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Rowan County
James Victor Padula, Principal
555 Viking Drive
Morehead, KY 40351
Document Generated On December 10, 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
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Executive Summary
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Description of the School
School's Purpose
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Introduction
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Notable Achievements and Areas of Improvement
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Additional Information
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RCMS CSIP 2015-16
Overview
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Goals Summary
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Goal 1: Increase the averaged Combined Reading and Math Proficiency K-PREP scores for Rowan County Middle
School students from 53.8 in 2015 to 71.1 in 2019.
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Goal 2: Increase the proficiency for students with disabilities in reading and math from 7.6% in 2015 to 53.9% in 2019.
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Goal 3: Increase the proficiency for the combined reading and math for free and reduced students from 42.9% in 2015
to 67.2% in 2019.
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Goal 4: RCMS will maintain/or score above our proficiency score with Program Review areas.
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Goal 5: By 2021, Rowan County Middle School will reduce the total number of students scoring at the novice level in
math and reading from 28.1% to 14% as measured by KPREP.
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Goal 6: Increase the percentage of students who are college and career ready from 53.8% to 71.1% in 2019.
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Activity Summary by Funding Source
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KDE Needs Assessment
Introduction
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Data Analysis
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Areas of Strengths
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Opportunities for Improvement
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Conclusion
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Introduction
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KDE Compliance and Accountability - Schools
Planning and Accountability Requirements
KDE Assurances - School
Introduction
Assurances
Introduction
Stakeholders
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The Missing Piece
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Relationship Building
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Communications
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Decision Making
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Advocacy
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Learning Opportunities
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Community Partnerships
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Reflection
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Report Summary
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Improvement Plan Stakeholder Involvement
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Improvement Planning Process
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School Safety Report
Introduction
School Safety Requirements
Equitable Access Diagnostic
Introduction
Needs Assessment
Questions
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Equitable Access Strategies
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Introduction
The process of Improvement Planning in Kentucky is used as the means of determining how schools and districts will plan to
ensure that students reach proficiency and beyond by 2015. The process focuses school and district improvement efforts on
student needs by bringing together all stakeholders to plan for improvement, by focusing planning efforts on priority needs and
closing achievement gaps between subgroups of students, by building upon school and district capacity for high quality
planning, and by making connections between the funds that flow into the district and the priority needs in schools. Your
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address gaps in student achievement.
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school's plans for improvement must be based on careful and honest analysis of data, address all content areas, and clearly
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Introduction
Every school has its own story to tell. The context in which teaching and learning takes place influences the processes and procedures by
which the school makes decisions around curriculum, instruction, and assessment. The context also impacts the way a school stays faithful
to its vision. Many factors contribute to the overall narrative such as an identification of stakeholders, a description of stakeholder
engagement, the trends and issues affecting the school, and the kinds of programs and services that a school implements to support student
learning.
The purpose of the Executive Summary (ES) is to provide a school with an opportunity to describe in narrative form the strengths and
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challenges it encounters. By doing so, the public and members of the school community will have a more complete picture of how the school
perceives itself and the process of self-reflection for continuous improvement. This summary is structured for the school to reflect on how it
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provides teaching and learning on a day to day basis.
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Description of the School
Describe the school's size, community/communities, location, and changes it has experienced in the last three years. Include
demographic information about the students, staff, and community at large. What unique features and challenges are associated
with the community/communities the school serves?
Rowan County Middle School is located at 555 Viking Drive. RCMS students, faculty, and staff are housed in a 105,000 square foot state of
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the art facility. The school serves grades six, seven, and eight. The faculty is composed of a principal, an assistant principal, 1 1/2
counselors, a librarian, 38 teachers, and 27 support staff. RCMS is fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Our community is strategically located next to Interstate 64 in Eastern Kentucky and is home to:
Morehead State University
Maysville Community and Technical College--Rowan Campus
St. Claire Regional Medical Center
Cave Run Lake, Daniel Boone National Forest
500 acre MMRC Regional Industrial Park
A new 5500', the largest general aviation airport in Eastern Kentucky
Designated Trail Town
Morehead Conference Center, three time winner of Convention South Reader's Choice Award, Manager Distinction with four wins
for Meetings Professionals to Watch and first time winner of Convention South Top Event award for the Hillary Clinton Campaign
Rally.
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Our community is also a regional center for shopping, dining, entertainment and recreation.
While there are a lot of opportunities in our community for student to succeed, we still have over sixty percent of our students participating in
the free and reduced lunch program. This may create a challenge for most schools, but RCMS embraces this challenge and tries to meet the
individual needs of every student. We do this by creating partnerships with Morehead State University, Youth Service Center programs,
Gateway Health Unit, Christian Social Services, and local businesses, families and assorted community partners.
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School's Purpose
Provide the school's purpose statement and ancillary content such as mission, vision, values, and/or beliefs. Describe how the
school embodies its purpose through its program offerings and expectations for students.
Rowan County Middle School's mission is to develop the potential of each student to become a contributing, responsible member of society
through educational, emotional, cultural, social and physical experiences. Staff, parents and community with a "Together We Can" attitude
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provide opportunities, which collectively engage our students. At RCMS our faculty, staff, students and community members will continue to
grow as collaborative partners in achieving our mission:
- Student participation in academic, athletic, and social growth.
- Faculty and staff embedded in facilitating student success.
- Stakeholders will remain actively involved as advocates of students, and supporters of school programs and staff.
RCMS has integrated steps to develop the growth of our students in attaining the goal of our Mission/Vision. All Students are offered
participation in programs to assist them in developing the skills necessary to be successful members of our society. Social skills can also be
attained through athletic and academic team opportunities. Students are provided with activities with community outreach programs, and real
world experiences.
RCMS has implemented an RTI strategy to reduce the number of novice students. Using K-PREP scores, students who scored a novice in
reading and/or math are pulled to participate in the targeted novice area for four days a week for 30 minutes daily. Teachers have
participated in after-school meetings to discuss and select "Name and Claim" students for a more intentional approach in helping students
with academic achievement. RCMS faculty has also integrated the states persistence to graduation list to help us identify and mentor some
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of our most needed students.
In order to prepare our students to be career ready, RCMS has continued with its "employability initiative" to focus on the employability/soft
skills students will need to be successful in the work force. The areas of motivation, resourcefulness and professionalism were chosen after
gathering input from Morehead /Rowan County business and community partners, higher education, school site visits, and RCMS faculty and
students. Employability progress is reported on progress reports and grade cards as a 0, 1, 2, or 3 corresponding to the criteria found on the
employability rubric. Rewards for proficient scoring are provided at RCMS. The students are encouraged to set goals for themselves to be
able to participate in these rewards. Those students who do not attain proficiency are offered interview and mentoring talks fro local
employers as well as employees thus motivating them toward success.
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Notable Achievements and Areas of Improvement
Describe the school's notable achievements and areas of improvement in the last three years. Additionally, describe areas for
improvement that the school is striving to achieve in the next three years.
An achievement of RCMS has been its gap closure. While we were not able to close the gap with our special education students, we were
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successful in closing the gap in all other areas.
Our Overall Score increased from 65.3 to 66.7. This success in part has been the change in our school beliefs. No longer are lessons based
on the teacher's wants and desires, but teachers use data collected from classroom assessments, MAP testing, EXPLORE scores and KPREP testing results to drive instruction. Teachers meet weekly in PLCs to discuss data and student progress.
According to K-PREP Achievement scores, all students' Proficient/Distinguished percentages in reading, math, and social studies were
greater than the state percentages. The areas of writing and language arts continue to trail behind the state average. Although science
scores were not reported for the 2014-15 school year, we feel our students would have excelled in the Proficient/Distinguished percentages
because according to the 2015 K-PREP Stanford 10 report, 75.2 % of our students scored in the 50-99 percentile.
According to the Performance by Reporting Category report, on an average our students were on track in every content skill in 6th, 7th and
8th grade reading and 8th grade social studies. In looking at the data for our math scores, RCMS students needed more work in one or two
areas. Areas for improvement were seen in 1) number system and equations, 2) geometry, and 3) functions.
As a school, we have become more intentional with planning instructional activities to address Program Review standards and
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demonstrators. We have accomplished this through staff meetings and creating a system for submitting documentation more easily and
effectively. RCMS has been successful in maintaining it Proficient score for two years, and will continue to maintain or increase out Program
Review score.
Rowan County Middle School is very proud of the use of technology with instructional activities. The building houses two computer labs and
there are Smart Boards in every classroom. We also have two classroom sets of wireless laptops available for use along with one classroom
set of IPADs. Some teachers implement activities that use the Clicker system and/or the students own cell phones to create interactive
lessons. Teachers utilize Edmodo, Smart lessons, Engage New York, KDE, to mention just a few of many tools in use at RCMS
As a school, we know that involving more of our stakeholders; students, parents, teachers, and the community in our school improvement
process is an area that needs improvement. We are trying to involve more stakeholders by using parent and student surveys to address
school improvement. On October 26, RCMS held its "2nd Annual Community Leadership Retreat." At the retreat business leaders were
invited to meet and share school data and information along with share ideas on how the community leadership and RCMS could work
cooperatively to ensure the success of our students.
