LANCASTERCENTRALSCHOOL DISTRICT

CourtStreetElementary School Building Planning Team

2013-2014

Goal Area: ELA

Building Planning Team Objective: Effective Annual Measurable Objectives for Adequate Yearly Progress for NYS Third Grade ELA Assessment is 145.

What? / How? / When? / Who? / Who? / Accomplished?
Strategy / Major Tasks / Activities / Dates - Begin/End / 1. Responsibility / 2. Workers / Evidence of Completion/Success
Instruction
  • Continue reviewing and implementing strategies focusing on Common Core Learning Standards (ELA) and close reading strategies
  • Review and implement research and technology strategies based on the Common Core Learning Standards and prepare for computerized testing
  • Promote a love of reading and the family literacy component
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  • Use faculty meetings/extended hours to support learning about the Common Core Learning Standards and close reading strategies
  • Organize literacy workshops focusing on research-based strategies based on Common Core Learning Standards and close reading strategies
  • Continue implementing CFA strategies at all grade levels
  • Create and implement lessons based on the Common Core Learning Standards using technology resources and prepare for computerized testing
  • Implement the summer reading program (Soar into a Book) and an assembly in September
  • Implement the Bedtime and Books program
  • Implement the PARP program (Parents As Reading Partners) and promote PTO activities that encourage literacy initiatives
  • Encourage literacy strategies through CourtStreetSchool’s Literacy Committee website
/ September 2013 – June 2014
October 2013 –
May 2014
September 2013 – June 2014 / Literacy Committee Members, ELA District Committee members, Teachers, Data Coaches, and Principal
Media Center Specialist, Classroom teachers, and Principal
Literacy Committee Members,
Teachers, and Principal / All teachers
Media Specialist & Classroom teachers
All teachers /
  • Observations during administrative walk-throughs during the 90 minutes literacy block
  • Discussion/agenda at Literacy Committee meetings
  • Discussion/agenda of with data coaches at grade-level meetings
  • Attendance/agenda at faculty meetings/extended hours
  • Attendance/agenda at Literacy Workshops
  • Completion of student projects based on the Common Core Learning Standards utilizing various technology resources
  • Student participation in the summer reading program
  • Student participation in PARP (Parents As Reading Partners)
  • Parent participation in the literacy workshops during kindergarten screening

Guaranteed and Viable
Curriculum
  • Continue reviewing and aligning curriculum with the Common Core Learning Standards (ELA)
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  • Use Literacy Committee meetings to review the Common Core Learning Standards and align curriculum with the Common Core
  • Use faculty meetings/extended hours to learn about the Common Core Learning Standards
  • Use grade level meetings to learn about the Common Core Learning Standards
/ September 2013-June 2014 / Literacy Committee Members, District ELA Committee members, and Principal / All teachers /
  • Discussion/agenda at Literacy Committee meetings
  • Discussions/agenda at grade level meetings
  • Attendance/agenda at faculty meetings/extended hours

Assessment:
Challenging Goals and Effective Feedback
  • Utilize benchmark assessment data (Scholastic program)and student writing samples to make informed decisions about instruction
  • Create, review, and evaluate Student Learning Objectives based on beginning, mid, and end of year assessments
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  • Use grade level meetings and Response-to-Intervention meetings to review and evaluation student literacy data
  • Use grade level meetings to create, review, and evaluate SLO data and NYS 3rd Grade ELA Assessment data
/ September 2013-June 2014
September 2013-
June 2014 / All teachers, data coaches, and principal
All teachers, data coaches, and principal / All teachers, data coaches, and principal
All teachers, data coaches, and principal /
  • Attendance/agenda at grade level meetings
  • Attendance/agenda at weekly Response-to-Intervention meetings
  • Attendance/agenda at grade level meetings to analyze beginning, mid, and end of year assessment data