Hansen School Improvement Plan (2019-20)

Outcome 1: Be compassionate and kind.

  1. Be aware of and appreciate one’s similarities and differences with others.
  2. Listen well and cooperate with others.
  3. Demonstrate awareness of one’s own thoughts and emotions and how they impact behavior.
  4. Express emotions, thoughts and impulses in positive and beneficial ways.
  5. Resolve conflicts and repair relationships.

Metric

Elementary Student Climate Survey 

  • Spring 2019 Results to expected Spring 2020 Results (Growth in positive % as Always + Often)
  1. Students at school respect each other. From 39% positive to 60% positive.
    • Always - 6.5%
    • Often - 32.5%
    • Sometimes - 56%
    • Never - 5% 
  2. Students at school respect me. From 52% positive 72% positive.
    • Always - 12%
    • Often - 40%
    • Sometimes -41.5% 
    • Never - 6.5%
  3. Students at this school are compassionate. From 50% positive to 70% positive.
    • Always - 12%
    • Often - 38%
    • Sometimes - 46%
    • Never - 5%

Goal

  • Goal: Students will demonstrate an increase by 20% in positive in compassion and kindness as seen in the Spring Student Climate Survey from 2019 to 2020. 

Action Plan

Social Skills Intentionally Taught and Reviewed

  • Second Step
  • Social Skills Recess
  • SEL time in Master Schedule (Morning Meeting Daily in classrooms, transition check-ins)
  • Daily morning assemblies talking about ways to be compassionate and kind
  • Monitor Check-in Check-out student data bimonthly
  • Launch Compassionate and Kindness awards assemblies
  • Continue Self Manager Process ensuring equitable access 

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Outcome 2: Have the academic and life skills to pursue their individual career, civic and educational goals.

  1. Read, write and speak effectively for a wide range of purposes, including the interpretation and analysis of both literary and informational texts.
  2. Know and apply mathematics to a level of fluency that ensures a broad range of post-secondary opportunities and career choices.
  3. Use analytic and scientific principles to draw sound conclusions.
  4. Analyze multiple causal factors that shape major events in history.
  5. Exit with a personalized post-secondary transition plan for work, career and/or college, and complete the first steps toward achieving post-secondary goals before graduation.
  6. Develop and use conceptual understanding, exploring knowledge across a range of disciplines, and engage with issues and ideas that have local and global significance.
  7. Problem solve using both creative and critical thinking skills.
  8. Demonstrate continuous growth across the disciplines to meet or exceed academic learning standards and work toward graduation.
  9. Apply reliable information and systematic decision making to personal financial decisions.

Metric

  • SBA 3-5 
  • MAP 2-5
  • DIBELS Kinder Letter Naming , First Whole Word Recognition
  • Common Formative Assessments (CFAs) for progress monitoring

Goal

Winter Goal: To be analyzed and adjusted by end of February
Winter MAP ELA :

  • By January 2020, at least 90% of ALL students in grades 1-5 will meet their projected growth in ELA as measured by trimester MAP assessments.
  • 40% of students who are in the red will move to yellow and yellow to orange indicating they exceeded their projected growth by at least 2 additional points.

 
Winter MAP Math:

  • By January 2020, at least 90% of ALL students in grades 1-5 will meet their projected growth in Math as measured by trimester MAP assessments.
  • 40% of students who are in the red will move to yellow and yellow to orange indicating they exceeded their projected growth by at least 2 additional points


Spring SBA Goal:

  • ELA, Math, and Science:
  • By June 2020, Hansen overall student proficiency on SBA will increase by 10% in each area. 


Spring DIBELS Goal:

  • By Spring 2020, At least 30% of Kindergarten students in Red will become yellow in Letter Naming Fluency and at least 30% of First grade students in Red will become yellow in Whole Word Recognition.

Action Plan

  • Data Driven Intervention Pull Out Support
    • Identifying tipping points in data, strategic skill based intervention groups will be pulled for 30 minutes Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday for Math and Reading.
  • Common Formative Assessment (CFA) Analysis with Tool
    • Staff will fill out a Collaborative Assessment Analysis Tool (CAAT) once a week during PLC Wednesdays. They will focus on reading one week and math the next, alternating every week. Goal of the CAAT is to collaboratively identify common misconceptions and create support plans to help students fill in gaps. They are also to recognize the instructional moves that helped to create success and share those with their team.
  • Instructional focus and PD on quality questioning and equitable structured student discourse driven by quality learning targets and success criteria.
    • Admin walkthrough form will collect data on implementation. Moving from low frequency of discourse to higher frequency with higher quality of questioning and press on student reasoning.

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Outcome 3: Advocate for the social, physical and mental wellness of themselves and others and be hopeful about the future.

  1. Communicate effectively.
  2. Develop knowledge and skills to have healthy eating habits, have a healthy body image and access reliable health information and services.
  3. Be physically active and see athletics and exercise as health-enhancing behaviors.
  4. Understand and apply principles of sound mental and emotional health and learn to identify signs of emotional health concerns such as depression, anxiety and suicidal thinking in self and others.
  5. Understand how and when to seek supportive mental and emotional health resources for self and others.
  6. Cultivate healthy relationships that honor each person's personal preferences and boundaries.
  7. Identify and develop personal strengths and interests.
  8. Develop the skills and habits to assess the role of technology and social media in their lives and distinguish between healthy and harmful use.

Metric

OSD Elementary Student Climate Survey Questions 7-10 

Goal

By June of 2020, students will demonstrate their ability to advocate for a healthy mind and body. This will be shown through 90% of students responding "Most of the Time" or "Always" to questions 7-10 on the OSD Elementary Student Climate Survey. 

Action Plan

  • Second Step Curriculum Delivered through SEL time in master schedule.
  • Emphasize Self Advocacy through Self-Manager applications and process.
  • Emphasize Self Advocacy through daily morning assemblies. 

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Outcome 5: Discover their passions, be curious and love learning.

  1. Broaden their perspectives and seek out various opportunities to explore new ideas, particularly those areas that are unfamiliar or uncomfortable to find their interests.
  2. Experience failure, setbacks and disappointments as an expected and honored part of learning.
  3. Understand and demonstrate the value of service in their community and learning by doing.
  4. Pursue creative and artistic opportunities as a vocation and/or a form of lifelong enrichment.

Metric

OSD Elementary Student Climate Survey Question 11 

Goal

By June 2020, 100% of students will participate in one or more supervised activities outside of core instruction either at school or after school by the end of the school year as measured by the Fall and Spring Elementary Student Climate Survey. 

Action Plan

Communicate Opportunities for Extra Curricular Activities.
Increase field trips with focus on curiosity and love of learning, have teachers use writing for reflection around curiosity and love of learning after the field trip. Focused questions, what were you curious about and why? What did you love learning about and why?
Assembly Coordinator have the lens of curiosity and love of learning for assemblies, use written reflections after assemblies with similar focused questions. What were you curious about and why? What did you love learning about and why?

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