Building Continuous Improvement Plan 2010-2011
Liberty High School

The Olentangy Local Schools are committed to facilitate maximum learning for every student. The district’s focus on continually improving the achievement of its students results in Continuous Improvement Plans or (CIP) at the district and building level. CIP start with a review of all data

available to identify strengths and target opportunities for improving student achievement. Each year from these data, the district, buildings and departments identify targets for improvement and implement strategies to achieve results.

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Building Strengths:

(What do our kids do well and how do we know?)
(August)

  • Met all state indicators and AYP for all subgroups.
  • Over 95% of tenth grade students scored proficient or above in all subjects.
  • Over 83% of tenth grade students met or exceeded their projected performance in science.
  • Over 60% of all junior and senior students take advanced placement coursework.
  • Over 80% of all students who take advanced placement coursework score a 3 or higher.

Building Areas for Improvement:

(What do our kids need and how do we know?)
(August)

  • Only 68.5% of tenth grade students met or exceeded their projected performance in reading.
  • Only 73.9% of tenth grade students with disabilities scored proficient or above in reading.

Focus

(Where do we start? What one area of improvement is the highest priority? Why?)
(August)

  • To align quality learning targets to classroom assessment practices, informing instructional decisions and improving student achievement.

Actions:

(What will we do?)
(September)

All teachers will focus on the following curriculum processes:

  1. Analyze curriculum maps to be clear and confident about map standards.
  2. Research and explore curriculum map indicators to obtain deep content knowledge.
  3. Unpack the curriculum to identify clear learning targets or the scaffolding to the learning targets.
  4. Clearly define what mastery of the learning targets looks like when achieved.
  5. Will know where students are in relation to the specified learning targets at any time.

As the instructional leaders, we will:

  1. Make daily decisions aligned with the building and district focus.
  2. Conduct building walk-throughs for the purpose of collecting evidence of progress on the curriculum focus.
  3. Conduct building walk-throughs for the purpose of collecting evidence of progress on the curriculum focus.
  4. Conduct evaluations of staff members with an emphasis on the curriculum processes.
  5. Create professional development opportunities during late starts, curriculum days, etc. to support building CIP.
  6. Work with staff through focused, job embedded professional development activities during curriculum days, late starts, collaboration time, etc. to support building CIP.
  7. Collect feedback from staff on progress of the building CIP action steps.

Mid Year Check

(Are we completing the improvement actions?)
(January)

  1. Analyze District “Walk-Through” reports to evaluate frequency of use and quality of learning targets.
  1. Examine collaboration accountability reports generated by departments and individual teachers to evaluate effectiveness.
  2. Analyze staff survey on building Continuous Improvement Plan and use of collaboration time.
  3. Analyze student survey data to gauge student perception of classroom instructional improvement.
  4. Analyze staff survey on knowledge and use of research based practices.

Results we expect:

(How will we know it worked?)
(September)

  • An increase in the percentage of staff using classroom learning targets explicitly in their instruction based on the month to month principal walkthroughs.
  • Monitor the frequency of learning target types being utilized in classrooms.
  • OLHS will increase the percentage of students meeting or exceeding their projections in reading and math.
  • OLHS will increase staff knowledge of research based practices.
  • OLHS will increase the number of staff using research based practices.

Mid Year Check

(What evidence do we have that the plan is working? Do we need to edit the plan?)
(January)

  1. Staff building CIP survey data
  2. Student building CIP survey data
  3. District “walk-through” data

Link to District CIP

(What district benchmark results will get better because we improve our results?)

  • Focus Area: To clearly articulate quality learning targets that directly align curriculum to assessment and instruction.
  • Benchmark 1: Achievement at or above projected performance levels.