Provide professional learning January and May Book studies, professional learning days, PD committee minutes. opportunities to build capacity of PD committee, ESST check ins yearly PD opportunities align with SIP goals. teachers in reading Ends Policy #2 Students at FES will demonstrate continuous improvement in literacy skills, striving to meet or exceed the standards set by the Province of New Brunswick. Smart Goal Strategies Timeline Responsibility Indicators of Success Recreate our Academic of January 2013 Entire staff Updated pyramids (academic) created. Revisit yearly. Intervention. Pyramid subcommittee Ensure teachers feel confident and September EST-Literacy, Resource, supported in using the balanced literacy Evidence of tier one strategies being used and fewer students To increase annually admin tier one strategies (academic pyramid of being moved up to tier two. overall writing intervention) scores by 2.5% Early identification of students who need literacy intervention, per year over 3 Implement and administer benchmark Nov., Mar., and Classroom teachers, guided writing groups. PLCs by grade level will use exemplars assessment June annually PLC, EST-Literacy and writing standards to assess writing benchmarks three times years as each year measured by Writing A-Z subscription, Daily Café website subscription, school data. Provide professional learning ESST, EST Resource, Ongoing Professional book study, use of Write Traits, use district literacy opportunities and resources to build classroom teachers, PD mentors to demonstrate sample writing lessons based on capacity of teachers in writing Committee targeted grade level genres. Classroom teacher, EST Authentic opportunities for writing i.e. Pen pals (i.e. Dialogue Increase engagement in writing. Ongoing Literacy, EST Resource NB), Magic Mailbox, thank you letters, Wall of Fame.
Provide professional learning opportunities to build capacity of teachers in reading January and May check ins yearly PD committee, ESST Book studies, professional learning days, PD committee minutes. PD opportunities align with SIP goals. Ends Policy #2 Students at FES will demonstrate continuous improvement in literacy skills, striving to meet or exceed the standards set by the Province of New Brunswick. Smart Goal Strategies Timeline Responsibility Indicators of Success To increase overall writing scores by 2.5% per year over 3 years as measured by school data. Recreate our Academic of Intervention. January 2013 Entire staff subcommittee Updated pyramids (academic) created. Revisit yearly. Ensure teachers feel confident and supported in using the balanced literacy tier one strategies (academic pyramid of intervention) September annually EST-Literacy, Resource, admin Evidence of tier one strategies being used and fewer students being moved up to tier two. Implement and administer benchmark assessment Nov., Mar., and June annually Classroom teachers, PLC, EST-Literacy Early identification of students who need literacy intervention, guided writing groups. PLCs by grade level will use exemplars and writing standards to assess writing benchmarks three times each year Provide professional learning opportunities and resources to build capacity of teachers in writing Ongoing ESST, EST Resource, classroom teachers, PD Committee Writing A-Z subscription, Daily Café website subscription, Professional book study, use of Write Traits, use district literacy mentors to demonstrate sample writing lessons based on targeted grade level genres. Increase engagement in writing. Ongoing Classroom teacher, EST Literacy, EST Resource Authentic opportunities for writing i.e. Pen pals (i.e. Dialogue NB), Magic Mailbox, thank you letters, Wall of Fame. Pyramid
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