1. Chapter V: Revised School-wide Action Plan
Introduction
Through a variety of meetings in April and May 2010, the administrators and faculty collaborated to revise the original School-wide Action Plan to align with
the Visiting Committee’s first critical area for follow-up; namely, to “Redraft the action plan around a limited number of goals that are clearly focused on
improving or supporting student learning. The plan should allow accountability by specifying measurable success indicators, deadlines and responsible
personnel.”
Below please find the Revised School-wide Action Plan.
Key to abbreviations:
HOS Head of School
AHOS-Academics Assistant Head of School-Academics
AHOS-Operations Assistant Head of School-Operations
IT Integrated Technology
OD Organizational Development
UbD Understanding by Design

2. GOAL 1: Create and implement a coherent, accessible, articulated K-12 curriculum that includes standards, benchmarks, and assessments to ensure
improved student learning.
Rationale: Recommendation from WASC Visiting Team report , April 2010
Evidence of Success:
1. Improved student learning shown in qualitative and quantitative evidence
2. Coherent, comprehensive curriculum in Atlas, supporting Understanding by Design model
3. Minutes from regular K-12 subject, curriculum, division, administrator, and Board Academic Committee meetings
Actions Steps Person(s) Deadline People and Resources to Steps toward Person(s) Monitoring
Responsible help complete the task evidence of goal and Reporting
completion Completion to Greater
Community
1. Create a status report for each • AHOS- • October 2010 • K-12 Curriculum • Completed status
subject area showing progress on: Academics leaders report from each • HOS
• Assistant to AHOS- subject area and • AHOS-Academics
a. Research base on best practices Academics division, showing
in the subject area • Division Principals grade level.
• Various grade • Written
b. Standards in place, agreed level/division/team/ documentation of
K-12 meetings each subject, (K-12
c. Benchmarks for grades, • Effective meeting (including BS) in
divisions norms and other Atlas
Organizational
d. Assessment practices, common Development skills
assessments, student work samples • Principals’ Academic
meetings
2. Revise and implement the • AHOS- • ES Language Arts • Action plan is
Curriculum Review Cycle (CRC) Academics process written for each • HOS
in light of best practices and in • BS process for subject bout • AHOS-Academics
line with other SFS curricula implementing UK “Where we go to
curriculum from here?”
(IBDP, IGCSE, UK NC) reflecting
• Current Curriculum • Accurate, agreed
the accelerated review of standards upon CRC, 2010
Review Cycle
and benchmarks across the • K-12 Curriculum version
subjects. leaders • All Atlas units
• Organizational complete with
a) Define and articulate the development skills for standards,
actions of each phase of the • November 2010 teachers benchmarks,
CRC. • Collaboration models assessments, and
• Other best practice reflect UbD
b) Complete ALL Atlas unit examples framework

3. GOAL 3: Identify approaches that will accelerate the integration of technology to improve learning.
Rationale: Recommendation from WASC Visiting Team, April 2010
Evidence of Success:
1. Short-term technology integration plan for the 2010-11 and the 2011-12 school year, including 1 : 1 laptop initiative
2. Technology Plan, finalized by January 2011
3. Compare LoTi survey results for faculty in spring 2009, 2010, 2011
4. Student work exemplars in Atlas
5. Student, Parent surveys
Actions Steps Person(s) Deadline People and Resources to Steps toward Person(s) Monitoring and
Responsible help complete the task evidence of goal Reporting Completion to
completion Greater Community
1. Formulate a short-term • IT Director • June 2010 • IT Department • Written document • HOS
technology integration action • AHOS-Operations that describes the • AHOS-Operations
plan. • AHOS-Academics plan, posted on
a. Increase teacher access to • Principals SharePoint,
computers by phasing in • August 2011 • Research on best practices Accreditation Plus
laptops for teachers’ • Model programs in other • LoTi surveys
initiative international schools • Upgrade of
b. Increase student access to • Staff input computers/laptops
computers by moving toward • August 2012 for faculty
more computers in
classrooms, on carts, and
toward a 1:1 laptop initiative
beginning in 2011-12
2. Provide faculty with training in • IT Director • Begin August 2010 • IT Department • LoTi survey results • HOS
integrating technology in regular (ongoing) • Staff expertise from 2009, 2010, 2011 • AHOS-Academics
classroom instruction • Other professional, staff • Staff supervision,
development evaluation
• Student work
samples
• Atlas units
3. Create 3 year technology • IT Director • Jan 2011 • IT Department • Written document • HOS
integration plan • Staff expertise • AHOS-Operations
• Other model plans
4. Create and use a map to address • Divisional • Map by Jan. 2011, • Curriculum Liaisons • Written document in • HOS
each of the NETS-S in the various Technology use is ongoing • Teachers Atlas • AHOS - Academics
subject areas pre K-12 Coordinator • IT Director • Student work
s • NETS-S samples