Delaware Success Plan Template
Part 1: Introduction and summary
Vision: How will your LEA be different in 2014? How will student outcomes be different? What will this mean for students, teachers and administrators?Needs Assessment: Based on your LEA’s data, what are your greatest performance challenges? What are the root causes of those performance challenges? [Note: This can be a narrative, or in the format of “Group Name/Needs/Root Causes/Data” found on the Success Plan website]
Overview: What are your priorities, and how do they fit together? How will they impact your identified needs and Common Measures? How do they represent an improvement over what you have done before?
Stakeholder Engagement to Develop Your Plan: How did you engage stakeholders in the process of developing this plan?
Common Measures and Targets: The state has defined fourteen Common Measures with corresponding state targets. Please specify your LEA’s targets for each of these common measures.
Common Measures[1] / LEA Baseline (cite date) / LEA Targets / Relevant State target
2010-11 / 2011-12 / 2012-13 / 2013-14
% meets standard on DCAS Reading / 100% by 2013-14
% meets standard on DCAS Mathematics / 100% by 2013-14
% meets standard on DCAS Science / 100% by 2013-14
% meets standard on DCAS Social Studies / 100% by 2013-14
% advanced on DCAS 4th Grade Mathematics / 60% proficient on NAEP by 2015
% advanced on DCAS 4th Grade Reading / 55% proficient on NAEP by 2015
% advanced on DCAS 8th Grade Mathematics / 55% proficient on NAEP by 2015
% advanced on DCAS 8th Grade Reading / 55% proficient on NAEP by 2015
% reduction in black-white achievement gaps on DCAS (since 2008-09) / 50% reduction on NAEP by 2015
% reduction in Hispanic-white achievement gaps on DCAS (since 2008-09) / 50% reduction on NAEP by 2015
% reduction in low-income - high-income achievement gaps on DCAS (since 2008-09) / 50% reduction on NAEP by 2015
NCLB graduation rate / 90% by 2013-14
College enrollment rate / 70% by 2013-14
College retention rate / 85% by 2013-14
Additional LEA Measures / You may also define additional measures and targets of your own. These may include measures from the Department’s “pre-defined measures” list, which is available on the Success Planning website.
Part 2: Goals, objectives, strategies, and activities
Goals: The state has defined four required goals. Please use this space to add any additional LEA goals.Statewide Goals:
1. Accelerate achievement and improve outcomes for all students with rigorous standards, curriculum, and assessments
2. Accelerate achievement and improve outcomes for all students with sophisticated data systems and practices
3. Accelerate achievement and improve outcomes for all students with effective teachers and leaders
4. Accelerate achievement and improve outcomes for all students with deep support for the lowest-achieving schools
Additional LEA Goals:
Objectives: The state has defined nine required objectives that will drive the achievement of the four required goals. Please use this space to add any additional LEA objectives.
Statewide Objectives:
1. Implement college and career ready standards and assessments
2. Improve access to and use of data systems
3. Build the capacity to use data
4. Improve the effectiveness of educators based on performance
5. Ensure equitable distribution of effective educators
6. Ensure that educators are effectively prepared
7. Provide effective support to educators
8. Provide deep support to the lowest-achieving schools
9. Engage families and communities effectively in supporting students’ academic success / Alignment to Goals:
1. Rigorous standards, curriculum, and assessments
2. Sophisticated data systems and practices
3. Sophisticated data systems and practices
4. Effective teachers and leaders
5. Effective teachers and leaders
6. Effective teachers and leaders
7. Effective teachers and leaders
8. Deep support for the lowest-achieving schools
9. [As determined by LEA]
Additional LEA Objectives:
· / Alignment to Goals (State or LEA):
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Goal 1: Accelerate achievement and improve outcomes for all students with rigorous standards, curriculum, and assessmentsObjective 1: Implement college and career ready standards and assessments
Summary of strategies:
Required Strategies· Support the development of new standards, align curriculum, and conduct assessments (SoW 1)
· Build a culture of college- and career-readiness in schools (SoW 2)
Activity plan by strategy:
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Strategy 1: Support the development of new standards, align curriculum, and conduct assessments (SoW 1) / Owner: Sandy Smithindicate each activity, the budgeted amount required for it (with funding sources), and the person who will be responsible for it. Required activities have already been included. / Timeline: Place an “X” in each box that represents a time period in which the activity will be carried out. / Deliverables: List the major deliverable(s) for
each activity, and when they will be completed.
