2023-2024 School Innovation and Improvement Plan

Outcome goals for this academic year.

Complete ESSER School Funding Plan

Bailey’s Elementary School for the Arts & Sciences

Region 2

Satonya Dews, Principal

Reading by 3rd Grade 
Measurable Outcome:  By Spring of 2024, the number of PreK - Grade 2 students who will meet the spring reading screener benchmark will increase from 44% to 59% as measured by the LLS/PALS/iReady assessments.
Strategy 1:   Improve daily, systematic, explicit instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, and morphology in the core language arts block. (HLP 2)
Strategy 2:   Increase use of data (e.g., iReady, CORE, PASS, PRF, WIDA) to plan instruction and monitor progress for students demonstrating risk. (HLP 2-5)
Strategy 3:   Expand use of independent practice with a variety of texts (e.g., decodable, nonfiction, fiction) and meaningful tasks (e.g., Lexia, writing about reading). (HLP 2-4)
Mathematics  
Measurable Outcome: By Spring of 2024, the number of PreK - Grade 2 students who will meet the spring math screener benchmark will increase from 45% to 60% as measured by the EMAS/iReady assessments.
Strategy 1:   Increase teachers implementation strategies related to Shift 8: from looking for correct answers towards revealing student thinking.
Strategy 2:   Improve teachers’ implementation of Framework for Engaging & Student-Centered Mathematics Instruction.
Chronic Absenteeism
Measurable Outcome: By the end of the 2023-24 school year, we will reduce our school’s chronic absenteeism rate to 15% or below as evidenced by our school’s chronic absenteeism data.
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:   Increase opportunities for personalized early attendance outreach.