2012-2013
Goals for Middle and High School
RTI:
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2012-2013:
Conduct a thorough analysis of the instructional program and develop a viable
RTI framework.
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RTI
Key Vocabulary, RTI Understanding, Develop RTI Team
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Organize
Data and Implement Mileposts Program
·
Develop
Progress Monitoring for Middle and High School –Explore Ideas for how we can
formatively progress monitor our students in middle and high school classes.
ü RTI
was presented during the optional day. I
will be responsible for doing the analysis of our instructional program and
once we have a walk through program this will be much easier to accomplish. RTI vocabulary was started; RTI understanding
was expanded; The RTI team is 80% completed and our first meeting under our
belt; Mileposts is scheduled for training and will help us greatly with our
data organization. I am very excited
about the Milepost Program. We began to
brainstorm ideas for progress monitoring and one teacher has all ready looked
at purchasing a tool to accomplish this goal.
I am very excited about RTI and what it will add to our school.
MBI:
·
2012-2013: Increase the SET Score of Expectations taught
from 50% to 80%
·
Work
to Increase District Support from the SET report from 50% to 75%
·
Revise
the Universals and continue to enhance our school expectations. If we expect it, we must spend time to teach
it. Gather and rally support from staff
to buy-in to make it a true school-wide initiative. Use the Million Voice Survey to monitor our
school climate and culture.
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Lower
the number of students feeling that they are bullied in school by 50%. 2011-2012 40%; 2010-2011 17%; 2009-2010
25%. We will survey all middle and high
school students in the fall and based on survey work to lower the number to
below 20% by spring.
ü MBI
team met and class sponsors reviewed the universals with students to assure
this goal gets met. Great start to the
year with many great ideas being generated from the MBI team and staff. I expect great things from this committee
this year. I am very excited about this
initiative and the people involved that will get things done. Steve York and
Dr. Corso will be here on October 1, to do professional development and
introduce “I Know My Class” program. Dr.
Corso is and MBI professional with wonderful ideas and programs used to benefit
students and staff.
MontCas:
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2012-2013: Make AYP by reaching Safe Harbor
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Use RTI to
improve instructional strategies and make reaching our nearing and novice
learners with interventions both within the classroom and with school wide
changes to increase student achievement.
Identify our students and give them every opportunity we can to increase
achievement levels in order to reach safe harbor. We must make AYP this year or
face being taken over by the state and controlled externally. We are capable of
reaching this goal with diagnosis without blame and making needed changes. Use MAP to progress monitor individual
teacher success and yearly growth.
ü Goals
have been set during our district PIR for these areas and I am confident we
will make improvements in these areas this year. The AYP targets are going up so it may not be
attainable, but safe harbor is and we will do everything we can to make safe
harbor.
SWIS Discipline:
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2011-2012: Lower
the number of office referrals by 15%.
That would be lowering high school referrals from 158 to below 134 this
year. In the middle school lowering
office referrals from 271 to below 230 this year.
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Use MBI to teach
what we expect by truly implementing the Universals and teaching expectations
with weekly reviews and manner of the week.
Work to lower the number of referrals that involve lack of respect. RESPECT will be our school-wide emphasis this
year. Defiance and Disrespect is our
biggest continual issue of concern.
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Positive
incentives and positive practice along with improved efforts with PLP’s and RTI
intervention plans will be used to lower our top tier students that continually
make poor choices.
ü SWIS
will be changing to Mileposts this year and we will be tracking discipline
through Mileposts the same way we did with SWIS. MBI team has been active and doing a
wonderful job. The implementation of
Lack of Diligence this year may lead to additional referrals and expulsions for
students that continue not to work or participate in the educational process.
Graduation
Matters:
·
2012-2013: We
want to lower the number of drop-outs this year by at least 50%. Last year we had 8 drop-outs and would make a
goal with RTI and Graduation Matters initiative to have less than 4 drop-outs
and of course preferably zero. Our last
Graduation Rate was 82% which will be greatly affected for the next two years
by last year’s drop out numbers. We will
make a goal for a graduation rate for 2014 to exceed 90%.
·
Implement
Graduation Matters Facilitator to implement initiative to program ideas to
increase Graduation Rate and Lower Drop-Out Rate. Monthly report and ideas
working with MBI team to combine efforts on this initiative.
ü We
did a half day on RTI on one optional day to help our at-risk youth. We used the Million Voice Survey to drive our
climate and culture goals and came up with at least one goal under each of the
eight components from the survey to improve this year. I have also set up training with Steve York
for October 1st for staff and others for the how we can better use
the “My Voice” results and look at the implementation of “I KNOW MY CLASS” data
tracker for progress monitoring student’s feeling about their educational
experience and achievement in each class.
Excited about this program and I believe could be crossed with
Mileposts.
Advisory:
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2012-2013: Our
goal is 100% compliance with staff to following the approved curriculum. To
reach all other goals we must get students to the adult mentorship needed to
push students in a positive direction to find purpose for their futures. This is the most important 30 minutes of our
week and priority of all staff to follow what has been prepared for them to
follow. I will conduct weekly
walk-throughs for quality assurance.
ü Staff
was notified that this is a goal that will be followed through on and
monitored. I will be checking on Fridays starting next week for commitment to
this directive.
Walk-Through
Data:
·
2012-2013: Do one
walk-through per classroom per week.
