DMHS 2011-2012 SIP FINAL End of Year Documentation

School Improvement Plan Dalton L.
McMichael High School

2008-2011 6845 NC Highway 135 Mayodan, NC 27027

Dalton L. McMichael High School Continuous Improvement
Plan

Rockingham County Schools Vision:

Teaching All Students to Become Productive Citizens and Lifelong Learners

School Mission and Belief Statements
School Mission: Our mission is to be a student-centered school that meets the academic, emotional, and social
needs of all learners while preparing them to be productive citizens who enter college or the workforce with 21st
Century skills.
School Vision:
The staff at Dalton L. McMichael High School will make the school environment relevant to the real world and
future employment opportunities, maintain a safe and nurturing environment for all students, share
accountability for all opportunities that exist within the school, and continuously promote lifelong learning.

School Improvement Plan Dalton L. McMichael High School

CONTACT INFORMATION

Leadership Team Members
2011-2012

School: Dalton L. McMichael High School

The following team members collaborated with school staff to develop the School Improvement Plan for our school (parents, faculty, and administrators must
be included):

Name Position or Role Signature Date

Leigh Jones

Principal

Tina Chestnut Assistant Principal

Cecil Kemp Assistant Principal

Amy Cuthbertson Math Department Chair

Joseph Adams Math Department Rep

Faye Staten English Department Chair

Karen Hopkins English Department Rep

Michelle Casto Science Department Chair

Jennifer Swain Science Department Rep

Beth Poplin
Social Studies Department
Chair

Jon Williams
Social Studies Department
Rep

Ann Pratt
Cultural Arts Department
Chair

Anna Tolley
Foreign Language
Department Chair

Thomas Horton CTE Department Chair

Jennifer Flynt CTE Department Rep
John Butler CTE Department Rep
Beth Ewing EC Department Chair
Rhonda Kallam
Physical Education
Department Chair
Jean Bullins Classified Employee Rep
Sherrie Chaney Instructional Assistant Rep
Barbara McMillan
Instructional Technology
Specialist
Brittany Butler Media Specialist
Sandra Diaz Parent Rep


School Improvement Plan Approval Form

Update presented to staff and approval information

Date of Presentation/Approval Vote: Oct. 5-7, 2011

Results of Approval Vote: # Approve: 87 # Disapprove: 0

Principals Signature ____________________________________________

Approved by Superintendent

Date

Superintendent Signature_________________________________________

Approved by Rockingham County Board of Education

Date: _____________


School Improvement Plan for 2011 -2012

LEA: Rockingham County Schools School: Dalton L. McMichael High School

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SMART Goal: We will increase our 4 year graduation cohort rate to 73% and our 5 year cohort rate to 81% by June 2012.

Strategy
Professional
Development
Person(s)
Responsible
Timeline Evaluation
Resources/Technology
Required
Budgeted
Identify at risk students based
on current data based on
attendance, grades and
discipline referrals.

Drop-out
Prevention
Coordinator,
NCWISE Data
Manager,
Administration,
Resource Officer,
Guidance
Counselors, ISS
coordinator
End of each
grading period
Increase in attendance rate and
decrease in discipline referrals
among identified students
N/A
Encourage students and parents
to set long term transitional
goals.

College Advisor,
Guidance
Counselor,
Teachers, Parents,
and Students
March 2012
Goal setting form completed
during registration.
N/A
Reduce late arrivals, early
check-outs, and all-day
absences.

Teachers,
Administration,
Office Personnel,
NCWISE, Parents,
and Students, ISS
coordinator
June 2012
Improve attendance and decrease
tardies
N/A

Interim Update March 23, 2012:
What is the status of each strategy being used to attain this goal? What initial results/data have been collected? What should be
modified to meet goal by June 2012? We identify the academically at-risk students every 6 weeks. Our Drop Out Prevention

Coordinator meets with those students along with a guidance counselor and tries to get them back on track. We also identify our
attendance at risk students every two weeks. Once the principal gets that list of students, again, our dropout prevention coordinator
meets with those students to see what is going on with them. We also currently have 38 students on a behavior/attendance contract
from the first semester. Students that missed too many days and were passing the class were put on a contract. Currently, 37/38
students are progressing toward successfully completing the contract. We are working on strategies to improve late arrivals, early
check outs, and all day absences; however, we are still seeking viable and consistent solutions. Our overall attendance has increased
only slightly. We started with our incoming freshman for encouraging students/parents to set long-term transitional goals. We are
still exploring how to implement this strategy for all our students and their families. We are not willing to abandon this goal;
however, we will modify it for our next two-year plan.

