TCSPP TEMPLATE 5.1

GOAL 1 – Action Plan Development
Template 5.1 – (Rubric Indicator 5.1) Revised DATE: _______May 2, 2008___________
Section A –Describe your goal and identify which need(s) it addresses. (Remember that your previous components identified the strengths and challenges/needs.)
Goal		Improving the student attendance and graduation rate toward the goal of meeting NCLB accountability standards of 93% attendance rate and 100% graduation by 2013-2014, meeting indicators 1S1 & 2S1 of the Perkins Report Card.
Which need(s) does this Goal address?		Graduation rate of 81.8% is below the state goal of 90%, Attendance Rate, 1S1, 1S2, 3S1, 4S1,& 6S2.
How is this Goal linked to the system’s Five-Year Plan?		Provide an environment that enables all students to achieve to their highest potential.
ACTION STEPS – Template 5.2 – (Rubric Indicator 5.2)		IMPLEMENTATION PLAN – Template 5.3 – (Rubric Indicator 5.3)
Section B – Descriptively list the action you plan to take to ensure you will be able to progress toward your goal. Action steps are strategies and interventions which should be scientifically based where possible and include professional development, technology, communication, and parent and community involvement initiatives within the action steps of each goal.		Section C – For each of the Action Steps you list, give timeline, person(s) responsible, projected cost(s)/required resources, funding sources, evaluation strategy and performance results/outcomes. (For Evaluation Strategy, define how you will evaluate the action step.)
		Timeline	Person(s) Responsible	Required Resources	Projected Cost(s) & Funding Sources	Evaluation Strategy	Performance Results / Outcomes
Action Step	Employ six graduation coaches to assist the high schools’ middle schools, and elementary schools in improving student attendance by monitoring attendance, making home/parent contacts, attending court procedures, and educating parents and community on attendance policy.	2008-2009	Hugh Clement Mike Watson	$165,320	BEP 2.0	Review of end-of-year attendance/graduation report. Monthly reports from graduation coaches to administrators. Monthly attendance monitored by attendance supervisor.	Graduation Coaches to date have made weekly contact hours with students’ homes. Monthly attendance reports show slight improvement except for the flu season.
Action Step	Appoint a team of administrators and teachers to review the district’s use of Assertive Discipline and determine continued use and/or changes in implementation, including training for new administrators and teachers.	Fall annually	Hugh Clement	$ 1,000	Local	Meeting Notes School Surveys Suspension/Expulsion Report
Action Step	Review of Alternative School policies and the district policy on expelling students in order to eliminate inconsistencies.	Fall annually	Tami Morelock Hugh Clement	$0	N/A	Meeting Notes and Proposals
Action Step	Institute a middle school summer school program concentrating on reading/language arts and mathematics instruction of high academic rigor taught by certified high school teachers.	Summer 2008-2009	Brenda Dean	$10,000	Extended Contract	Student achievement on Gateway and End of Course Exams. Student attendance
Action Step	Increase & maintain academic integration through dual credit opportunities & dissemination of subgroup performance data on indicators 1S1, 1S2, 3S1, and 4S1.	2008-2009	Mike Watson Brenda Dean Howard Sisco	$14,721	Carl Perkins	Walk Through	Increase in CTE Report Card Data
Action Step	Hire one part-time assistant principal in high poverty school with more than 500 students to increase family-school engagement, to increase student attendance, and to provide instructional coaching to meet the needs of at-risk learners.	2008-2009	Dale Lynch John Clawson	$36,656	BEP 2.0	Parent survey Attendance reports Teacher survey NCLB Report Card
Action Step	Provide funding to support student engagement in the school experience and learning, through academic competition, including skilled events through CTSO Clubs.	2007-2008 Continue through 08-09	Brenda Dean Traci Perkins Mike Watson	$14,000 $4,000	BEP 2.0 Carl Perkins	Student surveys Parent surveys CTE Report Card	Raise Skills Indicator for Carl Perkins

