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?

The BEST  practices identified will be utilized on a daily basis in all of the conren area courses.  Our school has unified scale and rubric board configuration system stemming from the school-wide STEM, ELA and Reading curriculum that will be covered in ALL classes.  This will provide a seemless transition from class to class and increase interdisciplinary achievement across the board in all grade levels.  To increase success for teachers and students Apollo will focus on specific components of content based on STANDARDS and BENCHMARKS.  Teachers will use formative assessments daily, weekly, monthly or in accordance to instructional CARE Cycle to direct and guide instruction as well as gather evidence of learning and application.  To improve engagment and motivation, teachers will integrate Enrichment, Project Based Learning modules, Incentives and Social Emotional Learning frameworks.  The goal is to challenge students to embrace new concepts, build upon kknolwedge and develop the whole person throught rich experiences that include electives based learning and crossed teamed courses.  

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?

BEST Practices: 
SEL - Implementation on online enrichment and text based instructional tools
Saturday Academy- including Writing, Civics, and Math Boot Camps
Workships in Fall and Spring, Year-long tutoring 

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

BEST Practices: implementation of sevearl monitoring systems that records school-wide student growth and achievement.
PLCs - dedicated to the implementation and instructional planning of SEL, Math, Reading, Social Studies, Language Arts and IC3 courses
SEL - Implementation on online enrichment and text based instructional tools - 
Saturday Academy- including Writing, Civics, and Math Boot Camps - More ELO opportunities if possilble
Workships in Fall and Spring, Year-long tutoring 

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

School Level Progress Monitoring data collected based on discipline: 
ELA - Achieve 3000 (Diagnostic, Mid-term, Final & Formative quizzes completed bi-weekly, USA Test Prep (by monthly), Monthly Essay prompts - District and Text-Based (Collections)
Math - iReady, Go Math (Sectioned based on units of study)
Science - Science Fusion (formative assessments sectioned off based on curriculum map)
Social Studies (continuous formative quizzes (DBQ's) and units of study

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

Through close monitoring and RtI (intervention) systems in place for all students, not just those that are labeled as level 1 or "intensive".

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 best practices identified will be utilized on a daily basis in all of the core content areas courses.  Our school's universal designes for learning includes unified board configuration, rubric and scales systems stemming from a school-wide literacy plan that will be applied in all classess.  This wil provide a more seemles transition between subjects and increase success for teachers and students.  This also improves our ability to identify learning gaps in students and respond to these gaps with certain strategies.  1) Assess specific components of content bsed on STANDARDS and BENCHMARKS as opposed to just content.  2) Teachers will use formative assessments daily, weekly or monthly inorder to direct and guide instruction as well as gather evidence of learning and application.  

 

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

Teachers will use formative assessment daily, weekly or monthly in order in direct andguide instruction.  Also teachers will evaluate student work using peer and crossed protocols such as EQUiP to identify instructional and learning gaps.  

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?

Utilizing formative assessments. 
Promoting student engagment with incentives. 
Using scales and rubrics school-wide. 
Clearly articulated expectations, goals, learning outcomes, and course requirments to increase student motivation and improve learning. 
Meaningful and timely feedback to students to improve learning gains in core subject areas. 
Differentiating instruction to meet individual student needs by scaffolding and accommodating IEPs, RtI, ESOL, etc. 
Specific to Instructional Practices include: Workshops, Professional Development
Specific to Learning Pratives include Centers, Pull Outs& Push Ins, Incentive programs, enrichment tools. 

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.

Based on the 2018-2019 FSA math results, student achievement increased from 51% to 52% and the lowest quartile learning gains improved from 42% to 44%.  These results demonstrate an improvement in overall FSA math proficiency by students in grades 6-8.  These improvements are evidenced by the use of progress monitoring tools such as I-ready and Go Math.   The increase in student achievement is also evidenced by the promotion of student engagment actitvities with incentives. Teachers used scales and rubrics school-wide. Instructional leadership clearly articulated expectations, goals, learning outcomes, and course requirments to increase student motivation and improve learning.  Through PLCs, teachers collaborated to provide meaningful and timely feedback to students to improve learning gains in core subject areas.