Administrative Entry Plan: Manassas Park High School

Thomas Caggianelli
Statement of Purpose:
Dear Manassas Park High School Family,
I am honored to have the opportunity to serve the students families, staff, and community of
Manassas Park High School. With the help of our entire community, we will ensure that all
students can reach their highest potential. Expectations of Excellence may be out vision at
Manassas Park Schools, but it is also what we strive to exceed everyday by:

 ensuring that all members of the school community feel safe and respected;
 optimizing the use of technology for instruction through the MPCS Connects! Initiative;
 help develop modern skills, as found in the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Profile of a
Graduate;
 creating and maintaining programs to address real-world issues and concerns;
 providing all students with high-quality, appealing, and rigorous instruction that prepares
them to be life ready;
 embracing our diversity and building and maintaining a sense of community.

The purpose of this 90-Day Entry Plan is to ensure that I hold myself responsible to address the
needs of our school division in a appropriate manner. It will be reviewed every thirty days to
ensure that it is still the best fit for Manassas Park High School.
I have faith in in the value of shared decision-making and empowering stakeholders to lead
growth and change. Each member of our community has powerful thoughts and ideas that could
benefit Manassas Park High School. For this reason, I welcome your thoughts and feedback, I
would strong encourage you to set up a time to meet with me.
Thank you for providing me with the opportunity to serve Manassas Park High School. I look
forward to the continuation of the strong traditions, the start of new ones, and the expectations of
excellence that make this school and community great!
Sincerely,

Thomas Caggianelli
Principal
Goals:
1. Establish a positive school environment by building relationships with assistant
principals, teachers, staff, students, parents, and community members.
2. Use data to initiate and drive instructional decision making
3. Encourage and increase innovation and technology usage among teachers and within
classrooms
4. Map subject curriculum for all departments through the first and second quarter
5. Increase parental involvement with instructional content at home

Timeline:

July August September October

Pre-operational Goal 1 Goal 4
Goal 3
actions Goal 2 Goal 5

Pre-Operational Actions
Meet with school bookkeeper to review
building finances, budgets, and accounts.
Meet with department chairs to discuss
content and subject areas, grade level norms,
expectations, and needs.
Meet with school safety and resource officers
to review building safety procedures and
crisis manage plan July 2021
Meet with assistant principals and school
counselors to discuss building schedule and
positive behavior interventions and support
Meet with all staff members who would like
to meet with me to discuss procedures,
protocols, and changes that they feel need to
be made within the school
Goal 1: Establish a positive school environment by building relationships with assistant
principals, staff, students, parents, and community members.
Action Timeline Next Steps
- Home visits prior to the start of - Continue to be present at
school for all incoming 9th graders school and community
- Welcome letter sent to the events throughout the
community via social media school year
introducing myself and goals for the August - Continue to administer a
school year 2021 weekly newsletter
- Personal introduction to staff - Post updates on school,
members on first day of pre-service teacher, and students
- Team building activities prior to the successes on school
start of school for all staff sanctioned social media

Goal 2: Use data to initiate and drive instructional decision making

Actions Timeline Next Steps
- Analyze previous year’s student - Establish opportunities
achievement data to determine areas for staff collaboration
of need - Provide professional
- Meet with department chairs and development
specialists to identify and address opportunities
August
areas of student need and determine - Track data and monitor
2021
how these areas will be targeted in the progress to reevaluate
coming year areas of need throughout
- Review Math and Reading the year
curriculums with department chairs
and specialists

Goal 3: Encourage and increase innovation and technology usage among teachers and
within classrooms
Actions
- Determine teacher areas of need
through conversations at team
meetings and staff surveys
- Work with the ITRT to identify
different technology resources that
would be meaningful for our students
- Establish professional development
opportunities
Timeline Next Steps
- Continue to provide
professional development
opportunities to support
teacher use of technology
- Conduct walk-throughs
September
of classrooms to observe
2021
how technology is being
used
- Survey teachers’ mid-
year to assess technology
progress or areas in need
Goal 4: Map subject curriculum for all departments through the first and second
quarter
Actions Timeline Next Steps
- Work with department chairs, - Establish collaborative
specialists, and teachers to create times for departments to
curriculum maps, gather resources, meet throughout the
and plan integrated, standards-based school year
units - Monitor department’s
- Encourage greater cohesion between September progress
content area teachers through 2021 - Conduct walk-throughs
collaborate meetings to observe lessons
- Establish a system to inform parents - Attending department
of current and up-coming material meetings to assist as
being covered so that they can better needed
help their students at home

Goal 5: Increase parental involvement with instructional content at home

Actions Timeline Next Steps
- Establish a system to inform parents - Continue with parental
of current and up-coming material communication system
being covered so that they can better - Meet with teams to
help students at home assess progress and
- Work with departments to create areas of need
October
“make and take” resources for - Establish times to bring
2021
students and families to practice with parents in to see, make,
at home and work with resources
being used in the
classroom (Pandemic
preparations)