Transcript Sydney Academy Accreditation

Sydney Academy
Accreditation
School Improvement Plan
Where have we been?
Data Collection
Goal Selection
* 1 Student Achievement
* 1 School Performance
* 1 (Best of the Rest)
Student Achievement
Potential Goals included:
• Literacy Across the Curriculum
• Second Language
• Student Engagement
School Performance
Potential Goals included:
• Communication
• Parental Involvement
• School Climate
Who was involved in Goal
Selection?
• Teaching Staff (Teachers, Administration,
Guidance, etc.)
• Support Staff (C.U.P.E. Employees)
• Parents (S.A.C Committee)
• Students (Head Boy/Head Girl)
• Community (S.A.C Committee)
S.M.A.R.T Goals
Strategic and Specific → Focused on specific actions to achieve results
and linked to priorities that are part of the larger vision.
Measurable → How will we know if our actions made a difference and what
data will we collect to provide evidence that we made a difference?
Attainable → Can we do what we want to do?
Results-based → What do we expect to achieve?
Time-bound → Have we established a timeline for achieving our goal?
Tentative SA Accreditation Goals
Goal: Communication
By May 2011, 75% of school community
members will report satisfaction with
communication methods being used.
Goal: Student Engagement
By May 2011, there will be an increase
in student engagement across the
curriculum demonstrated by an
increase in baseline survey data and a
5 % improvement in various
assessment measures.
Goal: Literacy Across the Curriculum
By May 2011, there will be an increase
of 5% from baseline on a variety of
literacy assessments.
Where did we go from
there?
Tentative
Strategies and Action Plans
What we’ll do to achieve our goals?
“Goal Committees”
• “Goal Committees” were established.
• “Goal Committees” were in charge of
meeting to create “Action Plans” for each
strategy.
• “Action Plans” do not commence until
September ’08.
Goal: Communication
Strategy #1:
To provide a variety of assessment
tools/practices to enhance
student/teacher communication.
Action Steps for Strategy #1
1. Each department will develop rubrics for
evaluation.
2. “Office Hours”. Each teacher will hold
regular office hours once a cycle to allow
student and teacher to meet if necessary.
3. Student/Teacher conferencing will be
used as part of assessment and
recorded.
Goal: Communication
Strategy #2:
To provide a variety of practices to
enhance home/school communication.
Action Steps for Strategy #2
1. Introduce a message board on Townsend
Street
2. Parent E-mail distribution list
3. K-12 Planet
4. Telephone in classrooms (voice mail)
5. Answering machine for after hours
Goal: Communication
Strategy #3:
To Improve the school website
Action Steps for Strategy #3
1. Develop a plan to keep the website up to
date
2. Department news/student column
3. Investigate/Research other school
websites
Goal: Literacy Across the
Curriculum
Strategy #1:
To provide students opportunities to
develop better reading comprehension
skills.
Action Steps for Strategy #1
1. Information session/review/orientation for all
teachers and staff on Literacy SMART goal.
2. Introduce the Reading Improvement Program to
all staff.
3. Improve resources and access to resource
material for RIP
4. Implement the RIP program for 4-20min blocks
(Mon-Thurs), last 20 minutes of 2nd double.
5. Purchase, acquire dictionaries for each
classroom
6. Form a committee to research and select
appropriate reading comprehension strategies
across the curriculum. The creation of a
handbook for all teachers.
7. In-servicing of all teachers regarding reading
comprehension strategies.
8. Development of baseline testing instruments
for measuring reading comprehension.
Goal: Literacy Across the
Curriculum
Strategy #2:
To develop stronger skills which
emphasize precision, clarity and
accuracy
Action Steps for Strategy #2
1. Create a link on the website and an insert in the
student handbook which contains helpful and
comprehensive information for various written tasks.
2. Create a committee to compile, organize and
implement the use of proper resources for written
tasks.
3. Provide each class with a copy of Canadian Writer.
4. In-service teachers and support staff on the use of
appropriate writing techniques across the curriculum.
5. Development of a series of rubric templates, exemplars
of writing .
Goal: Student Engagement
Strategy #1:
To develop an ongoing system of
continuous evaluation to support student
engagement.
Action Steps for Strategy #1
1. Research available professional
development resources on portfolio
development
2. Develop a Sydney Academy Portfolio
System.
3. In-service staff on use of portfolios.
4. Implement Portfolios as a tool for
evaluation.
5. Each teacher will include a variety of
assessments ie. portfolios, projects, home
assignments, tests, in-class assignments.
6. Professional development will be provided
regarding addressing different learning styles in
the classroom. Assessment must reflect these
learning styles.
7. Compile a collection of assessment tools,
techniques, and templates that support diverse
learning needs across the curriculum.
Goal: Student Engagement
Strategy #2:
To establish an in-house peertutoring/tutoring program.
Action Steps for Strategy #2
1. Enlist a member of the teaching staff to
act as staff advisor to oversee the peertutoring program.
2. Select student tutors based on
demonstrated ability in specific subject
areas.
3. Provide inducements for peer tutors to
become involved in the program.
4. Provide training for Peer Tutors.
5. Establish a tutoring schedule and provide
a suitable location.
6. Research opportunities to provide
homework/tutoring support by qualified
professionals.
7. On school website, advertise extra-help
sessions provided by teaching staff, CBU
Chaplaincy Program, and the Youth Peer
Tutoring Program
Goal: Student Engagement
Strategy #3:
To establish a school-wide policy
regarding attendance, punctuality,
assignment deadlines and testwriting.
Action Steps for Strategy #3
1. Create a drive on the school server to house all
school policies and procedures to be
assessable by all teachers.
2. Ensure all applicable policies and procedures
are printed in the student handbook and on the
school website.
3. Establish an in-school suspension program to
deal with habitual attendance and punctuality
problems.
4. Ensure all teaching staff are in their classrooms
on time to greet their students
5. Teachers will contact parents in regard to
student absences, punctuality, behavioral issues
and academic progress in a timely fashion.
6. To ensure school-wide communication, teachers
will use the action comments in Win-school, on a
consistent basis, to record any issues regarding
attendance, punctuality, and student
performance.
7. When five or more absences occur, a parent
conference will be held with the student, an
administrator and guidance.
Goal: Student Engagement
Strategy #4:
Administration will provide regular,
visible support and feedback to staff
and students.
Action Steps for Strategy #4
1. Administration will make short, bi-weekly
visits to each classroom to observe
teaching and learning and offer support
and encouragement.
2. A video message center will be installed
in the cafeteria to support communication
and feedback to students.
3. Administration will meet with all new teachers,
term teachers and long-term substitutes at the
beginning of their placement to review
attendance and other policies, as well as to
direct them to the computer drive where all
policies are to be stored.
4. Guidance and/or Resource Teacher will meet
with all new teachers, term teachers, and longterm substitutes to review course adaptation and
IPP policies and procedures.
External Review Team Visit
When?
- April 20-23, 2008
Why?
- To Evaluate our School
Improvement Plan
Who?
- All stakeholders