Brown Academy

Instructional Program Planning and Development Process

Brown Middle Foundation Academy

Mr. LaMar Brown~Director of Curriculum and Instruction Mrs. Janet Glenn~Instructional Coordinator Mr. Frank Hall~Dean of Students Mrs. Angela Kemp~Curriculum Coordinator

Improvement Plan

The design of this improvement plan is for the school of Brown Academy. The plan involves teachers, parents, administrations, community leaders and district officials from throughout our small school district.

Members of our district come together to create improvement plans for each school.

Plan Submission Outline at Content Area

Each subject area will focus on making improvements with their content area.

The developed plans will be presented to the Improvement plan committees.

LaMar BrownDirector of Curriculum

and Instruction

Janet GlennInstructional Coordinator

Stage Leader 1

MathDepartment

ScienceDepartment

Mr. Frank HallDean of StudentsStage Leader 2

Social StudiesDepartment

EncoreDepartment

Mrs. Angela KempCurriculum Coordinator

Stage Leader 3

Language ArtsDepartment

Physical Education Department

Language Arts Department Mrs. Rita Lockridge (Department Chair) Mrs. Yvonne Horne (Department Chair) Mr. Keith Johnson (6th Grade Rding/English) Mrs. Carol Osborn (6th Grade Rding/English) Mrs. Martha McClain (7th Grade Rding/English) Mrs. Adrinee Smith (7th Grade Rding/English) Mrs. LaTonya Hall (8th Grade Rding/English) Mr. Gregory Dumbro (8th Grade Rding/English) Mr. William Tigner (SpEd Support) Mrs. Joanne Spearman (SpEd Support)

Math Department

Mrs. Megan Johnson (Department Chair)Mrs. Andrea Minor (6th Grade Math)Mrs. Kelly Landin (7th Grade Math)Mrs. Diane Jacobs (8th Grade Math)Mrs. Marrilyn Herzog (SpEd Support)

Science Department

Mrs. Yulonda Hale (Department Chair)Mrs. Marsha Rutherford (6th Grade

Science)Mrs. Zena Gilchrist (7th Grade Science)Mrs. Latrice Dawkins (8th Grade Science)Mrs. Regina Bennett (SpEd Support)

Social Studies Department

Mrs. Dana Smith (Department Chair)Mrs. Dorethan Cope (6th Grade Science)Mrs. Valerie Glenn (7th Grade Science)Mrs. Linda Womack(8th Grade Science)Mrs. Alicaia Berry-Brown (SpEd Support)

Physical Education

Mr. Clarence Harris Sr. (6th Grade P.E./Department Chair)

Mr. Shawne Brown (7th Grade P.E.)Mr. Clarence Harris Jr.(8th Grade P.E.)

Encore Department Mrs. Theresa Pettaway (Department Chair) Mrs. Sheila White (Dance) Mr. Timothy Williams (Art) Mrs. Theresa Love (Speech) Mrs. Peggy Barksdale (Computer Application) Mrs. Darrel Scott (Drama) Mrs. Lola Black (French) Mr. Nadine Hatten (Spanish) Mr. Bretrcie Alderidge (Business Technology) Mr. Mark Morris (Band)

Committees

Instructional Specialist

Curriculum Coordinators

AdministrativeTeaching

ParentCommunity

OutreachGraphic IllustrationAssessment

District Planning

Roles:Setting ObjectivesSetting AssessmentsExtra curricular activitiesCompliance to district

programs

Director of Curriculum and Instructional Support

Purpose: Compose summarizations illustrating the focus of the district goals, standards and objectives.

Roles: Attends the superintendent meeting discussing district goals.

Provides the committees with summaries of the improvement needs.

Creates the yearly improvements objectives aligned with the districts goals.

Approves the final Improvement plan.

Implements the Improvement plan.

Meets with the Instructional and Curriculum Support Staff to discuss improvement goals.

Instructional SpecialistCommitee

Purpose: Facilitators of the implementation of program development.

Assessors of curriculum and instruction integration in the classroom.

Roles: Receives the recommendations of program improvement from the teaching committee.

Facilitates the operations of the teaching committee.

Curriculum CoordinatorsCommitee

Purpose: Facilitators of the implementation of program development.

Assessors of curriculum and instruction integration in the classroom.

Roles: Receives the district’s goals from the director of instruction.

Receives the recommended plan from the department chairs.

AdministrativeCommitee

Purpose: Administrative directors that focus on the smooth implementation of new programs in the schools and classrooms.

Roles: Receives the recommended plan from the Curriculum Coordinator.

Modifies the implementation of the plan to focus on smooth transitions into the schools.

TeachingCommittee

Purpose: Involvement of various building level teachers providing recommendation for the implementation of the improvement plan as it relates to implementation in the classroom.

Roles: Recieves the objectives from the curriculum coordinator.

Identifies needs of staff development.

Compiles the recommendation from the teachers.

Observe content area proposals.

Make recommendations.

ParentCommittee

Purpose: Involvement of parents and community leaders focusing on recommendations of the improvement program focusing on development of parental and homework support.

Roles: Receive the improvement objectives and goals from the teachers.

Recommendation for parental support to assist parents in developing at home extensions of the program.

Community outreachCommittee

Purpose: Community leaders and parents working together to research and provide extracurricular activities that will support student learning.

Roles: Receive the improvement objectives and goals from the parent committee.

Focus on the development of community and social activities that support student learning.

Graphic IllustrationCommitee

Purpose: Involvement of teachers , support staff, staff development and administration. Preparing the plan for presentation for final approval and implementation.

Roles: composes the final draft of the plan.

Compiles data and information for presentation in charts graphs etc.

Creates plans and schedules.

Develops schedules for the professional development.

AssessmentCommittee

Purpose: Involvement professional staff with specialization in the area of curriculum, instruction and assessment.

Evaluating and proposing methods on assessment of the program.

Roles: Receives the final proposal from the Graphic Illustration Committee.

Recommend methods and time tables for assessing the progress of the plan.

The development of the plans starts with a bottom up approach starting with the districts goals and ending with district approval and implementation.

District

Director

Assessment

Graphic Illustration

Curriculum Coordinators

Administrative

Teaching

Parent

Community Outreach

Stage Leaders

Subject Areas

District