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2007-08
Goal: Ensure Continued Improvement in Student Learning
Strategic Areas:
Student Learning
Description: The major district goal is student learning with an emphasis on closing the achievement gap and ensuring learning for all students through high standards, integrated technology and the district-wide coherent curriculum. The following initiatives, both new and continuing, will collectively allow PISD to regain recognized status.
Benchmark: Ensuring Learning for all Students
2007-08 New Initiatives:
- Update the district’s five-year strategic plan.
- Initiate a Family Services component to be woven into all aspects of existing services. Working through a district committee to ensure alignment of auxiliary programs, Family Literacy (formerly Even Start), Practical Parent Education and the School Age parent program will be blended into this initiative. Existing family services will be enhanced and new components will be added to current social services, truancy programs, campus guidance counselor duties, the discipline management process and all facets of the Student Services Department.
- Monitor and refine K-12 college readiness programs to ensure vertical articulation of information and skills through the University Readiness project.
- Realign the K-12 Music Curriculum to provide a more seamless transition from elementary through secondary ensembles leading to AP Music Theory.
- Develop a Special Education Services organizational framework that facilitates effective communication and provides quality services to district staff and students.
- Design, develop, and implement a Special Education secondary instructional program that parallels curriculum courses in all core subject areas based on researched best practices. Courses will target a variety of instructional levels that are sequenced along a curriculum to guide progress.
Benchmark: Integrating Technology
2007-08 New Initiatives:
- Implement version 2 of myPISD.net at all PISD campuses. This version provides similar network access for students and teachers while at school and at home for remote access.
Data-Driven
Decision Making
Description: The district will continue to use a variety of data effectively to improve instructional practices and student learning. The district will use data to evaluate investment with student outcomes.
Benchmark: Using a Variety of Data Effectively
2007-08 New Initiatives:
- Begin tracking reasons for resignation in a more detailed fashion, including requesting information as to which “other Texas district” staff members are moving to.
- Publish online documentation that assists teachers, campus leaders and district leaders to more effectively use the PISD assessment data system.
- Expand ability of the PISD assessment data system to perform longitudinal data analyses.
2007-08 Continuing Initiatives:
- Continue refining the process of determining staffing allocations as early in the Spring as possible to maximize hiring opportunities.
Benchmark:
Using Information to Improve Instructional Practice
2007-08 New Initiatives:
- Create Linear Growth Curves models that measure the academic development of students across years of education.
- Expand Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) testing into grades 6-12 to measure student achievement growth.
Benchmark: Using Data to Affect Student Performance
2007-08 New Initiatives:
- Publish documentation and train professional staff on the use of MAP achievement and CogAT ability test scores to allow teachers to better understand student performance and to determine which students require intervention for improvement.
- Implement and administer the Random Steroid Testing Program as directed under the guidelines established by the University Interscholastic League.
Benchmark: Relating Investments, Improvement Strategies and Outcomes
2007-08 New Initiatives:
- Expand pilot-use of online testing at secondary campuses.
Capacity Development
Description: Quality learning in Plano ISD classrooms is directly related to expanding organizational effectiveness, promoting innovation and improving professional and organizational development.
Benchmark: Expanding Organizational Effectiveness
2007-08 New Initiatives:
- Analyze the results of the diversity cultural audit survey and develop strategies to address identified areas of concern.
- Analyze the baseline and trend data from the annual new teacher survey and develop resulting action plans.
- Begin tracking reasons for resignation in a more detailed fashion, including requesting information as to which “other Texas district” staff members are moving to.
- Build and expand the elementary, middle school, and upper secondary differentiation initiatives to help teachers develop a wide array of instructional strategies to improve student achievement.
- Pilot the Professional Learning Period in all middle schools and in Jasper and Vines High Schools, supported by the MyLearningPlan electronic journal. This PLP will support the application of district and campus professional learning initiatives targeting teacher efficacy and increased student achievement.
- Explore methods for evaluating the effectiveness of professional learning on student achievement and teacher efficacy.
20007-08 Continuing Initiatives:
- Monitor, adjust, and solicit feedback from the 12 middle schools and 2 high school campuses that are implementing the focused planning and professional development time during the school day. Plan for the implementation in the 2008-09 school year for the focused planning and professional development time at the remaining high school and 3 senior high school campuses.
- Monitor elementary school early release professional learning time, and continue to explore options that would provide professional learning opportunities for elementary staff within the school day without loss of instructional time.
- Continue the development of a leadership model that focuses on instructional leadership, PR/communication skills, professional learning, and other targeted areas so that all administrators will have training to increase their capacity and expand their organization effectiveness.
- Implement the McRel Leadership Training for building principals and other designated central office administrators.
- Plan and develop a principal leadership academy in a way that they will continue to develop in their roles as instructional leaders so that students, staff, and community will recognize, understand, and appreciate the value of the school, its programs, and progress.
- Focus Cluster goals and initiatives on instructional leadership.
- Examine, through research, study, and design, options that would provide assistant principals and administrative interns with opportunities to develop and enhance their leadership skills.
- Continue to partner with campus administrators to hire and retain staff members that are reflective of the Plano ISD student population and the communities served by the district.
- Continue refining the process of determining staffing allocations as early in the Spring as possible to maximize hiring opportunities.
- Continue to work to increase the diversity of the athletic coaching staff. Explore the possibility of establishing a relationship with colleges and universities that have a larger percentage of diverse students in order to promote Plano ISD to graduates entering the coaching field.
- Reconvene with members of the Athletic Strategic Planning Committee to review the results of the program changes that have been previously implemented. Continue to work with the committee to identify areas in the Plano ISD athletic program that need to be strengthened and improved and to establish goals for 2008-2009.
- Continue development of the strategies and model for the implementation of an employee childcare program.
