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Teacher and Student Success Plan

(2023-2024)

Teacher and Student Success Plan

School Information

Name of Administrator: Becky Dills/Karen Miller
Name of School: Orchard Springs Elementary

Goal 1 | Reading

Based on Pathways to Progress Schoolwide Data, 65% or more of our K-6 students will show typical, above, or well above progress on end of year Acadience Assessment.

Goal 1 Action Steps

    1. TSSA monies will be spent to secure the services of paraprofessionals who will assess students' reading skills using the Acadience Reading Assessment. Children will be identified as intensive, strategic, benchmark, or above benchmark in grades K-6. Additional Diagnostic tests will be given to those students to identify specific needs. The Kindergarten teacher will administer the KEEP Assessment at the BOY and EOY.  A substitute will be hired while the teacher administers the test. ($4,000)  Paraprofessionals will be hired to provide targeted reading interventions for students below benchmark in grades K-4. ($21,600).  Materials will be purchased to support reading intervention ($1,000).
    2. A Community Literacy Night will promote literacy and child reading time. Stipends will be paid to the teachers for attending and preparing for this evening. ($1500)
    3. Teachers will meet weekly in collaborative teams to review standards/curriculum, develop common formative assessments, analyze data, modify instruction, and determine the placement of students for weekly interventions and enrichment activities facilitated by a combination of teachers and aides.  This collaborative time will be created when students attend Computer, P.E., and STEM. ($00)
    4. Two teachers will be paid to act as EdTech coaches to support teachers with the implementation and use of technology. ($1500)  They will also help implement the new SIS, PowerSchool.
    5. A Mental Health Specialist will be hired to provide students with social and emotional learning support. ($10,000) A  license for Panorama, an all-in-one data platform, will be purchased. ($300) Data will be used from Panorama to track social and emotional data utilized by the Counselor and Mental Health Specialist.
    6. A Behavior Aide (5.75 hours) will be hired to support student behaviors that disrupt the classroom environment.  Data from Panorama will be used to help identify students for this intervention. 

Goal 1 Expenditure Category

    • Additional School Employees
    • Professional Learning
    • School Personnel Stipends
    • Teaching Resources
    • Technology
    • Social and Emotional Learning Support

Goal 1 Measures of Success

    • Acadience assessments will be administered to students at the beginning of the year, mid-year, and at the end of the school year to measure progress.

Goal 2 | Mathematics

Students in K-6 Grades will score 80% or higher, on their identified grade level Essential Learning Target by the end of the school year.

Goal 2 Action Steps

    1. TSSA monies will be spent to secure the services of paraprofessionals to work with students not proficient on math grade level essential learning targets ($21,600). 
    2. The Kindergarten teacher will administer the KEEP Assessment at the BOY and EOY.  ($4,000)
    3. Teachers will meet weekly in collaborative teams to review standards/curriculum, develop common formative assessments, analyze data, modify instruction, and determine the placement of students for weekly interventions and enrichment activities facilitated by a combination of teachers and aides.  This collaborative time will be created when students attend Computer, P.E., and STEM. ($00)
    4. Teachers in the classroom will utilize technology to increase student engagement and promote learning. Licenses for Imagine Math will be purchased to support grades K-2 Students ($1860).  Subscriptions for IXL will be purchased to support 3-5 grade students. ($2,400) Subscriptions for ALEKS, an online math program, will be purchased to support 6th-grade students. ($1,000). Subscriptions for Zearn will be purchased to support all students ($2,500).
    5. Acadience Math Digital Licenses and testing materials will be purchased for students in grades 4-6 ($400)

Goal 2 Expenditure Areas

    • Additional School Employees
    • Professional Learning
    • Technology

Goal 2 Measures of Success

    • Math assessments will be administered to students at the beginning of the year, mid-year, and at the end of the school year to measure progress.

Goal 3 | Science

To prepare students to apply STEM-related knowledge to real-world situations.

Goal 3 Action Steps

    1. Teachers in the classroom will utilize PLTW Modules to increase student engagement and promote learning.($1,000)  A fee will be paid to PLTW to be designated as a PLTW school. ($950) 
    2. Science materials will be purchased to assist teachers with demonstrating and supporting science lessons for students in the classroom. ($500) 
    3. Teachers will meet weekly in collaborative teams to review standards/curriculum, develop common formative assessments, analyze data, modify instruction, and determine the placement of students for weekly interventions and enrichment activities facilitated by a combination of teachers and aides.  This collaborative time will be created when students attend Computer, P.E., and STEM. The science teacher will implement STEM lessons for each grade level.. ($8,500)
    4. STEM Coordinator will help coordinate STEM learning throughout the school, including facilitating the implementation of phenomenon-based and project-based learning experiences. ($500) 
    5. Continue strengthening and expanding science by allowing all students to participate in a school-sponsored STEM Day. ($2000)
    6. Mystery Science Software will be purchased to increase student engagement and learning and to help master essential learning targets. ($1,325)

Goal 3 Expenditure Areas

    • Additional School Employees
    • School Personnel Stipends
    • Teaching Resources
    • Technology

Goal 3 Measures of Success

    • Every student will experience at least one PLTW module in the 2023-2024 school year and a STEM Coordinator will be designated to organize a STEM day in which all students will participate

Stakeholder Involvement

Who was involved in developing this plan?

  • Educators
  • Guiding Coalition
  • Administrators
  • Community Council Members
  • Parents
  • Support Professionals

Signature

Becky Dills/Karen Miller