Final Update June 15, 2012:
What strategies have been successful? What data have collected? What strategies will need modification for the upcoming school
year?
According to preliminary data, we significantly increased our 4yr. graduation rate from 73% to 77.5%. The strategies we found most
successful was the creation of an attendance committee that monitored student tardy numbers, students at-risk for attendance
failure, and collectively and collaboratively designed a contract for our at-risk students for attendance. Our Drop-Out Prevention
Coordinator also closely monitored attendance and tardies by conferencing individually with at-risk students and communicating
both in person and via telephone with the at-risk students parents. We did a good job of identifying students that would be at-risk;
however, we need to do better with our goal of creating long-term transitional goals for students and parents. We will also design
more effective early identification procedures so we can work on prevention rather than intervention strategies. We believe that
the involvement of our teachers in attendance decisions was a good step forward in creating a school culture of accountability.

School Improvement Plan for 2011 - 2012


SMART Goal 2: We will implement a 1:1 teaching and learning environment where 100% of our teachers are utilizing some form of 21st Century
technology and explicitly incorporating 21st Century skills in their instruction by June 2012.

Strategy
Professional
Development
Person(s)
Responsible
Timeline Evaluation
Required Budgeted
Explicit on-going PD on
Google Apps for
Education, Canvas,
ActivInspire and Web
2.0 tools delivered to
teachers during the
year.
PD during planning
periods, faculty
meetings. and in-
service training
Barbara McMillan,
Brittany Butler,
Leigh Jones,
District ITS
June 2011-June
2012
Attendance, Formal and
informal observations
Substitutes for in-service
training, Staff laptops

Interim
Update
March 23,
2012:
What is
the
status of each strategy being used to attain this goal? What initial results/data have been collected? What should be modified to
meet goal by June 2012? We have done a really good job of providing relevant and on-going professional development for our staff.
They receive technology PD every two weeks during their planning and they are also receiving instructional professional
development every two weeks from the principal. We are currently exploring Module 3 of NCFALCON and working to collaboratively
decide as a school what great instruction looks like at McMichael High School. Our staff actively participants in blogging with each
other as they themselves begin to learn how to interact in a 21
st
century PD environment. Our project based learning PD is delivered
as a blended model using face to face sessions and our learning management system, Canvas. Our teachers are not only learning how
to implement project based learning in their classrooms but they are also learning how to use Canvas and sharing ideas about how to
use it with our students. The ITS, Media Coordinator and principal all worked together to design the PD sessions based on our school
improvement plan and what we knew our staff needed based on observational data.

We have planned three informational parent nights this spring where our parents will complete a survey and they will have access to
every department in our school. The principal sends home an Alert Now each week for parents. The purpose of this message is to
keep them up to date with information regarding McMichael High School.

We will not modify this goal for this year. We will keep building a learning culture by including this goal in our next two year school
improvement plan.

Administrators provide
appropriate time and
opportunity for teachers
to learn how to
effectively implement
21st Century teaching
and learning strategies.
Administrators model
21st Century skills
through meetings and
conversations.
Administrators
develop and
facilitate PD
Administrative
staff
June 2011-June
2012
Survey after each PD for
feedback and reflection
opportunities
Staff laptops
Educate parents about
21st Century teaching
and learning and how to
monitor their child
online.
Ongoing blog, parent
nights, parent-
student contracts,
Alert Now messages,
parent/student/staff
1:1 advisory
committee
Entire DMHS staff,
District staff
April 2011 -
June 2012
Blog participation,
parent night attendance,
advisory committee
meeting minutes


year?
We believe that our PLC Professional Development and our entire professional development plan were effective in helping create a
21
st
century learning environment. Our teachers were a part of a blended learning environment during the 2
nd
semester and were
very successful with navigating that type of model of learning. We need a more comprehensive model for measuring these beliefs for
the 2012-2013 school year. The administrative staff will use an informal walk-thru form that will help establish a baseline of data for
the leadership team to examine and determine more appropriate goals for this standard. We also need a much more effective model
for communicating with our parents the expectations for a 21
st
century classroom. Our leadership team recognizes that we will also
need baseline data for this goal and will work to establish procedures for helping our parents and students understand the 21
st

century learning environment in a more comprehensive way.

School Improvement Plan for 2011-12


SMART Goal 3: We will increase our English I scores from 73.5% to 75%, Algebra I scores from 68.6% to 70%, Biology scores from 80.5% to 82% and will increase
our average SAT scores from 1423 (composite of all 3 areas) to 1430 (composite of all 3 areas) by June 2012.

