Madison 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 their ability to be 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
  • All staff members will use PBIS Tokens to reinforce and encourage kind/compassionate behaviors
  • Morning meetings will occur in every classroom daily to build and reinforce positive relationships between students and staff members
  • Each classroom will have a “soft start” to the workday, allowing teachers time to check in on students and to help solve any student needs before the instructional day begins
  • 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
  • Madison Expectations, “Respectful, Responsible, Safe” will be reinforced daily by all staff. (Appears on all PBIS tokens and many shared workspaces/areas.)

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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

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

Goal

Panorama Goal:

  • By June of 2022, 80% of students will demonstrate their ability to be compassionate and kind, as measured in the Panorama survey in the categories of supportive relationships and positive feelings.

ELA: Goal

  • By May 2022, 90% or more of all grade 1-5 students continuously enrolled from October 2021 until April 2022, 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 Goal:

  • By May 2022, at least 70% of ALL students in grades 1-5 will score above the 50th percentile in Math as measured by the fall and spring MAP assessments.

Science Goal:

  • By May 2022, at least 75% of ALL students in grade 5 will be level 3 or above in the area of science, as measured by the 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 Need, WIN Time)
    • The 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 with their classroom teachers
  • Reading Buddies (Onsite 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 provide reading intervention supports and activities to strengthen student reading skill and confidence in 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

Math

  • Bridges
    • Deliver Bridges with fidelity keeping to OSD Scope and Sequence
  • WIN Time
    • The 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. The event takes place during the school day and also right after school, making it accessible for all students and their families

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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
  • Family Liaison will partner with the school counselor, Tier 2 Team, BHR, and other local community-based resources such as Together! to support the social-emotional and mental health and well-being of students
  • Behavior Technician will continue to use CICO (check-in, check out) system
  • Access to additional PE classes with the increase in specialist time 
  • Teacher-librarian will teach Common Sense Media focusing on media safety and media balance.
  • Provide reading supports to help students see themselves as confident, skilled readers
  • Identifying kids who need positive adult interactions (Family Support Team)
    • Staff identifies students who need a little more attention and makes it a point to stop and greet them or talk with them throughout the day.
  • 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.

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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
  • SWIS data

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.
  • By the end of the school year, student SWIS infraction data will show at least a 75% drop in the use of racial/sexist infractions by students.

Action Plan

  • Equity Team will routinely throughout the year in order to address Madison’s needs.
  • Teachers provide opportunities for class discussions when events arise in the community related to major news events and will communicate topics of conversations with families.
  • Continue to diversify library collections to better represent all students and cultures. 
  • 4th and 5th-grade students will participate in the Cause of Conflict CBA 
  • Teachers will teach grade level Since Time Immemorial (STI) 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 are completed by students at the end of the service event. 

Goal

By June 2022, 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

  • Schools/Grade levels/teachers choose at least one service project to complete during the year
  • Work in partnership with families and community members to complete service project(s)
  • Possible Suggestions: Glove Drive, Valentines for Vets, canned food drive, etc.
  • Highlight and celebrate examples of students providing service
  • Exposing students to all sorts of books so they can come to love reading and see books as a way to learn about lives that are different than their own. Helping students access books about things they are passionate about
  • Madison’s book giveaway library, where students can select books they would like to own and take them home to keep for free After School Literacy Events (On-site) 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.)

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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 at the end of both water quality testing events.

Goal

In partnership with South Sound Green, 100% of 5th-grade students will participate in water quality testing both in the fall of 2021 and the spring of 2022.

Action Plan

  • Carmen Kardokus, Science TOSA and South Sound Green staff members will collaborate to bring quality testing experiences to each building
  • Teachers will teach from the new FOSS kits
  • In the fall of 2021, teachers will attend grade level FOSS kit trainings

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