FIFE SCHOOL DISTRICT STANDARD 1:

DEVELOPING A SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF THE NEED FOR CHANGE

Specific School Objective # 1: Discovery staff will demonstrate a firm understanding for the need for change in our school, district and community.

Strategy/Action Plan:

• Staff will participate in ‘decades’ activities to demonstrate the forces of change.
• Each staff member will receive a copy of the book, Who Moved My Cheese.
• Additional articles and activities will be made available to staff and community.
• Study groups will meet to discuss articles and books.
• Staff, grade level and specialist meetings will focus on Standard Bearer activities.
• Our Site Based Team work will also focus on this objective

Result:

All actions stated above were completed by the Discovery Primary Staff with the result of meeting the school objective with the overall understanding for the need for change in public education.

FIFE SCHOOL DISTRICT STANDARD 2:

DEVELOPING SHARED BELIEFS AND VISION

Specific School Objective # 2: Examine and refine our vision, mission and belief statements.

Strategy/Action Plan:

Have a committee of parents and teachers to:

• Identify beliefs as outlined in 2.1.1
• Work on congruency between our beliefs and what we do.
• Align materials and support services more closely to beliefs.

Result: Adoption of vision, mission and beliefs statements by school community by June 2001. This vision, mission and beliefs have been communicated to our school community.

FIFE SCHOOL DISTRICT STANDARD 3:

DEVELOPING A FOCUS ON STUDENTS AND ON THE QUALITY OF WORK PROVIDED TO STUDENTS

Specific School Objective # 3: We will increase the quality of work provided to students by incorporating the ten design elements into work provided to students.

We will also develop standards and models to develop student self-assessment strategies and produce quality work in the area of writing.

Strategy/Action Plan:

• Focus staff meeting and grade level meetings on Working on the Work.
• Teaming across grade levels and schools will be encouraged.
• Develop model lessons.
• Introduce levels of engagement charts.
• Staff inservice/support on First Steps and Design qualities.
• Opportunities for staff to observe and mentor each other.

Result:

• Taught the 10 essential qualities.
• Developed model lessons by staff.
• Introduced the Protocol for peer interaction.
• Developed a cadre of volunteers and new teachers to "Work on the Work".
• Promoted formative evaluation and goal setting to focus on design elements and collegiality in risk free environment.
• Conducted study groups on Chapters 9, 10, and other meaningful material.
• Teacher had time for interaction, observation, and dialogue with Margaret Mooney and demonstration lessons.
• Piloted use of readingplacement.com and math placement.com for in class student assessment of progress.
• Used Better Schools Professional Development money to provide time and training.

A comprehensive needs assessment was conducted by our staff and Site-based School Improvement Team. The following are the components of our comprehensive needs assessment:

• 2000-2001 Network 2000 Standard Bearer Assessment Report
• 2001 4^th Grade WASL and 3^rd Grade ITBS Test results
• 2000-2001 Harris Interactive Survey results
• Site-Based School Improvement Team input and feedback
• OSPI Consolidated Program Review

Needs identified through the Harris Interactive Survey:

• Trust needs to be built within staff.
• Communication is needed in the decision making process.
• Communication about work performance is requested from staff.
• Parent are asking for more involvement in the decision making process.

Needs identified through faculty and administration:

• Communication in the decision making process needs to be refined.
• Need to focus on building a Learning Community within Discovery Primary.
• Need to find ways to develop recognition in student and staff excellence.

Needs identified through achievement data:

• 4^th grade WASL and 3^rd grade ITBS scores show a need to focus on Math, Reading, and Writing instruction.
• State requirements and goals set for reading and math.
• Need to find a way to measure student achievement over time.

Needs identified through OSPI Consolidated Program Review:

• Need for a school plan for parent involvement

1. The 2001-2002 School Improvement Plan includes goals and objectives relative to standards 1-3 in the Fife School District Network 2000 project as well as plans for strategies and activities designed to address standards 4-6.
2. Adequate Progress for the 2001-2002 School Improvement Plan will be achieved when 3 of the 3 stated goals have been met.

FIFE SCHOOL DISTRICT STANDARD 1:

DEVELOPING A SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF THE NEED FOR CHANGE:

The members of the board of education, the superintendent, central office staff, principals, teacher leaders, leaders of parent organizations, and key community leaders have a common understanding of the nature of the problems and opportunities that confront the school district and base their decisions of these issues on a common body of fact and information.

Specific School Objective # 1: Discovery staff will demonstrate a firm understanding for the need for change in our school, district and community.

Established Need: Performance Level 2.3, shows the need to collect useful data to help make decisions. In addition, the Harris Interactive questionnaire from parents showed an area of improvement is to gather their input on policies that effect their students.

Strategy/Action Plan:

• Discovery Primary School will hold a 10-year anniversary celebration, as a way to highlight to staff and community in the ways education and Discovery Primary school has changed. This will include all levels of the district and be focused on Standard Bearer Activities.
  • District level writing activity, with a prompt; "My memories of Discovery Primary School." Include student speakers from students from all grade levels that attended Discovery. And include other talents; such as music and the arts. Have a day celebration for students and evening celebration for parents. Have a video on the focusing on the decade of Discovery.
• Use Classroom Based Measurements as a data source to collect information on student reading fluency which correlates with other test data collected by the district.
• Conduct Parent Forums to gather and share information based on the needs of the parents and communities.

