Commitment to Academic Proficiency

A Focus on Academic Improvement in Each School and the Entire District

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.  - Abraham Lincoln

Focus Area 1:  Academic Achievement

Goal:  To increase individual student, school and district academic performance significantly.

Objective IA:  To identify, analyze, and utilize data for decision-making

Strategic Actions:

1.  Provide materials and opportunities that allow personnel to become knowledgeable in accessing, reading, interpreting and analyzing summative and formative data.

Data-driven Decision Making http://www.tangia3.org/ Data Teams

Objective IB:  To design a curriculum based on rigorous and relevant standards to meet the diverse needs of all students in the district. 

Strategic Actions:

3.  Develop and implement a curriculum aligned to State standards.
4.  Create, by using a District Curriculum and Instruction Leadership Team, a plan to use in designing and implementing an aligned and articulated K-12 curriculum in core subject areas that meets and exceeds State competency standards while utilizing the Louisiana Comprehensive Curriculum. 
5.  Select Subject Area Teams to design the aligned and articulated K-12 curriculum in core subjects. 
6.  Enact a process that provides curriculum information to all stakeholders.
7.  Develop and implement a process for monitoring, evaluating, and annually revising each written, taught, and assessed curriculum.

Curriculum Maps Click here for maps! These maps created by Subject Area Teams are designed to guide the implementation of the Louisiana Comprehensive Curriculum.  Teachers should use these guides to plan lessons that develop mastery of the Grade Level Expectations.

Objective IC: To ensure instructional planning and delivery meet the needs of all students.

 Strategic Actions:
1. Develop clearly written guidelines and models that will ensure instructional planning reflects the aligned curriculum and includes effective methods for delivery of instruction. 

a.   Establish guidelines through a coordinated process under the direction of the Director of Curriculum and Instruction and reviewed by the District Curriculum and Instruction Oversight/Leadership Team.
b.   Provide descriptions and models of the components of effective lesson

2.      Implement a process for monitoring, evaluating, and providing specific feedback to improve the quality of lesson planning and delivery of instruction.

4.    Determine and implement a process for evaluation of planning and delivery of instruction.

7.     Monitor classroom instruction from all levels within the organization. 

TPSS Lesson Plan Guide Lesson Plan Checks Six Common Mistakes in Writing Lesson Plans (and what to do about them)  by Dr. Bob Kizlik   Instructional Walk-through

 

 

Objective ID:  To develop and implement a plan for utilizing formative assessment to determine ongoing progress within each school year. 

Strategic Actions:

1.  Utilize the assessment format and similar items that reflect state testing of LEAP/iLEAP/GEE and EOC testing.
2.  Develop and utilize benchmark/formative assessment to monitor student progress toward mastering Grade Level Expectations.
5.  Review all formative assessment data at mid-term and the end of each year to determine major deficiencies and modify actions where needed. 
6.  Where available, formative data will be utilized along with summative data to determine improvement processes. 

Benchmark Tests 2010-2011 Testing Schedule Test Specifications list of GLE's covered on each test. Frequently Asked Questions Comments from Teachers

 

Objective IE: To develop and implement a plan for addressing academic needs of high school students in preparation for college or other career pathways.

   

    Strategic Actions:

1.      Develop and implement a plan to increase the graduation rate through a variety of curricula, programs, and activities.

a.      Develop a plan that includes, but is not limited to, the following:

§         Ninth Grade Academy

§         Drop-Out Early Warning System (DEWS)

§         Louisiana Virtual School

§         Credit Recovery

§         P. M. School

§         Literacy Strategies

§         Industry-Based Certificates

§         Locally-Designed Certificates

§         Read 180

§         Intervention and Remediation for High Stakes Testing

b.        Communicate information and expectations to all stakeholders.

c.        Implement a process for monitoring, evaluating, and revising plan components.

2.      Develop and implement curriculum, programs, and activities to increase student success in postsecondary learning experiences.

a.    Communicate information and expectations to all stakeholders.

b.    Implement a process for monitoring, evaluating, and revising plan components.

3.      Continue exploring and implementing actions to sustain High School Redesign recommendations.

4.      Monitor the effectiveness of all components of the Graduation Index and the impact on improving the School Performance Score.

 

High School Redesign Handbook

District Curriculum and Instruction Leadership Team