Grant Street Elementary School

2007-2008 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.

Objectives

1)            By the end of May, 2008, all students will be reading at grade level as assessed using the DRA Reading Assessment:  "Independent" for Kindergarten at Level 3, First Grade at Level 16, Second Grade at Level 28

2)            Establish a baseline for student writing assessment in Grades K-2 using something other than the 5-point Six Trait Developmental Rubric

3)            Implement Investigations Math, Second Edition in grades K-2

4)            Increase collaboration between staff through the use of curriculum calendars, monitoring of student progress by grade level, shared staff development in literacy with Libby Correll, and Critical Friends Groups

5)            Develop and implement new “standards-based” report cards by the spring of 2008

6)            To increase student learning through the use of technology, and to increase staff efficiency and communication through the use of technology.