Evaluation Plan: In the Harris Interactive Parent satisfaction model there would be a .3 increase in parent satisfaction from an 8.4 to an 8.7 score.

Statement of Adequate Progress: All three strategies/action plans will be completed for adequate progress for this objective.

FIFE SCHOOL DISTRICT NETWORK 2000 STANDARD 2:

DEVELOPING SHARED BELIEFS AND VISION:

The school district and its community develop within the local context a compelling vision of what schools can be and how schools should be related to the community-a vision capable of earning wide support in the school district and in the community and consistent with a set of well-articulated beliefs regarding the nature of schools and the schooling enterprise.

Specific School Objective: Continue to revisit and communicate building vision, mission, and beliefs to all school stakeholders.

Established Need:

• The district Standard Bearer Assessment Report pointed out the need for the alignment of district and building vision, mission, and belief statements and the communication of these statements to all stake holders.

Strategy/Action Plan:

• Review and update vision, mission, and belief statements in the spring of each year and make adjustments when needed.
• Conduct a 10 Year Celebration for Discovery Primary as a communication tool outlining the strengths and changes that have occurred.
• Communicate the vision in all official documents representing Discovery Primary School.

Evaluation Plan: Evaluation will consist of completion of the action plan and with asking staff, parents and students what the mission of Discovery Primary is and receiving the answer, "To Build the foundations for Learning!"

Statement of Adequate Progress: All three strategies will be completed for adequate progress of this objective.

FIFE SCHOOL DISTRICT STANDARD 3:

DEVELOPING A FOCUS ON STUDENTS AND ON THE QUALITY OF WORK PROVIDED TO STUDENTS

Throughout the school district there is a clear focus on students and on the quality of the work provided to students-work that students find interesting, challenging, and satisfying and that results in their learning what is expected by schools, parents, and the community.

Specific School Objective: Discovery Primary School staff will continue to focus on the development of work given to students that is engaging, challenging and relevant to our student, parents and community.

Established Need: Standard Bearer Performance requirement 2.6, leaders work collaborates to create new measures that will assess student engagement. And performance requirement 2.8, leaders redesign the use of resources to ensure that teachers have the support and control to design student lessons. Harris Interactive Survey and OSPI Consolidated Program Review showed need for parent involvement in the education process.

Strategy/Action Plan:

• Investigate ways to assess student engagement in the classroom.
• Align student report card with Standard Bearer.
• Investigate uses for portfolios with regards to communicating student achievement and align with report card.
• Focus on student engagement and developing lessons with the new math curriculum.
• Focus school resources on the school Read & Lead program.
• Conduct Parent Forums to communicate and receive input from parents.
• Create a Parent Involvement building committee to look at needs and ways to involve parents in their students’ education.

Training Plan:

• Train staff in ways to assess engagement in the classroom
• Participate in district report card committee.
• Team of teachers to research portfolio uses for students and alignment with standard bearers and new report card. With the outcome of having several staff members pilot portfolios in their classrooms.
• Find time for staff to collaborate when design lessons for students using the new math curriculum.
• Research parent needs and ways to involve parents in their child’(s) education.

Evaluation Plan:

• Parents will show a .2% overall increase in satisfaction in the Harris Interactive Survey.
• In June teachers will be aware of tools to help assess student engagement in the classroom. This information will be collected in a standard bearer survey

Statement of Adequate Progress: Adequate progress will be achieved when 5 out of 5 of the strategies are completed.

FIFE SCHOOL DISTRICT STANDARD 4: Developing Structures for Participatory Leadership

The district develops patterns of leadership and a structure of relationships such that teachers are leaders, principals are leaders of leaders, and all district level activity is focused on providing directions and support for schools.

STANDARD 5: Developing Structures for Results-Oriented Decision Making

The district develops a results-oriented management system and a quality-focused decision-making process that are consistent with the beliefs that guide the system and that ensure that the measures of quality conform with the requirements of those who provide support to students and the schools.

STANDARD 6: Developing Structures for Continuity

The district provides for stability in leadership, structure, and culture over time, including support for innovative efforts that produce desired results.

Established need: Based on the work done last year with Standards 1, 2, 3 during our first year in the Standard Bearer Network, we need to continue moving forward with Standards 4, 5, 6 in order to systemically improve the quality of the programs that we provide our students.

STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES RELATIVE TO STANDARDS 4,5,6:

• We will introduce standards 4,5,6 to staff during staff meetings and WOW early release days.
• We will communicate work being done on these standards to parents and community via school and district newsletters and web site information.

Standard 4:

• Expand existing developmental team, advisory boards, and site-based councils, including teachers, administrators, staff and parents.
• Develop a cadre of trainers from our developmental team members to provide Standard Bearer training at the building and district levels.

Standard 5:

• Strengthen existing site-based councils including parent membership component.
• Examine the goals and purpose of site-based teams to complement Standard Bearer work.
• Examine assessment and survey results and use information to guide system decisions.

Standard 6:

• Coordinate and develop staff induction programs.

 Evaluation: