OSD Students Will

Outcome 1:
Be compassionate and kind.
Board Monitoring Report 6/9/2022

Outcome 2:
Have the academic and life skills to pursue their individual career, civic and educational goals.
Board Monitoring Report 1/27/2022

Outcome 3:
Advocate for the social, physical and mental wellness of themselves and others and be hopeful about the future.
Board Monitoring Report 4/14/2022

Outcome 4:
Have the skills, knowledge and courage to identify and confront personal, systemic and societal bias.
Board Monitoring Report 3/10/2022

Outcome 5:
Discover their passions, be curious and love learning.
Board Monitoring Report 2/10/2022

Outcome 6:
Be critical thinkers who contribute to and collaborate with our local, global and natural world.
Board Monitoring Report 10/26/2021

LP Brown 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

  • 20/21 Metric: Student Climate Survey.   Fall of 2020 and again in late spring of 2021; In-house survey based on 19/20 district school climate survey #9 and/or aligned Panorama Survey question/s
  • 2019-2020: Elementary (3-4-5) School Student Climate Survey 
  • Question #9: Students at my school are compassionate and kind. 
  • 2020-2021: Increase to include CICO data for "Kind" 

Goal

  • 20/21 Goal: By June of 2021, students will improve their ability to be compassionate and kind, by having 80% of the entire student body identify as; Always and/or Most of the Time on question #9 from student climate survey based on 19/20 District survey and/or aligned question/s from Panorama Survey. 
  • By June 2020, LPB students in grades 3-4-5 will improve their ability to be compassionate and kind by having 80% identify as "Always" and/or "Most of the Time" on the OSD Elementary Student Climate Survey Question #9.
  • 2020-2021: By June 2021, LPB students in grades k-1-2-3-4-5 will improve their ability to be compassionate and kind by having 80% identify as "Always" and/or "Most of the Time" on the OSD Elementary Student Climate Survey Question #9. 

Action Plan

20/21 Action Steps

  • Each classroom teacher will teach the Second Step curriculum in its entirety by June of 2021.
  • Every morning, classroom morning meetings are held to help build, reinforce, and maintain concepts related to empathy and problem solving.
  • Counselor will hold both targeted small group social skills session and drop in sessions for lunch buddies. Counselor will provide universal and targeted interventions (small group and 1:1).
  • Monthly assembly celebration
  • Panorama Survey when available​​​​​​​
  • Continue with Playworks, PeacePath, and Eagle Choices in classrooms
  • Administer Elementary Climate Survey 3-4-5 in 2018-2019, 2019-2020
  • Administer Elementary Climate Survey k-1-2-3-4-5 in 2020-2021 
  • Continue with weekly school-wide  2nd Step classroom lessons
  • Continue with Counselor Team  T-2 pull out 2nd Step groups
  • Continue with monthly Student Recognition assembly/breakfast for 2nd Step traits
  • Continue school-wide  use of PlayWorks   
  • Continue use of Playground Peace Path
  • Expand use of Peace Path to classroom use
  • Continue use of CICO for T-2 & T-3 'Safe, Kind, Responsible'
  • Provide 'Eagle Choices' posters for each classroom & public areas
  • Teach Eagle Choices in each classroom
  • Continue bi-monthly Staff Brown Learn Newsletter column on Restorative Practices, Mindfulness
  • Administrator and staff to receive Restorative Practices Training:
    • 2019-2020;
      • Admin and Restorative Staff to read Restorative Practices book 
      • Coordinate with RES Restorative Trainer
      • Admin to receive iirp 4-day training
    • 2020-2021; 
      • Restorative Practices staff member to receive iirp 4-day training.
  • School Counselor to train classrooms on:
    1. School Helpers and Eagle Choices
    2. Self-Regulation/Coping Tools
    3. Classroom Calm Down Space Planning
  • 2019-2020 75% classes receive 2 of 3 lessons. 2020-2021 100% classes receive 3 lessons.
  • Implement student generated 'recognition eg student eagle ticket'
  • Develop and provide specific structure to morning meeting w/content/mindfulness training

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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

20/21 Metric/s: 

  • Kindergarten: Educator generated assessment/s
  • 1st – 5th Grade: MAP Assessment in Reading/Math
  • Percent of students engaged in learning
  • ELA grades 3-4-5 SBA
  • ELA grades k-1 Dibels FSF, Dibels ORF respectively
  • Math grades 3-4-5 SBA, 1-5 Math Dibels
  • Math grades 1-2 Math Dibels, Bridges number corner assessments
  • Science grade 5 WCAS 

Goal

KINDERGARTEN SIP GOALS

  • 75% of kindergarten students will be able to verbalize 20/26 letter sounds when presented with a visual of that letter by spring 2021. 
  • 75% of kindergarten students will be able to orally count to 100 by spring 2021.

