We, the staff of Discovery Primary School, are dedicated to provide our students with the academic, social and physical skills required to meet their fullest potential. In partnership with families and the community, we seek to provide the foundation for students to acquire the competence and responsibility to become contributing members of society and lifelong learners.
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 affect 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.
Result: All activities were completed as stated above. The Harris Interactive Parent overall satisfaction showed an increase to 8.8.
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!"
Result: All activities were completed as stated above. The evaluation plan was not formally completed and at this time would not be answered completely as stated above.
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.
Results: Parents did show a .4 overall increase in satisfaction based on the Harris Interactive Survey. Staff members are more aware of tools to assess student engagement. All 5 strategies were met.
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:
2001-2002 Network 2000 Standard Bearer Assessment Report
2002 4th Grade WASL and 3rd Grade ITBS Test results
2001-2002 Harris Interactive Survey results
Site-Based School Improvement Team and staff input and feedback
Needs identified through the Harris Interactive Survey:
Parents were positive in all areas except school bus. 58% (due to the length of the ride and double shifting.) large impact and penalty.
Enough safe and accessible parking. 76 % (no penalty or impact index)
Trust needs to be built within staff.
Communication is needed in the decision making process.
Communication about work performance is requested from staff.
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:
4th grade WASL and 3rd grade ITBS scores show a need to focus on Math, Reading, Vocabulary and Writing instruction.
Need to find a way to measure student achievement
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The 2002-2003 School Improvement Plan includes goals and objectives relative to standards 1-6 in the Fife School District Network 2000 project as well as plans for strategies and activities designed to address standards 7-10.
Adequate Progress for the 2002-2003 School Improvement Plan will be achieved when 6 of the 6 stated school objectives 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: Deepen the understanding for the extent of change and the direction for change in the staff.
Established Need: Need identified by Standard Bearer assessment and staff input and surveys for more staff becoming involved in the process.
Strategy/Action Plan:
Study group readings from the new WOW Book.
Make time to have group discussions over standard 3, and student work at grade level and staff meetings.
Develop school leaders in building by
Increasing Developmental team membership and building WOW team membership.
Evaluation Plan: Numbers of members on the district Developmental Team and building WOW team will increase.
Statement of Adequate Progress:
Three to four new staff will become involved with standard bearer at a district and building leadership level.
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 communicate building vision, mission and beliefs to all school stakeholders.
Established Need: Building vision has not been communicated clearly enough for staff, or parents to be able to quote: Building Foundations for Learning.
Strategy/Action Plan:
Communicate the vision in all official documents representing Discovery Primary School.
Principal will focus on communicating a vision for school.
Evaluation Plan: Evidence will be found in site base and staff evaluations in June.
Statement of Adequate Progress: Will be completion of all actions for 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.
Established Need: WASL testing data and ITBS scores communicate the need to focus on the curriculum areas of literacy and math. Standard Bearer focuses the need on the work given to students.
Goals:
Literacy —
Collect and use data to make program decisions to increase student engagement and learning.
Use school and district resources to focus on literacy learning at all levels.
Math — Focus time to develop engaging lessons and align curriculum.
Descriptive review - Make time for staff to do 2 or 3 descriptive reviews throughout the year.
Strategy/Action Plan:
Use CBM assessment to collect this data. Develop data to more useful format using schoolmaster. Analyze Title 1 data, Read and Lead Data and ESL Data to make program decisions.
Increase Title I reading support with addition of full time experienced certified teacher.
Use Julie Cooke to add technology connection to literacy for all students.
Include preschool classrooms and students in Library/Literacy special units.
Open school library for Summer Literacy Days for parents and students to come and be engaged in reading activities when the school is usually not open.
Develop and pilot new primary grades report card that is aligned with literacy and math curriculum to better communicate student achievement to parents and other educators.
Focus Library purchases from teacher requests for literacy and math focus.
Establish Teacher/Staff resource area in conference room for literacy and math ideas.
Use LID days, and staff and grade level meetings to align math curriculum between K — 1 and 1 — 2.
Staff member will participate in K-5 math team that will meet and plan at PT. Ludlow.
Use building expertise for math and literacy in-service.
Use grade level and staff meetings to focus discussions on student work.
