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2013 FCS Public Information & Communications Dept.

AdvancED Standards FCS Departments Purpose and DirectionGovernance and LeadershipTeaching and Assessing for LearningResources and Support SystemsUsing Results for Continuous Improvement

Academics & AccountabilityEducational LeadershipFacilities and OperationsFinance and OperationsFood and Nutrition Services

Human ResourcesPublic Information and CommunicationsSchool Safety and DisciplineSpecial EducationStudent Support Services

SuperintendentTechnology and Information ServicesTransportation

Continuous Improvement Goal AdvancED Standards Support from FCS Department(s)

Writers Workshop Implementation AcrossCurriculum and Grade Levels

Mentor Texts Mini-Lessons Conferencing Peer Observations Common Vocabulary Anchor Papers Professional Learning Experiences (grade

level and vertical alignment)

Indicator 1.2The school leadership and staff commit to a culturethat is based on shared values and beliefs aboutteaching and learning and supports challenging,equitable educational programs and learningexperiences for all students that includeachievement of learning, thinking, and life skills.Indicator 3.5Teachers participate in collaborative learning

communities to improve instruction and studentlearning.Indicator 3.11All staff members participate in a continuousprogram of professional learning.

We will continue to need support from Academics& Accountability to develop anchor papers, locatementor texts, and modify rubrics to support theimplementation of Writers Workshop at all gradelevels.

We will continue to need support from Academics& Accountability to support the professional

learning opportunities for our staff around thistopic.

2013-16 Executive Summary School Improvement PlanSchool Name: _Big Creek Elementary School____________


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TKES Implementation Introduce teachers to new TAPS process Work to increase SGPs and SLOs

Indicator 2.6Leadership and staff supervision and evaluationprocesses result in improved professional practiceand student success.Indicator 3.4School leaders monitor and support theimprovement of instructional practices of teachersto ensure student success.Indicator 5.2Professional and support staff continuously collect,analyze, and apply learning froma range of data sources, including comparison andtrend data about student learning, instruction,program evaluation, and organizational conditions.

We will continue to need support from HumanResources to guide our implementation of TKESand provide opportunities for refining andimproving the process along the way.

Technology Integration and BYOT BYOT Walk-throughs Professional Learning Experiences Model Teachers

Indicator 3.3Teachers engage students in their learning throughinstructional strategies that ensure achievement oflearning expectations.Indicator 3.11All staff members participate in a continuousprogram of professional learning.Indicator 4.4Students and school personnel use a range ofmedia and information resources to support the

schools educational programs. Indicator 4.5The technology infrastructure supports the schoolsteaching, learning, and operational needs.

We will continue to need support from Technologyand Information Services to provide opportunitiesfor staff to participate in local BYOT tours and,potentially, be part of an upcoming tour as a schoolsite.

We will continue to need support from Technologyand Information Services to provide insight andguidance to our ITS and other key staff indeveloping lessons and strategies that integratetechnology in a transformational way with theCommon Core standards.


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AdvancED Standards(check all that apply) Annual School Improvement Plan

Continuous Improvement Goal: To create an instructional environment that utilizes the best practices ofWriters Workshop and BYOT while deepening our understanding of CCGPS.

School Name: ________Big Creek Elementary____________ School Year: ___2013-14____

x Purpose and Direction

x Governance and Leadership

x Teaching and Assessing forLearning

xResources and SupportSystems

xUsing Results forContinuous Improvement

Actions, Strategies andInterventions

(Includes Professional

Learning Plan)

Impact on Student andAdult Behavior

(Ifthen... Statements) Timeline

Resources Needed?Who is Responsible?

AdvancED Standard(s)

Indicator 1.2

The school leadership and staffcommit to a culture that is based onshared values and beliefs aboutteaching and learning and supportschallenging, equitable educationalprograms and learning experiencesfor all students that includeachievement of learning, thinking,

and life skills.

Indicator 3.5

Teachers participate in collaborativelearning communities to improveinstruction and student learning.

