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?

Literacy and Early Learning- Reading will be the focus for improving student achievement.  This area was chosen because FSA proficiency scores have fallen short of 50% for each of the last three years.  

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?

1. Road Maps
2. Professional Learning Communities
3. Common Formative and Summative Assessments
4. Course Progression Monitoring

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

• Science, ELA, and History departments have created curriculum road maps with an emphasis on pacing guides and teaching of standards and summative assessments. 
• Content literacy professional development will be improved across the key curricular areas. 
• The literacy coach will facilitate content-based literacy professional development including text-based close reads for content areas including environmental science, marine science, and world history. 
• Grade-level teams will meet to analyze data and use it to drive instruction and remediate skills.
• Teachers will utillize text-dependent questions to assist students wilth mastery of standards.

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

• Grade-level formative and summative assessments will be administered bi-quarterly.
• FAIR will be administered three times by June 2019.
• School-day PSAT and SAT administration in October 2018

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

• The department chair will monitor lesson plans and track progress toward the goal. 
• Ongoing analysis of formative assessment data will be used to determine reteaching and enrichment.
• Teachers will track effectiveness of strategies in gradebook and/or excel spreadsheet. 
• Guidance, department chairs, and administrators work closely with students and families to maximize student placement and course progression. 

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)?

• Teachers build lessons around texts with various complexity levels.
• Teachers will utilize text-dependent questions to assist students with mastery of standards. 
• Teacher will preview guided questions and text-dependent questions at the end of each selection, and arrange them sequentially to scaffold learning, optimize rigor, and maximize the effectiveness of questioning. 

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

• PLCs will develop road maps that emphasize research-based instructional strategies. 
• Administrators oversight will assure road maps are followed with fidelity.
• Team leaders will utilize Instructional Practice Guide as a tool for professional development.
• Teachers will use a plethora of instructional strategies and formative assessments to engage 90% of students with the work of the lesson.  

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?

Teachers build lessons around texts with various complexity levels.  Collections, NewsELA, Common Lit, Edge, and Rewards are some texts, supplemental, and intervention programs used across the literacy department.  Also, NewsELA and Common Lit are used in science and history classes and elective courses.  Students have access to NewsELA and Collections (texts and videos) via their SSO accounts. 

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.

Several strategies were use throughout the year such as Cirriuculum Roadmaps, After-school review sessions for state assessments, and YMCA Edmentum Credit Recovery Course. These initiaitves led to a 12% increase in grade 9 FSA Reading scores which was one of the most improved scores in the county. Additionally, Piper's graduation rate by more than 5 percentage points for the second consecutive year.