Site based team makes decision based on standard-bearer ideals.
Training Plan:
Possible training in CBM testing and its implications and use.
Training for office staff on schoolmaster to create reports with CBM Data.
Site base team training on data based decision-making.
Implementation time during pilot of new report card for staff training and discussion.
Evaluation Plan:
Evaluation will be based on the completion of the strategies listed above.
We will attempt to follow students served the Title I reading and their future success in reading or need for future intervention.
We will seek staff member input and parent input on new report card.
Statement of Adequate Progress:
All three goals stated above will be accomplished for there to be adequate progress.
FIFE SCHOOL DISTRICT NETWORK 2000 STANDARD 4:
DEVELOPING STRUCTURES FOR PARTICIPATORY LEADERSHIP:
The school district develops patterns of leadership and a structure of relationships such that teachers are leaders, principals are leaders of leaders, and all school-district activity is focused on providing direction and support for schools.
Specific School Objective: To focus resources to make the Discovery Site Team and committee process effective and focused on Working on the Work.
Established Need: Both in staff survey and the Harris Interactive survey showed this as an area of focus for Discovery Primary School.
Strategy/Action Plan:
Involve more staff in the site team decision process.
Recruit new parents to participate on the schools site team.
Training Plan:
Provide training in site team decision making and collaboration to team and staff.
Evaluation Plan:
Site base and staff on survey and Harris Interactive will show an overall increase of satisfaction in the decision making process.
Statement of Adequate Progress:
All strategies/ actions will be completed and an increase in staff satisfaction on staff surveys and the Harris Interactive.
FIFE SCHOOL DISTRICT NETWORK 2000 STANDARD 5:
DEVELOPING STRUCTURES FOR RESULTS-ORIENTED DECISION-MAKING:
The school 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.
Specific School Objective: Collect and use data to make program decisions to increase student engagement and learning.
Established Need: Needs Assessment Report indicate a need to clarify the decision making process within each building.
Strategy/Action Plan:
Develop and use CBM (Reading Fluency Test) data for decision making. Use data from Title I testing and other source for program decisions.
Train site team on results-oriented decision making.
Training Plan:
Develop staff training on CBM test and its uses.
Site-Base team training on results-oriented decision making.
Evaluation Plan: Use of staff survey and site base team evaluation.
Statement of Adequate Progress: Will be the completion of all actions for this objective.
FIFE SCHOOL DISTRICT NETWORK 2000 STANDARD 6:
DEVELOPING STURUCTURES FOR CONTINUITY:
The school district provides for stability in leadership, structure, and culture over time, including support for innovative efforts that produce desired results.
Specific School Objective: To induct new employees in the standard bearer activities and building level involvement.
Established Need: New staff hires as well as new students to our district need to have an induction program that allows them understand what Working on the Work is all about.
Strategy/Action Plan:
Have new employees participate on school WOW team and district level Standard Bearer activities.
Evaluation Plan: In meeting notes there will be evidence of new employees participation on school WOW team and district level Standard Bearer Activities.
Statement of Adequate Progress: Will be the completion of the action for this objective.
STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES RELATIVE TO STANDARDS 7-10:
STANDARD 7: Providing Ongoing Support
The school district provides systems of training and development, incentives, and social and political support for those who are committed to the district's beliefs and vision and widens support for the pursuit of the beliefs and vision among all members of the community.
STANDARD 8: Fostering Innovation and Flexibility
The district develops a policy environment and management
system that foster flexibility and rapid response; that encourage
innovative use of time, technology and space; that encourage novel
and improved staffing patterns; and that create forms of curriculum
organization that are responsive to the needs of students.
STANDARD 9: Employing Technology
The school district and community display a common understanding of the transformational nature of changes in information-processing technologies, and the district provides all students and adults who work in the schools the tools required for quality work.
Standard 10: Fostering Collaboration
The school district encourages and supports the creation of relationships within the school district, between schools and parents, and among those agencies and groups that provide service to children and youth, in order to ensure that each child has the support needed to succeed in school and in the community.
Established need: Based on the work done last year with Standards 4, 5, 6 during our second year in the Standard Bearer Network, we need to continue moving forward with Standards 7, 8, 9, and 10 in order to systemically improve the quality of the programs that we provide our students.