RCMS continues to be considered a focus school because we have a non-duplicated gap group score in the bottom 10% of the state. This
group is our special education population. Our school's belief is that all students need the skills and knowledge to reach proficiency. To
ensure that all students experience the same rigor, special education students, with the exception of students in our Complex Needs Unit,
receive their specially designed instruction in the regular education setting. Our complex needs teacher has been accepted to participate in
the "Splash grant" in an effort to minimize alternative portfolio novice scores. Additional meetings are held to address failing grades or
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attendance to ensure that all student receive the proper specially designed instruction.
Rowan County Middle school is in our third year of a collaboration grant, Co-Teaching for Gap Closure. RCMS applied for the grant in 2013
and was accepted based on key rubric standards of : being identified as a focus school, readiness level of priority and focus schools,
alignment of CSIP strategies and activities, and administration and staff commitment. In participating in the grant, teachers are learning to
collaborate more effectively in order to help students in the classroom. While we have been targeting this population, Rowan County Middle
School will continue strive to improve academic achievement for students in our gap population.
RCMS is participating in the second year of the "Schools To Watch" grant opportunity. By being invited into the Schools To Watch program
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RCMS has been provided an Administrative Coach to help our school to gain recognition as a "SCHOOL TO Watch" by AMILE.
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Additional Information
Provide any additional information you would like to share with the public and community that were not prompted in the previous
sections.
At Rowan County Middle School, we are proud of our student's academic achievements, but we are also proud of our student's related arts
and extra curricular achievements. RCMS has one of the most successful speech teams. RCMS has had the number one middle school
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speech team in Kentucky 17 times out of the past 21 years. During the past 4 years, the speech team has been nationally recognized as on
of the top 5 middle school speech teams. Our middle school band has won numerous distinguished ratings, and several students have
qualified for All State Band. Academic, STLP, Co-Ed-Y, Quick Recall, Math Counts, Future Problem Solving teams allow students to rise to
various levels of success. Sports such as, basketball, football, track, cross country, cheer-leading, volleyball, tennis, soccer, golf , softball,
baseball, swimming, cross country allow students the chance to experience leadership and sportsmanship.
Not only are we proud of the number of organizations and activities that our students can participate in, but also the number of our students
who do participate!
RCMS has increased its participation with the business community. Annual conferences have been held to discuss student achievement and
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ways that the community business leaders can help with student achievement.
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Overview
Plan Name
RCMS CSIP 2015-16
Plan Description
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The following is a summary of the goals encompassed in this plan. The details for each goal are available in the next section.
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Goal Name
Increase the averaged Combined Reading and
Math Proficiency K-PREP scores for Rowan County
Middle School students from 53.8 in 2015 to 71.1 in
2019.
Increase the proficiency for students with
disabilities in reading and math from 7.6% in 2015
to 53.9% in 2019.
Increase the proficiency for the combined reading
and math for free and reduced students from
42.9% in 2015 to 67.2% in 2019.
RCMS will maintain/or score above our proficiency
score with Program Review areas.
Goal Details
Objectives:1
Strategies:6
Activities:14
Goal Type
Organizational
Total Funding
$0
Objectives:1
Strategies:3
Activities:7
Objectives:1
Strategies:2
Activities:2
Objectives:4
Strategies:7
Activities:13
By 2021, Rowan County Middle School will reduce Objectives:1
the total number of students scoring at the novice Strategies:1
level in math and reading from 28.1% to 14% as
Activities:4
measured by KPREP.
Increase the percentage of students who are
Objectives:1
college and career ready from 53.8% to 71.1% in Strategies:5
2019.
Activities:7
Organizational
$0
Organizational
$0
Organizational
$450
Organizational
$0
Organizational
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Goal 1: Increase the averaged Combined Reading and Math Proficiency K-PREP scores for
Rowan County Middle School students from 53.8 in 2015 to 71.1 in 2019.
Status
N/A
Progress Notes
Created On
Although we are increasing the averaged Combined Reading and Math Proficiency K-PREP scores, September 08, 2015
we continue to have a large number of students scoring Novices. It is our focus the 2015-16 school
year to decrease our Novice number of students.
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Cheryl Plank
Measurable Objective 1:
collaborate to to increase the average combined reading and math K-Prep scores to 58% by 05/12/2016 as measured by K-PREP..
Progress Notes
We have increased the average combined reading and math K-PREP proficiency scores, but we
continue to have a large number of novices, especially in reading.
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Status
Not Met
Created On
September 08, 2015
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Strategy 1:
RTI Initiatives - Students scoring a Novice in reading and/or math on the K-PREP will attend a semester long RTI class for that subject. Teachers will also implement
differentiated instruction in the classroom to increase student achievement. MAP data will be collected to help with the monitoring of student progress.
Category: Learning Systems
Status
N/A
Progress Notes
We will continue with RTI Initiatives by focusing on Novice reductions in reading and math.
Created On
September 08, 2015
Activity - Differentiated Instruction
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Students will participate in differentiated activities in the classroom that
target areas of strength and weakness.
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Status
In Progress
Progress Notes
Teachers will continue to differentiate instruction in the classroom.
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Resource
Assigned
$0
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 08, 2015
Staff
Responsible
Teachers
Instructional
Aides
Created By
Cheryl Plank
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In Progress
Activity - MAP Planning/Progress Monitoring
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MAP assessments will be administered three times a year at all grade
Academic
levels in the area of reading and math to help plan classroom activities and Support
progress monitor student achievement.
Program
In Progress
Begin Date
End Date
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Progress Notes
MAP data is used as progress monitoring and is used, along with other data, to determine class
placement.
MAP data is used as progress monitoring and is used, along with other data, to determine class
placement.
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Status
In Progress
October 01, 2014
Activity - RTI Pull Out
Activity Type
Students scoring a Novice score in reading and/or math will participate in a Academic
semester class targeting the Novice area.
Support
Program
Resource
Assigned
$0
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
District
Funding
Staff
Responsible
Language
Arts and
Math
Teachers,
Cheryl Plank,
Kate Thacker,
Lisa Flannery
Created On
September 08, 2015
Created By
Cheryl Plank
October 01, 2014
Cheryl Plank
Begin Date
End Date
09/01/2015
05/12/2016
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Staff
Responsible
Ms. Hilton
and Mr.
Ferguson
Strategy 2:
PLC/ Data Teams - Teachers will meet in PLC's to enhance their effectiveness as professionals so that students benefit. Teachers will use the data team process and
forms to analyze formative and summative assessments in order to meet student needs and increase student achievement.
Category: Professional Learning & Support
Research Cited: Based on information from Steve Ventura - Institute of Leadership and Learning
Status
N/A
Progress Notes
PLC teams have been successful in discussing data and student performance.
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PLC/Data Teams will continue due to the teachers using the data team process and forms to
November 03, 2014
analyze formative and summative assessments in order to meet student needs and increase student
achievement. Results in 2013-14 K-PREP reading and math scores increased.
Activity - Grade Level PLC's
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Teachers will participate in PLCs with same grade level teachers to discuss Professional
student progress data and/or any other academic issues.
Learning
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Progress Notes
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Status
In Progress
In Progress
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Teachers will meet within their departments to discuss student progress
data and/or any other academic issues.
Professional
Learning
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Progress Notes
We will continue for 2015-16.
Resource
Assigned
$0
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Teacher meet as needed from 3:05 to 3:30 to continue with PLC/Data
Team conversations and/or participate in parent conferences.
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Progress Notes
Meeting after school has been successful. We will continue.
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Resource
Assigned
$0
Staff
Responsible
All Teachers,
Paula
Stafford, Jay
Padula
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Cheryl Plank
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 08, 2015
Staff
Responsible
All teachers.
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 08, 2015
October 01, 2014
Activity - After-School PLC/Data Team
Status
In Progress
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 08, 2015
October 01, 2014
Activity - Departmental PLC's
Status
In Progress
In Progress
Resource
Assigned
$0
Cheryl Plank
Staff
Responsible
Teachers
Created By
Cheryl Plank
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Activity - Administration Attend PLC/Data Teams
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Mr. Padula and Ms. Stafford attend PLC/Data Team meetings as needed
throughout the year to discuss student progress and to monitor PLC/Data
Team meetings.
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Status
In Progress
In Progress
Progress Notes
Administration has been attending PLC' on Wednesdays.
Resource
Assigned
$0
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 08, 2015
October 01, 2014
Staff
Responsible
Mr. Padula
and Ms.
Stafford
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Cheryl Plank
Status
N/A
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Strategy 3:
Student Learning Initiatives - Teachers use best practice strategies to improve student learning and participation in the classroom.
Category: Learning Systems
Progress Notes
Student learning initiatives- such as redo-retakes and literacy connections in social studies have
been helpful.
