Kent Elementary School Growth Plan 2012-2015 Focusing On Our Strengths
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2012 School Growth Plan presentation to the SD78 Board of Education on June 19, 2012
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Kent Elementary School Growth Plan 2012-2015 Focusing On Our Strengths
- 1. Kent Elementary School Growth Plan 2012-2015 “Focusing On Our Strengths” School Planning Council: Wendy Clark, Leah Ochoa, Kate Onos-Gilbert, Amber Kafi, Chris Wejr Staff, Parents, and Students of Kent School
- 3. GOAL A: To work to ensure that each student masters the basic skills of numeracy and literacy.
- 4. 3 Key Questions: 1. Where are we right now? 2. Where do we need to go? 3. How do we get there? Dylan Wiliam Image: http://bit.ly/Mq6vnp
- 6. Focusing more on Formative Assessment… …becoming more consistent and transparent with Summative Assessment
- 7. Objective 1: To increase the number of students fully meeting in reading in grades 4-6 to 80% on report cards, DART and FSA.
- 8. Encouraging a Love of Reading
- 9. Do you like to read? 97% 2012 End of Year Poll of Kent Intermediate
- 11. Objective 2 To increase the number of students fully meeting in writing in grades 4-6 to 80% on report cards, DWW, and FSA.
- 12. Writing. Connecting. Sharing.
- 13. Challenging and Personalizing Through Inquiry
- 14. Objective 3: To increase the number of students fully meeting in math in grades 4-6 to 80% on report cards and FSA.
- 15. Goal ‘B’ To provide a school culture that recognizes and nurtures the strength and/or interests of each child.
- 16. Do you know a strength you have? 98% 2012 End of Year Poll of Kent Intermediate Students
- 17. CHOICES PROGRAM teaching our passions, exploring our interests
- 18. IDENTITY DAY showcasing who we are
- 20. Celebrating Our Strengths Assemblies
- 22. Aboriginal Enhancement Agreement
- 23. Culture Embedded in Our Learning
- 24. Goal C: Work to ensure that each student believes that he/she is a confident learner.
- 25. I am a confident learner. I know that if I try hard I can learn. 100% 2012 End of Year Poll of Kent Intermediate Students
- 26. Assessment for Learning Assessment explicitly designed to promote learning is the single most powerful tool we have for raising achievement. -- Black and Wiliam
- 27. Developing a Growth Mindset Developing Confident Learners
- 28. Coaching the Needed Skills
- 29. Goal D: To provide a school culture that welcomes and fosters parent/family engagement in their child's education
- 30. At The Table Dedicated PAC and School Planning Council First Nation Parent Groups
- 31. Increase Opportunities For School-Family Contacts Family-Teacher Evenings Family Learning Evenings Family Social Evenings
- 33. Our Plan… in pictures
- 34. Kent Elementary School Growing. Leading. Learning.
Notas do Editor
- Welcome – share the stories behind the words and numbersEvolution of our growth plan – added more SMART goals, more accountability Moving from qualitative to quantitativeAfterwards, if you have a question on actual growth plan, we can go over afterwards
- Our vision remains the same
- But how do we do this?
- Quality teaching based on the most powerful tool we have: formative assessment
- Adapting BC Performance Standards for Kent Teachers, Students, parentsPosting standards online and in classrooms (based on parent feedback and staff discussions)
- Quality teacher, modeling a love of reading, targeted intervention
- And there is more plans to come from this group.
- Transparent criteria to guide teaching and learning
- Using technology as a platform for writing.Websites, blogging, collaborative writing
- Using Inquiry for reading, writing, learning
- Focus on consistent standards, quality teaching, increasing the use of manipulativesParent communication around the “new math”
- Lorna Williams: Every child has a gift, we need to nurture and bring out this gift in our children.Focus on encouraging strengths while challenging deficits
- And there is more plans to come from this group.
- Teachers teach in an area of passionStudent explore interests
- No criteria, gradesAll about sharing who we are.
- Smaller, local events.
- Celebrating the strengths in our kids. Not taking away from academics and athletics, but adding to it.
- Creating the conditions to lead
- Try to embed FN culture rather than making it a “field trip”
- Assessment, Growth Mindset, Lagging skills
- Hard work, effort, risk taking, respond to setbacksWe are not born with fixed talents.
- Movedaway from punishment and banning – toward coaching.Create conditions for students to be successful.Kids Do Well if They Can – lagging skills
- More than involvement – voice in their child’s education
- SPC meets once per monthFN Parent group before every honouring ceremony
- THE most important thing we can do – build relationshipsOne hand up, the other hand inviting
- Using tech to meet parents where they areCommunication WITH rather than TO