LP Brown 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.
  • Students will participate in targeted small group social skills focusing on interpersonal skills and compassion.  
  • Family Liaisons will reach out to students and families to provide support in partnership with counselors and principals
  • Instructional Coaching Cadre will provide professional development on incorporating SEL into content area instruction.
  • Classroom morning meetings will be held to help build, reinforce, and maintain concepts related to empathy and problem solving.
  • Playworks, PeacePath, and Eagle Choices will be used at recess and in classrooms
  • Bullying Prevention instruction implemented from Second Step Curriculum.
  • All staff members will use Eagle Tickets to reinforce kind/compassionate behavior in the school.

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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

21/22: MAP, Kindergarten Assessment, Wonders Assessment

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 2022. 
  • 75% of kindergarten students will be able to orally count to 100 by spring 2022.


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 October, to 85% meeting or exceeding benchmark in May 2022.  
  • 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 2022 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 2022 MAP. 

Action Plan

  • Fidelity to District Curriculum with engaging supplementals.
  • Meet individual and group needs via anintervention and enrichment system.
  • Analyze pre/post data weekly using  PLC model.
  • Grade levels will monitor progress using PLC data
  • Primary grades will focus on foundational skills
  • Expand number of teachers using Concept Quest in math
  • Professional Development for Staff in Growth Mindset
  • Building will use “What I Need” groups to support student learning.
  • Instructional coaching and professional development provided to teachers in content area instructional practices.

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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 demonstrate skills related to Self efficacy and emotional regulation as measured in the Panorama survey. 

Action Plan

  • Family liaison partnering with Tier 2 and 3 Intervention Teams.
  • Behavior Tech will continue to use CICO (check in, check out) system.
  • Teacher-librarian will teach Common Sense Media focusing on media safety and media balance. 
  • Work with BHR and other local wraparound services to support the mental health and well being of students and families.
  • Resources uploaded to the Teaching and Learning Schoology page will be used for supporting the social emotional well being of students in the classroom setting.

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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

70% of students will respond favorably to the question How well do people at your school understand you as a person as measured by the Panorama Survey in the Sense of Belonging section by the late Spring 2022.

Action Plan

  • ​​​​​​Students will participate in the OSD Panorama SEL Survey in late fall 2021 and late spring of 2022.
  • Equity Team will meet monthly to focus on equity issues.
  • Staff will participate in “The Sum of Us” book study.
  • Use of the Racial Equity Tool for building level systemic decisions.
  • Inclusion of Land Acknowledgement in announcements.
  • Teacher training and access to materials on schoology to the 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

Exit tickets completed by students. 

Goal

  • 100% of grade levels will be provided opportunities in specialist classes to learn about professional vocations connected to art, PE, music, library by June, 2022. 

Action Plan

  • Presentations by guest speakers connected to professional vocations will visit LP Brown in person or remotely.
  • Classrooms will have the opportunity to participate in the community garden.
  • Invite community helpers to work with students (emergency service providers).
  • Work in partnership with families and community members to identify guest speakers.
  • Access community guest speakers and virtual tours in person/remotely

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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

Exit tickets completed by students. 

Goal

  • In partnership with the Puget Sound Enhancement Group, 100% of 5th grade students will participate in the salmon in schools program in both the fall of 2021 and the spring of 2022.

Action Plan

  • Science TOSA and Puget Sound Enhancement Group staff members will collaborate on the Salmon in Schools Program with 5th grade teachers. 
  • Teachers will teach from the new FOSS kits.
  • In the fall of 2021, teachers will attend grade level FOSS kit trainings.
  • Grade level teachers will have the opportunity to participate in growing plants in the school garden by coordinating with the community volunteer.
  • Fifth grade teachers will reach out to GRUB to coordinate visitations/activities.

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Revised February 15 2022