School Innovation and Improvement Plan
An at-a-glance look at outcome goals for this academic year
School Innovation & Improvement Plan
2024-2025
Reading by 3rd Grade
Outcomes
- By Spring 2025, all students with disabilities in PreK-3 will increase 10% from the Fall VALLSS baseline to the Spring VALLSS reading screener benchmark
- By Spring 2025, all PreK-3 students will increase 10% from the Fall VALLSS baseline to the Spring VALLSS reading screener benchmark
Strategies
- Increase efficiency of instructional delivery to ensure all students have daily access to all components of the language arts block as outlined in the new core curriculum
- Leverage use of daily explicit language comprehension lessons from the new core curriculum for building knowledge and vocabulary
- Increase use of data to plan instruction and monitor progress during intervention to ensure that students demonstrating risk master foundational skills
Elementary School Math
Outcomes
- By Spring 2025, the percent of students with disabilities in grades 1-6 demonstrating expected screener within-year growth in math will increase 10 percent from 59% to 69% as measured by the fall and spring iReady data comparison
- By Spring 2025, all students in grades 1-6 demonstrating expected screener within-year growth in math will increase 10 percent from 63% to 73% as measured by the fall and spring iReady data comparison
Strategies
- Increase teachers' implementation of strategies and conversation structures that increase academic talk between students related to Shift 4: from show and tell to share and compare
- Improve teachers' implementation of Framework for Engaging & Student-Centered Mathematics Instruction
- Increase teacher implementation of explicit instruction and other components of effective mathematics intervention
Chronic Absenteeism
Outcomes
- By Spring 2025, the number of students who are chronically absent will decrease from 77 students to below 60 students as measured by the Fairfax County Attendance Dashboard
Strategies
- MTSS Schoolwide and Site Intervention teams analyze attendance along with behavior and wellness data bi-monthly to identify students in need of Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions
- Teachers will promote student engagement and create a welcoming classroom environment by modeling social and emotional competencies in their interactions with students
- Schools will implement practices to recognize good and improved attendance to reinforce attendance and strengthen student and family engagement
For additional information regarding this School Innovation & Improvement Plan, please contact the school principal, Josh Douds at @email.