Activity - Redo and Retakes
Activity Type
Teachers will allow all students to redo/retake any summative assessment. Academic
Before students are reassessed, they must participate in some reteaching Support
activity.
Program
Status
In Progress
In Progress
Begin Date
End Date
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Progress Notes
Redo and retakes are helpful but will be implemented per teacher qualifications.
Revision of retake/redo policy currently in place.
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Resource
Assigned
$0
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 08, 2015
October 01, 2014
Staff
Responsible
All teachers
Created By
Cheryl Plank
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Activity - Literacy Connections in Social Studies Classroom
Activity Type
Social studies teachers implement Literacy Design Collaborative and non- Academic
fiction activities into their rotation classes to help students improve reading Support
and writing skills.
Program
Status
In Progress
In Progress
Progress Notes
Activity - Extra Classes
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In 6th grade, students will take an extra math and reading classe for 1
semester- geometry and reading in the content area. In 7th grade,
students will take an extra math class for 1 semester; geometry. In 8th
grade students will take an extra writing class for one semester,
informational writing.
Begin Date
End Date
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 08, 2015
October 01, 2014
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/13/2016
Resource
Assigned
$0
Staff
Responsible
All social
studies
teachers
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
Other
Staff
Responsible
6th grademath- Ms.
Eldridge
reading- all
6th grade
teachers with
the exception
of Ms.
Carnevali and
Ms. Mason
will teach a
reading class.
Strategy 4:
Tutoring - Tutoring opportunities in the morning and afternoon will be provided for students to get extra support for homework. To help students with their specific area
of weakness, each of the four after-school tutoring class will have a content specific focus each day- social studies, science, language arts, and math.
Category: Learning Systems
Status
N/A
Progress Notes
Tutoring has been helpful in student learning and grades.
Activity - After School Tutoring
Created On
September 08, 2015
Activity Type
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Students are provided an opportunity to complete homework or redo/retake Academic
a test after school from 3:00-4:30 with the support of a specific content
Support
teacher. .
Program
09/07/2015
05/13/2016
$0
No Funding
Required
Teachers
Activity - Before School Tutoring
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Academic
Support
Program
09/07/2015
05/13/2016
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Staff
Responsible
Ms. Eldridge
and Ms.
Mason
Students are provided an opportunity to complete homework and
redo/retake assessments before class with the support of a teacher.
Status
N/A
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Strategy 5:
Schools to Watch - Rowan County Middle School will participate in its second year of the Schools to Watch i3 Initiative grant. The i3 project employs a multi-layer
system of interventions, supports, and networking, with coaching and mentoring, for both principals and teachers, playing a central role. Specially trained coaches visit
the schools twice each month, helping principals with leadership and planning, setting high expectations, and fostering a culture of shared decision-making and
collective responsibility for student learning.
Category: Continuous Improvement
Progress Notes
RCMS will continue working with Schools to Watch
Created On
September 08, 2015
Activity - School to Watch Mentor
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Specially trained coach, Steve Tribble, will work as a mentor helping
principals with leadership and planning, setting high expectations, and
fostering a culture of shared decision-making and collective responsibility
for student learning.
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Status
In Progress
Progress Notes
Resource
Assigned
$0
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 08, 2015
Staff
Responsible
Mr. Padula,
Ms. Stafford,
Teachers
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Strategy 6:
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Professional Development - Teachers will participate in professional development to integrate core content areas- language arts, math, science, and social studies.
Category: Continuous Improvement
Activity - PD to Integrate Core Classes
Teachers will share ways to integrate language arts, math, science, and
social studies in other classes.
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Academic
Support
Program
09/01/2015
03/15/2016
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Staff
Responsible
Teachers
Status
N/A
DR
Goal 2: Increase the proficiency for students with disabilities in reading and math from 7.6% in
2015 to 53.9% in 2019.
Progress Notes
RCMS continues to struggle with increasing the proficiency of our students with special needs.
Created On
September 08, 2015
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Measurable Objective 1:
demonstrate a proficiency to increase combined reading and math scores for students with disabilities from 7.2% to 26.6% by 05/13/2016 as measured by K-PREP..
Status
Not Met
Progress Notes
We continue to struggle with closing the achievement gap of our special educations students.
Created On
September 16, 2015
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Strategy 1:
Collaboration For All - The least restrictive environment for special education students will be closely monitored by special education teachers and ARC chairs. If
possible, students will receive instruction in the regular education setting.
Category: Continuous Improvement
Research Cited: Current special education data suggest that students learn more when in the regular education setting instead of a resource room.
Status
N/A
Progress Notes
We are continuing with the program. In our 3rd year with this year's focus is more school wide.
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Activity - Least Restrictive Environment: Regular Education Classroom
Education Classroom
Teachers will use the data team process in order to help differentiate
instructional practices to help close the gap.
Status
In Progress
Progress Notes
Activity - Co-Teaching for Gap Closure Grant
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Activity Type
Status
In Progress
In Progress
DR
RCMS is in the third year of the Co-Teaching for Gap Closure Grant-Scale Academic
UP. In this phase, all special education teachers will participate in coSupport
teaching with the regular education teacher in language arts and math.
Program
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 16, 2015
Begin Date
End Date
08/13/2015
05/13/2016
Resource
Assigned
$0
Activity - Data Collection
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Special education teachers will be trained to use data notebooks and will
collect data to monitor student progress/performance.
Other Professional
Learning
11/19/2015
05/13/2016
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Resource
Assigned
$0
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Progress Notes
Created On
This is our third year of implementation. This year we are focusing more school-wide.
September 16, 2015
The teachers that participated in last year's grant are continuing with the grant. This year they are to October 01, 2014
share activities with the rest of the staff.
Staff
Responsible
All Teachers
Staff
Responsible
Special
Education
Teachers and
Math and
Language
Arts Teachers
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Staff
Responsible
Special
education
teachers
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Activity - Math Teacher Training for Gap Closure
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Selected math teachers attend training for CT4GC.
Behavioral
Support
Program
10/30/2015
10/30/2015
Activity - Moby Max Reading Program
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/13/2016
DR
Language Arts teachers use Moby Max reading program to help students
increase reading performance.
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
Grant Funds
Staff
Responsible
Missy Fannin,
Lynette
Gillespie,
Micah Stokes
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Staff
Responsible
Language
Arts Teachers
Strategy 2:
A Second Attempt At Learning - Students with disabilities are allowed to redo/retake any summative assessment. Before students are reassessed, they must
participate in some reteahcing activity.
Category: Learning Systems
Status
N/A
N/A
Progress Notes
We are continuing with redo/retakes, but at individual classroom teacher direction.
Revision of redo/and retake is considered.
Created On
September 16, 2015
October 01, 2014
Activity - Students Retake/Redo Tests and Assignments
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Students with disabilities are allowed to redo/retake summative
assessments after participating in some reteaching activity.
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/13/2016
Status
In Progress
In Progress
Progress Notes
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Resource
Assigned
$0
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 16, 2015
October 01, 2014
Staff
Responsible
All teachers
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Cheryl Plank
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Strategy 3:
Suspension Rates Monitoring - Rowan County Middle School will continue to maintain a 2% or less suspension rate between nondisabled and disabled students
Category: Management Systems
Status
N/A
Progress Notes
Continue to monitor
Activity - Suspension Rate Monitoring
Status
In Progress
In Progress
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/13/2016
DR
Rowan County Middle School special education staff will regularly monitor
suspensions of special needs students to ensure that all data is reviewed
by admissions and release committees to ensure that appropriate
instruction and supports are in place to effectively address behavioral
needs. This monitoring will assist in maintaining current low suspension
rate of disabled students.
Created On
September 16, 2015
Progress Notes
Resource
Assigned
$0
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 16, 2015
October 01, 2014
Staff
Responsible
Regular
Ed/Special Ed
staff,
Assistant
Principal,
Principal
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Cheryl Plank
Goal 3: Increase the proficiency for the combined reading and math for free and reduced
students from 42.9% in 2015 to 67.2% in 2019.
Status
N/A
N/A
Progress Notes
Created On
We did meet our targeted goal for increasing the proficiency for combined reading and math for free December 02, 2015
lunch, but we will continue to target this area.
We have made improvements but have not met.
September 08, 2015
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Cheryl Plank
Measurable Objective 1:
demonstrate a proficiency to increase combined reading and math scores for free and reduced students 42.9 to 45% by 05/13/2016 as measured by K-PREP.
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Status
Not Met
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Progress Notes
Although we are improving slightly, we are not yet at our goal.
Created On
September 08, 2015
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Created On
September 08, 2015
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Strategy 1:
Monitoring of Students - Teachers will monitor students who are close to the cut score to monitor,
Category: Management Systems
Status
N/A
Progress Notes
Our progress thus far for our free and reduced gap is due to our monitoring of our students.
DR
Activity - Name and Claim
Teachers, through the data team process, will identify gap students and
apply specific strategies to help close the gap.
