Madison 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 

Goal

By June 2021, students will improve their ability to be compassionate and kind as measured by a district approved SEL tracking tool or survey. 

Action Plan

  • Administer OSD approved SEL tracking tool. (younger student buddies up with an older student to help them complete the survey)
  • Second Step
    • By June 1, 2021, each classroom teacher will teach the Second Step curriculum in its entirety, per district expectation.
    • Teachers will adapt/modify lessons as needed during distance learning.
    • Taught to all students. Time set aside on teacher’s Schedule
  • Classroom community building
    • Classroom teachers will provide students with opportunities for community building including, Circle Time and classroom community projects
  • PBIS (Positive reinforcements)
    • Reinforce positive student to student behaviors and interactions with PBIS reinforcement tokens. (On site.)
    • Recognitions at assemblies, newsletters, and classroom.
    • Community building activities
  • Social Groups
    • Special education social groups per special education IEPs.
    • Social Groups led by school counselor (Open to all students)
  • CICO
    • By Behaviour Tech. Multiple times a day. Includes conversation and reflection with student.
  • Madison Expectations, “Respectful, Responsible, Safe”
    • Reinforced daily by all staff. Appears on all PBIS tokens and many shared workspaces/areas 
  • Recognitions
    • Lifeskills, awards, and positive calls home.
  • Lunch Bunch (On site.)
    • Certificated staff meet with small group of students for an informal lunch.
    • Principal offers lunch with principal to groups of students

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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

  • MAP (3 times a year)
  • Bridges Pre/Post Assessments
  • Wonders Weekly Assessments
  • Fluency Assessments
  • Multiplication Timings 

Goal

ELA:
By May 2021, 90% or more of all grade 1-5 students continuously enrolled from October 2020 until April 2021, will score at or above grade level on the Reading  MAP assessment or will make 1 grade level of progress from their Fall MAP score.  

Math:
By May 2021, 90% or more of all students continuously enrolled in grades 1-5 from October 2020 until April 2021, will score at or above grade level on the Math MAP assessment or will make 1 grade level of progress from their Fall MAP score.  
 
Science:
By May 2021, at least 90% of ALL students in grade 5 will be level 3 or above in the area of science, as measured by annual SBA assessment.

Action Plan

ELA 

  • Wonders
    • Deliver Wonders with fidelity, keeping to OSD Scope and Sequence
    • All students have access to Wonders core instruction.
  • Intervention Groups (What I INeed, WIN Time)
    • Schedule has time slots that don’t impact core
    • During WIN time, all Madison students receive reading support at their level. Some students work in small groups with members of the reading team and others work in the classroom with their classroom teachers.
  • Reading Buddies (On site when school returns to normal.)
    • Community members volunteer to read individually with Madison students
    • Volunteers are trained and coordinated by Madison’s reading intervention teacher.
  • Washington Service Corps
    • Two WSC members work only on providing intervention supports in Reading
  • Cub Time Reading Supports (On site.)
    • Students read independently, with partners and in groups. 
    • WRC and para staff on hand to support students with book selection and reading
  • Family Literacy Events (On site only.)
    • Madison provides several after school Family Literacy Events each year. The goal of the events is to facilitate positive reading experiences between children and their families, develop a positive feeling around literacy and give parents strategies to use when reading with their children at home. (On site.)
  • Opportunities to recognize and celebrate growth
    • Madison will celebrate positive achievement, effort and attitude in reading and literacy.
  • “Book Bag” home reading program
    • A group of grade one and two students who need extra support in reading will take home two books each week to read with their families. These leveled books will be at the student’s instructional level. Books will be returned and exchanged weekly.
  • OJP
    • For each performance, there are class discussions before and after the play about the background information about the story, subject, vocabulary words, and cross-curricular projects. (On site.)

Math

  • Bridges
    • Deliver Bridges with fidelity keeping to OSD Scope and Sequence
  • WIN Time
    • Schedule has time slots that don’t impact core
  • Opportunities to recognize and celebrate growth
    • Both in the classroom and also at assemblies.
    • Certificates, email and phone calls home
    • Highlights on social media

Science

  • FOSS
  • Science Expo (on site only)
    • Fully-funded event for all students.Workshops provided after school to work on projects. Event takes place during the school day and also right after school, making it accessible for all students and their families
  • Dirt Works, City of Olympia Waste Management Program (on site only)
    • Dirt Works representative teachers about reduce, reuse and recycling, and students visit the Dirtworks Facicily for a hands-on workshop.
  • Grade level specific Field Trips, Kennedy Creek, Nisqually, etc. (on site only)
    • Second grade visits Nisqually Wildlife Refuge to observe different animals in their natural habitat. 
  • Garden, Avanti Volunteers
    • Each class has the opportunity to work in the garden as enrichment, or a supplement to the science curriculum
    • Avanti students, under the direction and supervision of Avanti staff, collaborate with garden projects.
  • Assemblies (on site only)
    • At least one whole school Science Assembly prior to Science Expo
    • Each classroom will have a personalised Science Presentation prior to the Science Expo.

