Hansen School Improvement Plan (2021-22)

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 survey in late fall of 2021 and late spring in 2022. 

Goal

By June of 2022, 80% of students will demonstrate an awareness of being compassionate and kind, as measured in the Panorama survey in the categories of supportive relationships and positive feelings.

Action Plan

  • Each classroom teacher will teach the Second Step curriculum in its entirety.
  • Morning assemblies reinforcing kindness and SEL lessons.
  • Restorative circles will be used to help repair harm when it happens in the school.
  • All students will be directly taught multiple methods for asking for help when they need it.
  • We will analyze previous reward systems through the district Equity Tool to determine if we should continue, modify or abolish such systems.

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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 3-5 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.
  • Need to get a baseline for Winter Oral Reading Fluency for K-2.

Winter MAP Math:

  • By January 2021, at least 70% of ALL students in grades 3-5 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.
  • Need to get a baseline for MAP growth for K-2.

Action Plan

  • Data Driven Intervention Pull Out Support
    • Create and monitor a schoolwide implementation of Daily 5 and Math Daily 3 for students to have systematic structures and goals for independent work. While students are independent, teachers will work in small groups with students to support missing skills.
    • Identifying tipping points in MAP data and classroom assessment data such as Oral Reading Fluency assessments, strategic skill-based intervention groups will be pulled for 20 - 30 minutes Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday for Reading. Progress monitoring will occur on Wednesdays.
    • Identifying common misconceptions through MAP and Bridges checkpoints, intervention teachers will be a part of a flexible rotation based on student needs.


  • Instructional focus and PD on quality questioning and equitable structured student discourse driven by quality learning targets and success criteria. To press on critical thinking, we are asking teachers to use a Claim Evidence and Reasoning structure for student discourse. Staff are also asked to use Acheve The Core Priority Standards when choosing which lessons to focus on.
    • Admin walkthrough form will collect data on implementation. Moving from low frequency of discourse to higher frequency with a higher quality of questioning and press on student reasoning. 
    • 6 Week PLC cycles on Wednesdays with interventionists to monitor progress and adjust groups as needed.

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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 survey in late fall of 2021 and late spring in 2022.

Goal

By June of 2022, 80% of students will respond favorably when asked about their ability to demonstrate self-efficacy and emotional regulation as measured in the Panorama survey.

Action Plan

  • Teachers will teach and use self-regulation strategies (zones of regulation, calm down corner, relaxation techniques, positive self-talk, classroom meetings, Second Step lessons/ language) in the classroom.
  • A family liaison will partner with a school counselor, Tier 2 Teams, BHR, and other local community-based resources to support the mental health and well-being of students.
  • Behavior Technicians will continue to use CICO (check-in, check-out) system.
  • All elementary schools will have access to additional PE classes with the increase in specialist time.

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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

  • Panorama survey in late fall of 2021 and late spring in 2022.

Goal

By Spring 2022, 80% of families will respond favorably regarding students learning about, discussing and confronting issues of race, ethnicity and culture in school as measured by the Panorama Survey in the cultural awareness and action sections.

Action Plan

  • Staff will engage in book studies during staff meetings.
  • Staff will be encouraged to talk about issues of race and gender in the classroom.
  • Parents will be notified of conversations occurring around race and gender in newsletters and through social media within the school through recognition of the following:
    • Hispanic Heritage Week
    • Orange Shirt Day
    • Indigenous People's Day
    • AAPI Recognition
    • Black Lives Matter Week
    • Pride Month
    • Current events
  • The Equity Team will meet routinely to analyze systems using the District Equity Tool.
  • 4th and 5th-grade students will participate in the Cause of Conflict CBA.
  • Teachers will teach grade level Since Time Immemorial curriculum.

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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 survey in late fall of 2021 and late spring in 2022.

Goal

By June of 2022, 90% of families will respond favorably when asked about to students enjoying going to school as measured in the Panorama survey.

Action Plan

  • Students will have multiple opportunities to engage in activities within the school that are different and exciting.
  • We will work to bring outside presenters to the school to talk about relevant aspects of science and the community as well as different career paths.
  • Each classroom will work on service opportunities to help organizations that they are passionate about.
  • Students will work on designing new playground equipment and thinking about equitable access as well as engineering value when building structures.

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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

Claim Evidence Reasoning growth monitoring responses.

Goal

By June of 2022, 80% of students will be able to effectively identify a claim, evidence and reasoning regarding a topic that relates to their world.

Action Plan

  • Teachers will gather a baseline of student ability and analyze growth from Fall, to winter and spring.
  • PD will be offered to ensure teachers are able to explain the difference to students.
  • Every student will receive a grade level prompt for claim evidence and reasoning and submit these responses
  • Rubrics will be co-developed and shared with staff and students

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