Brevard Public Schools – Elementary
2015-16 School Improvement Plan Summaries
SCHOOL / SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT GOAL / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Allen, Roy / Roy Allen will continue to focus on standards based instruction through the process of Understanding by Design, and proficiency scales. /
  • Proficiency Scales & Learning Goals
  • RigorStudent.Engagement
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Andersen, H.C. / With an emphasis on summarizing and analytical comparisons of texts, Andersen teachers will continue to develop reading and writing strategies that create deeper conceptual understanding of the standards. /
  • FSA Writing
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Standards Based Instruction

Apollo / Professional Learning Communities will prioritize standards through all core subjects, develop, and implement instructional plans to meet the intent and rigor of the Florida Standards. /
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Atlantis / Our teachers will focus on student learning, through standards-based instruction, by prioritizing the ELA standards and writing learning scales for each priority standard. /
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Learning Scales
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Audubon / Teachers at Audubon Elementary will gain increased knowledge in prioritizing standards and apply this knowledge to the first stage of Understanding by Design “backward planning.” Teachers will create a list of priority standards and supporting standards. /
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Brevard Virtual / BVS teachers will implement a Multi-Tiered System of Support at all grade levels with a focus on Tier 1, standards based instruction and Tier 2 interventions. /
  • MTSS
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Cambridge / Teachers will understand, plan, and implement standards based instruction in all content areas to increase student achievement. /
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • MTSS

Cape View / Through collaboration and implementation of Understanding by Design (UbD), teachers will increase instructional rigor by identifying priority standards and supporting standards in math. More time will be spent on essential standards which will result in a students’ conceptual understanding, improved procedural skills and fluency and the ability to transfer what they have learned. /
  • Prioritizing Standards & Learning Scales
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Math Solutions

Carroll, Lewis / Teachers at Lewis Carroll Elementary School will collaboratively design standard-based units in alignment with Grant Wiggins’ model, Understanding by Design, leading to increased student performance and deeper understanding of concepts. /
  • Rigor
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Glasser Quality Schools

Challenger 7 / Challenger 7 teachers across all grade levels will prioritize the ELA standards and develop and implement ELA proficiency scales in order to plan units for instruction and track student progress over time. /
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Proficiency Scales
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Columbia / Columbia’s faculty and staff will deliver rigorous standards-based instruction through the use of success criteria and performance scales. By gaining an understanding of our learning goals and making clear targets in student friendly scales, Columbia will increase engagement, help make a personal connection with the content, and stimulate student immersion with the content. /
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Learning Scales
  • Differentiated Instruction

Coquina / If we collaborate, reflect, and share responsibilities during focused common planning, we will develop and implement rigorous standards based instruction. /
  • Standards-based instruction
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Creel, Dr. WJ / Dr. W.J. Creel School will develop and implement a systematic study of and redevelopment of the school wide mathematics program in a manner that supports standards based instruction. /
  • Standards Based Math Instruction
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Croton / All teachers at Croton Elementary School will collaboratively plan to implement focused, standard-based instruction that includes the strategy of backwards planning using Understanding by Design to increase literacy and student achievement across the curriculum. /
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Discovery / The instructional staff at Discovery Elementary School will craft high quality assignments designed to align the learning goals with the content complexity of the state standards. /
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Endeavour / The amount of student behavior referrals will continue to decrease, thus maximizing
instructional time in the classrooms. Endeavour will utilize data to implement rigorous standards based ambitious instruction in all content areas that will consistently exhibit continuous academic growth school wide. Endeavour will collaboratively establish expectations for high quality writing instruction and student feedback in all content areas, to be consistently met school wide. /
  • Positive Behavior Support (PBS)
  • Rigorous Standards Based Instruction
  • Writing K-2 Lucy Calkins
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Enterprise / At Enterprise Elementary, teachers will design and implement instruction that aligns with the full intent and rigor of grade level specific Florida Standards. /
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Fairglen / Fairglen’s 2015-2016 School Improvement Plan goal is Standards Based Planning and Instruction. /
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Freedom 7 / Teachers will improve instruction to produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are differentiated to task, purpose and audience across the disciplines. /
  • Lucy Calkins -Text based writing
  • Differentiation
  • Thinking Maps

Gemini / Through a growth mindseteducational approach, Gemini teachers will demonstrate instructional rigor through Florida Standards based unit design. /
  • Growth Mind Set
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Learning Scales
  • ESE Strategies

Golfview / Increase student understanding/knowledge in the core content with rigorous Standards-based instruction. /
  • Standards based instruction
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • PBS

