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Essay Instructions: Prepare a final proposal for a school improvement plan, with feedback from the principal, school improvement team members, and other stakeholders.
These are my goals created by our school improvement team along with some ideas or processes on how we could go about achieving my goals . The members of my school improvement team are my principal, guidance counselor, teachers, librarian, community members, parents, a teachers union representative, and a resource teacher. It must be explained through through this essay that the goals and processes of achieving the goals were created in a collaborated effort by the school improvement team and how feedback from all was demonstrated with a few examples. Also how this improvement plan especially the "effective instruction goal" coincides with overall becoming a data driven school.
Goal 1- Effective Instruction
Implement the Model Curriculum provided by NJDOE to ensure that there is an adequate integration of the Core Common Standards with the NJCCCS.
Align assessments (both formative and summative) to Model Curriculum.
Collect and analyze data from assessments to ensure that:
At least 95% of students participate in state mandated formative assessments
At least 70% of students demonstrate proficiency on each subject learning objective of state mandated formative assessments
Staff continue to modify and/or improve instruction using research based methods
The number of not proficient students in the subject areas of LAL and Math will decrease by 8.3% as compared to 2012 NJASK scores through the use of:
A rigorous Curriculum
High expectations and implementation of classroom researched-based best practices
Continuous student interventions: tutoring, enrichment, etc.
All Science, Soc. St., and Specials area teachers will continue to support the Student Learning Objectives for LAL and Math as articulated in the Model Curriculum.



Goal 2- School Climate and Culture
Promote a positive school climate through proactive activities that create a safe place for learning to occur:
Students:
Character education program.
Assemblies/other activities that promote cultural awareness and tolerance.
Staff:
Professional learning opportunities.
Opportunities to create/present professional development sessions by staff through collaborative effort.
Attendance:
Staff/students: at least 92% attendance
Students: less than 5% will be chronically absent
Discipline: less than 5% of students will be suspended
Data
Examine discipline referral data on a monthly basis to determine:
Patterns of behavior
Possible root causes of behavior
Strategies:
Teachers will have 3 buddy teachers to send students to.
Guidance will continue their active role of conferencing with students.
Aggressively use in house counselors to implement research based behavior modification techniques.
Student reflections on behavior in order to:
Create accountability for incorrect behaviors
Modify/curtail future incorrect behaviors











Goal 3- Effective Family and Community Engagement
Promote a positive, respectful, and welcoming school environment for parents, students and community members at large through engaging and academically focused activities.
Parents:
Create afterschool ESL classes for parents
Students:
Offer collaborative parent/child learning opportunities: shared reading, hands-on projects, etc.
Community Members:
? Engage community leaders to serve as speakers, mentors/role models for parents and students.
Attendance:
Parents:
At least 25% of parents participate in school wide surveys
At least 80% responding to surveys state that the school meets expectations.
25% increase in parent participation in all school activities
Students:
100% of students will participate in school wide surveys.
At least 80% of students responding to surveys will state that the school meets expectations.
At least 25% of students will participate in parent/child collaborative learning projects.
Strategies:
Offer incentives to parents/students to foster habit of participation.
Use questionnaires/surveys on a quarterly basis to:
Get perspective on past activities.
Obtain input and suggestions for future activities.
Use automated phone system, parent liaisons, and staff members in addition to letters/notices to reach out to parents and students to ensure effective communication.

Essay Instructions: Objectives, Goals and Vision Alignment Analysis specific Rubric.


Standard:

High Performain leaders have a personal vision for their school and the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to develop, articulate and implement a shared vision that is supported by the larger organization and the school community.

Indicator:

Describes How Instructional Objectives, Curricular Goals and the Shared Vison Relate to each other in a School Improvement Plan.

Assessment (ESSAY ASSIGNEMNT}

An essay will be written using information from a School Improvement Plan{on a school district website: http://www.browardschools.com/schoolsplash1/schoolimprovement/0881.pdf} related to the school's vision, goals, and instructional objectives; and will in writing explain and assess critically the relationship and alignment among all three levels.

Paper must include the following to exceed expectations:

I. Explanation of Vison, curricular goals, instructional
objectives.
A. There is a very clear explanation of each of the three variables of vision, curricular goals and instructiona objectives.

B. There is a clear description of the ideal relationship among the theree variables.


II. Analysis of Alignment in School Improvement Plan.

A. There is a critical assessment that analyzes the extent of the alignment/misalignment among the three variables in the School Improvemnt Plan.

B. the analysis includes key examples of alignment and misalignment.

C. There are five or more key suggestions for improvement.

III. Citations and Writing

A. There are six or more relevant citations that support explanation and analysis.

B. there is accurate APA format for citations and references.

C. No errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation.

Essay Instructions: I will be sending you a paper on school improvement- The paper includes a school profile, The desired state of the school and an improvement plan. After reading I need you to

Create an introduction (1page or little less), a conclusion (1 page or a little less) for the project as a whole.

AND
Write a reflection on the value of this assignment to you as a principal candidate. (1 page)

Essay Instructions: 1) School Improvement Goals
2) Write a short paper addressing the following questions. When referencing sources, please use APA citation. All answers should have few or no mechanical errors.
3) In your school situation, what are the four most desired improvements that need to be made within the school? Include higher-level learning as one of the improvements.
4) How can those improvements be affected by changes in the curriculum? For example, what would the school need to do to change its curriculum to incorporate higher-level learning?