Indicator 3.11

All staff members participate in a

Goal 1: Begin to develop a school wide writingplan that incorporates the use of WritersWorkshop.*Year 1 Focus Goals:1: Developing a school wide vocabulary associatedwith writing.2: Develop/modify rubrics that continuously buildon each other and are specific to each grade level.3: Begin collecting anchor papers in each gradelevel. Anchor papers should be of various rubriclevels.4: Incorporate a writing time into every classroomteachers schedule. 5: Introduction to Writers Workshop with partialimplementation in every classroom.Goal 2: Develop a professional developmentobservation schedule for all certified teachers.*Year 1 Focus Goals:1. Determine expert teachers in a variety ofcontent areas.Examples: Readers Workshop, WritersWorkshop, Guided Reading, Guided Writing,Guided Math, Vocabulary instruction, writing inthe content areas.2. Develop a schedule where teachers observe 3classrooms in specific areas of interest. Oneobservation will be in a writing experts classroom.

Professional Development Calendar 2013-2014:August:

If our instructional staff is engaging in

high quality professional learning bothin the Writers Workshop training, aswell as BYOT and CCGPS, their learningwill become job-embedded.

As a result of the job-embeddedpractice of our PL goals, the studentswill be more actively engaged in theirlearning and be more positivelyimpacted by teacher instruction.

August 2013-May

2014Our PL steering committeewill be developing andrefining anchor papers,rubrics and other documentsto support verticalunderstanding of WritersWorkshop as an instructionaltool.

We will continue to need

support from Academics &Accountability to developanchor papers, locate mentortexts, and modify rubrics tosupport the implementationof Writers Workshop at all

grade levels.

We will continue to need


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continuous program of professional

learning.

Indicator 2.6

Leadership and staff supervision andevaluation processes result inimproved professional practice andstudent success.

Indicator 3.4

School leaders monitor and supportthe improvement of instructionalpractices of teachers to ensurestudent success.

Indicator 5.2

Professional and support staffcontinuously collect, analyze, and

Preplanning:*Introduction of the professional developmentcommittee to the staff.*Review goals/plans for the year.*Open the committee to anyone interested in

joining. Teachers will make a yearlongcommitment to the committee.*Inform teachers that they will be creating awriting portfolio for every student in their class.This portfolio will be a collection of writing inevery genre covered in the Common Core.(Narrative, Informational/Research, and Opinion)Committee Meeting:

*Determine expert teachers in specific areas

interested in welcoming teachers to observe theirclassrooms.

*Prepare/Plan first school wide professionaldevelopment session on the Introduction toWriters Workshop.

September:

Committee Meeting:

*Committee members will bring detailed classschedules from all members of their teams.

support from Academics &

Accountability to support theprofessional learningopportunities for our staffaround this topic.

We will continue to needsupport from Technology andInformation Services toprovide opportunities forstaff to participate in localBYOT tours and, potentially,be part of an upcoming touras a school site.

We will continue to needsupport from Technology andInformation Services toprovide insight and guidance


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sent out to the committee for official review andfeedback before it is sent out to the entire staff.*Committee will plan session 2 of the Introductionto Writers Workshop. October Staff Professional Development:*Session 1 on the Introduction to WritersWorkshop.

November:Committee Meeting:*The committee will share the 1st draft of thevocabulary with staff members at the NovemberProfessional Development meeting and staff willbe asked to give feedback on the vocabulary.November Staff Professional Development:

*Teachers will work in mixed grade level groups

to review and give feedback on the vocabularydraft that was created by the committee. Eachgroup will share their thoughts and feedback withthe entire staff. As a group we will try to develop asecond draft of the vocabulary words that will beused in every classroom school wide.December:

Committee Meeting:

*Review the second draft and feedback that wasdeveloped at the staff professional developmentmeeting. Decide as a committee if this will be the


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final vocabulary draft.

*Committee will brainstorms ways that thisvocabulary can begin to circulate around theschool and ensure that all students and teachersbegin to use this vocabulary and becomeassociated with it.*Committee members will plan the January staffprofessional development. Writers Workshopsession 4.*No staff professional development meeting thismonth.January:January Staff Professional Development: Session 4of Writers Workshop. Committee Meeting:*Committee will review the 5 th grade GeorgiaWriting Assessment rubric. Heather will go over allof the parts/sections of the rubric to give teachersa clear understanding of the areas covered on therubric.*The committee will determine if they want to usethe 5 th grade rubric as a starting point to modifyand adjust in order to create a writing rubric foreach grade level. The rubric created for eachgrade level will build on one another, incorporatereport card requirements, and incorporatecommon core standards.February:


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Committee Meeting:

*Committee will determine teacher experts forthe 2 nd rotation of teacher observations. Therotations will begin in February and end in March.

