Royal Palm Middle School - Washington Elementary School District 6

Royal Palm Middle School (6-8)—Title I School wide Program2014-2015 Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP)STRATEGY—Plan Development, Implementation, and EvaluationAction Steps: The district, with external technical assistance, provides support to the school in Continuous Improvement Plan(CIP) development by providing information about ADE requirements and recommendations, and by suggesting keyelements that align the school plan with the WESD Roadmap and with the District Continuous Improvement Plan.Royal Palm School is identified as SW1 and programs included in our School wide Title I budget are:Before and after school tutoring, purchasing technology to increase use of Success Maker within the classroom,providing a math night for parents to learn more about the new curriculum adoption and how they can help theirchild at home, securing substitutes for classroom coverage to allow teachers to go on learning walks, conduct teamplanning and data analysis. Funding for staffing that supports reading and/or math is provided through Title I and includes: Staffing for ourAcademic Intervention Specialist(s) to support Tier 3 and 2 students as well as funding for the Program Coach whosupports teacher instructional proficiency through modeling, using job embedded professional learningopportunities to strengthen instruction, facilitating data and curriculum meetings for varied grade levels. Our Title Ibudget also includes staffing for paraprofessionals to instructionally assist in our Read 180 and Enrichment Readingclasses. Funding for Royal Palm that supports reading and math is provided through Title I. Positions funded byTitle I grant include: 2.0 FTE for Academic Intervention Specialists in Math, 1.0 FTE Social Worker, and 0.750 FTEParaprofessional Title I Assistant. Implementation of the plan involves the development of the plan by the leadership team, implementation of theplan by the principal working collaboratively with the program coaches to provide meaningful professionaldevelopment for staff. The teachers will use the information and knowledge learned in the professionaldevelopment sessions to plan their instruction by analyzing assessment data and in using the common core andproviding effective interventions.16