10/14/2003 SCHOOL COUNCIL - KC COOMBS SCHOOL Minutes

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KENNETH C. COONIBS SCHOOL GOAL -I: ACADEMIC ACCOUNTABILITY CORE VALUE: Students will improve their reading, writing, and math competency. VISION: Specific student work samples will be collected and kept yearly to show academic growth over time. ASSESSMENT: Student portfolios will provide specific data of progress and will be advanced to the next grade level from year to year. 3 STP�ATEGIC GOALS IMPLEMENTATION To instruct students to practice the Collins writing Students will be taught to respond in writing to open- method. ended questions. Students will use Type I, Type II, and14 Type III writing. Staff will employ focus corrections for writing. Students will write in the math and science content areas using a program of the day. To implement classroom portfolios for writing, Collect two writing samples this school year (fall and reading, and math assessments for all staff to utilize. sprung) using the Collins instructional method of writing. 1* To conduct a workshop for training in Running Comniunicate the aspects of reading to parents using Records/DRA. the Running Records assessment and the Directed Reading Assessment. Professional staff development will continue for Running Records and Directed Reading Assessment training. To conduct Professional Development regarding During curriculum meeting the Principal and ELA DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy coordinator will conduct at least 2-3 training sessions Skills) during the year and to incorporate DIBELS for DIBELS. assessment in student portfolios during 04/05 school year � a To strengthen students' ability to read progressively Bradley Language Arts will be the basis of instruction demanding literature by concentrating on for phonemic awareness. Leveled guided reading will comprehension for the school year in all aspects of be incorporated into our reading progrann. All grade curri,ultun. To develop an interest in and an one and two students will he p,,vided with -i,rlung appreciation for independent reading. phones" for fluency for reading to the ear. All students will be provided various genre exposures per frameworks. Higher order metacognitive skills will be taught per frameworks. To further develop the H. Mifflin Addison Wesley Math concepts will be taught tlrougIt a hands on lnvestigatio,,E math adoption in the Mash-let School manipulative approach. Math supplies and System. Students will be exposed to math manipulative, etc. will be provided to support the new mampulatives correlative to their grade level math math series adopted for this school year through the concepts. Grade two will use the grade level end-of- school system and PTO funding. �r the-book test in math as a piece of chew portfolio assessment along with the fall and winter designated assessments.