Status
In Progress
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Academic
Support
Program
10/01/2015
05/13/2016
Progress Notes
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
November 13, 2014
Staff
Responsible
Teachers
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Strategy 2:
RTI - An RTI Reading Teacher will be hired to work with Tier II students who have reading deficits four days a week. The students will be pulled 30 minutes daily from
their activity period.
Category: Learning Systems
Status
N/A
Progress Notes
RCMS will continue to monitor students through Name and Claim.
Activity - RTI Instruction
Activity Type
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Begin Date
End Date
Resource
Assigned
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
Staff
Responsible
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Students scoring a Novice in math and/or reading will be provided an extra Direct
class 4 days a week to increase student performance.
Instruction
Status
In Progress
09/07/2015
05/13/2016
Progress Notes
RTI instruction will focus on reducing the number of Novices in reading and math.
$0
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 08, 2015
Mr. Ferguson
and Ms.
Hilton
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Goal 4: RCMS will maintain/or score above our proficiency score with Program Review areas.
Progress Notes
Created On
Although we have been able to score at the proficiency level for the past two years, we will continue September 16, 2015
to work toward maintaining proficiency.
DR
Status
N/A
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Measurable Objective 1:
demonstrate a proficiency with Program Review by continuing to score 8.0 or higher by 05/12/2016 as measured by Program Review scores..
Status
Met
Progress Notes
Although we have met, we are continuing to strive for proficiency or above.
Created On
September 16, 2015
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Strategy 1:
Writing Initiatives - Teachers will use a variety of writing activies in order for students to produce pieces of writing that demonstrate learning. Evidence seen in lesson
plans.
Category: Learning Systems
Research Cited: KEDC professional development activities
Status
N/A
Progress Notes
Due to low number of students scoring proficient and distinguished on the on-demand prompts, we
will continue to include writing initiatives in CSIP.
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In the classroom, students will be given opportunities to write journal
entries for various purposes and audiences.
Status
In Progress
Progress Notes
Activity - Related Arts Writing
Status
In Progress
DR
Related arts teachers will incorporate a writing piece/assignment into their
6 week unit.
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 16, 2015
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Progress Notes
Resource
Assigned
$0
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Teachers will follow the school wide writing plan to ensure that the writing
curriculum is vertically and horizontially aligned.
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Progress Notes
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Resource
Assigned
$0
Staff
Responsible
Kellie Crump,
Henry
Parsons,
Larry Slone,
Chuck
Mitchell
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 16, 2015
Staff
Responsible
All language
arts teachers
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 16, 2015
Activity - School Writing Plan
Status
In Progress
Resource
Assigned
$0
Staff
Responsible
Teachers and
Administration
Created By
Cheryl Plank
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Students were shown high quality essay samples. Students were
instructed through the writing process to create Veterans Day Essays.
Students were able to create the writing through various means of
technology: computer stations, laptops, IPADs or through their One Drive
online accounts.
Status
In Progress
Progress Notes
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Academic
Support
Program
10/01/2015
11/11/2015
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 16, 2015
Staff
Responsible
Language
Arts and
Social Studies
Teachers
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Status
Met
DR
Measurable Objective 2:
collaborate to maintain an overall score of 8.0 or greater score on the Practical Living Review area of the Program Review by 05/12/2016 as measured by Program
Review scores.
Progress Notes
Will continue to maintain.
Created On
September 16, 2015
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Strategy 1:
Practical Living Strategis - Students will participate in Practical Living activities in the classroom, through guidance lessons, and other school related events.
Category: Continuous Improvement
Status
N/A
Progress Notes
ILP used to promote college and career readiness along with other academic goals.
Activity - ILP Completion
Activity Type
Begin Date
Student work on individual plans to address career interests throughout the Career
09/07/2015
school year.
Preparation/O
rientation
Status
Progress Notes
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September 16, 2015
End Date
05/02/2016
Resource
Assigned
$0
Created On
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Staff
Responsible
Teachers
Cheryl Plank
Kate Thacker
Lisa Flannery
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Due to state requirements, ILP will continue.
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Cheryl Plank
(shared) Strategy 2:
Career/Life Experiences - Students participate in learning about careers and life experiences by participating in activities that address grade level goals:
6th grade- Career Fair, 7th grade- Reality Store and 8th grade- Operation Preparation.
Category: Career Readiness Pathways
Status
N/A
Progress Notes
Created On
Operation Preparation has been successful in letting students talk with adults about careers. We will September 16, 2015
continue, but this year more emphasis will be with information collected from the students' ILPs.
Activity - Operation Preparation Day
Status
In Progress
DR
Volunteers will provide career counseling to 8th graders.
Activity Type
Begin Date
Career
03/01/2016
Preparation/O
rientation
End Date
04/15/2016
Progress Notes
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 16, 2015
Activity - Reality Store
Activity Type
Students participate in a learning activity about careers and its impact on
life experiences.
Career
03/11/2016
Preparation/O
rientation
03/11/2016
Activity - Career Fair
Activity Type
End Date
Students move through stations to learn about careers.
Career
04/07/2016
Preparation/O
rientation
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End Date
04/07/2016
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Staff
Responsible
Kay Roe
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Resource
Assigned
$150
Source Of
Funding
FRYSC
Staff
Responsible
Ms. Kay Roe
Resource
Assigned
$150
Source Of
Funding
FRYSC
Staff
Responsible
Ms. Kay Roe
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Strategy 3:
Health Instruction - Based on the Wellness Policy, PE teachers will implement health related lessons with the physical education classroom that help students focus on
health related issues for life and to increase program review proficiency.
Category: Integrated Methods for Learning
Status
N/A
N/A
Progress Notes
Health instruction continues to be provided in Physical Education class along applicable classroom
activities.
Health instruction continues to be provided in Physical Education class along applicable classroom
activities.
DR
Activity - Health Issues in PE
Based on the Wellness Policy, the PE teachers will implement lesson into
their classroom that focus on health related issues: using a heart rate
monitor, determining Body Mass Index, working with individual exercise
machines to promote better health, and implementing the Presidential
Physical Fitness test
Status
In Progress
Students participate in stations to learn about bullying and health issues.
This is a joint effort by RCMS and Morehead State University's Nursing
Program.
Created By
Cheryl Plank
September 16, 2015
Cheryl Plank
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Behavioral
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Progress Notes
Activity - Health Fair
Created On
September 16, 2015
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 16, 2015
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Behavioral
Support
Program
11/02/2015
11/02/2015
Resource
Assigned
$150
Staff
Responsible
Physical
Education
Teachers
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
FRYSC
Staff
Responsible
Ms. Kay Roe
Measurable Objective 3:
collaborate to maintain the overall score on the Arts and Humanities Review 8.0 or higher by 05/12/2016 as measured by Program Review scores.
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Met
Met
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Progress Notes
Continue to maintain proficiency.
Continue to maintain proficiency.
Created On
September 16, 2015
September 16, 2015
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Cheryl Plank
Progress Notes
Created On
Dance club was ended due to lack of an instructor. A new dance club will be implemented this year. September 16, 2015
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Strategy 1:
Dance Club - A dance club will be created to help address Arts and Humanities Program Review.
Category: Integrated Methods for Learning
Status
N/A
DR
Activity - Dance Club
Students have a choice of joining a dance club.
Status
Completed
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Academic
Support
Program
09/14/2015
05/12/2016
Progress Notes
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 16, 2015
Staff
Responsible
Allison Slone
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Strategy 2:
Arts and Humanities Policy - The policy mandates that all teachers will be required to integrate arts and humanities into their lesson plans to ensure that students have
access and frequent oportunities for cross-disciplinary connections with arts and humanties curriculum.
Category:
Status
N/A
Progress Notes
maintain
Activity - Arts and Humanities Lesson
Created On
September 16, 2015
Activity Type
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End Date
Resource
Assigned
Created By
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Funding
Staff
Responsible
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Teachers will incorporate arts and humanities lessons into their content
specific lesson plans.
Status
In Progress
Progress Notes
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
$0
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 16, 2015
All teachers
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Measurable Objective 4:
collaborate to increase student proficiency in College and Career Readiness by 12/26/2014 as measured by by Program Review..
Status
Met
Progress Notes
Created On
September 16, 2015
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Status
N/A
DR
(shared) Strategy 1:
Career/Life Experiences - Students participate in learning about careers and life experiences by participating in activities that address grade level goals:
6th grade- Career Fair, 7th grade- Reality Store and 8th grade- Operation Preparation.
Category: Career Readiness Pathways
Progress Notes
Created On
Operation Preparation has been successful in letting students talk with adults about careers. We will September 16, 2015
continue, but this year more emphasis will be with information collected from the students' ILPs.
Activity - Operation Preparation Day
Activity Type
Volunteers will provide career counseling to 8th graders.
Career
03/01/2016
Preparation/O
rientation
Status
In Progress
Progress Notes
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Begin Date
End Date
04/15/2016
Resource
Assigned
$0
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 16, 2015
Staff
Responsible
Kay Roe
Created By
Cheryl Plank
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Activity - Reality Store
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Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Students participate in a learning activity about careers and its impact on
life experiences.
