SCHOOL PERFORMANCE ACTION PLAN:  GOALS

School Performance Goal

Performance Indicators

Current Performance Levels

Benchmarks

Teachers will work toward a collaborative environment where there is shared responsibility for student academic performance.

Teachers will:

• Work collegially to enhance student achievement.
• Strategize and problem solve to address students’ academic needs.
• Analyze data to focus teacher instruction.
• Support each other professionally in learning communities.

• Teachers developed norms for team meetings in 2006-2007.  Grade level teams are reviewing norms and making revisions for 2007-2008.
• Teachers meet on grade level teams and on K-5 vertical action teams.
• Time is designated weekly for grade level or vertical collaborative meetings.
•  Keheley Leadership Team will review grade level norms and submit Keheley school norms to all staff.

Agendas will document regularly scheduled collaborative meetings.

Data from a survey, Assess Behavioral Norms…Qualities of the School Environment, will be collected at the beginning and at the end of the year.

Quarterly surveys from each grade level will document the effectiveness of the use of grade level norms.

SCHOOL PERFORMANCE ACTION PLAN:  RESOURCE PLAN

Strategy# 1:  Provide professional learning opportunities to enhance student performance.

Year

What teachers will do

Professional Development

Financial Resources

Monitoring Plan

2007-2008

• Meet as collaborative vertical/horizontal teams for professional development and instructional planning.

• Teachers will reflect, using guiding questions, on the effectiveness of meetings.

• Use Essential Questions and Georgia Performance Standards in instructional planning.

Training:

• Cobb County Quarterly Trainings
• Data Analysis/Collaborative curriculum planning 
• ALT modeling math problem solving
• Collaborative scoring
• Differentiation
• Effects of poverty on student learning
• Classroom Learning Walk orientation and training
• Train new teachers in Thinking Maps

SFSD funds for:

• Teacher teams to attend Ruby Payne workshop
• Materials & training for new teacher in Thinking Maps

Title 2 Grant (if received)

• Release time for collaborative data teams

• Review reflections from instructional collaboration meetings
• Administrative Classroom Learning Walks
• Review quarterly grade level math consensus maps

2008-2009

• Meet as collaborative vertical/horizontal teams for professional development and instructional planning.

• Teachers will reflect, using guiding questions, on the effectiveness of meetings.

• Use Essential Questions and Georgia Performance Standards in instructional planning.

NEED TO ADD TO WITH TEACHER INPUT in 2008-2009

Train all teachers in the use of:

• Cobb County Quarterly Trainings
• Data Analysis/Collaborative curriculum planning
• Collaborative scoring
• Differentiation

Train all teachers new to Keheley in the use of:

• GPS
• Classroom Learning Walks
• Performance based classroom training
• Essential Question training
• Thinking maps

SFSD funds for:

• Release time for collaborative data teams
• Materials & training for new teacher in Thinking Maps

• Review reflections from instructional collaboration meetings
• Administrative Classroom Learning Walks
• Review quarterly grade level math consensus maps

2009-2010

• Meet as collaborative vertical/horizontal teams for professional development and instructional planning.

• Teachers will reflect, using guiding questions, on the effectiveness of meetings.

• Use Essential Questions and Georgia Performance Standards in instructional planning.

NEED TO ADD TO WITH TEACHER INPUT in 2008-2009

Train all teachers in the use of:

• Cobb County Quarterly Trainings
• Data Analysis/Collaborative curriculum planning
• Collaborative scoring
• Differentiation

Train all teachers new to Keheley in the use of:

• GPS
• Classroom Learning Walks
• Performance based classroom training
• Essential Question training
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SFSD funds for:

• Release time for collaborative data teams
• Materials & training for new teacher in Thinking Maps

• Review reflections from instructional collaboration meetings
• Administrative Classroom Learning Walks
• Review quarterly grade level math consensus maps