Harbor City / Harbor City Teachers, Administrators and Staff will work collaboratively to examine the Florida Standards in order to prioritize standards and design curriculum units and increase their knowledge of the Understanding by Design framework which focuses on helping students come to an understanding of important ideas, gain acquisition of knowledge and skills, and show transfer of their learning to new situations.
We will continue to implement Positive Behavior Support to increase time for teaching and learning. This year we will add Tier II PBS interventions to meet the behavior needs of students who need further support through the Multi-Tiered System of Support.
Teachers will use individual student feedback sessions to help students better focus on what they need to know and what they should be able to do as a result of the instruction they are receiving. /
  • PBS
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Holland, S. / Continuing with the goal from last year, Holland Elementary School will use engagement strategies to increase rigor across all content area over the next two years. /
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Lesson study

Imperial Estates / 100% of the teachers at Imperial Estates will use backwards design to develop and implement plans for and teach standards-based instruction. /
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Proficiency Scales
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • PBS

Indialantic / The data analysis clearly illustrates a need for a school-wide focus in the areas of learning gains in both reading and math (especially level 5’s) and the lowest 25% in math. As we begin the 2014-2015 school year we will further develop Number Talks, Summarizing and Extended Thinking Strategies as well as expanding the implementation of the Florida State Standards (LAFS and MAFS) through Standards Based Instruction. /
  • Standards-based instruction
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Curriculum Mapping

Jupiter / All staff at Jupiter Elementary will provide standards based instruction for ALL students with a focus on prioritizing standards and student engagement. /
  • Student engagement
  • Standards-based instruction
  • Rigor

Lockmar / Lockmar’s goals are to use priority standards in classroom instruction to improve student responses to text-based writing assignments and to understand/use domain-specific vocabulary. /
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Content Area Vocabulary
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Longleaf / During the 2015-2016 school year, 100% of Longleaf teachers will utilize the Understanding by Design model to collaboratively design standards based units that include authentic and rigorous standards-based lessons to ensure all students are appropriately challenged and are receiving rigorous instruction. /
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Standards based instruction

Manatee / The instructional staff at Manatee Elementary School will develop students into 21st century writers and responsible citizens who are successful in a digital society by emphasizing high quality writing tasks in all subject areas to create deeper conceptual understanding and to increase writing proficiency as measured by the FSA scores in grades 4-6 and the BELAA Writing component scores in grades 1-3. /
  • Writing across the content areas
  • Technology-blended learning
  • Backwards by Design Planning

McAuliffe, C. / Christa McAuliffe Elementary will use collaborative planning to prioritize and implement rigorous standards based instruction. /
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Learning Scales
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Kagan Strategies

Meadowlane Intermediate / One hundred percent of Meadowlane Intermediate staff will be accountable for standards based planning and instruction utilizing priority standards to implement cognitively demanding instructional strategies while maintaining student engagement. /
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Learning Scales
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Kagan Strategies

Meadowlane Primary / Our goal for the 2015-2016 school year is for teachers to successfully design rigorous student learning opportunities that are aligned to the full intent of the priority standards in order to increase student learning gains.
We will meet this goal for improved instructional practices and student outcome measures by collaboratively prioritizing standards, utilizing the priority standards within the UbD framework, designing essential questions and aligning our standards-based instruction with learning scales and Webb’s depths of knowledge. /
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Learning Scales
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • ELL Strategies

MILA / Through collaborative planning, over a three-year period, teachers at MILA Elementary will utilize Standards-Based Instruction with rigor and fidelity to increase students’ deeper conceptual understanding and critical thinking in order to transfer knowledge to new learning. /
  • Standards based instruction
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Mims / Teachers will understand, plan, and implement standards based instruction in all content areas to increase student achievement. /
  • Standards-based instruction
  • Accountable Talk
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Oak Park / Oak Park teachers will identify ELA priority standards. Oak Park teachers will implement ELA proficiency scales at all grade levels in order to increase the percentage of students in Grades 3-6 who are showing growth on FAIR (probability of success) and who are on grade level (reading comprehension) as evidenced from 2014-2015 to the 2015-2016 school-year data results. /
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Proficiency Scales
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Ocean Breeze / Teachers will decode the Florida Standards (Language Arts Standards and Mathematics Standards) into three categories, and reflect those standards in instructional planning and delivery; Priority, Supporting and Supplemental /
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Standards-based instruction

Palm Bay Elem / The instructional staff at Palm Bay Elementary will deliver standards based instruction to the full intent and rigor of the standards by focusing on collaborative lesson designs across the content areas in order to increase the student depth of understanding and learning. /
  • Standards-based instruction
  • Learning Scales
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Pinewood / All teachers at Pinewood Elementary will develop and apply knowledge of grade level prioritized ELA standards to achieve rigorous standards based instruction. /
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Proficiency Scales
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Port Malabar / Every teacher at Port Malabar Elementary will ensure that quality core instruction is aligned to meet the academic demands of the standards. We will achieve this by prioritizing the standards and using standards based lesson planning to ensure learning at the full intent of the standards. /
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Differentiation