Career
03/11/2016
Preparation/O
rientation
03/11/2016
Activity - Career Fair
Activity Type
End Date
DR
Students move through stations to learn about careers.
Begin Date
Career
04/07/2016
Preparation/O
rientation
04/07/2016
Resource
Assigned
$150
Source Of
Funding
FRYSC
Staff
Responsible
Ms. Kay Roe
Resource
Assigned
$150
Source Of
Funding
FRYSC
Staff
Responsible
Ms. Kay Roe
Strategy 2:
Post-Secondary College Awareness - Students need to be enthusiastic and aware of post-secondary educational opportunities. Various college memorabilia will be
placed in the hallways and classrooms to create a college ready behavior and to develop conversations about college goal setting.
Category: Career Readiness Pathways
Status
N/A
Progress Notes
Bulletin boards will continue to be placed with school to generate interest and awareness.
Created On
September 16, 2015
Activity - College Memorabilia
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Various college memorabilia will be displayed in the hallways and
classrooms in order to create enthusiasm among the students about
possible college options and to generate classroom discussions, as well.
Behavioral
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Status
Completed
Progress Notes
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Resource
Assigned
$0
Created By
Cheryl Plank
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Created On
September 16, 2015
Staff
Responsible
All teachers
Created By
Cheryl Plank
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Goal 5: By 2021, Rowan County Middle School will reduce the total number of students scoring at
the novice level in math and reading from 28.1% to 14% as measured by KPREP.
Measurable Objective 1:
collaborate to reduce the total number of students scoring at the novice level in math and reading from 28.1% to 25.3%. by 05/20/2016 as measured by KPREP.
DR
Strategy 1:
Novice Reduction Plan - Rowan County Middle School has a plan to reduce the amount of students scoring Novice in reading and math as measured by 2016 K-PREP
data . The reduction of Novice students will be a result of teachers/staff participating in a Name and Claim activity, collecting student data, monitoring student
achievement, and reviewing collected data at incremented times- 30, 60, 90 days.
Category: Continuous Improvement
Activity - Novice Reduction Plan - Roll Out
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Administration will discuss new Novice Reduction Plan with faculty during
an after-school meeting. Included with plan is timeline of events.
Academic
Support
Program
11/17/2015
11/17/2015
Activity - Name and Claim
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Teachers select two students from a list of students scoring Novice on the
2015 K-PREP list to provide academic and emotional support in order to
move student from a Novice to an Apprentice or higher level score.
Academic
Support
Program,
Professional
Learning
11/17/2015
05/13/2016
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Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Staff
Responsible
Administration
, teachers,
staff
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Staff
Responsible
Administration
and Teacher
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Activity - Novice Reduction Data Collection
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Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Teacher collect data on students using the Ventura data collection and
student growth goal data.
Academic
Support
Program
11/17/2015
05/11/2016
Activity - Novice Reduction Plan Monitoring
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Academic
Support
Program
12/16/2015
05/13/2016
Teachers will meet during PLCs and monitor Novice students and their
progress.
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Staff
Responsible
All Regular
Education
Teachers
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Staff
Responsible
Teachers
DR
Goal 6: Increase the percentage of students who are college and career ready from 53.8% to
71.1% in 2019.
Measurable Objective 1:
collaborate to increase the percentage of students who are college and career ready from 53.8 to 58% by 05/13/2016 as measured by K-PREP.
Strategy 1:
RtI Initiatives - RTI Initiatives - Students scoring a Novice in reading and/or math on the K-PREP will attend a semester long RTI class for that subject. Teachers will
also implement differentiated instruction in the classroom to increase student achievement. MAP data will be collected to help with the monitoring of student progress.
Category: Learning Systems
Activity - RtI Semester Classes
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Students scoring a Novice in reading and/or math will attend a semester
class in the targeted Novice area.
Academic
Support
Program
09/07/2015
05/13/2016
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Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Staff
Responsible
Ms. Hilton
and Mr.
Ferguson
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Strategy 2:
MAP Testing - MAP assessments will be administered three times a year at all grade levels in the area of reading and math to help plan classroom activities and
progress monitor student achievement.
Category: Learning Systems
Activity - MAP
Activity Type
DR
Students will be given the MAP test three times a year to progress monitor Academic
student performance.
Support
Program
Begin Date
End Date
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Staff
Responsible
Ms. Plank and
Ms. Flannery
Strategy 3:
College Memorabilia - Various college memorabilia will be displayed in the hallways and classrooms in order to create enthusiasm among the students about possible
college options and to generate classroom discussions, as well.
Category: Career Readiness Pathways
Activity - College Awareness
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Various college memorabilia will be displayed in the hallways and
classrooms in order to create enthusiasm among the students about
possible college options and to generate classroom discussions, as well.
Behavioral
Support
Program
09/01/2015
05/13/2016
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Staff
Responsible
Ms. Slone
Strategy 4:
Career/Life Experiences - Students participate in learning about careers and life experiences by participating in activities that address grade level goals:
6th grade- Career Fair, 7th grade- Reality Store and 8th grade- Operation Preparation.
Category: Career Readiness Pathways
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Activity - Operation Preparation Month
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Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Community members will provide career counseling to 8th graders.
Behavioral
Support
Program
03/01/2016
04/15/2016
Activity - Reality Store
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Career
03/11/2016
Preparation/O
rientation
03/11/2016
Activity - Career Fair
Activity Type
End Date
Students move through stations to learn about careers.
Career
04/07/2016
Preparation/O
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Students participate in a learning activity about careers and its impact on
life experiences.
Begin Date
04/07/2016
Resource
Assigned
$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Staff
Responsible
Ms. Roe
Ms. Plank
Resource
Assigned
$150
Source Of
Funding
FRYSC
Staff
Responsible
Ms. Kay Roe
Resource
Assigned
$150
Source Of
Funding
FRYSC
Staff
Responsible
Ms. Kay Roe
Strategy 5:
Extra Math Classes - Extra math classes were added at 6th and 7th; Geometry, advanced math classes in 6th and 7th, pre-algebra in 8th, and algebra in 7th and 8th
grades.
Category: Continuous Improvement
Activity - Extra Math Classes
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Extra math classes were added to increase math achievement.
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/13/2016
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$0
Source Of
Funding
No Funding
Required
Staff
Responsible
Ms. Eldridge,
Mr. Hignite,
Ms. Hacker,
Ms. Gillespie,
Ms. Cundiff,
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Below is a breakdown of your activities by funding source
No Funding Required
Activity Description
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Least Restrictive
Environment: Regular
Education Classroom
Education Classroom
Extra Math Classes
Teachers will use the data team process in order to help
differentiate instructional practices to help close the gap.
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
Extra math classes were added to increase math
achievement.
Academic
Support
Program
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Activity Name
RtI Semester Classes
Students scoring a Novice in reading and/or math will
attend a semester class in the targeted Novice area.
College Memorabilia
Various college memorabilia will be displayed in the
hallways and classrooms in order to create enthusiasm
among the students about possible college options and to
generate classroom discussions, as well.
Arts and Humanities Lesson Teachers will incorporate arts and humanities lessons into
their content specific lesson plans.
RTI Instruction
Operation Preparation Day
Students scoring a Novice in math and/or reading will be
provided an extra class 4 days a week to increase student
performance.
Volunteers will provide career counseling to 8th graders.
05/12/2016
Resource
Assigned
$0
Staff
Responsible
All Teachers
08/13/2015
05/13/2016
$0
Academic
Support
Program
Behavioral
Support
Program
09/07/2015
05/13/2016
$0
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
$0
Ms. Eldridge,
Mr. Hignite,
Ms. Hacker,
Ms. Gillespie,
Ms. Cundiff,
Ms. Stokes
Ms. Hilton
and Mr.
Ferguson
All teachers
Academic
Support
Program
Direct
Instruction
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
$0
All teachers
09/07/2015
05/13/2016
$0
03/01/2016
04/15/2016
$0
Mr. Ferguson
and Ms.
Hilton
Kay Roe
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
$0
Teachers
11/17/2015
11/17/2015
$0
09/14/2015
05/12/2016
$0
Administration
, teachers,
staff
Allison Slone
Career
Preparation/O
rientation
After-School PLC/Data Team Teacher meet as needed from 3:05 to 3:30 to continue with Academic
PLC/Data Team conversations and/or participate in parent Support
conferences.
Program
Novice Reduction Plan - Roll Administration will discuss new Novice Reduction Plan with Academic
Out
faculty during an after-school meeting. Included with plan is Support
timeline of events.
Program
Dance Club
Students have a choice of joining a dance club.
Academic
Support
Program
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MAP
ILP Completion
Students will be given the MAP test three times a year to
progress monitor student performance.
Academic
08/13/2015
Support
Program
Student work on individual plans to address career interests Career
09/07/2015
throughout the school year.