1st GRADE SIP GOALS  

  • The first graders will show improvement in reading fluency, using the data from the Wonders Curriculum Oral Reading Fluency Benchmark Assessment, improving from 54% meeting or exceeding benchmark in November, to 85% meeting or exceeding benchmark in May.  
  • The first graders will show math skill improvement from   62% meeting standard in the fall, to 85% meeting standard in the spring, using the Comprehensive Growth Assessment. 

2nd-5th GRADE SIP GOALS

  • Math: 55% of continuously enrolled attending students in grades 2-5 will meet or exceed growth goals and/or reach grade level proficiency as measured by fall to spring 2021 MAP.
  • Reading: 65% of continuously enrolled attending students in grades 2-5 will meet or exceed growth goals and/or reach grade level proficiency as measured by fall to spring 2021 MAP. 

Action Plan

20/21 Action Steps:

  • Alignment and focus on District identified Critical Standards
  • Fidelity to District Curriculum with engaging supplementals
  • Teacher training and implementation of Distance Learning Technologies
  • Weekly PLC Data Teaming w/monthly learning goals and intervention groups

20/21 Action Steps:

  • Create and offer menu of tier 2 and 3 interventions for attendance/engagement for students farthest removed from educational justice
  • Building will use district curriculum with fidelity. 
  • Building will meet individual and group needs via an intervention and enrichment system. Building will analyze pre/post data weekly using  PLC1 and PLC 2 model.
  • Grade levels will monitor weekly using PLC data
  • Grade levels will continue to post monthly learning goals
  • Grade levels 3-4-5 will use monthly SBA Interim assessments IABs.
  • Building will focus on informational text
  • Primary grades will focus on foundational skills
  • Building will expand number of teachers trained in and using Concept Quest in math
  • Building will continue to promote summer learning through Power Scholars
  • Building will continue Professional Development in Understanding by Design
  • Building will focus on setting Clear lesson outcomes w/student friendly success criteria
  • Building will continue to showcase and celebrate Classroom Excellence
  • Building will continue to showcase and celebrate Excellence in Work Quality
  • Science:
    • Building teachers will receive training on and use aligned science kits
    • Building teachers will incorporate science kit vocabulary into ELA and Wonders lessons

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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

20/21 Metric:

  • District Wellness checks

20/21 Metric:

  • Student Climate Survey.   Fall of 2020 and again in late spring of 2021; In-house survey based on 19/20 district school climate survey #7-11 and/or aligned Panorama Survey question/s​​​​​​​
  • OSD Elementary Student Survey questions 7-11
  • Common Sense Media post assessments
  • PE CBA

Goal

20/21 Goal:

  • By the end of 20/21 SY, 90% of students will have filled out the wellness checks as a way to advocate for themselve

20/21 Goal: 

  • By June of 2021, students will improve their ability to apply principles of sound emotional and mental health, by having 90% of the entire student body identify as; Always and/or Most of the Time on related questions in Student Climate Survey based on 19/20 district school climate survey #7-11 and/or aligned Panorama Survey question/s.
  • By June 2020, students will demonstrate their ability to advocate or a healthy body and mind by 90% of students in grades 3-4-5 responding "Most of the Time" and/or "Always" to questions 7-11 on the OSD Elementary Student Climate Survey.
  • By June 2021, 90% of students in grades k-5 will respond "Most of the Time" and/or "Always" to questions 7-11 on the OSD Elementary Climate Survey.
  • By June 2020, all classes will demonstrate increased awareness of healthy media consumption by students scoring over 66% on the Common Sense Media post assessments.
  • By June 2020, 100% of classes will participate in the PE CBA

Action Plan

20/21 Action Steps: 

  • Teachers have students do the Wednesday Wellness  check-ins
  • Teachers train students what each question means and why they fill it out
  • Staff responds with support for students that express a need for help
  • Teachers teach students how to access SEL resources at school (e.g. Virtual Counselor, Virtual Recess
  • Hold monthly all-school education and incentives to promote/focus/encourage social, physical and emotional  wellness 

20/21 Action Steps:

  • PE specialist focus on identified Critical Standards
  • Classroom teachers collaborate with teacher-librarian will teach Common Sense Media
  • Teachers will monitor the daily attendance check in (thumbs up/thumbs down) to gather data about student’s social/emotional feelings and use that to follow up with families/school counselor
  • Teacher-librarian to teach Common Sense Media lessons to all classrooms - 3 lessons w/post assessments
  • Encourage increase in children taking advantage of school-wide free lunch via morning announcements, classroom, student leaders 
  • PE teacher to integrate healthy eating into PE lessons
  • School will send home information about healthy diet in school newsletter
  • All students will attend PE 1-2x/wk
  • Building will research and increase avenues to provide protein rich snacks

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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

  • 20/21 Metric: Student Climate Survey Fall of 2020 and again in late spring of 2021. In-house survey based on19/20 district school climate survey and/or aligned Panorama Survey question/s.
  • 20/21 Metric: Analysis of library collection for inclusion of diverse materials. 

