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

ORLA Montessori 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

K-6

  • K/1:  WA Kids Objective 3b:  Solves Social Problems
  • 2-3: WA Kids Objective 3b:  Solves Social Problems
  • 4-6: Growth Mindset Curriculum 

MAST 7/8:  

  • School Wide climate survey on kindness
  • Teacher participation Character Strong 
  • Teacher participation in Character Strong activities during advisory. 

Goal

  • K-3:  By May, 2021, 80% of K-3 students will grow two levels or more on WA Kids objective 3b:  Solves Social Problems.
  • 4-6: By May, 2021, 90% of the Upper Elementary students will accomplish their Growth Mindset goals.   
  • MAST 7/8: By June 2021, 65% of students will participate in the kindness challenge and complete the school survey.

Action Plan

Montessori

  • K/1 teachers will use the regular SEL lessons to teach and practice social skills throughout the year. 
  • Lower Elementary will use projects to teach and observe collaborative work skills. 
  • Upper Elementary will use the Growth Mindset model and goal setting forms throughout the 2020 - 2021 school year.  

MAST 7/8

  • School Wide climate survey on kindness
  • Teacher participation in Character Strong
  • Monthly teacher participation in kindness activities
  • We will also continue to add to our Kindness Activity resource document and will share with staff.  

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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

  • Indicate the metric you will use to measure the impact of your strategies
  • Upper Elementary: MAP
  • Lower Elementary: MAP
  • Kindergarten:  Montessori assessment Notebook for Math
  • Kindergarten:  Words their Way assessments
  • Kindergarten:  Completion of a project assessed by a grade level rubric

Goal

Math Goals
 
K/1

  • By June of 2021, K/1 students will perform at practitioner or expert levels on the Montessori Assessment notebook for solving word problems when read aloud.  

Lower Elementary 

  • By 2023, students in 2nd-3rd grade will increase their RIT scores on the MAP assessment by 5%.

Upper Elementary

  • By 2023, students in 4th-6th grade will increase their RIT scores on the MAP assessment by 5%.

MAST 7/8

  • By 2023, students in MAST grades 7 and 8 will meet their individual growth goal. 
  • By 2023, 70% or more of students taking the SBA will demonstrate proficiency on the math SBA. 

ELA Goals
 
K/1

  • By June of 2021, 80% of Kindergarten students will write beginning sounds to pictures.  1st grade will include blends and digraphs.

Lower Elementary 1-3

  • By 2023, 75% or more of 2-3 grade students taking the MAP assessment will make 5% growth.

Upper Elementary 4-6

  • By 2023, 75% or more of 4-6th grade students taking the MAP assessment will make 5% growth. 

MAST 7/8th Grade 

  • By 2023, 75% or more of students taking the SBA will demonstrate proficiency and improved performance relative to proficiency in writing and revising narrative, informational/explanatory, and/or opinion/argumentative paragraphs. 

Science Goals
 
K/1

  • By June of 2021, 80% of K/1 students will use and apply vocabulary related to ecology and biomes in a final project.   

2/3

  • By 2021, 80% of 2/3 students will use and apply vocabulary related to ecology and biomes in a final project.   

Upper Elementary

  • By 2020, 85% of students will demonstrate proficiency on the WCAS

MAST 7/8th Grade 

  • By 2020, 91% of students will demonstrate proficiency on the WCAS

Action Plan

K/1

  • K/1 students will engage in word problem solving using actions, objects or drawings on a regular basis.  
  • K/1 students will use Words Their Way sorting and words study activities to develop phonics and spelling skills.
  • K/1 students will study biomes integrated with language development. 
  • Students identified as below grade level in reading will work with the Washington Reading Corp member to increase reading skills.  

Lower Elementary 2-3

  • Students identified as being in need (MAP score) of additional support will receive additional math or reading lessons using focus groups, teacher groups, parent groups, and/or peer groups.

Upper Elementary 4-6

  • Students in Upper Elementary Montessori scoring two or below on the MAP math or reading will receive additional math or reading lessons using focus groups, teacher groups, parent groups, and/or peer groups.
  • All students in grades 4 - 6 will receive Geometric Measurement instruction and explorations.  

MAST 7/8th grade 
ELA/Social Studies:

  • Teachers will provide students with a cornucopia of opportunities to write, edit, revise, improve, and publish narrative, informational/explanatory, and/or opinion/argumentative pieces of writing.
  • Students will experience direct instruction, guided practice, and independent practice opportunities from their teachers across a plethora of parameters within the context of creating multitudinous writing responses.
  • Genres of writing will be assigned and practiced in relation to grade level CCSS.  In addition, SBAC performance scores and individual developmental levels of students will be considered to determine where students may need additional scaffolding to buttress the mastery of their skills.

Math: 

  • Students will demonstrate a working math vocabulary when speaking and listening to math.   
  • We will give a pre- and post-assessment with math vocabulary embedded in the problems. We will monitor student growth in this area by asking students to use the correct mathematical terms when speaking about math and I will confer with specific students as the need arises. 
  • We will meet as a team to reflect on our practice, conferring with each other with about our successes and failures, making adjustments as necessary. We will present methods for building mathematical vocabulary as a continuum across grade levels. 

