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Elementary Goals
Brasher Falls Central School District
St. Lawrence Central Elementary School Goals
School Year
Goal 1: Student Achievement –RRR- Elementary
The Brasher Falls Central School District will promote continual improvement of curriculum and instruction through focus upon Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships in learning and instruction.
Strategy: To increase student learning in Quad D instruction and activities.
Strategy: To analyze and improve relationships with students and community in order to increase student achievement.
Target: To increase each student cohort’s proficiency on the NYS ELA & Math Assessments by 4%
Action | Conversion of one project, currently in their curriculum, from “Analog” to “Digital” through the use of technology to promote higher order thinking skills as facilitated by student engagement. | Implementation of “Check and Connect Buddy” system | |
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Implementation Steps | Teachers will be provided with monthly technology training in their monthly staff meeting.
Teachers will convert one project from being “Analog” to “Digital” over the course of the academic year.
Monthly check-ins for progress of implementation of technology integration via sharing success stories. | Staff will assign each student a Check and Connect Buddy
Check and Connect Buddies will meet with their students once per week | |
Responsibility | Principal
Teachers and teaching assistants
Principal Teachers | All staff
All staff All students | |
Timeline | September 2016 to June 2017
September 2016 to June 2017
September 2016 to June 2017 | Staff development day, September 2016
September 2016 to June 2017 | |
Goal Evaluation | 100% of teachers will convert a current project from “Analog” to “Digital” | 100% of students will be assigned a check and connect buddy that will meet with them once a week. |
Goal 2: Student Achievement- Elementary School
The Brasher Falls Central School District will promote continual improvement of curriculum and instruction, in line with the Common Core Learning Standards, to raise the quality of student achievement.
Strategy: To embed the philosophy and practices of the Common Core Learning Standards into everyday practices at BFCSD.
Target: To increase each student cohort’s proficiency on the NYS ELA & Math Assessments by 4%
Action | Implementation of weekly Snapshot Assessments in the subject areas of ELA and math. |
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Implementation Steps | Develop weekly Snapshot Assessments for each grade level based upon curriculum maps and archival interim assessment data.
Professional development on the expected use of the Snapshot Assessments and their administration.
Classroom implementation of weekly Snapshot Assessments
Weekly data reports will be printed from the prior Snapshot Assessment and given to teachers for use in their cycle’s PLC time |
Responsibility | Snapshot Team
Principal
Classroom teachers
Printing- Data coordinator PLC- teachers |
Timeline | Summer 2016
September Staff Development Day
September 2016 to June 2017
September 2016 to June 2017 |
Goal Evaluation | 100% of grade levels will have a prepared weekly Snapshot Assessment for subject areas of ELA and math.
100% of all staff will be able to articulate and demonstrate the protocols of administering weekly Snapshot Assessments.
100% of classrooms will have data for each week’s progress from Socrative
100% of classroom teachers will have grade level data reflection time for their Snapshot Assessment results each cycle |
Goal 3: Student Achievement –Elementary PLC
The Brasher Falls Central School Board of Education will promote continual improvement of curriculum and instruction, in line with the Common Core Learning Standards, to raise the quality of student achievement.
Strategy: Implementation of student centered goal setting and tracking.
Short Term Target: To increase each student cohort’s proficiency on the NYS ELA & Math Assessments by 4%
Action | Student creation and tracking of individualized goals |
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Implementation Steps | Introduction of goal setting to staff with expectations.
Student creation of goals. Pre-K: Student success board by standards and Brag Tags K: Student tracking binder with 2 goals monthly with evaluation 1: Tracking guided reading levels with student and teacher generated goals with reflective ways of increasing reading levels 2: Student created goals based upon math fact sheets of 100 3: Student tracking binders and goal setting sheets 4: Goal setting sheets based upon STAR Reading Scale Scores Specials: Increase student achievement through integrating interdisciplinary curricula through literacy, math, science, history, and geography through pre and post measures including student self-evaluation
Student tracking of goals. |
Responsibility | School Improvement Team
Teachers Teaching assistants Students
Teachers Teaching assistants students |
Timeline | September 2016
September 2016
September 2016 to June 2017
September 2016 to June 2017 |
Goal Evaluation | 100% of all students will have a goal that they can monitor their progress towards |