2010/2011 / 2011/2012 / 2012/2013 / 2013/2014
Activities / Budgeted amount / Person responsible / F / W / Sp / Su / F / W / Sp / Su / F / W / Sp / Su / F / W / Sp / Su
Ensure curriculum aligns with standards / R2T
$66,304 / S. Smith
Dept of
Instruction
(DOI)
members / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / Action plan for summer Common Core alignment workshops for district PLC’s
Revised curricular maps and classroom-ready K-12 reading and math units produced and posted on district’s website
Completion date: August 2011, August 2012, and August 2013
Acquaint instructional staff with aligned curricular maps during PD sessions at the beginning of the school year / $0 / S. Smith
DOI
Instructional
coaches / x / x / x / Action plan focused on Common Core-aligned curriculum for New Teacher Orientation for about 70 new teachers and Back-to-School PD sessions for all returning teachers
Survey of staff on Common Core and available resources
Completion date: August 2011, August 2012, and August 2013
Assure curriculum is implemented with fidelity / $0 / S. Smith
DOI
Principals / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / “Learning Walk” tool developed and shared with staff
Spreadsheet indicating the “Learning Walks” conducted in all core content classrooms in each school
Feedback email for each teachers through the I-Pad app Observation 360 linked to videos and reflections questions
Summary report of feedback for each school regarding fidelity to LFS and R2T
Completion date: November 30, 2011, 2012, and 2013; February 28, 2012, 2013, and 2014; and May 31, 2012, 2013, and 2014
Read 20% of all principals’ formative and summative evaluations to assure that Common Core standards and research-based practices are being monitored / $0 / S. Bunting / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / Chart indicating the number of formatives and summatives reviewed, strengths/weaknesses regarding each principal’s observations of Common Core standards and research-based practice implementation, and comments to be annually included in their mid-year and summative evaluations
Completion date: Ongoing from September 2011 through June 2014
Budget total / $66,304
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Strategy 2: Build a culture of college- and career-readiness in schools (SoW 2) / Owner: Sandy SmithHigh
indicate each activity, the budgeted amount required for it (with funding sources), and the person who will be responsible for it. Required activities have already been included. / Timeline: Place an “X” in each box that represents a time period in which the activity will be carried out. / Deliverables: List the major deliverable(s) for
each activity, and when they will be completed.
2010/2011 / 2011/2012 / 2012/2013 / 2013/2014
Activities / Budgeted
Amount / Person responsible / F / W / Sp / Su / F / W / Sp / Su / F / W / Sp / Su / F / W / Sp / Su
Develop a Pre-K to grade 12 culture of rigor / $0 / R. Jerns
A. Carey / x / x / x / Attendance rosters from Back-to-School training on increasing rigor (Pre-K -12)
Revised curricular maps for Core content areas posted on district website
Completion date:
August 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014
Apply for and subsequently implement a 6-12 IB program / R2T
$190,000 / J. Owens
M. Williams
SC and GM
staffs / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / Application completed for grade 6-12 IB program
Promotion materials for IB including course syllabi
Enrollment figures for IB courses
Completion date: Fall 2012
Create a 6-12 STEM program / R2T
$190,000 / M. Steele
M. King
IR and SM
staffs / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / STEM course sequence
Attendance rosters and evaluations from STEM training
Promotion materials for STEM
Completion date: Fall 2012
Target high-need or low-achieving students for enrollment in advanced coursework / $0 / High school counselors / x / x / x / x / x / x / Criteria established to identify high-need, low-performing students
Chart indicating the counseling sessions held in middle and high schools targeting traditionally underrepresented students for rigorous coursework
Class rosters for preAP and AP courses
Completion date: September 2011, 2012, and 2013; January 2012, 2013, and 2014
Offer additional AP courses / $0 / High school principals / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / Course catalogues and balanced scorecard entries
Completion date: Spring 2012, 2013, and 2014)
Enroll more students in AP courses / $0 / High school administrators/ counselors / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / Course rosters and balanced scorecard entries
Recruiting materials for middle school students
Completion date: September and January of 2012, 2013, and 2014
Create and conduct Pre-AP and STEM summer programs for rising 9th and 10th graders / R2T
