Explain the activities in which your school will participate to increase your overall rating. Include specific details.

As evidenced in the SES Band Data, which content area(s) will be the focus for improving student achievement and why was this area chosen?

Gulfstream Acadeamy of Hallandale Beach will focus on improving literacy. This area was chosen because as children become mor porficent in literacy this will positively impact the other content areas as well.

What specific BEST Practice(s) will be implemented or scaled-up to improve teaching and learning in order to increase performance within the SES Band?

Teachers take part in professional learning communities that are specifically focused on best practices to help increase student achievement. Also, the professional learning communities assist teachers in using the data from common assessments to drive instruction in their classrooms. Teachers in various content areas use reading stratagies to assist students in comprehending content area text.

Describe in detail how the BEST Practice(s) will be scaled-up.

All teachers have been trained on how to use BASIS to track the RTI process. They now understand the process of how to input strategies and eventually if needed how to put in the referral to discuss with the team moving a child to a different support tier. Specific times for interventions have been built into the daily schedule for the to remediate students that are on different tiers of support. Teachers have been made aware of various diagnostic assessments inside of the Benchmark Assessment System and iReady to assist them in making sure the students are given the proper interventions needed.

During professional learning communities teachers are assisted in using best proactices and strateigies to increase student acheivement. They are given the opportunity to be able to look at data from common assessments to specifically plans lessons to remediate or enrich student learning.

What specific school-level progress monitoring data is collected and how often?

iReady diagnostics are given at the beginning of the year, the middle of the year, and the end of the year.
Common assessments in all content areas at all grade levels are given every six weeks.

How does the school ensure the fidelity of students not progressing towards school and district goals?

Students that are not making progress are given diagnostics to see what are the students need assitance in. Teachers then use strategies to assist the student and help fill in learning gaps. Students that need more assistance are moved to a different tier of support to give the students the level of support they need. Students are monitored to see of they are making or if they need additional support.

How does the school ensure that all classroom instruction is accessible to the full range of learners using Universal Designs for Learning (UDL) for effective instructional design (planning) and delivery (teaching)?

The school ensures the use of UDL in the classroom because teachers have the ability to do Flexible seating. Also the incorporation of teachnology so that all students are able to get to more information through the use of technology. Another important thing is making sure that we set achieveable goals for the classroom and for the students themselves. But we need to make sure that the goals are starting off small that way all students are able to obtain that goal. We also make sure that teachers give feedback to oru learners so that they get that deeper understanding and learning through their teaching.

How does the school ensure Tier 1 Standards-Based classroom instruction is being implemented properly and effectively?

Gulfstream Academy of Hallandale Beach professiona learning communities in the lower grades focuses on balanced literacy topics. Teachers are assisted in learning to create lesson plans for shared reading, interactive read alouds, and guided reading. Through classroom observations the we are able to see balanced literacy takes place in the classrooms.

Describe texts used for core, supplemental, and intervention programs at each grade level. How does the school ensure students have access to a balance of literary and informational text in a variety of mediums?

K-5 uses Journeys for the core curriculum. Level Literacy Intervention (LLI), Fundations, and Phonics for Reading are interventions used to assist student learning. Teachers in in grades K-5 have Social Studies and Science libraries to assist them in making sure students have informational text to read and interact with. Reading classes in in grades 6-8 use the Inside reading series and iReady books. Languare Arts teachers use Collections as their core curriculum.  Also, teachers at all grade levels have access to the Scholastic level readers to use to enhance instruction.

Please complete this section based on 2018-2019 end-of-year results.
Instructional Implications: Discuss the success of specific strategies/activities and provide a rationale as to why those academic improvements occurred as a result of those strategies.

There was success in the goal of by May 2019, 45% of the total students in grade 3-8 will be proficent in Reading. We successfully used the strategies of implementing I-ready and paper based programs like formative assessments to help the students improve their reading proficiency. The reason we were able to improve towards our goal by using these strategies because they reenforced what was being taught. It also gave us an insight into what standards or areas the students needed remediation in so that we could help them further.