Strategy
Professional
Development
Person(s)
Responsible
Timeline Evaluation
Required
Budgeted
1. Explicitly teach
literacy in all English
classes.
Work with ERG
Consultants
District level
administrators,
school
administrators,
ERG Consultants
August 2011-
April 2012
Teacher Evaluation
Instrument, Formal and
Informal observations from
school administrators and
district administrators,
ERG feedback forms,
Midterms and EOC Exams
none
2. English department
will hold professional
development classes
for literacy strategies
with science and social
studies departments.
English Department
will provide PD for
Social Studies and
Science teachers
with newly acquired
ERG strategies
English Dept.,
school
administrators
January 2012-
April 2012
Professional development
plans, PLC notes,
Department notes,
Midterm, Final, and EOC
data
none
80% of classrooms will
have wordwalls.
Professional
Development by
Administrators
School and District
Administrators
November
2011-May
2012
Formal and informal walk-
thru data, Department
notes
none

4. Begin to implement
common assessments
and data driven
instruction in ALL
content area classes.
Castlelearning, CASA
data/meetings,
Department meeting
feedback,
Professional
Development
Instructional
Technology
Specialist, overall
staff,
administrators,
Lew Johnson
November
2011-May
2012
Midterm, Final, and EOC
data, completion of NC
Falcon, CASA forms,
Department minutes
none
5. Analyze tardy data
School Leadership
Team
School Leadership
Team and
Department
Teams,
administrators, ISS
coordinator
November
2011-May
2012
Weekly Tardy Data,
Monthly Tardy Data, period
tardy data
none

modified to meet goal by June 2012? Our first administration of the EOCs indicates that our EOC subject areas are experiencing
considerable growth and proficiency. We are still working toward our goal of 80% of teachers have word walls (we are at 60% right
now), our English department is working to begin professional development for our staff but we have modified our begin date for
that to August 2012, and all of our EOC teachers have given at least two common assessments that they created together and have
analyzed the data from those common assessments. All of our EOC teachers meet bi-weekly with the principal to discuss common
assessments, student progress, and current student data. We will begin, next week (Mar. 28
th
), reviewing EVAAS data and learning
how to use that system. Our English department has received extremely positive feedback from the two consultants from ERG and
all of our English teachers are explicitly teaching literacy within their classrooms. Our English department has performed very well
with regard to implementing explicit literacy instruction and the teachers continue to grow and learn more about how to help both
struggling readers and proficient readers become more engaged with reading and ultimately become critical thinkers as they read.

year?
We need to do a better job of having word walls in all classrooms. Our administrative team needs to monitor this strategy more
closely. First, however, we need to educate all teachers on what appropriate word walls look like. Our EOC data, both proficiency
and growth scores, showed significant improvement this school year.
Alg. I: 80.5% prof (.137 growth)
Biology: 82.6% prof. (.212 growth)
English I: 78.5% prof. (.125 growth)
*all tested areas showed positive growth)

We designed a new, and we feel more effective way, of having CASA at DMHS which specifically addressed our strategy of Begin to
implement common assessments and data driven instruction in ALL content area classes. We started this idea with our EOC
teachers and will move it into all content areas during the 2012-2013 school year. All EOC teachers met on a bi-weekly basis with
our EC Dept. Chairperson and the principal and discussed building common assessments, common assessment data, writing
appropriate questions for assessments, and individual students and their data in EVAAS. These meetings started in January 2012 and
continued through April 2012. Our English teachers will partner with our Social Studies teachers during the 2012-2013 school year to
implement and use more focused literacy strategies in the social studies classroom. Our English teachers were involved in the RCS
High School Literacy Project during the 2011-2012 school year and are ready to begin helping other colleagues learn important
literacy strategies. During the 2012-2013 school year, our Science department will be involved with EXC-ELL which is a literacy
component to help improve writing and comprehension within the science classroom. We will be working with CO personnel to
implement EXC-ELL.


LEA: Rockingham County Schools School:

SMART Goal:

Strategy
Professional
Development
Person(s)
Responsible
Timeline Evaluation
Required Budgeted


modified to meet goal by June 2012?

year?


LEA: Rockingham County Schools School:

.

SMART Goal:

Strategy
Professional
Development
Person(s)
Responsible
Timeline Evaluation
Required Budgeted


modified to meet goal by June 2012?

year?

School-Based Management and Accountability Program
Summary of School-Based Waiver Requests for 2011-2012

LEA: Rockingham County Schools School: School Code:

Request for Waiver
Title of Waiver

1. Describe the waivers you are requesting.
To accommodate the reduction in faculty due to budget cuts at the Local and State levels,
we are requesting an exemption on class sizes in grades 4-12.

2. Identify the law, regulation, or policy from which an exemption is requested.
115C-301.1- Allocation of teachers; class size

3. State how the waiver will be used.
Due to reductions in Local and State Budget Allotments we would be unable to offer
students required courses in all areas needed for graduation without the class size waiver.
This will also allow us to include students in higher level classes when only singletons can be
offered.

4. State how the waiver will promote achievement of performance goals.
Waiver of class size maximums will allow more effective scheduling where students are
working on similar curriculum goals and objectives. Students can be more readily assigned
to appropriate grades and classes.


__________________________________________________________ _______________________
Principals Signature Date

__________________________________________________________ _______________________
Chair of School Improvement Teams Signature Date

District Approval: ___________________________________________ (date)

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