2023-2024 School Innovation & Improvement Plan

Outcome goals for this academic school year.

School Innovation & Improvement Plan At-A-Glance

  • 2023-2024

  • Dogwood Elementary School

  • Region 1

  • Kate Beckner, Principal  

English Language Arts

Goals

  • By Spring 2024
    • 28% of ELs in PK-3 will meet the spring reading benchmark (PALS, LLS, iReady)
    • 32% of SWD in PK-3 will meet the spring reading benchmark (PALS, LLS, iReady)
    • 52% of Black students in PK-3 will meet the spring reading benchmark (PALS, LLS, iReady)

Strategy 1

Improve daily, systematic, explicit instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, and morphology in the core language arts block.

Strategy 2

Expand use of skills-based grouping to ensure students demonstrate mastery of foundational skills.

Strategy 3

Expand access to evidence-based tier 1 instruction as well as intervention for students demonstrating risk in a multi-tiered system of supports.

Mathematics

Goals

  • By Spring 2024
    • 31% of ELs in PK-3 will meet the spring math benchmark (EMAS, iReady)
    • 26% of SWD in PK-3 will meet the spring math benchmark (EMAS, iReady)
    • 45% of Black students in PK-3 will meet the spring math benchmark (PALS, LLS, iReady)

Strategy 1

Increase teacher implementation of explicit instruction and other components of effective mathematics intervention.

Strategy 2

Improve teachers’ implementation of Framework for Engaging & Student-Centered Mathematics Instruction.

Strategy 3

Use conversation structures to increase academic talk between students.

Chronic Absenteeism

Goal

  • We will decrease the chronically absent rate by 20% from 27.3% to 21.6% of our students will be chronically absent.

Strategy 1

Strengthening messaging to staff, students and families around attendance to school. Each stakeholder should be able to understand how daily attendance matters, not only for academic success, but because school offers an opportunity to develop social and emotional skills such as listening, paying attention, problem-solving and self-regulation, all which are needed to grow and learn.

Strategy 2

Strengthen school team practices to monitor attendance data and determine need for intervention and additional support.

Strategy 3

Understand root causes of student absenteeism. Strengthen programmatic responses to attendance barriers.