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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

District SEL Tool, Panorama. 

Goal

By June of 2021, students will demonstrate their ability to advocate for a healthy body and mind as measured by the OSD approved SEL tool, Panorama. 

Action Plan

  • Administer OSD approved SEL tool, Panorama  (younger student buddies up with an older student to help them complete the survey)
  • By June 1, 2021, each classroom teacher will teach the Second Step curriculum in its entirety, per OSD expectation.
  • Common Sense Media
    • Taught by librarian to include: cyberbullying, privacy and security, media balance, digital footprint.
  • PE (online)
    • Students will attend online PE sessions and be active for at least 20-35 minutes daily.
  • Sensory areas, Buddy Classrooms (On site only.)
    • All classrooms have a sensory area complete with sensory items, fidgest, headphones, etc.
    • Buddy classrooms system to give students an additional choice if the classroom sensory area does not work for them
  • Interest Inventory at the start of school year, The “About Me Bag” (K), VIP of the Week
  • Counselor Mail Box / Schoology for students, Needs Boxes (4th and 5th)
    • Counselor, and upper grade teachers, have a box for students to ask for help.
  • “We’re Glad You are Here Today” tardy slips (on iste)
    • Tardy slips written in a positive manner.
  • Bus greeters (On site.)
    • Two staff members greet students, one as they get off the bus, the other as they enter the building. Starts the day off with a warm salutation, and also gives the heads up if a student appears to be upset.
  • Taking time to listen to students
  • Helping kids self identify emotions via Second Step curriculum.
  • Identifying kids who need positive adult interactions (Family Support Team)
    • Staff identifies students who need a little more attention and make it a point to stop and greet them or talk with them throughout the day.
  • Monday Morning morning announcements (On site.)
    • Principal, or designee, welcomes and greets entire  student body on Monday morning in the gym
    • Gives an outline of the week, introduces 2nd Step Theme of the week, etc.

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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

  • Staff sign-in sheets or registration data for on site equity-specific staff development.
  • SWIS data 

Goal

  • By the end of the 2020-21 school year, all staff will have had the opportunity to participate in up to 6 hours of on site equity training.
  • By the end of the school year, student SWIS infraction data will show at least a 75% drop in the use of racial/sexist by students. 

Action Plan

Madson staff will be offered professional development opportunities in the following areas:

  • Implicit Bias 
  • Microaggressions 
  • Equity Training 
  • Gender neutral language
  • Accessibility Training 

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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

District approved SEL tool, Panorama 

Goal

By June 2021, 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 district SEL tool, Panorama. 

Action Plan

  • Administer OSD Elementary Student Survey (younger student buddies up with an older student to help them complete the survey):  Fall and Spring Survey
  • Advertise and promote extracurricular activities
  • Partner with Booster Club/PTA groups to bring in outside speakers or instructors via Zoom or recorded video.
  • Use of online resources  as a way to spark interest in non-core areas
  • Science Expo (On site.)
    • All students take on a Science Expo project and present their results and conclusions at the main event.
  • Pretest/post test discussions and goal setting 
  • Food Drive (On site.)
  • Capital City Rotary of Olympia Art Grant
    • Art supplies for students
  • Garden
    • Partnership with PTO and Avanti with garden projects (On site.)

  • Strings, Band, Choir

  • Planetarium, 5th Ave Theatre. Regular Assemblies, PAI
    • Students will have the opportunity to attend at least one high quality assembly each month. (On site.)
  • After School Literacy Events (On site.)
    • Madison will provide after school Family Literacy Events each year.
  • Virtual Career Day. Bring in parents, via zoom or recorded video,  who work in non traditional roles.
  • Dirt Works, City of Olympia Waste Management Program (On site.)
    • Dirt Works representative teachers about reduce, reuse and recycling, and students visit the Dirtworks Facicily for a hands-on workshop.
  • 5th grade teaches Human Growth and Development lessons (Bodies Growing and Changing/HIV).
  • 5th grade participation at outdoor school at Camp Cispus.

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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 participation data on digital citizenship and classroom implementation
  • Student participation data on service projects
  • Sign in data for community/school involvement to maintain Madison-Avanti Giving Garden 

Goal

  • 100% of classrooms of K-5 participate in at least one service learning project.  
  • 80% of students will be able to write or draw the steps required to effectively solve a given problem or social situation.

Action Plan

  • Classroom teachers and teacher-librarian collaborate on teaching digital citizenship
  • Students will participate in service projects throughout the school year
  • School will partner with families and community to maintain Madison-Avanti Giving Garden 
  • Teachers will teach the Second Step Curriculum which teaches specific problem solving 

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