School Innovation and Improvement Plan At-a-Glance

• 2023-2024

• Chesterbrook Elementary School

• Region 2

• Stacy Kirkpatrick, Principal

Goal 1: End of Year SMARTR Outcome: Language Arts

Goal: 

By June 2024, the percentage of Special Education and EL students demonstrating within-year growth in reading as measured by the iReady assessment will increase by at least 5 percentage points. For EL students they will increase from a baseline of 75% demonstrating within year growth to 80%. For Special Education Students they will increase from a baseline of 66% demonstrating within year growth to 71%.

Strategy 1

• Increase impact of tier 2 interventions for students demonstrating risk by using FCPS-recommended programs and practices with fidelity (e.g., Lexia, UFLI). (HLP 5)

  • Actions

    • Utilize district assessment maps to make decisions about instruction and resource allocation for tiered support.

    • Teams will plan for skills-based, flexible groupings to provide explicit, systematic tier 2 intervention (grouped by skill, not level)

    • Grade level teams will provide tier 2 instruction as preventative intervention that targets underlying difficulty impacting the student's progress in literacy.

Strategy 2

• Improve use of interactive read alouds for building knowledge and vocabulary through texts that affirm students' lived experiences. (HLP 1, 3)

  • Actions

    • Teams will plan for interactive read alouds to purposefully activate student's background knowledge, provide opportunity for vocabulary development, and for students to reflect by making connections to their own lived experiences.

    • Teachers will model peer conversation and use visual cues/anchor charts, conversation cards, talk moves or sentence stems to support student discourse.

    • Teachers will demonstrate strategies for identifying the meaning of a word by tapping into their lived experiences and prior knowledge. (Think alouds, make connections)

Strategy 3

• Expand use of conversation structures to increase academic talk and build relationships among students. (HLP 1, 3)

  • Actions

    • Teams will plan and implement engaging, interactive morning meetings daily for students to build oral language.

    • Teams will work in CTs to incorporate instructional practices to provide opportunities for extended discourse (dialogic conversations, talk moves)

Goal 2: End of Year SMARTR Outcome: Mathematics

Goal: By June 2024, the percentage of Special Education and EL students demonstrating within-year growth in math, as measured by the iReady assessment, will increase by at least 5 percentage points. For EL students they will increase from a baseline of 42% demonstrating within year growth to 47%. For Special Education Students they will increase from a baseline of 54% demonstrating within year growth to 59%

Strategy 1

• Schedule ESOL teacher push-in ELD instruction during math instructional time.

  • Actions

    • Collaboration between Gen Ed, ESOL, and SPED Teacher ( for Dually Identified) to benefit students during instructional time during CLTs

    • Schedule/Monitor Push in Math Instruction Time for ESOL teacher into grade levels

    • Intentional Groupings of Students Based On Need to receive intervention/enrichment during WIN time; Monitor student progress on interventions

Strategy 2

• Increase teachers implementation strategies related to Shift 4: from show and tell to share and compare.

  • Actions

    • Continue drop in observations in order to give staff feedback on strategies (share and compare) used in the classroom.

    • Weekly math CT meetings to create and review county created materials.

Strategy 3

• Increase teacher implementation of explicit instruction and other components of effective mathematics intervention.

  • Actions

    • Continue 6 week MTSS cycles and create tier 2 and tier 3 lists to identify name and need

    • Use country provided pacing guides

    • Special Education Teacher & EL teacher work collaboratively with general education teacher to prepare differentiated instruction

Goal 3: End of Year SMARTR Outcome: Portrait of a Graduate (POG)

Goal: By the end of SY 2023-24: 100% of students in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade will “get started” by scoring at least proficient on Criterion 3 of the POG POL rubric; 100% of students in Grades 4 through 6 will “make progress” by scoring at least proficient on Criterion 1 & 3 of the POG POL rubric; and 100% of students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 will participate in POG POL.

Strategy 1

• Expand opportunities for students to regularly learn about POG skills aligned with course content

  • Actions

    • Embed POG connections in CLT planning

    • All classrooms will align their targeted POG attributes and skills within Morning Meeting at least once a week

    • All specials and classes on the Master Calendar to include PE, Art, Music, Band/Strings, STEAM, School Counseling, and Think Lab will support the identified attribute and skills being focused on within grade level CTs

Strategy 2

• Increase opportunities for student reflection, goal-setting, and feedback that supports growth.

  • Actions

    • Grade level teams will work together during their weekly CT to provide regular opportunities for student reflection, goal-setting, and feedback

    • Provide streamlined POG resources for teachers to implement

    • All participating POG POL students will engage in a culminating Presentation of Learning in the identified format of their teacher's choice (Grades 4, 5, 6).

Strategy 3

• Expand opportunities for students to discuss evidence of growth of POG attributes.

  • Actions

    • School leaders and teachers will expand opportunities for students to discuss evidence of growth of POG attributes through grade level and school wide communications (news you choose) with supports for family discussions.

    • All participating POG POL students will engage in a culminating Presentation of Learning in the identified format of their teacher's choice. The POG POL rubric will be used only to provide students feedback (Grades 4, 5, 6). All staff and teachers will be provided the opportunity to observe at least one student POL .

For additional information regarding this School Improvement Plan, please contact the school principal.