TCSPP TEMPLATE 5.1

GOAL 2 – Action Plan Development
Template 5.1 – (Rubric Indicator 5.1) Revised DATE: _______May 2, 2008______
Section A –Describe your goal and identify which need(s) it addresses. (Remember that your previous components identified the strengths and challenges/needs.)
Goal		Providing reading intervention and systematic reading and writing instruction at all grades in order to achieve the increasing NCLB goals for Reading/Language and reducing the percentage of students from all subgroups that are below proficient in Reading/Language.
Which need(s) does this Goal address?		Reading/Language achievement 3^rd-8^th is below state standards. Failure to achieve AYP goal for Hispanic, disabled, and LEP students in Reading/Language.
How is this Goal linked to the system’s Five-Year Plan?		Provide quality instruction, utilizing varied methods, strategies, and technologies. Develop and organization of learners to critically think and evaluate current educational research and program development.
ACTION STEPS – Template 5.2 – (Rubric Indicator 5.2)		IMPLEMENTATION PLAN – Template 5.3 – (Rubric Indicator 5.3)
Section B – Descriptively list the action you plan to take to ensure you will be able to progress toward your goal. Action steps are strategies and interventions which should be scientifically based where possible and include professional development, technology, communication, and parent and community involvement initiatives within the action steps of each goal.		Section C – For each of the Action Steps you list, give timeline, person(s) responsible, projected cost(s)/required resources, funding sources, evaluation strategy and performance results/outcomes. (For Evaluation Strategy, define how you will evaluate the action step.)
		Timeline	Person(s) Responsible	Required Resources	Projected Cost(s) & Funding Sources	Evaluation Strategy	Performance Results / Outcomes
Action Step	Conduct a review and analysis of middle school and high school reading instruction. Adopt a system model and provide personnel, materials, supplies, and equipment for identification and remediation for at-risk learners K-12 .	Beginning Summer 2008	Eva Thompson Brenda Dean Mike Watson	$60,000 $72,103	Title I A Title IIA Title V Local IDEA BEP 2.0	Diagnostic Assessment Reports including SRA Review Performance of CTE students	Scores were reviewed. Response to Intervention (RTI) program is in the process of being approved by the state department. The SRA Corrective Reading Program will continue for the 2008-2009 year. STAR and TCAP scores assessed. Carl Perkins indicators were monitored.
Action Step	Provide new and existing teacher training on comprehensive literacy instruction, 6 Trait Writing model, and diagnostic assessment of reading skills.	2008-2009	Eva Thompson	$22,000	Title IA Title IIA Local	Training Evaluations Teacher Professional Development Survey
Action Step	Summer Standards Awareness Training, Gateway Training and AP Institutes for middle and high school teachers.	Summer and Fall 2008	Kim Fox Brenda Dean	$12,000	Title IIA	Teacher Professional Development Survey Feedback from teachers implementing new state standards.	Prof. Dev. Survey results from the 2006-07 year indicate increased, high quality professional development participation. Gateway and AP trainings are scheduled for the 2008-09 year.
Action Step	Maintain Pre-K program offerings including teacher and parent training, materials and supplies.	2008-2009	Kim Fox Anne Nelson Brenda Dean	$560,000 $187,250	Governor’s Voluntary Pre-K Grant Title V IDEA Local	Longitudinal study of students as they enter and progress through school.
Action Step	Retain one reading intervention teacher for middle school in school improvement to work with students at-risk of failing to meet NCLB standards in all subgroups.	2008-2009	Ron Wright Dale Lynch	$58,533	BEP 2.0	ThinkLink Benchmark Assessments and SRA assessments. TCAP Achievement Data Disaggregated Data.
Action Step	Hire two ESL teachers to provide intensive reading/language instruction to most at-risk ELL students.	2008-2009	Dr. Brenda Dean	$115,000	BEP 2.0	ELDA Assessment and AYP for this subgroup
Action Step	Hire two additional ESL teachers to reduce pupil/teacher ratio.	2008-2009	Dr. Brenda Dean	$112,000	BEP 2.0	Class Rosters	ELL class average class size was reduced.
Action Step	Hire two part-time highly qualified teachers who are trained in balanced/comprehensive literacy to provide continuity of instruction to meet the requirements of NCLB.	2007-2008 2008-2009	Dale Lynch Hugh Clement	$50,726	BEP 2.0	Percentage of students meeting NCLB benchmarks on report card
Action Step	Provide after-school tutoring to students in Meadowview, a high priority school in Public School Choice.	2007-2008 2008-2009	Kim Fox Brenda Dean	$11,072	Title IA School Improvement Grant, Extended Contract, Douglas-Cherokee Education Authority	Benchmark Assessments, TCAP Achievement disaggregated data for nine subgroups, male, and female, ELDA

TCSPP TEMPLATE 5.1

GOAL 3 – Action Plan Development

Template 5.1 – (Rubric Indicator 5.1) Revised DATE: _______May 2, 2008_______

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