Goal

20/21 Goal:

  • By June 2021, 90% of student responses on the In-house survey based on19/20 district school climate survey and/or aligned Panorama Survey question/s indicate they can speak up “always or most of the time” when they see disrespect or unkind treatment of another person or group because of who they are.

20/21 Goal:

  • By June of 2021, the current library collection of picture books and k-3 non-fiction will be analyzed and increased to match funding to include books that represent different cultures, races, sexual orientation and people with disabilities.​​​​​​​ 

Action Plan

20/21 Action Steps:

  • Teach students about identity and discrimination and acceptance
  • Teach staff and students to recognize when to intervene and how to intervene
  • Counselor to compile supplemental materials for teaching acceptance
  • Aspects of ‘Time Immemorial’ curriculum use by teachers of all grade levels

20/21 Action Steps:

  • LPB Staff receive Racial Equity instruction
  • Staff participate in We Got This book study
  • Adopt and use the Racial Equity Tool for building level systemic decisions 
  • Reach out to families and community members to solicit titles for inclusion in library collections.
  • Elementary librarians will collaborate to share book titles which increase a child’s appreciation of world cultures.
  • Librarians to use Diverse Book Finder tool to analyze our library collections to ensure that diverse collections are appropriately represented.
  • Teachers to share and feature new inclusionary titles during Core instruction
  • Teacher Librarians will meet with grade level PLC’s to share ideas and gather requests
  • Partner with PTO to provide funding for Indigenous author visit/guest speaker/s​​​​​​​

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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

20/21 Metric:

  • Student completion of one presentation/project exploring one new interest
  • OSD Elementary Student Survey questions 14 & 15
  • Student completion of one presentation/project exploring one new interest

Goal

20/21 Goal:

  • By June 2021, 75% of students will choose a topic of interest and complete an age appropriate project based on that choice.​​​​​​​
  • Students will demonstrate improvement in their love of learning by having 90% of students in grades 3-4-5 identify Always" and/or "Most of the Time" one the OSD Elementary Student Climate Surv​​​​​​​ey questions 14 and 15 by spring 2020.
  • By spring 2021, 90% of all students in grades k-5 will identify "Always" and/or "Most of the Time" on questions 14 and 15. 
  • By spring 2020, 90% of students in grades 3-4-5 will explore and prepare a project/presentation of one new interest.

Action Plan

20/21 Action Step/s:

  • Research curriculum/lessons on ‘growth mindset’; teaching “healthy risks vs. perfectionism”
  • All-School “career-day”/ or compilation and sharing of interest projects
  • Investigate “drive-by” remote Toy, Coat, Food, Book drives as service project/s for community. 
  • Specialists include curriculum that highlights careers in the arts, sports and valuing self-expression​​​​​​​
  • Teachers to teach four Growth Mindset specific lessons explicitly by end of the year
  • Work with PTO to increase after school offerings and stipends for exploration interests- eg karate, Bricks for Kids, foreign language, chess, etc
  • Develop survey for parents regarding about perceived impact of music, pe, art offerings
  • Confirm Calm-down Corner in every classroom
  • Explore Calm-down Station/s outside classrooms
  • Add specialists (art, pe, music, library) onto the Monthly Goal focus spreadsheet
  • Continue sending LPBrown "What to Do with your Family" list
  • Seek out and publicize via newsletter new opportunities for students to explore
  • Staff will research and develop an interest inventory and give to students grades 3-4-5 this year

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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

20/21 Metric:

  • School leadership/team opportunities

Goal

20/21 Goal:

  • Increase the number of school participation opportunities for leadership and collaboration from two opportunities (Eagle Ambassadors and Junior Coaches) to four leadership/team opportunities during the 20/21 SY 

Action Plan

20/21 Action Steps:

  • Research Cross-grade leadership opportunities (Student reps site council)
  • Research other student leadership/team opportunities i.e. school beautification programs
  • Research school-wide initiative on eco-friendly building changes; recycling or cafeteria composting 

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