NCA SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT ACTION PLAN (Updated 6/9/14)

Grades K-3

NCA SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT ACTION PLAN (Updated 6/9/14)

Goal: Students will improve reading comprehension in all grades and in all curriculum areas, with an emphasis on nonfiction.
Essence: The district will use research-based interventions to maintain its established level of reading excellence for all students with special emphasis on nonfiction.
Support Data(from the Profile)
DIBELS Next
Gates MacGinitie – 3rd Grade
MAP (2-3) /

Standardized Assessments

MAP (2-3)
Gates MacGinitie – 3rd Grade /

Local Assessments

Gates MacGinitie – 3rd Grade
DIBELS Next
Reading – Core Benchmarks
Intervention:
Utilize tutorial programs to reach at risk readers.
Implement activities for all students to develop reading and vocabulary skills with emphasis on nonfiction. / Research/Best Practice for Intervention:
Classroom Instruction that Works by Marzano
Imagine It! (Core reading program published by SRA)
Explicit Instruction; Effective and Efficient Teaching by
Archer and Hughes
Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve
Student Learning by Schmoker
Advanced Ed research done by K-12 staff

Activities to Implement the Intervention

/ Person(s)
Accountable /

Timeline

Begin End /

Resources

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Staff Development

1. Prof. Development w/ Marzano’s strategies
2. DIBELS Next training
3. Read Naturally
4. RtI /Language Arts meetings
5. Readers Theater
6. Reading Mastery
7. Anita Archer – Explicit Instruction Workshop
8. Sound Partners
9.iPods/Partner reading
10. 2013 Summer Literacy Workshops
11.Researched Based Strategies / 1.All Staff
2. Elem. Staff
3. Title / Sp. Ed.
4. Elem. Staff
5.Jan/ Mary F.
6. Mary F.
7. ESU 4 Staff
8. Title 1/Paras
9. Ele. Staff/volunteer listeners
10. ESU 4 Staff/Trainers
11.K-3 Staff / Aug. ‘11
Aug. ‘11
On-going
On-going
On-going
On-going
May 31 ‘12
Summer ‘12
Sum ‘14
On-going
On-going
May ‘13
Ongoing / May ‘ 12
June 1 ’12
Sum. ‘12
Sum ‘14
June ‘13 / 1.Power Point Presentations
2. Dibels Next Materials; April Kelly wiki: http://esu6-readingnews. wikispaces.com
3. CDs and players
4. Decision Rules & Pyramids of Intervention
5. Scripts
6. Reading Mastery Series
9. iPods
11. ESU #4 / 1. ESU 4 Prof. Dev. Trainers
2. April Kelly/ ESU4 Trainers
4. Dawn Miller / RtI Team
7. Anita Archer – Exp. Inst.
10. ESU 4 Prof. Dev Trainers
Anita Archer, April Kelley
11. Prof. Dev. Days