USD 435 School Enhancement Plan

Curriculum Area: Communications

Goal: All students will improve reading comprehension across the curriculum.

Long Term Goal – All students will improve reading comprehension across the curriculum.	Schoolwide Initiative
Short Term Goal – Students will retell a passage using main ideas or events and supporting details in appropriate grade level text.	Grade Level or Content Area Initiative: Garfield Upper El. 4th gr.

Steps to Achieve Goal Timeline Person in charge

Students will identify the topic, main idea, and supporting details in appropriate text.	2010-2011	4th grade teachers
Students will identify the author’s purpose.	2010-2011	4th grade teachers
Students will identify and describe major confiict in a story and how it is resolved.	2010-2011	4th grade teachers

Data to show we achieved the goal (at least two forms of data required) Baseline Results

State and Local Assessments	Spring 2010	Spring 2011
MAP assessments	Fall 2010	Spring 2011
PM Benchmark Assessments	Twice yearly 2010	Twice yearly 2011
STAR Test	2010	2011

(Results should be recorded at the end of the term identified above and sent to the local School Enhancement Chair for posting. If additional documentation is needed please attach)

Staff Development Needed Possible Location Expected Costs

Teacher led collaborative meetings (combined 4th and 5th)

Garfield

none

Resources Needed Where Expected Costs

Kagan Balanced Literacy (authors from Newton)	$40 a book for each teacher
Study Island

Notes:

1) Possible data sources can include assessment scores from MAP or State assessments, locally developed assessments that will show the change, locally developed Rubrics to show implementation and change, portfolios, focus groups, observation tools…..

2) When goals are completed it doesn’t necessarily mean they are dropped. They should be engrained in instruction that it no longer needs to be a goal for implementation to occur.