School Innovation and Improvement Plan At-a-Glance

2023-2024

Vienna Elementary School

Region 1

John Carmichael, Principal

Reading Measurable Outcome:

63 % of 1-3 students will demonstrate on grade level reading as measured by iready in the Spring testing window. This is an overall 5% increase for this population. Kindergarten students will all meet benchmarks for PALS. Additionally 80% of students in grades 1-3 will demonstrate expected screener within-year growth in reading as measured by iReady.

Strategies

Strategy 1

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)

Strategy 2

Increase interdisciplinary opportunities to build language and SEL skill development across content areas and throughout the school day. (HLP 1, 3)

Strategy 3

Increase impact of tier 2 interventions for students demonstrating risk by using FCPS-recommended programs and practices with fidelity (e.g., Lexia, UFLI). (HLP 5)

Math Measurable Outcome:

By Spring of 2024 students in grades 3-6 will increase their score by at least 6 percent in the SOL strand of Probablility, Statistics, Patterns, Functions, and Algebra.

Strategies

Strategy 1

Increase teachers implementation strategies related to Shift 8: from looking for correct answers towards revealing student thinking.

Strategy 2

Increase students' self-efficacy around the ability to be successful in mathematics.

School Selected Goal

We will target the vocabulary strand in iready as an explicit strategy to work on across all grade levels. We will measure growth in 3 ways: Students identified as ELL in our current students in Grades 1-3; the ELL students last year who are currently in grades 2-4; and the ELL population at our school as a whole. Our goal is for 80% of all sets of students to move from their baseline BOY score in vocabulary to a typical or stretch growth in that same strand.

Strategies

Strategy 1

Improve daily, systematic, explicit instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, and morphology in the core language arts block. (HLP 2)

Strategy 2

Expand use of skills-based grouping to ensure students demonstrate mastery of foundational skills. (HLP 2, 5)

Strategy 3

Increase use of data (e.g., iReady, CORE, PASS, PRF, WIDA) to plan instruction and monitor progress for students demonstrating risk. (HLP 2-5)