Updated: 05-Jun-2008

School Improvement Plan

Mission Statement:
Students will be prepared to be critical thinkers, effective communicators, and accountable members in a global society.

Target Goals:

1. All students will improve their critical thinking across the curriculum.
   We define critical thinking as students who synthesize, integrate information and develop conclusions.
2. All students will improve effective communication skills across the curriculum.
   We define communication skills as expression with clarity and focus in a variety of media.

Interventions:

• Classroom Intervention – Goal 1
  Teachers will use a variety of strategies to facilitate student skill development in the areas of synthesis, integration of information and development of conclusions to include: Graphic organizers; project-based learning; brainteasers; Five Whys.
• Classroom Intervention - Goal 2:
  Teachers will use a variety of strategies to instruct students to communication with clarity and focus using a variety of media.
• Communication Intervention:
  School will develop a variety of means to inform parents and community of efforts and progress in School Improvement to include: School newsletter, class newsletters; open house; graphic organizers; personal website; base media resources; multimedia presentations; group e-mails.
• SHC Partnership Intervention:
  School will develop a variety of means to involve parents and community in the students’ learning process to include:
  Friday Focus; graphic organizers; yourhomework.com; personal web pages; brainteasers; Lodging/Culinary Arts projects; invite parents to classroom; parents observe projects; monthly newletters, parent/paraprofessionals as tutors. 
• Technology Intervention:
  Teachers will continue to develop means of preparing students for the future with improved and expanded means of using technology to include: Inspiration 8; Multimedia Presentations (To include Publisher, Word, Excel, PPT, Software from textbooks and other internet resources); graphing calculators, smartboards, SnagIt, Research; Infocus machines, COWS.

School Improvement Profile	Community Strategic Plan
Standardized Test Results	DoDEA Accreditation site.
Quartile Percentages	Mediterranean District School Improvement page.

 

 

 

Link to Adobe Acrobat Reader | Link to Adobe PDF Conversion Tool
DoDEA does not support or endorse Adobe Systems Inc. or Microsoft Corporation, and their products