NORTHERN LINCOLN SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT ACTION PLAN TEMPLATE

Target: An increase in a quantifiable indicator by a specified amount.  We will see an increase in the NECAP ELA scores by 3%.

Result Statement: What will students know and be able to do by the end of next year?

All students will be able to apply various strategies when reading and writing in order to decode and comprehend text and communicate effectively.

Changes in student learning behavior: What will students do to reach the identified result?  What new things will they do to learn?  What things will they do more of?  How do these connect to the RI GLEs/GSEs? Consider how  students will:

1.        Use standards & expectations to become better learners,

2.        Use assessment results to guide their learning, and

Access the learning opportunities they need.

Changes in  instruction: What will teachers do to ensure students learn and develop the learning behaviors identified in the first column?

 (Be sure that the instructional practices you identify will address every student learning behavior and connect to the Rhode Island Beginning Teacher Standards)

Monitoring Progress with Timelines and Adjustments: How will teachers measure progress and make adjustments to the changes in learning and teaching behaviors that we want? How often will this occur? How will teachers inform and involve the principal, parents and SIT?

Collaboration and Support: When will teachers find time to collaborate and discuss the information they get from monitoring to improve learning and teaching?

Resources, School and District: What school-wide and district supports and resources will be necessary to achieve the results of the action plan? Organize support into the categories below and fill out the attached back up sheets for each area.

(Use the attached resource planning templates to specify the professional development support for teachers.)

Evaluating Results: How will the school know if the students reach the intended results? In light of what we have learned, how will we revise the plan for next year?

Reporting to Families and Community How will we share the results of this plan with the entire school community?

Students will:

1.  Recognize and apply appropriate reading strategies when reading independent and grade level text in all content areas.  Strategies will include:  making connections, questioning, analyzing, visualizing, summarizing, inferring, determining important information, and synthesizing information

2.  Write responses to their reading and science experiments which will include citing text,

questioning, summarizing, predicting,

analyzing, synthesizing,

inferring, and locating

important information

Teachers will:

1. Collaboratively develop and teach mini-lessons on the various strategies by explicit and repeated modeling

2.  Share and review mini-lessons with grade level team and analyze student work to guide instruction

3.  Implement word study to include phonics, vocabulary and spelling

4.  Use the scientific notebook to reinforce expository writing as well as demonstrate their understanding of the scientific method

Teachers will:

1.  Utilizing “Common Plan/Prep” time to arrange consistent rubrics and benchmarks

2.   Schedule one common plan time per quarter to report progress on students needing interventions with Special Education teachers, Title 1 teachers and the principal

3.  Monitor PLPs at least two times per month using DIBELS, DRA, PALS, Fountas & Pinnell assessment system, running records, and authentic assessments

4.  Exhibit student work with rubrics

5.  Share and review previous NECAP results and data in ELA

1.  Develop parent and student              contracts making the home a learning partnership

2.  Utilize and promote the use of the Family Literacy Center

3.  Develop appropriate PLPs based upon assessment results

4.  Weekly grade level common planning time

Lead the Focus on Learning and Achievement

Build a Professional Learning Community Committed to Excellence

Deliver Aligned Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment

Use Information to Improve Performance

Engage Families and the Community

Provide Safe and Supportive Learning Environments

Allocate Fiscal and Human Resources

Evaluating Results:

1.  Analyze and use state assessments and DRA, DRP, PALS, DIBELS, and Fountas & Pinnell assessment systems for decision making about teaching and learning

Reporting to Families and Community:

1.  Assessments will be reported through progress reports and report cards

2.  Principal will continue to report out to parents through the use of “Cliff Notes” and PTA meetings and newsletter

3.   Revise SIT Plans and report out quarterly

4.  Parent/ Teacher conferences

5. Open House

NORTHERN LINCOLN SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT ACTION PLAN TEMPLATE

Target: An increase in a quantifiable indicator by a specified amount.  We will see an increase in the NECAP ELA scores by 3%.

Result Statement: What will students know and be able to do by the end of next year?        

All students will be able to apply various strategies when reading and writing in order to decode and comprehend text and communicate effectively.

Changes in student learning behavior: What will students do to reach the identified result?  What new things will they do to learn?  What things will they do more of?  How do these connect to the RI GLEs/GSEs? Consider how  students will:

1.        Use standards & expectations to become better learners,

2.        Use assessment results to guide their learning, and

Access the learning opportunities they need.

Changes in  instruction: What will teachers do to ensure students learn and develop the learning behaviors identified in the first column?

 (Be sure that the instructional practices you identify will address every student learning behavior and connect to the Rhode Island Beginning Teacher Standards)

Monitoring Progress with Timelines and Adjustments: How will teachers measure progress and make adjustments to the changes in learning and teaching behaviors that we want? How often will this occur? How will teachers inform and involve the principal, parents and SIT?

Collaboration and Support: When will teachers find time to collaborate and discuss the information they get from monitoring to improve learning and teaching?

Resources, School and District: What school-wide and district supports and resources will be necessary to achieve the results of the action plan? Organize support into the categories below and fill out the attached back up sheets for each area.

(Use the attached resource planning templates to specify the professional development support for teachers.)

Evaluating Results: How will the school know if the students reach the intended results? In light of what we have learned, how will we revise the plan for next year?

Reporting to Families and Community How will we share the results of this plan with the entire school community?

Students will:

3.   Improve and increase their fluency and vocabulary as well as apply and continue to develop phonics and conventions

Teachers will:

Teachers will:

6.  conference with students

7.  Catalog assessments to be used and train classroom teachers

5.  Data collection will continue with yearly reports and summations will be sent to faculty making everyone aware of progress

6.  Grade level meetings will be used to report and analyze summations at least twice a year

7.  Organized data will be reviewed and discussed with parents

Lead the Focus on Learning and Achievement

Build a Professional Learning Community Committed to Excellence

Deliver Aligned Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment

Use Information to Improve Performance

Engage Families and the Community

Provide Safe and Supportive Learning Environments

Allocate Fiscal and Human Resources

Evaluating Results:

Reporting to Families and Community: