The school improvement plan assesses the school's strengths and weaknesses, implements strategies and activities to address the school's needs, and continually evaluates the school's progress toward achieving its objectives and meeting its goals. The plan focuses on improving student achievement at the school by addressing state goals and performance standards.
2011-2012 School Improvement Plan
School-wide PBS (Positive Behavior Interventions and Support) is a process for creating safer and more effective schools. SW-PBS is a systems approach to enhance the capacity of schools to educate all children by developing research-based, school wide, and classroom discipline systems. The process focuses on improving a school’s ability to teach and support positive behavior for all students. Rather than a prescribed program, SW-PBIS provides systems for schools to design, implement, and evaluate effective school-wide, classroom, non-classroom, and student specific discipline plans. SW-PBS includes procedures and processes intended for:
-ALL students, ALL staff in ALL settings
-Non-classroom settings within the school environment
-Individual classrooms and teachers, and
-Individual student supports for the estimated 3-7% of students who present the most challenging behaviors.
Parental Involvement includes several different forms of participation in education and working with our schools. Parents can support their children's schooling by attending school functions and responding to school obligations (parent-teacher conferences, for example). Parents can become more involved in helping their children improve their schoolwork by providing encouragement, arranging for appropriate study time and space, modeling desired behavior (such as reading for pleasure), monitoring homework, and actively tutoring their children at home.
Outside the home, parents can serve as advocates for the school. They can volunteer to help out with school activities or work in the classroom. Or they can take an active role in the governance and decision making necessary for planning, developing, and providing an education for the community's children. Parents are teachers first.
May Parent Power
Letter
