Indiana Student Achievement Institute: Lyons Elementary School - Strategy Plan Report (Thu May 23 17:02:56 EDT 2013)
SIP 2009-2010
WRV Corporation "Highly Qualified Teacher" Policy insures that only highly qualified teachers with full certification, a bachelor's degree, and demonstrates competence in subject knowledge and teaching skills are hired. A Title 1 approved right-to-know letter will be included in each student's handbook. This letter assures parents that all currently employed teachers are highly qualified, and if their child should receive instruction, for four or more consecutive weeks, from a teacher who is not highly qualified the parents will be notified by the school. All students will receive a handbook the first day of their enrolment. Parents will sign and return the acknowledgement portion of the front page of the Student Handbook.
Strategy Chair: Claire Records (email address unknown)
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WRV Lyons Elementary will continue to offer after school mini tutoring sessions during the spring and fall semesters. A Math and Reading tutor will provide extra instruction to At-Risk students in small group settings throughout the school day. Language Arts academic skill levels (K-4) will be assessed with DIBELS and then individual instructional adjustments will be made. Teachers and para-professionals will provide extra instructional assistance to students, during recess time and free/study periods, to help with homework and strengthen deficiencies in essential skills. Drill and reinforcement activities for language arts and math will be provided to all students during weekly visits to the school's computer lab.
Strategy Chair: Deborah Kean (dkean@wrv.k12.in.us)
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Parents will be urged to utilize Harmony, an administrative software program, to monitor their child’s attendance, academic progress, classroom assignment information, communicate with the school. This service will be made available to parents through the internet. Harmony, via e-mail, may be utilized to inform parents of such things as upcoming activities/events, suggestions for increasing parent-student-teacher (team) involvement in the educational process, and a continuous appraisal of their child’s performance. Parents unfamiliar with the operation and/or procedure of accessing Harmony will be given a mini tutorial. Parents who do not have the internet at home will be coached as to other possible means of achieving access to Harmony (i.e. libraries, neighbors, work, after-hours school's computer lab, inexpensive internet plans, etc.).
Strategy Chair: Linda Mowery (lmowery@wrv.k12.in.us)
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S. P. L. A. S. H. (Students Pushing Learning & Academic Success Higher) SPLASH is designed to promote the increased level of student achievement in a rigorous curriculum for math,and language arts. Students qualify for incentives by: attaining an “A”/”A-“ and maintaining that “A”/”A-“ from one grading period to the next or by raising their grade one whole letter grade in math or language arts.
Strategy Chair: Diann Puckett (dpuckett@wrv.k12.in.us)
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K-6 Teachers will implement "Simple Six” writing techniques to all students within their classrooms three days a week. “Simple Six” instruction will supplement classroom instruction and specifically address each student’s areas of weakness and master essential language skills. Special ed. students and slow "Response to Intervention"(RTI)students will be assigned activities appropriate to their disability.
Strategy Chair: Betty Conklin (bconklin@wrv.k12.in.us)
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Special education students who did not meet ISTEP requirements in math will receive supplemental “Skills Tutoring” instruction three times a week. “Skills Tutor” is a computerized software program which is specifically designed to address each student’s areas of weakness and master essential math skills.
Strategy Chair: Betty Conklin (bconklin@wrv.k12.in.us)
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Prior to the beginning of each school year, all parents at WRV Lyons will be mailed a Title 1 approved School Choice Notification letter. Parents may elect to send their children WRV Worthington Elementary for the forth coming school year.
Strategy Chair: Kurt Lentz (klentz@wrv.k12.in.us)
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WRV Lyons Elementary School offers all free and reduced students, who have failed to meet AYP expectations, the opportunity to participate in Supplemental Educational Services. A SES fair will take place the second week of school to give parents the opportunity to meet with SES providers and preview the program each provider has to offer. Upon selection of an approved provider, parents will be notified as to the date and time of sessions, instructional staff, rules of operation, etc. The school will act as liaison between parent and provider to assure smooth implementation of service. Students who participate in this service will greatly increase the quantity of instructional time available to them. These students will be allowed to access on-line services before school, after school, on weekends, snow days, and holidays.
Strategy Chair: Michelle Emmons (lmemmons@smithville.net)
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Who are you trying to change with this strategy? Students What behavior or attitude is the strategy trying to change? Students are positively, actively involved in SES learning activies What will you count to see if the targeted change occurred? % of eligible students participating in SES Actual and target data:
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08-09Follow Up
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1st Semester / 1st TrimesterFollow Up
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2nd Semester / Last Trimester12% 15%
Who are you trying to change with this strategy? Parents What behavior or attitude is the strategy trying to change? Increase parent awareness/involvement in student's educational process What will you count to see if the targeted change occurred? Number of parent collaborations with SES Providers (requests for services) Actual and target data:
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1st Semester / 1st TrimesterFollow Up
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2nd Semester / Last Trimester13%
All beginning teachers will participate in the corporation/state approved Teacher-Mentoring Program. At the beginning of each classroom teacher's first year of hire, a trained mentor will be assigned to help provide an orderly, personalized transition from pre-service preparation to the initial teaching experience and increase the likelihood that beginning teachers will continue in the teaching profession as productive and competent professional teachers. Also, all teachers in grades K-6, along with specialty teachers and paraprofessionals, will meet on a regular basis to mentor and collaborate with one another regarding all professional issues (i.e. curriculum, discipline, academic standards, lesson planning, sharing materials that engage students in critical thinking and practice, and model lessons that foster higher level thinking skills). Teachers working in a partnership with one another will be afforded the opportunity to share professional strengths and experiences in a formal and informal setting.
Strategy Chair: Kurt Lentz (klentz@wrv.k12.in.us)
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Who are you trying to change with this strategy? Teachers What behavior or attitude is the strategy trying to change? Increase instructional effectiveness What will you count to see if the targeted change occurred? % of teachers with a positive response to an informal survey measuring effectiveness of “resource person” Actual and target data:
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2nd Semester / Last TrimesterN/A 80% 85%
K-6 Teachers will implement "Simple Six” writing techniques to all students within their classrooms three days a week. “Simple Six” instruction will supplement classroom instruction and specifically address each student’s areas of weakness and master essential language skills. Special ed. students and slow "Response to Intervention"(RTI)students will be assigned activities appropriate to their disability. This strategy is the same as strategy "I" Focused Academic Area: Language Arts Skill Development.
Strategy Chair: Betty Conklin (bconklin@wrv.k12.in.us)
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WRV Lyons has been identified as a school in improvement. As a result, our school improvement plan will be developed in consultation with parents, school staff, the LEA, and a partnership with WRV Worthington Elementary school personnel. In May of the current school year, the WRV Worthington team will review our School Improvement Plan to insure that it contains the ten mandated components. The Worthington team will make suggestions and assist WRV Lyons throughout the school year as it analyzes data and constructs a school improvement plan for the forth coming school year.
Strategy Chair: Kurt Lentz (klentz@wrv.k12.in.us)
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