Preparation/O
rientation
05/12/2016
$0
Ms. Plank and
Ms. Flannery
05/02/2016
$0
Special education teachers will be trained to use data
notebooks and will collect data to monitor student
progress/performance.
Teachers select two students from a list of students scoring
Novice on the 2015 K-PREP list to provide academic and
emotional support in order to move student from a Novice to
an Apprentice or higher level score.
11/19/2015
05/13/2016
$0
11/17/2015
05/13/2016
$0
Teachers
Cheryl Plank
Kate Thacker
Lisa Flannery
Special
education
teachers
Administration
and Teacher
11/17/2015
05/11/2016
$0
08/13/2015
05/13/2016
$0
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
$0
Physical
Education
Teachers
09/01/2015
05/13/2016
$0
Ms. Slone
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
$0
All teachers.
09/01/2015
05/12/2016
$0
09/07/2015
05/13/2016
$0
Ms. Hilton
and Mr.
Ferguson
Teachers
09/07/2015
05/13/2016
$0
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
$0
Other Professional
Learning
Name and Claim
Academic
Support
Program,
Professional
Learning
Novice Reduction Data
Teacher collect data on students using the Ventura data
Academic
Collection
collection and student growth goal data.
Support
Program
Moby Max Reading Program Language Arts teachers use Moby Max reading program to Academic
help students increase reading performance.
Support
Program
Health Issues in PE
Based on the Wellness Policy, the PE teachers will
Behavioral
implement lesson into their classroom that focus on health Support
related issues: using a heart rate monitor, determining Body Program
Mass Index, working with individual exercise machines to
promote better health, and implementing the Presidential
Physical Fitness test
College Awareness
Various college memorabilia will be displayed in the
Behavioral
hallways and classrooms in order to create enthusiasm
Support
among the students about possible college options and to Program
generate classroom discussions, as well.
Grade Level PLC's
Teachers will participate in PLCs with same grade level
Professional
teachers to discuss student progress data and/or any other Learning
academic issues.
RTI Pull Out
Students scoring a Novice score in reading and/or math will Academic
participate in a semester class targeting the Novice area.
Support
Program
After School Tutoring
Students are provided an opportunity to complete
Academic
homework or redo/retake a test after school from 3:00-4:30 Support
with the support of a specific content teacher. .
Program
Before School Tutoring
Students are provided an opportunity to complete
Academic
homework and redo/retake assessments before class with Support
the support of a teacher.
Program
Writing Journal Activities
In the classroom, students will be given opportunities to
Academic
write journal entries for various purposes and audiences.
Support
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Education
Teachers
Language
Arts Teachers
Ms. Eldridge
and Ms.
Mason
All language
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Social Studies Classroom
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Social studies teachers implement Literacy Design
Collaborative and non-fiction activities into their rotation
classes to help students improve reading and writing skills.
PD to Integrate Core Classes Teachers will share ways to integrate language arts, math,
science, and social studies in other classes.
Academic
Support
Program
Academic
Support
Program
Academic
Support
Program
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
$0
09/01/2015
03/15/2016
$0
All social
studies
teachers
Teachers
08/13/2015
05/13/2016
$0
All teachers
08/13/2015
05/13/2016
$0
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
$0
Special
Education
Teachers and
Math and
Language
Arts Teachers
Mr. Padula,
Ms. Stafford,
Teachers
Academic
Support
Program
Operation Preparation Month Community members will provide career counseling to 8th Behavioral
graders.
Support
Program
Veteran's Day Essay
Students were shown high quality essay samples. Students Academic
were instructed through the writing process to create
Support
Veterans Day Essays. Students were able to create the
Program
writing through various means of technology: computer
stations, laptops, IPADs or through their One Drive online
accounts.
Suspension Rate Monitoring Rowan County Middle School special education staff will
Academic
regularly monitor suspensions of special needs students to Support
ensure that all data is reviewed by admissions and release Program
committees to ensure that appropriate instruction and
supports are in place to effectively address behavioral
needs. This monitoring will assist in maintaining current low
suspension rate of disabled students.
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
$0
03/01/2016
04/15/2016
$0
10/01/2015
11/11/2015
$0
Language
Arts and
Social Studies
Teachers
08/13/2015
05/13/2016
$0
Regular
Ed/Special Ed
staff,
Assistant
Principal,
Principal
Redo and Retakes
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
$0
All teachers
10/01/2015
05/13/2016
$0
Teachers
Students Retake/Redo Tests Students with disabilities are allowed to redo/retake
and Assignments
summative assessments after participating in some
reteaching activity.
Co-Teaching for Gap Closure RCMS is in the third year of the Co-Teaching for Gap
Grant
Closure Grant-Scale UP. In this phase, all special
education teachers will participate in co-teaching with the
regular education teacher in language arts and math.
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Differentiated Instruction
Specially trained coach, Steve Tribble, will work as a
mentor helping principals with leadership and planning,
setting high expectations, and fostering a culture of shared
decision-making and collective responsibility for student
learning.
Students will participate in differentiated activities in the
classroom that target areas of strength and weakness.
Name and Claim
Teachers will allow all students to redo/retake any
summative assessment. Before students are reassessed,
they must participate in some reteaching activity.
Teachers, through the data team process, will identify gap
students and apply specific strategies to help close the gap.
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Support
Program
Academic
Support
Program
Teachers
Instructional
Aides
Ms. Roe
Ms. Plank
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PLC/Data Teams
Related Arts Writing
School Writing Plan
Departmental PLC's
Grant Funds
Activity Name
Math Teacher Training for
Gap Closure
District Funding
Activity Name
Mr. Padula and Ms. Stafford attend PLC/Data Team
meetings as needed throughout the year to discuss student
progress and to monitor PLC/Data Team meetings.
Related arts teachers will incorporate a writing
piece/assignment into their 6 week unit.
Academic
Support
Program
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
$0
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
$0
Teachers will follow the school wide writing plan to ensure
that the writing curriculum is vertically and horizontially
aligned.
Teachers will meet within their departments to discuss
student progress data and/or any other academic issues.
Academic
Support
Program
Professional
Learning
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
$0
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
$0
Teachers will meet during PLCs and monitor Novice
students and their progress.
Academic
Support
Program
12/16/2015
05/13/2016
$0
Total
$0
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Activity Description
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
Selected math teachers attend training for CT4GC.
Behavioral
Support
Program
10/30/2015
10/30/2015
Resource
Assigned
$0
Total
$0
Activity Description
Activity Type
Begin Date
End Date
MAP assessments will be administered three times a year
at all grade levels in the area of reading and math to help
plan classroom activities and progress monitor student
achievement.
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Resource
Assigned
$0
Total
$0
Mr. Padula
and Ms.
Stafford
Kellie Crump,
Henry
Parsons,
Larry Slone,
Chuck
Mitchell
Teachers and
Administration
All Teachers,
Paula
Stafford, Jay
Padula
Teachers
Staff
Responsible
Missy Fannin,
Lynette
Gillespie,
Micah Stokes
Staff
Responsible
Language
Arts and
Math
Teachers,
Cheryl Plank,
Kate Thacker,
Lisa Flannery
FRYSC
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Activity Description
Career Fair
Students move through stations to learn about careers.
Reality Store
Reality Store
Health Fair
Other
Activity Name
Extra Classes
Career
Preparation/O
rientation
Students move through stations to learn about careers.
Career
Preparation/O
rientation
Students participate in a learning activity about careers and Career
its impact on life experiences.
Preparation/O
rientation
Students participate in a learning activity about careers and Career
its impact on life experiences.
Preparation/O
rientation
Students participate in stations to learn about bullying and Behavioral
health issues. This is a joint effort by RCMS and Morehead Support
State University's Nursing Program.
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Activity Type
Activity Description
Activity Type
In 6th grade, students will take an extra math and reading
Academic
classe for 1 semester- geometry and reading in the content Support
area. In 7th grade, students will take an extra math class
Program
for 1 semester; geometry. In 8th grade students will take
an extra writing class for one semester, informational
writing.
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End Date
04/07/2016
Resource
Assigned
$150
Staff
Responsible
Ms. Kay Roe
04/07/2016
04/07/2016
04/07/2016
$150
Ms. Kay Roe
03/11/2016
03/11/2016
$150
Ms. Kay Roe
03/11/2016
03/11/2016
$150
Ms. Kay Roe
11/02/2015
11/02/2015
$150
Ms. Kay Roe
Total
$750
Begin Date
End Date
08/13/2015
05/13/2016
Resource
Assigned
$0
Total
$0
Staff
Responsible
6th grademath- Ms.
Eldridge
reading- all
6th grade
teachers with
the exception
of Ms.
Carnevali and
Ms. Mason
will teach a
reading class.
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The purpose of the School Needs Assessment is to use data and information to prioritize allocation of resources and activities.
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Data Analysis
What question(s) are you trying to answer with the data and information provided to you? What does the data/information tell you?
What does the data/information not tell you?
