This summary provides information and results for our school’s improvement process. By design, broad improvement goals are established that take several years to fully achieve. All staff help identify and implement a few powerful research-based improvement strategies, which are assessed annually in terms of student learning gains.

Reading and Math Goals

• Overarching NSCAS Growth Reading Building Goal:
  • The overall percentage of students proficient on NSCAS Growth Reading will increase from 35% in the spring of 2022 to 51% in the spring of 2023.
    
    
• Overarching NSCAS Growth Math Building Goal:
  • The overall percentage of students proficient on NSCAS Growth Math will increase from 28% in the spring of 2022 to 51% in the spring of 2023.

Positive Support Goals

• Schoolwide positive Support Goal:
  • By th eend of the 2022-2023 school year, we will implement effective MTSS Positive Supports framework, which leads to 90% of students having 0-1 minor or major referrals, a structured and manageable Tier 2 response protocol, and reduced Tier 3 student needs.

What universal tier strategies are you implementing this year to improve student achievement?

• Strategy 1: Shared Leadership 1.4
  • Grade level PLCs meet a minimum of one time per week to engage in standards-based planning and data-driven decisions (i.e. PLC Progress Standards-Based Planning & Data-Driven Decisions).
• Strategy 2: Evidence-Based Instruction, Intervention, & Assessment Practices 1.3a
  • The BLT uses a process to ensure that effective universal practices are implemented with fidelity (Learning Targets & Success Criteria, Target-Task Alignment, & Verification of Learning).

What universal tier strategies are you implementing this year to improve positive supports?

• Strategy 1: Positive Supports Strategy 1: 1.6 Discipline Policies
  • School policies and procedures describe and emphasize proactive, instructive and/or restorative approaches to student behavior that are implemented consistently.