Science: 

  • Students will demonstrate a working math vocabulary when speaking and listening to science.   
  • We will give a pre- and post-assessment with science vocabulary embedded in the problems. We will monitor student growth in this area by asking students to use the correct scientific terms when speaking about science and I will confer with specific students as the need arises. 
  • We will meet as a team to reflect on our practice, conferring with each other with about our successes and failures, making adjustments as necessary. We will present methods for building scientific vocabulary as a continuum across grade levels

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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

K-6

  • WA Kids (K-3) Objective 10 A:  Engages in Conversations
  • Habits of the Mind

7-8th Grades

  • Students will learn and practice writing and sending appropriate email communication to their teachers after participating in a lesson “Email Communication Training” about this skill.

Goal

K-6

  • By May 2021 K-3 students will progress at least 2 levels on objective 10 A Engaging in Conversations using the WA KIDS assessment.
  • By May 2021 4-6 students will be able to make an effort to perceive others point of view and emotions as measured by a student created rubric.

7-8

  • By June 2021 80% of students who participated in the lesson on emails will send an appropriate email to the teacher. 

Action Plan

K-3 students will have regular opportunities for sharing and circle discussions to develop communication skills.

4/6:  Students will study 1 trait each month from the Habits of Mind curriculum and create a self-assessment  portfolio of their understanding and abilities for each of the 8 traits.

7-8

  • Students will participate in email communication training and practice the skill.
  • Teachers will provide SEL activities during weekly advisory. 

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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

K-6

  • Students will create a project that demonstrates their understanding of fundamental human needs in another culture.  Work will be assessed using grade level rubrics.

MAST 7/8

  • Students will evaluate the significance and dependability of information by participating in a lesson entitled,  “Common Sense Media” taught by their teacher. 

Goal

Montessori K-6

  • By May, 2021 80% of  K-6 Students will be able to identify the Fundamental Needs of Humans in their own culture and other cultures around the world.  

MAST 7/8

  • By June 2021 80% of students who participate in the lesson will be able to correctly identify whether a source is credible with 80% accuracy.

Action Plan

  • Students of all levels will use the Waseca Biomes and Economic Geography materials to explore and learn about cultures around the world.  In Upper Elementary students will explore cultures in different historical periods.
  • Students will participate in a “Common Sense Media - Digital Citizenship News and Media Literacy” lesson and correctly identify credibility of source

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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

  • K-3: 
    • WAKids Objective 11b: Persists  
  • 4-6: 
    • Passion Projects Rubric developed by teachers.

Goal

  • K-3:  
    • By May, 2021, 80% of K-3 students will grow at least two levels on WA Kids Objective 11b.  
  • Upper Elementary:
    • By May 2021, 80% of the Upper Elementary will have finished their focus group projects and evaluate their projects.  
  • MAST
    • By May 2021, 80% of students will complete their integrated projects and passion projects.

Action Plan

  • K/1: 
    • Teachers will guide students in goal setting and tracking progress throughout the year. 
  • 2/3: 
    • Students will be given the opportunity to use all school resources and home resources to complete their project goals.  They will have teacher support in creating teamwork goals and self-evaluating their project and teamwork.
  • Upper Elementary:
    • Upper Elementary students will be provided multiple opportunities (focus groups) to select which high interest area learning they want to explore.  Then students will select how they want to demonstrate learning (portfolio, presentation, etc.).
  • MAST students will be provided multiple opportunities to select which high interest area learning they want to explore and will select how they want to demonstrate learning (portfolio, presentation, etc.).  

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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

K-3:  WAKids Objective 3a:  Balances needs and rights of self and others
 
Upper Elementary: Attendance and participation in one of the following: 

  • Water Quality Testing and Green Congress (attendance)
  • MAST
  • Restoration of ORLA Prairie (participation and attendance)

Goal

  • K-3: 
    • By May, 2021, 80% of K-3 students will grow at least 2 levels on WAKids Objective 3a:  Balances needs and rights of self and others.
  • Upper Elementary:
    • By June, 2021, 90% of Upper Elementary students will have participated in water quality testing, 
  • MAST:
    • By June of 2021, all MAST students will participate in restoring the ORLA prairie and teaching other ORLA students about the importance of the prairie. 

Action Plan

  • K-1: 
    • Kindergarten teachers will provide opportunities throughout the year to share, cooperate and work together on projects and activities. 
  • 2-3:
    • The students of lower elementary will work in teams to create their visual arts and complete research needed to share their presentations with the community.
  • 4-6:
    • Upper Elementary will have a presentation by Jeff at Killer Whale Tales, water quality, salmon discoveries, and salmon dissections to create awareness (Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience MWEE). 
  • MAST: 
    • Students will learn about native prairie lands, work on the ORLA prairie and teach other about the importance of prairie lands.

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