Longs Peak Middle School SMART GOALS

Beckie Large-SwopeTeacher Librarian

LPMS 470 Students 62.3% Free and Reduced Lunch 224 students on Individual Literacy

Plans (ILP) Approximate Cultural Break Down

49% Mexican American 49% Caucasian American 2% Asian, African American, Native

American

Renaissance Learning

LPMS uses the computerized STAR reading test to determine student reading levels

Renaissance Place is an online version of Accelerated Reader (AR)

Currently has over 122,000 quizzes available for students

Renaissance Learning

Quizzes for all level of readers Fiction and Nonfiction quizzes New quizzes added weekly Data for each student STAR designed as a tool for Response

to Intervention (RtI) Reward based system

SMART Goal Process

Identify a need that the library can impact: Student Achievement in reading

Collaboration: Working with all the teachers in the building to create a culture of reading

Data Driven Instruction: knowing exactly where to help our students

LPMS SMART Goals

1. Students will obtain a years growth in reading. This will be assessed by STAR reading scores.

2. All students will set quarterly goals in Accelerated Reader based on their STAR scores to help them attain a years growth in reading.

LPMS STAR Data

Grade 1st Quarter

2nd Quarter

3rd Quarter

4th Quarter

6 5.1 5.3 5.3 5.4

7 6.2 6.3 6.5 6.6

8 6.5 6.7 6.7 6.7

Quarter AR Goal AchievementGrade 1st Quarter 2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter

6 53% 66% 69%

7 32% 58% 62%

8 47% 51% 52%

Total 47% 58% 60%

Quarter AR TotalsSchool Totals

1st Quarter 2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter

Points 11,162 9,550.7 12,304

% Correct 80.4 81.5 80.4

Taken 5,346 4,781 5,499

Passed 4,515 3,907 4,611

Year Long Statistics(and still counting…)

Over 13,521 quizzes passed 35,336.6 points earned 81.2 average percent correct 524 Spanish Quizzes passed LPMS students took quizzes over

3,215 different titles Checked out 15,167 books (32 per

student)

Rewards

Ice Cream Sunday and Root Beer Float parties for Goal Achievers

Students who made their Year goal will go to a Colorado Rockies game

Students who made their goals have their names displayed in the library

Data Analysis

Seeing improvement each quarter with number of students getting their AR goal

STAR results are not improving as much as we would like

Students are reading Fourth Quarter goal will end May 7

Next Steps

Final STAR test will be at the end of the school year

Continue to adapt the program based on the data

Have Access classes devoted to helping students get AR goals

Next Steps

Collection Development for the library Selecting books that meet the needs

of our students Continuing to be a culturally

responsive library

Next Year’s Focus

Continue with current goals Focus on closing the Achievement

Gap Focus on Students who are on an ILP Integrating Read 180 and System 44

into the AR program