Quarterly School Board Report

1. The year's focus on school improvement goals: Reading and Math.

  • Data used to make these decisions is:
  • WASL 3rd grade in Reading and Math
  • WASL State/District Comparison graph
  • Sustainability graphs
  • Gender: Meeting Standard: Reading: F=70.8    M= 67.7
                                                   Math:     F= 60.4   M= 62.3
  • Ethnicity: Reading: Asian = 75 Hispanic =43.5 White =77.2
                   Math:    Asian = 75  Hispanic =52.2  White =65.4

 

2. Identifying Gaps:

  • Equality in programming for our students
  • Sustainability rate is lower than projected..suggests that we work toward mastery
  • Curriculum and available tools require attention, i.e., curriculum mapping for the school year that includes GLEs, intentional application of assessment data and teaching OCR as it is written and an increased focus on phonemic awareness and students in grades 1-3 will participate in AR and Kinders who are readers.
  • Transition time for students (which has program implementation)

 

3. Action Steps ~ Professional Development

  • MAP refresher training for grade 3 facilitated by Bruce. The 2nd grade teachers are to be scheduled.
  • Curriculum Maps (show the template and a developed one)
  • OCR training October 31st
  • 6-Traits Writing refresher/Writing Process/Four Square Writing (graphic organizer)
  • Collaboration meetings are all about student learning
  • Programming Pull in VS in class model, Flexible grouping for intensive skill instruction
  • WASL: Use of the released items are used in grade 3..All other grade levels are encouraged to present WASL-like problems and questions to their students
  • FSiM Diagnostic Tool
  • Home Reading…..
  • Reviewed SWT programs..use them with fidelity

 

4. Preschool ~

  • Present enrollment: 9 Co-op students and 25 students with IEPS EXPLORE on Friday morning which is open to everyone in our community.

 

5. Good to Great…Is the overarching goal. How we are going to accomplish this goal is:

  • Mind set: The need to produce sustained results through diligence…being more a work horse than a show horse
  • Look Fors: Look for the best researched based answers and then unify behind the decisions
  • Confront the Brutal Facts: Begin with an honest and diligent effort to determine the facts of the current reality and the right decisions often become self-evident
  • A Culture of Discipline: Involves duality. On one hand it requires who adhere to a consistent system, yet on the other hand, it gives people freedom and responsibility within the framework of that system.  It's the "WE".
  • Technology Accelerators: Select technologies that are linked to the Action Plans, i.e., AR
  • Keys to Success: Alignment follows from results and momentum.  Sustainable transformations follow a predictable pattern of buildup and breakthrough…this is where we are at IRPS.
  • From Good to Great..'Built to Last'…Enduring great schools preserve their core values and purpose while their daily strategies and operating practices endlessly adapt to a changing world.