·
Increase the
staff’s awareness to Research-Based Instructional Practices. Each teacher will be surveyed to identify
what Instructional Practice they each are currently using. Staff will defend what practice they use and
why. Walk-through data will help us
indentify what we are using and what we can do to improve this area to have
every staff member using research-based practices to best reach students
successfully in the all core areas. We
also need to assure district curriculum aligns with state standards and accountability
assessments and that curricula are implemented consistently so that all
students have the opportunity to learn.
When the content that is taught is not part of a standard-based
curriculum, students are not taught what is assessed, which can result in lower
achievement scores.
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Starting every
class with verbal or posted learning targets, Instructional practices that are
research based and working for every classroom teacher, ending class with
formative or some sort of progress monitoring system. Pre, Formative and Summative Assessments that
are organized and emphasize student success will also be monitored and tracked
as a system. Technology use of new
equipment and implementation can also be tracked this year.
ü We
currently do not have a walk-through program.
I am currently pricing and shopping for a new program to replace the
pd360 walkthrough program that I really liked since I could customize it for
our needs.
Presence in the
Halls:
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2012-2013:
Increase staff presence in the halls to lower tardiness and increase student
sense of belonging. 80% of staff will be
present in the halls in between classes.
·
Principal will
welcome students at the door and in the commons 80% in the mornings. Staff will make an effort to be present in
the hallway in between classes to help push students to class and make
connections. Principal will be present
in the hallways in between classes at least 50% of the time to monitor teacher
commitment.
ü We are currently
getting around 50% of the staff in the halls, I gave small rewards to teachers
that are diligently doing this goal and encouraging staff to follow
through. Gold Stars: Mr. Fisher, Mrs.
Phillips, Mrs. Mikkelsen, Mrs. Ferris, Mr. Ferris, Mr. Pule, Mr. Cronk, Mrs.
Adams, Mr. Martin, Mrs. Brander
Drug-Use
Intervention Plan:
·
2012-2013: Lower
the number of students who are currently using drugs in our middle and high
school. In the last Youth Risk Survey,
32% of our students say they have used marijuana in their lifetime. I believe this number is higher, but we will
work to decrease this percentage.
·
Develop an
effective drug testing policy or policy that will deter students in
extra-curriculars from using drugs. To
give athletes a reason and rationale to just say “No”.
·
Begin a
school-wide effort to increase awareness and lower our student drug use
school-wide. Use the Youth Risk Survey
to monitor improvements.
ü The cross the
line program was introduced by Mr. Lewandowski at our opening assembly and we
built momentum for this initiative. We
challenged the Freshman to take a stand and cross the line to be bold enough to
break the cycle. I feel we will make
improvements this year in this area.
Extra-Curricular
Programs:
·
2012-2013:
Increase participation and quality of our extra-curricular programs
ü Numbers are
consistent with last year so far.
Mission Forward:
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2012-2013: Assess
Mission Forward Program to determine if our goals for this program are being
met and if the program is viable for the numbers we are currently serving. Is
the program effectively reaching students for credit retrieval, drop-out
prevention, course options and regular curriculum support? Are we bringing more students to St. Ignatius
Schools like we originally had hoped?
Are students getting the support to get through high school and meeting
our student needs?
·
We need to assess
this program and make adjustments or pursue other ideas to meet our original
goals for giving students curricular choice and successfully getting them
through school. Are we reaching the At-Risk Students we set out to serve with
this program?
ü I have presented
this issue to staff and I have asked for input from teachers. Lyle and I have talked about what the issues
are here and what needs to get done to assure we are doing what needs to get
done in order to keep this program essential to student success. We will sit down for a meeting soon to
discuss deeper the plan of attack for meeting this goal this year.
Common-Core
Curriculum and Alignment:
·
2012-2013: Align and write common core curriculum and
standards for K-12 in English and Math.
English is up for review this year and will need to be common core
aligned. Math, with the support of Rich Ferris will get caught up from last
year’s review with the same alignment.
ü This goal has not
been started at this time other than explaining to staff that it will need to be
completed. Once Rich Ferris has time he
will be starting this goal.
Writing Goal:
·
2012-2013: We need to implement professional development
that will help every teacher in every classroom have clear and consistent
expectations for writing. All classes
expect students to write and we can all be encouraging proper writing goals and
expectations for anything that is handed in for any teacher. This is an effort that even at the minimal
level can be increased when it comes to teachers having high expectations for
students. Review expectations and look
for implementation while conducting walk-throughs. We will develop during August PIR monthly
writing objectives that every teacher will encourage and expect with
writing.
ü We conducted
professional development during the optional days for this goal and came up
with monthly goals for writing across the curriculum that all teachers will
implement and encourage. We also met on
August 30 and did planning for school wide focus and plan for improved writing
with English Department input and guidance for this initiative. September 6 we met and kicked off our
“September Writing Tips to Remember” with staff. Posters were made and posted
in each classroom with the 5 tips for this month.
Handbooks:
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2012-2013: We will flush the middle and high
school handbooks and totally refine the content, look and feel of the each
handbook. We will update the handbooks
with latest information from a legal, content, safety, uniform and procedural
standpoint and present an outstanding product for 2013-2014. Our plan is to have a one uniform handbook
for both schools with school specific information for both middle and high
school.
ü I have contacted
Kalispell for a copy of their handbooks that I will use for a guide for
building ours. I also have the legal
packet provided by Bea that I will review for any procedural or additional
safeguards needed to be added to the handbooks.
Our Mission:
Demonstrate
Integrity
Achieve
Excellence
Work Hard
Give
Respect
Share
Responsibility
GO DAWGS!!!!
