New Heights School K-3 Literacy Plan
June 1, 2012
Assessment / Screening: Preschool Screenings,
NWEA Testing (Fall, Winter, Spring),
AIMS Web
Diagnostic: NWEA, AIMS Web Early Literacy Measures, Read Naturally(grades 1-3), Sight Word Assessments
Progress Monitoring: AIMS Web Progress Monitoring, NWEA (Fall, Winter, Spring), Read Naturally (grades 1-3), Sight Word Assessments
Evaluation: NWEA (Spring-Spring Comparisons) / 1. Further implement AIMS Web progress monitoring and how to better use data to drive instruction, by October 2012.
2. Increase knowledge of NWEA test data and test resources; ongoing, first inservice with staff members by September 1, 2012.
3. Begin process of developing an RtI systems approach; ongoing, first discussions to begin August 2012. / 1. Administrator (TK); Literacy Team Leader (ER)
2. Administrative Associate (JD)
3. Literacy Team, Special Education Team, Designated Elementary Staff & Authorizer – IQS; Led by Administrator (TK)
Curriculum and Instruction / 1. Flex grouping
2. Working to Unpack and Align Curriculum with Standards
3. Cooperative Learning
4. Use of a variety of reading strategies rather than a prescriptive curriculum / 1. Streamline and focus reading programming and embed other content areas into instruction; process to begin Spring 2012 and ongoing. Process will monitored at least quarterly throughout the 2012-13 school year.
2. Identify and catalog resources into K-3 classroom libraries to be completed prior to September 1, 2012.
3. Evaluate current reading strategies and compare with scientifically research-based strategies by September 1, 2012.
4. Continue to explore and further understand state standards and how to align them with curriculum, to be concluded by June 1, 2013.
5. Identify texts and student reading levels using Lexile scores, by September 1, 2012.
6. Increase overall literacy instruction and opportunities to 90 minutes per day by September 1, 2012.
7. Increasing the balance between fiction and non-fiction text to 2:8; ongoing, initial implementation December 2012. / 1. Administrative Associate (JD); Literacy Team (ER, ML, JK, AK, NB, TL)
2. Literacy Team Leader (ER); Volunteer Staff Members
3. Administrative Associate (JD); Literacy Team Leader (ER)
4. Administrator (TK); Administrative Associate (JD); Literacy Team Leader (ER); Literacy Team (ER, ML, JK, AK, NB, TL)
5. Designated Members of Literacy Team
6. Administrator (TK); Administrative Associate (JD); Literacy Team Leader (ER)
7. Literacy Team (ER, ML, JK, AK, NB, TL)
System of Support / 1. Small flex groupings
2. Special Education referral system (documented interventions)
3. Title I monitoring and support
4. AIMS Web / 1. Implement student learning targets with individual students and with curriculum by September 1, 2013.
2. Begin process of developing an RtI systems approach; ongoing, first discussions to begin August 2012.
3. Increase overall literacy instruction and opportunities to 90 minutes per day, by September 1, 2012.
4. Conduct research into intervention materials beginning Spring 2012 through Spring 2013. / 1. Administrator (TK); Administrative Associate (JD); Literacy Team Leader (ER); Literacy Team
2. Literacy Team, Special Education Team, Designated Elementary Staff & Authorizer – IQS; Led by Administrator (TK)
3. Administrator (TK); Administrative Associate (JD); Literacy Team Leader (ER)
4. Administrator (TK); Administrative Associate (JD); Literacy Team Leader (ER)
Job-Embedded Professional Development / 1. Established elementary team meets weekly to discuss a variety of topics
2. Work has begun to unpack and align ELA standards
3. Use a variety of strategies for reading instruction / 1. Focus weekly elementary meetings on student learning issues, data, and instructional strategies; to begin immediately.
2. Develop a system for accountability after meetings; to begin immediately.
3. Continue working to unpack and align ELA standards; discuss possibility of doing so during elementary PLC meetings by June 2013.
4. Evaluate current reading strategies and compare with scientifically research-based strategies by September 1, 2012.
5. Increase use of appropriate and effective research-based strategies; ongoing, implemented by September 1, 2013. / 1. Elementary Team Secretary (JK/ER)
2. Literacy Team Leader (ER); Elementary Team Secretary (JK/ER)
3. Administrator (TK); Administrative Associate (JD); Literacy Team (ER, ML, JK, AK, NB, TL)
4. Administrative Associate (JD); Literacy Team Leader (ER)
5. Administrator (TK); Administrative Associate (JD); Literacy Team Leader (ER)
Community-Family Partnerships / 1. Weekly communication with parents via classroom correspondence / 1. Provide information to parents about individual student progress in literacy; to begin Fall 2012.
2. Provide parents resources to work toward individual student goals; to begin Fall 2012.
3. Include ways for parents to report on their involvement; to begin Fall 2012.
4. Discuss optimization of personalized parent-teacher communication and modify as necessary; by April 2012 to affect school calendar for the 2012-13 school year. / 1. Administrator (TK); Administrative Associate (JD); Literacy Team (ER, ML, JK, AK, NB, TL)
2. Administrator (TK); Literacy Team (ER, ML, JK, AK, NB, TL)
3. Administrator (TK); Literacy Team (ER, ML, JK, AK, NB, TL)
3. Administrator (TK); Administrative Associate (JD); Literacy Team Leader (ER)
Instructional Leadership / 1. Administration is supportive and participatory
2. Teacher leaders work cooperatively with other staff members on common goals / 1. Establish district literacy team by April 30, 2012.
2. Coordinate the development, implementation, and monitoring of the literacy plan; at least quarterly, to begin immediately.
3. Ensure adequate time for planning and monitoring of plan by teacher leaders via calendar of regularly scheduled meetings beginning immediately. / 1. Administrator (TK)
2. Administrator (TK); Administrative Associate (JD); Literacy Team Leader (ER)
3. Administrator (TK); Administrative Associate (JD); Literacy Team Leader (ER)