Rowan County Middle School collects data from several sources. We use data from K-PREP, MAP, and classroom data to select students
for advanced math classes, RTI classes, and classroom groupings. Although our data collected gives us information, none of the sources
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give us diagnostic data to help students in specific areas. K-PREP and MAP data do not give specific feed back on questions that the
students missed. Classroom data can be subjective which would not determine student's specific abilities/inabilities. RCMS is looking to
implement CASE 21, a benchmark testing, that would provide teachers with specific data analysis that will focus on student error which
would help teachers focus on specific instruction.
Our K-PREP data reveals:
Rowan County Middle School's overall accountability score is 66.7. We rank in the 74 percentile in Kentucky which classifies us as
Proficient/ Progressing school. We are also a focus school because we have a non-duplicated student gap group which consistently scores
low and are in the bottom 10% of the state, our students with disabilities.
In looking at our delivery targets, RCMS was able to meet the targeted goal in the Combined Reading and Math for free and reduced
students. Our goal was 37.3 and our actual score was 42.9!
Our Combined Reading and Math target for student with disabilities was not met. According to K-PREP our targeted goal was 17.5, but our
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actual score was 7.2. We have a gap of 10.3. This is an area of need that we will continue to work on during the next three years.
Using the MAP data (Fall 2015) we see that we have more 6th grade students scoring distinguished in math than we have students scoring
novice! The math data also shows that we have more than 50% of our students in all grades scoring at benchmark. The MAP data for
reading also shows that over half of all students are at benchmark, as well. We will continue to monitor our students progress when collecting
Winter and Spring data, too.
Due to the limited number of parents participating in the AdvancED survey given last year, RCMS developed a paper/pencil survey that was
sent home. While we did not get 100% return on the survey, we did generate 4 times the responses from the year before. Overall, parents
were in agreement with school procedures.
The TELL KY survey was used. According to the responses from two years ago, RCMS teachers responded more favorably this latest
survey. The CSIP committee decided to drop the Teacher and Planning Time goal, but continue to foster activities that are addressed on the
survey.
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Areas of Strengths
What were the areas of strength you noted? What actions are you implementing to sustain the areas of strength? What is there
cause to celebrate?
As stated earlier, RCMS was able to meet the targeted goal for Combined Reading and Math Proficiency/Distinguished percentages for
students receiving free and reduced services. While only having a slight lead over the targeted goal (2.5%), we will continue to work on that
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area by working on activities that target these students.
We need to celebrate our success in maintaining proficient status and for our increase in our overall score to 66.7 and our increase in
percentile in KY to 74. To maintain our success, RCMS has activities that are in place to increase student progress/learning. We will
continue to use MAP data as a progress monitoring tool and will implement a benchmark test, CASE 21, to use as a diagnostic tool to help
teachers focus on specific areas of student learning. Teachers will participate in professional development aimed at helping them to
implement higher level questioning techniques and integrating other content areas in the classroom.
Parents were sent home a needs assessment in November. According to the responses, there were no areas of concerns other than 1
questions. As a CSIP committee, members discussed that the way the question was worded caused parent confusion and that was the
reason for a higher number of parents selecting the disagree and strongly disagree responses. The CSIP committee decided to drop the
parent goal.
According to the latest TELL KY survey, teacher results were more satisfactory. Teacher and Planning goal was determined by the CSIP
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committee no longer an area of focus.
RCMS has been able to maintain its Proficient score on Program Reviews for two years! We will continue to be diligent in planning activities
that involve Career/Practical Living, Arts and Humanities, and Writing. This year we will begin focusing on how to integrate Global
Competency of World Languages.
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Opportunities for Improvement
What were areas in need of improvement? What plans are you making to improve the areas of need?
RCMS needs to continue to address the gap between students with disabilities and those without disabilities. Special education teachers will
continue to be diligent in looking at least restrictive environment and creating lessons that focus on grade appropriate common core
standards. In the classroom, special education teachers are co-teaching with regular education teachers. The CT4GC ensure fidelity in the
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implementation of co-teaching. Students are allowed to retake /redo assessments after they have participated in a reteaching activity per
Rowan County Board of Education and RCMS SBDM policies.
RCMS will continue to work on reducing the number of Novice students in reading and math. Administration rolled out a more intentional
plan of focusing on these students, academically and emotionally, to help address student achievement. Hopefully, we will see our number of
Novice students reduce on the 2016 K-PREP scores.
Program Review scores were stated earlier as a strength, but there is an area- Global Competency of World Languages- that we will have to
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Conclusion
Reflect on your answers provided in the previous sections. What are your next steps in addressing areas of concern?
At Rowan County Middle School, we want students to want to learn, be engaged, and take ownership and pride in their work. Everyone at
RCMS strives to build a relationship where students realize the importance of an education and strive to do their best. In order to do this,
RCMS created goals, objectives, strategies, and activities in our CSIP that will help us address academic concerns. Our next step is to
community- to join us in that process.
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ensure the monitoring of our CSIP by meeting regularly to review current goals and by inviting the various stakeholders- parents and the
Not only will RCMS monitor the CSIP, but will also monitor student progress in through PLC data teams and by keeping more specific data of
individual students in the classroom.
RCMS teachers will continue to ask higher levels of questioning to raise student achievement, as well as implement more project based
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Introduction
The process of Improvement Planning in Kentucky is used as the means of determining how schools and districts will plan to ensure that
students reach proficiency and beyond by 2015. The process focuses school and district improvement efforts on student needs by bringing
together all stakeholders to plan for improvement, by focusing planning efforts on priority needs and closing achievement gaps between
subgroups of students, by building upon school and district capacity for high quality planning, and by making connections between the funds
that flow into the district and the priority needs in schools.
Your school’s plans for improvement must be based on careful and honest analysis of data, address all content areas, and clearly address
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Planning and Accountability Requirements
The school has identified specific strategies to address areas for improvement identified in the TELLKY Survey results.
Goal 1:
Increase the non-instructional time for teachers which was reported as an area of improvement by the Kentucky Teaching, Empowering,
Measurable Objective 1:
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collaborate to provide more non-instructional time for teachers by 04/15/2015 as measured by The Kentucky Teaching, Empowering,
Leading & Learning Survey.
Strategy1:
Increase Non-Instructional Time for Teachers - Teachers will be given more non-instructional time.
Category: Management Systems
Research Cited:
Activity - More Non-Instructional Time
Activity
Type
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
08/07/2014
$0 - No Funding
Required
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Teachers will be given the time from 3:05 pm to
3:30 pm to meet in PLC's and parent
Behavioral
conferences. After-school duties will be
Support
reassigned to provide teachers with the extra
Program
time.
Begin Date End Date
05/11/2015
The school identified specific strategies to increase the average combined reading and math K-Prep proficiency scores.
Goal 1:
Increase the averaged Combined Reading and Math Proficiency K-PREP scores for Rowan County Middle School students from 53.8 in
2015 to 71.1 in 2019.
Measurable Objective 1:
collaborate to to increase the average combined reading and math K-Prep scores to 58% by 05/12/2016 as measured by K-PREP..
Strategy1:
Student Learning Initiatives - Teachers use best practice strategies to improve student learning and participation in the classroom.
Category: Learning Systems
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Research Cited:
Activity - Literacy Connections in Social
Studies Classroom
Social studies teachers implement Literacy
Design Collaborative and non-fiction activities
into their rotation classes to help students
improve reading and writing skills.
Activity
Type
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
$500 - Other
All social studies teachers
Activity - Redo and Retakes
Activity
Type
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
Teachers will allow all students to redo/retake
any summative assessment. Before students
are reassessed, they must participate in some
reteaching activity.
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
All teachers
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05/12/2016
Tutoring - Tutoring opportunities in the morning and afternoon will be provided for students to get extra support for homework. To help
students with their specific area of weakness, each of the four after-school tutoring class will have a content specific focus each day- social
studies, science, language arts, and math.
Category: Learning Systems
Research Cited:
Activity
Type
Academic
Support
Program
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
08/11/2014
$0 - No Funding
Required
Mr. Padula
Activity - ESS- Daytime
Activity
Type
Begin Date End Date
Staff Responsible
Using MAP, KPREP, and classroom data,
students will be pulled for small group and
individual instruction in math.
Tutoring
09/08/2014
Funding Amount
& Source
$8600 - General
Fund
$19000 - Other
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
08/07/2014
$0 - General Fund
Beth Harding
Erin Ferguson
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Tutoring is available in the cafeteria from 3:05
until 4:30 pm.
Activity
Type
Before school morning tutoring will be provided Academic
in the computer lab for students to participate in Support
tutoring for homework or retakes.
Program
Activity - ESS- Before School Tutoring
05/11/2015
05/11/2015
05/11/2015
Teri Cundiff, Kay Roe,
Gary Ferguson
Strategy3:
RTI Initiatives - Students scoring a Novice in reading and/or math on the K-PREP will attend a semester long RTI class for that subject.
Teachers will also implement differentiated instruction in the classroom to increase student achievement. MAP data will be collected to help
with the monitoring of student progress.
