Grant Street Elementary School

2006-2007 School Improvement Plan

Statement of Need

Grant Street School has a critical role in the Port Townsend School District’s efforts to maintain and enhance a cohesive P-12 educational system.  As the Grant Street School community looks to the coming school year, we see the necessity of creating this year’s plan as a subset of a three-to-five-year plan.  Over the next three to five years, we see the need for continuing efforts toward:

•  Learning as a result of curriculum, assessment, instruction, materials, staff development, and partnerships.

•  Improved student learning as a focus for staff development, collegial work, and collaborative decision-making.

•  Interdependence of staff. 

•  Continuous renewal of school-wide planning in concert with school district and community goals.

Three-to-Five Year Goal

To significantly improve learning for all students in writing, math, and reading.

2006-2007 -  That 95% of our students will be reading at grade level as determined through the DRA Assessment at the end of second and first grades

Objectives

1)      To develop Grant Street’s capacity for second-order change by: a) school scheduling; b) expanding and refining our staff learning community; and, c) marketing Grant Street School.    For more information click here.

2)      To change Grant Street’s Title One model from a targeted assistance to a school-wide model for reading instruction through the “Eagle Plan”.    For more information click here.

3)      To refine school-wide measures of student reading performance, including the “Blue Folders,” DRA, and Eagle Plan and classroom-based assessments.    For more information click here.

4)      To enhance writing curriculum through the use of Lucy Calkins “Units of Study for Primary Writers” series.    For more information click here.

5)      To implement a new “Investigations” math curriculum.    For more information click here.

6)      To increase student learning through the use of technology, and to increase staff efficiency and communication through the use of technology.    For more information click here.