*Heather will create the 2 nd rotation schedule andsend it out for committee review before sending itout to the staff.

*The committee will continue developing thewriting rubrics for grades K-5.*Committee will plan the staff developmentsession 5 of The Introduction to WritersWorkshop.February Staff Professional Development: Session5 of the Introduction to Writers Workshop. March:Committee Meeting:*Committee will finalize the rubric drafts for eachgrade level. These drafts will be presented to thestaff at the March professional developmentsession.*Committee will determine the final experts forthe 3 rd rotation of teacher observations. Therotations will begin in March and end in May.(Limit the observations in grades 3-5 in April dueto CRCT. K-2 can observe as usual.)March Staff Professional Development:*Committee will show the rubrics to the staff and


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go over them in detail.*Teachers will be broken up into mixed gradelevel groups and asked to provide feedback andchanges to the rubrics.April:Committee Meeting:*Committee will review the feedback given duringthe March professional development. Thecommittee will make any changes to the rubricand print final drafts.

April Staff Professional Development:*No official meeting will be held after school.Teachers will meet with their professionaldevelopment team member and Heather,Courtney, or Jody to practice scoring anchorpapers with their grade levels new rubrics.(Teachers will be asked to bring a variety ofanchor papers from the student portfolios theyhave been collecting.)May:

Committee Meeting:

*Committee will create the plan and goals for year2 of the Big Creek Professional DevelopmentWriting Plan.*Committee will work with their grade level andHeather, Jody, or Courtney to pull anchor papersthey will use with their students next year. Eachgrade level will pull a variety of different leveledpapers in each of the common core genres.

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*All anchor papers are due to the committee byMay 16, 2014. The committee will remove allnames and create anchor paper binders for eachgrade level.


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Professional Learning Goal(s): To create an instructional environment(K-5) centered around best practices within Writers Workshop. Emphasis on increasing integrated use of technology in the classroomthrough BYOT.Continued emphasis on CCGPS and the continuation of instructionalalignment toward new standards.

Connection to Continuous Improvement Goal(s): Standards 1 and 3:Writers Workshop implementation across curriculum and gradelevels.

Date # Hours Description of Learning ActivitiesAugust 1Pre-Planning (School)

6 Introduction to the school year with updates on general information both within the local school as well as atthe state and district level.

August 2Pre-Planning (District)

4 District training on the new report card, rubrics and assessments. Teams returned to the local school to delvefurther into the information via ITS LEARNING as both a communication platform and a repository forinstructional resources.

August 5Pre-Planning

4 Grade level collaboration and planning for students and early study of student profiles via pink and bluestudent information cards. Finalization of class lists and communication with community on class placement.


4 Collaborative planning among departments and teams to create instructional delivery schedule that iscustomized toward meeting the needs of teachers with regard to writing.


4 Concurrent Learning sessions around ITS Learning, RTI and Fountas and Pinnell training. BYOT training on howto incorporate high level technology usage and creation into core work.

August 28Early Release/Prof. Dev. (School)

4 Professional Learning Committee finalized three year plan for writing training and created a framework withinthe building to redeliver information to all staff. Other staff members outside of the committee worked incollaborative teams to BYOT training and sharing of iPad apps via iPad collaboration team. Incorporation planfor BYOT to increase usage toward creating student-led learning environments.

September 18Early Release/Prof. Dev. (District)

2.5 Staff collaborated horizontally among schools and within the LAC group to discuss current instructional topicsincluding report cards, pacing, district common assessments, grading and unit design. Introduction of TKESduring this month as a learning experience. Continue emphasis on deepening knowledge of CCGPS.

January 6Prof. Dev. Day (School)

8 Steering committee will review GWT Assessment rubric and create vertical grade level rubrics which arevertically aligned. Staff will work within teams to design work around cross-content writing opportunities andlook at PBA tasks that involve writing instruction and assessment.

2013-14 Professional Learning Planfor School Improvement PlanningSchool Name: _______Big Creek _____________________


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