School Improvement Plan

School:
PURPOSE: The School Improvement Plan serves as a road map that provides clarity to specific priorities and actions that are most important during the next school
year. The plan will help ensure the focus of all stakeholders toward an aligned understanding of the implementation and progress of our school goals.
Beacon Heights Elementary School
LIST SCHOOLWIDE GOALS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS
LIST SPECIFIC SCHOOL-YEAR GOALS
(i.e. 8th Grade Algebra, 2nd Grade L Arts, Graduation Rate)
MATH
BASELINE
PROFICIENCY
MATH
PROFICIENCY
GOAL
LANG. ARTS
BASELINE
PROFICIENCY
LANG. ARTS
PROFICIENCY
GOAL
SCIENCE
BASELINE
PROFICIENCY
SCIENCE
PROFICIENCY
GOAL
BASELINE GOAL BASELINE GOAL
2013-2014 2013-2014
95 95 95 95 93 93
Rae Louie Principal:
TO MOVE TOWARD THE ABOVE GOALS, THESE ARE THE TOP PRIORITIES THAT WILL BE ADDRESSED CORE PLAN:
SCHOOL
PERFORMANCE
CHALLENGES
YEAR-END
PERFORMANCE
RESULTS
ROOT CAUSES
OF
PERFORMANCE
CHALLENGE
ACTIONS TO ADDRESS ROOT CAUSES(S)
TIMELINE FOR
ACTIONS
RESPONSIBLE
PERSON
EVIDENCE OF
PROGRESS
TOWARD YEAR-
END GOAL
The performance challenge
at Beacon is that not all
students demonstrate
effective writing skills and
strategies across the
curriculum as outlined by
core standards.
Students are proficient
in a variety of writing
styles based on the
end of year, district
writing test, and based
on growth from SAGE
fall formative to SAGE
spring summative.
Students need more
instruction on
characteristics of
excellent writing in
different genres.
Students need more
experiences in writing
in content areas
Teachers need more
training on instructional
strategies for writing in
narrative,
informational, opinion,
persuasive,
argumentative genres
of writing, and more
time to plan new
lessons that
incorporate more
writing.
Teachers need to
construct student
responses to learning
that use individual
writing.
Teachers need time to
Plan Professional Development for the school year that
addresses genres of writing.
Plan time for grade level collaboration for lesson
construction, analysis of writing, and next steps, monthly
September: Review
writing assessments to
determine professional
development needs,
cross grade
communication to
determine strengths
and weaknesses of
incoming students,
sharing writing samples
in portfolio (3 samples)
for each student
October: Begin PD
sessions 1x per month
on writing; complete six
sessions by April.
coach, principal,
teachers
log of PD meetings
and content
log follow up collab
meetings on pd
End of year testing
Whole teaching staff will engage in on-going collaborative
analysis of student writing by grade levels, using district
rubrics, state core standards, SAGE writing rubric.
Formative meetings will
be:
September: analysis #1
November: analysis #2
January: analysis #3
coach, principal,
teachers
Growth will be
measured by Spring,
2014 writing
assessment compared
to Spring, 2015 writing
assessment.
School Improvement Plan
School: Beacon Heights Elementary School Rae Louie Principal:
SCHOOL
PERFORMANCE
CHALLENGES
YEAR-END
PERFORMANCE
RESULTS
ROOT CAUSES
OF
PERFORMANCE
CHALLENGE
ACTIONS TO ADDRESS ROOT CAUSES(S)
TIMELINE FOR
ACTIONS
RESPONSIBLE
PERSON
EVIDENCE OF
PROGRESS
TOWARD YEAR-
END GOAL
work with grade level
colleagues to analyze
student writing needs
within the grade and
plan next steps for
improved writing.
March: analysis #4