Hansen School Improvement Plan (2020-21)

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

Panorama SEL Survey: Late  Fall of 2020 and again in late spring of 2021 

Goal

By June of 2021, students survey results will show significant growth. (We must establish a baseline first) 

Action Plan

  • By Wednesday, December 15th, students will take the Panorama survey and we will analyze the results at our MTSS team.
  • Results will be shared to staff and community by Wednesday January 6th.
  • MTSS team and parents will meet to discuss a plan for improvement by Wednesday, February 3rd  

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 K-5
  • Common Formative Assessments (CFAs) for progress monitoring 

Goal

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

  • By January 2021, at least 70% of ALL students in grades K-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 2021, at least 70% 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

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

Panorama Surveys 

Goal

  • By Wednesday, December 15th, students will take the Panorama survey and we will analyze the results at our MTSS team.
  • Results will be shared to staff and community by Wednesday January 6th.
  • MTSS team and parents will meet to discuss a plan for improvement by Wednesday, February 3rd  

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 4: Have the skills, knowledge and courage to identify and confront personal, systemic and societal bias.

  1. Develop an appreciation of world cultures, which may include the understanding of the basic structure of another world language.
  2. Be well versed in local, national and world history and understand how prejudice, racism and xenophobia have contributed to conflict.
  3. Demonstrate the ability to recognize that biased attitudes expressed consistently over time gradually distort perceptions until stereotypes and myths about people different from oneself are accepted as reality.
  4. Empower themselves to interrupt discriminatory remarks and attitudes.
  5. Evaluate the significance and dependability of information used to support positions.
  6. Analyze the validity, reliability and credibility of information from a variety of primary and secondary sources while researching an issue or event.

Metric

  • Family engagement participation at Building Unity in the Hansen Community meetings
  • Staff Attendance at Equity Trainings
  • Pre/Post Assessment Development (Student's ability to define and/or use Anti-Racist Terminology)
  • Pre/Post Assessment Results
  • Pre/Post Assessment Analysis and growth goal development and achievement

Goal

By December 18th, every student will have taken an equity assessment to analyze their understanding of anti-racist common language. By January 22nd, staff will develop a growth goal based on the results of this assessment then take a post test by March 12th.

Action Plan

  • September 3rd - All staff have received equity training going over a deeper understanding of what it means to be Anti-racist. A post assessment was developed to check for engagement and offer asynchronous support.
  • October 9th - All staff have begun developing a pre/post assessment around common language for anti-racist thinking and dialogue.
  • November 16th - All assessment development will be complete
  • December 18th - All students will have completed equity assessment
  • January 22nd - Staff will develop a growth goal based on assessment results
  • March 12th

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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

Panorama Surveys 

Goal

  • By Wednesday, December 15th, students will take the Panorama survey and we will analyze the results at our MTSS team.
  • Results will be shared to staff and community by Wednesday January 6th.
  • MTSS team and parents will meet to discuss a plan for improvement by Wednesday, February 3rd  

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 6: Be critical thinkers who contribute to and collaborate with our local, global and natural world.

  1. Participate on teams and know the power of teamwork.
  2. Demonstrate the ability to engage in inclusive problem solving.
  3. Advocate for and contribute to local, regional or global improvement by utilizing natural resources in an efficient, sustainable way.
  4. Use digital tools to constructively learn from and connect with people and communities around the world.
  5. Gather, interpret and present information in culturally responsive ways.

Metric

Student research project submission rates 

Goal

By June 2021, Hansen will develop an online service fair where 75% of students at Hansen will have uploaded a project to a website where the project has a focus on learning about others or providing a service to others. 

Action Plan

Provide teachers time to develop project foundations during staff meetings and early release time. Teachers will have project plans by Wednesday, January 27th.

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