Bates, district mathsupport specialist)Rationale Evidence of Effectiveness ResultsTeachers need to be able to inform theirinstruction in a timely fashion using data.Together as teams, interventions can becreated. Some students require additionaltime and interventions in order to masterthe various content strands (specific mathstandards/GLE’s). Additionally, somestudents need different types ofinstructional approaches.1. Classroom observations, gradelevel collaboration examining data,creating classroom-basedinterventions as a result of the data.2. Evidence/data- commonsformative assessments built into themath curriculum, district mathassessments given three times perschool year.Results:6 6