$128,250 / R. Jerns
High school principals / x / x / x / Spreadsheet verifying that approximately 80 rising 9th and 10th graders (40 at each high school) chosen by established criteria enrolled and participated in a 2-4 week summer program
Completion date: Summers 2012, 2013, and 2014
Proactively support students in advan-ced coursework via in-school assistance and after school support sessions / R2T
$240,000
After -school programs
$50,000
In-school assistance / School coordinators / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / x / Spreadsheet exhibiting AP, STEM and IB students’ names who are receiving extra academic assistance, the number of hours of interaction with “tutors,” strategies/ materials employed, and the students’ quarterly grades
Completion date: November 30, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014; February 2012, 2013, and 2014; May 2012, 2013, and 2014
Consider reim-bursing students for the cost of AP tests if they earn a qualifying score / R2T
$10,000 / R. Jerns
P. Miller / X / x / x / x / Spreadsheet indicating names of students who received 3’s, 4’s, and 5’s on AP exams, thus qualifying them for AP reimbursement incentives
Completion date: July 2012, 2013, and 2014
Hire a guidance specialist to assist counselors in repurposing acti-vities to promote college and career readiness / R2T
$100,000 / C. Bunting
J. Owens
M. Steele / X / x / x / x / A revised counselors’ job description and guidance department mission
An AVID program implementation plan
Either a pre-STEM or pre-IB counselor role outline
Completion date: June 30, 2012
Budget total / $594,250
Objective 1 Measures: Which measures will this objective impact, how much, and when?
Measures / LEA Baseline (If applicable) / 2010-11
(End of SY) / 2011-12
(End of SY) / 2012-13
(End of SY) / 2013-14
(End of SY) / Rationale
The number of students enrolled in AP courses will increase. / 375 / 850 / 900 / 950 / 1000
The percentage of students who have a qualifying score on AP exams will increase. / 32% / 36% / 40% / 44% / 48%
The percentage of students who participate in and successfully complete the summer Pre-AP and STEM programs will increase. / --- / --- / 80 / 90 / 100
Objective 1 Narrative: How do your strategies and activities integrate to achieve this objective (as indicated by the measures above)? How will this work impact your identified needs and Common Measures? How will this be an improvement over what you have done before? How will you ensure that this improvement is sustainable once RTTT funds are gone? [Note: You may address each question individually, or in a coherent narrative below]
The first step in accelerating achievement and improving outcomes for all students with rigorous standards, curriculum, and assessments is to support the development of new standards, align curriculum, and conduct assessments. Indian River will develop an action plan for Common Core alignment workshops for district PLC’s during the next three summers in order to prepare revised curricular maps and classroom-ready reading and math units for teachers’ use. Products will be introduced to staff during back-to-school PD sessions, posted on the district’s website, and discussed throughout the year during PD, coaching, and PLC sessions. A special effort will be made to acquaint fledging staff members to expectations and the Common Core standards in general during New Teachers’ Orientation. Since the Common Core standards were recently adopted, all teachers and administrators will profit from the exposure to the revised maps and units. To assure that the curriculum is implemented with fidelity, “learning walks” in all core content classrooms will be frequently conducted. Using the Observation 360 tool, which the district’s Department of Instruction has developed in conjunction with PD 360 representatives, administrators, specialists, and coaches will monitor use, provide feedback to teachers via email, and suggest links that address “targets for growth” when warranted. To date, this technology has not been available. “Learning walk” observations and findings have been hand-recorded and summarized; resulting tables and graphs have been created; I-Pad and Observation 360 will automatize the process. A summary report for each school will be periodically compiled and forwarded to the Director of Instruction to inform future PD. In addition, the superintendent will enhance her oversight of the implementation of Common Core standards and an increasingly rigorous curriculum by formalizing her review of formative and summative evaluations by not only reading the documents but also charting strengths/weaknesses regarding principals’ monitoring of Common Core and research-based practice implementation and comments to be included in their mid-year and summative evaluations.