Quest / All teachers at Quest Elementary will increase the instructional rigor through the use of Florida Standards and collaborative team planning. /
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Rigorous Standards based instruction
  • Data Driven Instruction

Riviera / All teachers at Riviera will work in collaborative teams to focus on long term planning for Standards Based Instruction which encompasses the use of formative assessments utilizing a school wide planning template (planbook.edu). We will encourage teachers to develop learning scales for priority standards to check for student understanding and knowledge base. /
  • Prioritizing Standards/Scales
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Cooperative Learning Strategies
  • Thinking Maps
  • Technology Integration

Roosevelt / Roosevelt Elementary teachers will implement backward design to plan units that incorporate writing across content areas to assess student progress towards meeting the full intent of the standards, which will engage students and develop their higher order thinking and writing skills, therefore increasing student achievement /
  • Thinking Maps
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Sabal / Teachers at Sabal Elementary will collaboratively plan and deliver rigorous standards based lessons to increase student achievement. /
  • Technology Integration
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Standards Based Instruction

Saturn / All instructional staff will constantly and pervasively focus on implementing rigorous standards based instruction to increase student achievement. /
  • Differentiation
  • Technology Integration/Blended Learning
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Sea Park / All teachers at Sea Park will focus on consistent use of standards-based instruction, with emphasis on prioritizing the standards utilizing Understanding by Design Framework. /
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Differentiation
  • Hands-on Science

Sherwood / Teachers will instruct students with rigorous standards based instruction. /
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Standards based instruction

Stevenson, RL / (An excerpt) Stevenson is going to adopt school-wide the idea of the Three E’s of Effective Sentences which will help student writers to evaluate sentence construction. A part of Stevenson’s writing goal that will be developed in our “scales” work will be to infuse writing as a part of the student’s work where they must provide evidence to support their knowing how to solve the mathematical problem and not only “figure out” the problem (algorithm). Continuing into the third year using the Literacy Design Collaborative Framework, Stevenson will continue to recreate modules that have been used in the past as well as to develop new ones that bring better quality instruction for students. /
  • Literacy Design Collaborative
  • Prioritizing Standards/Scales
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Writing Across Content Areas
  • Growth Mind Set

Sunrise / Using collaborative planning the teachers at Sunrise will achieve the rigor of standards-based instruction. Evidence will include classroom walkthrough data. Evidence will include UbD lesson-plans, data from team planning sessions and classroom observations using the IPPAS Rubric. /
  • Standards-based instruction
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • PBS

Suntree / All Suntree teachers will participate in the backwards design unit planning process, including prioritizing the standards. Teachers will utilize best practices for standards-based instruction with an emphasis on writing in response to text across the curriculum. /
  • Literacy Design Collaborative
  • Prioritizing Standards
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Surfside / By having a deeper understanding of the standards and standards-based instruction, all teachers will be able to develop more rigorous questions for their students and elicit deeper and more meaningful student responses. /
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Tropical / Tropical Elementary will implement “backwards planning”/Understanding by Design frameworks in order to ensure rigorous, standards-based teaching and learning, while continuing the use of research-based student-engagement strategies. /
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • MTSS

Turner, J. / Improve and maintain a positive learning culture where all stakeholders are actively invested in their own learning and thinking. Student achievement will increase when teachers understand, plan, and implement rigorous, standards-based instruction in all content areas. /
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • PBS

Univ. Park / Increase student's understanding/knowledge in the Core Content with rigorous Standards Based Instruction through continuous progress monitoring, classroom walkthroughs with feedback, and data driven instruction. /
  • Standards-based instruction
  • PBS
  • Conscious Discipline
  • ESE Strategies

W. Melb School for Science / Teachers will implement standards based instruction to increase student achievement and rigor, and thus, student learning gains. /
  • Literacy Design Collaborative
  • Prioritizing Standards/Scales

Westside / The faculty of Westside Elementary School will deliver Florida State Standard-based instruction in a manner that is rigorous, while continuing to improve research-based professional practices and programs to positively impact student achievement and increase student success across all grade levels and content areas. /
  • Standards-based instruction
  • Prioritizing Standards/Scales
  • Backwards by Design Planning

Williams, R. / Williams’ teachers and administration will formatively evaluate programs through the data team process in an effort to maximize student achievement. /
  • Prioritizing Standards/Scales
  • Backwards by Design Planning
  • Kagan Strategies
  • Technology