- Identify childcare facility location and date for enrollment of children
- Work through district benefits department to establish program insurance model
- Continue work with licensing agency
- Continue work through district committee to set processes for operation of program
Benchmark: Improving Professional/Organizational Development
2007-08 Continuing Initiatives:
- Continue to closely monitor compliance with NCLB requirements, in regard to staffing, by auditing hires and assignments to ensure teachers and paraprofessionals meet highly qualified standards, when applicable.
2007-08 District Based Improvement Committee Goals
Student Learning
Description: The major district goal is student learning with an emphasis on closing the achievement gap and ensuring learning for all students through high standards, integrated technology and the district-wide coherent curriculum.
Benchmark: Ensuring Learning for all Students
20007-08 Initiatives:
Student Proficiency in Reading
Targets
- Student proficiency in Reading will maintain or improve annually for all students and for all AEIS student groups on TAKS and all AEIS student groups will achieve required improvement towards an Exemplary status within three years.
- The district will achieve Gold Performance Acknowledgement.
Required Improvement = (difference from 90% in 2004) / 3
Related Initiatives:
- Use LAS Links common scale to analyze English growth in English language acquisition among ELL students.
Student Proficiency in Writing
Targets
- Student proficiency in Writing will maintain or improve annually for all students and for all AEIS student groups on TAKS and all AEIS student groups will achieve required improvement towards an Exemplary status within two years.
- The district will achieve Gold Performance Acknowledgement.
Required Improvement = (difference from 90% in 2004) / 2
Student Proficiency in Mathematics
Targets
- Student proficiency in Mathematics will maintain or improve annually for all students and for all AEIS student groups on TAKS and all AEIS student groups will achieve required improvement towards an Exemplary status within two years.
- The district will achieve Gold Performance Acknowledgement.
Required Improvement = (difference from 90% in 2007) / 2
Related Initiatives:
- Realign instructional objectives used in the Middle School math program in grades 5 – 8 to allow for all students to be proficient in algebra skills (Algebra I) by the end of their 8th grade year.
- Use correlational-percentiles to identify grade-to-grade gaps in Science and Mathematics.
Student Proficiency in Science
Targets
- Student proficiency in Science will maintain or improve annually for all students and for all AEIS student groups on TAKS such that
- current Exemplary indicators will maintain Exemplary status and
- current Academically Acceptable indicators will achieve Recognized status.
- The district will achieve Gold Performance Acknowledgement in Science.
- The district will conduct a focused analysis to understand the achievement gap among populations in Science.
- The district will utilize the analysis to develop and implement a comprehensive plan to close the achievement gap among populations in Science.
Related Initiatives:
- Use correlational-percentiles to identify grade-to-grade gaps in Science and Mathematics.
Student Proficiency in Social Studies
Targets
- Student proficiency in Social Studies will maintain or improve annually for all students and for all AEIS student groups on TAKS and all AEIS student groups will achieve required improvement towards Exemplary status within two years.
- The district will achieve Gold Performance Acknowledgement.
Required Improvement = (difference from 90% in 2004) / 2
Related Initiatives supporting all five content and assessed areas:
- Create accountability predictive models that reduce the model-error inherent in TAKS measures.
- Create campus target reports to assist campuses in defining accurate student performance targets.
- Execute a formal standardized investigative process for scientifically identifying best teaching practices among highly-effective teachers in Mathematics and Science.
College Readiness
Targets
- The rate of students taking a college entrance exam will maintain or increase such that
- the measure is at least 70% for all students and all AEIS populations and
- the participation gap among populations will reduce.
- The rate of students taking AP/IB exams will maintain or increase such that
- the measure is at least 15% for all students and all AEIS populations and
- the participation gap among populations will reduce.
- The graduate rate for all students and all AEIS student groups on RHS or DAP plans will maintain or increase.
Related Initiatives:
- Begin development on a college readiness guidance curriculum for middle school that will align with the elementary program. Counselors will encourage increased participation in the PSAT for 11th grade in order to provide more students with the opportunity to qualify for National Merit, National Achievement, and National Hispanic scholarships.
- Concurrent enrollment has been established at the three senior high campuses. The counselors at 9-10 schools will work toward increasing 11th grade participation in concurrent enrollment by providing information about the program during academic conferences.
- Provide leadership and support for expansion of the number of students served through AVID at non-original campuses. Guide planning and training activities for six campuses that will open AVID classes in 2008 – 2009.
- Academic Diversity Specialist will offer campus training programs emphasizing family outreach opportunities to encourage and support high expectations and higher level course enrollment for all students and to set educational goals culminating in preparation for college.
- Initiate the CaseNEX on-line professional learning opportunities to provide courses in differentiated instruction and deepen staff understanding of diversity, both of which support increased student achievement.
- The elementary, middle school, and upper secondary differentiation initiatives will help teachers develop a wide array of instructional strategies to improve student achievement among today’s diverse learners.
- Report on college readiness indicators published by the National Clearinghouse and the Texas Schools Project.
- Study use of PLAN (ACT) and PSAT (SAT) measures for middle school links to college readiness.
- Model relationship among student performance indicators to develop Key Performance Indicators for college readiness.
Career Education Proficiency in Industry/Professional Skills/Workplace Communication Skills/General Workplace Skills
Target
- Increase the number of certification attempts in
- Automotive Service Excellence Certification
- CISCO Certified Network Associate
- Emergency Medical Technician
- Expand course offerings to meet enrollment demand.
Dropout Rate / Completion Rate
Target
- Achieve Exemplary status for all students and all AEIS student groups.
Related Initiatives:
- Implement a campus monitoring and reporting system for dropouts. Develop and implement a system to better track completion rate cohorts in order to increase completion rates toward an Exemplary status for all students and all AEIS student groups.
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