Category: Learning Systems
Research Cited:
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Students will participate in differentiated
activities in the classroom that target areas of
strength and weakness.
Activity - MAP Planning/Progress
Monitoring
MAP assessments will be administered three
times a year at all grade levels in the area of
reading and math to help plan classroom
activities and progress monitor student
achievement.
Strategy4:
Activity
Type
Academic
Support
Program
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
08/13/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
Teachers
Instructional Aides
Activity
Type
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
$0 - District
Funding
Language Arts and Math
Teachers,
Cheryl Plank, Kate
Thacker, Lisa Flannery
Academic
Support
Program
05/12/2016
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Activity - Differentiated Instruction
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
PLC/ Data Teams - Teachers will meet in PLC's to enhance their effectiveness as professionals so that students benefit. Teachers will use
the data team process and forms to analyze formative and summative assessments in order to meet student needs and increase student
achievement.
Category: Professional Learning & Support
Research Cited: Based on information from Steve Ventura - Institute of Leadership and Learning
Activity - Grade Level PLC's
Activity
Type
Teachers will participate in PLCs with same
grade level teachers to discuss student
progress data and/or any other academic
issues.
Professional 08/13/2015
Learning
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Begin Date End Date
Activity - Departmental PLC's
Activity
Type
Begin Date End Date
Teachers will meet within their departments to Professional
discuss student progress data and/or any other Learning
08/13/2015
academic issues.
Activity - After-School PLC/Data Team
Teacher meet as needed from 3:05 to 3:30 to
continue with PLC/Data Team conversations
and/or participate in parent conferences.
Activity - Administration Attend PLC/Data
Teams
Mr. Padula and Ms. Stafford attend PLC/Data
Team meetings as needed throughout the year
to discuss student progress and to monitor
PLC/Data Team meetings.
05/12/2016
05/12/2016
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
$0 - No Funding
Required
All teachers.
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
$0 - No Funding
Required
All Teachers, Paula
Stafford, Jay Padula
Activity
Type
Academic
Support
Program
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
08/13/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
Teachers
Activity
Type
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
Mr. Padula and Ms.
Stafford
05/12/2016
05/12/2016
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Strategy5:
Schools to Watch - Rowan County Middle School will participate in its second year of the Schools to Watch i3 Initiative grant. The i3 project
employs a multi-layer system of interventions, supports, and networking, with coaching and mentoring, for both principals and teachers,
playing a central role. Specially trained coaches visit the schools twice each month, helping principals with leadership and planning, setting
high expectations, and fostering a culture of shared decision-making and collective responsibility for student learning.
Category: Continuous Improvement
Research Cited:
Activity
Type
Specially trained coach, Steve Tribble, will work
as a mentor helping principals with leadership Academic
and planning, setting high expectations, and
Support
fostering a culture of shared decision-making
Program
and collective responsibility for student learning.
Goal 2:
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
08/13/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
Mr. Padula, Ms. Stafford,
Teachers
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Activity - School to Watch Mentor
05/12/2016
By 2021, Rowan County Middle School will reduce the total number of students scoring at the novice level in math and reading from 28.1% to
14% as measured by KPREP.
Measurable Objective 1:
collaborate to reduce the total number of students scoring at the novice level in math and reading from 28.1% to 25.3%. by 05/20/2016 as
Strategy1:
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measured by KPREP.
Novice Reduction Plan - Rowan County Middle School has a plan to reduce the amount of students scoring Novice in reading and math as
measured by 2016 K-PREP data . The reduction of Novice students will be a result of teachers/staff participating in a Name and Claim
activity, collecting student data, monitoring student achievement, and reviewing collected data at incremented times- 30, 60, 90 days.
Category: Continuous Improvement
Research Cited:
Activity - Novice Reduction Plan Monitoring Activity
Type
Academic
Teachers will meet during PLCs and monitor
Support
Novice students and their progress.
Program
Activity - Name and Claim
Teachers select two students from a list of
students scoring Novice on the 2015 K-PREP
list to provide academic and emotional support
in order to move student from a Novice to an
Apprentice or higher level score.
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
12/16/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
Teachers
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
$0 - No Funding
Required
Administration and
Teacher
05/13/2016
Activity
Begin Date End Date
Type
Academic
Support
Program
11/17/2015 05/13/2016
Professional
Learning
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Activity
Type
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
Administration will discuss new Novice
Reduction Plan with faculty during an afterschool meeting. Included with plan is timeline
of events.
Academic
Support
Program
11/17/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
Administration, teachers,
staff
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
$0 - No Funding
Required
All Regular Education
Teachers
Begin Date End Date
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Activity
Type
Teacher collect data on students using the
Academic
Ventura data collection and student growth goal Support
data.
Program
Activity - Novice Reduction Data Collection
11/17/2015
11/17/2015
05/11/2016
All children-were screened for kindergarten readiness. If yes, name the assessment.
N/A (this question does not apply)
The school identified specific strategies to increase the percentage of students who are Kindergarten ready.
N/A (this question does not apply)
The school identified specific K-3 strategies to increase the average 3rd grade math and reading combined K-Prep proficiency
DR
scores.
N/A (this question does not apply)
The school identified specific strategies to address subgroup achievement gaps.
Goal 1:
Increase the proficiency for students with disabilities in reading and math from 7.6% in 2015 to 53.9% in 2017.
Measurable Objective 1:
demonstrate a proficiency to increase combined reading and math scores for students with disabilities from 9.8% to 26.2% by 05/11/2015
as measured by K-PREP..
Strategy1:
Suspension Rates Monitoring - Rowan County Middle School will continue to maintain a 2% or less suspension rate between nondisabled
and disabled students
Category: Management Systems
Research Cited:
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Activity - Suspension Rate Monitoring
Activity
Type
Strategy2:
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
08/13/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
Regular Ed/Special Ed
staff, Assistant Principal,
Principal
05/13/2016
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Rowan County Middle School special education
staff will regularly monitor suspensions of
special needs students to ensure that all data is
reviewed by admissions and release
Academic
committees to ensure that appropriate
Support
instruction and supports are in place to
Program
effectively address behavioral needs. This
monitoring will assist in maintaining current low
suspension rate of disabled students.
Begin Date End Date
A Second Attempt At Learning - Students with disabilities are allowed to redo/retake any summative assessment. Before students are
reassessed, they must participate in some reteahcing activity.
Category: Learning Systems
Research Cited:
Activity - Students Retake/Redo Tests and
Assignments
Students with disabilities are allowed to
redo/retake summative assessments after
participating in some reteaching activity.
Strategy3:
Activity
Type
Academic
Support
Program
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
08/13/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
All teachers
05/13/2016
Collaboration For All - The least restrictive environment for special education students will be closely monitored by special education
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teachers and ARC chairs. If possible, students will receive instruction in the regular education setting.
Category: Continuous Improvement
Research Cited: Current special education data suggest that students learn more when in the regular education setting instead of a resource
room.
Activity - Least Restrictive Environment:
Regular Education Classroom Education
Classroom
Teachers will use the data team process in
order to help differentiate instructional practices
to help close the gap.
Activity
Type
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
All Teachers
Activity - Co-Teaching for Gap Closure
Grant
RCMS is in the third year of the Co-Teaching
for Gap Closure Grant-Scale UP. In this phase,
all special education teachers will participate in
co-teaching with the regular education teacher
in language arts and math.
Activity
Type
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
Academic
Support
Program
08/13/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
Special Education
Teachers and Math and
Language Arts Teachers
05/12/2016
05/13/2016
Goal 2:
Increase the proficiency for the combined reading and math for free and reduced students from 38.6% in 2014 to 63.2% in 2017.
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Measurable Objective 1:
demonstrate a proficiency to increase combined reading and math scores for free and reduced students 38.6% to 48.5% by 05/11/2015 as
measured by K-PREP.
Strategy1:
RTI - An RTI Reading Teacher will be hired to work with Tier II students who have reading deficits four days a week. The students will be
Category: Learning Systems
Research Cited:
Activity - RTI Instruction
AF
T
pulled 30 minutes daily from their activity period.
Activity
Type
A curriculum specialist and an aide will be hired Direct
part time to work with teachers and Tier II
Instruction
reading students.
Strategy2:
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
09/02/2014
$3600 - District
Funding
Kelly Goldy
Mary Alice Collier
05/11/2015
Monitoring of Students - Teachers will monitor students who are close to the cut score to monitor,
Category: Management Systems
Research Cited:
Activity
Type
Academic
Support
Program
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
01/19/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
Teachers
DR
Activity - Name and Claim
Teachers, through the data team process, will
identify gap students and apply specific
strategies to help close the gap.
05/11/2015
The school identified specific strategies to increase the average freshman graduation rate.
N/A (this question does not apply)
The school identified specific strategies to increase the percentage of students who are college and career ready.
N/A (this question does not apply)
The school identified specific strategies to increase the percentage of distinguished programs in the arts and humanities, PL/CS
and writing.
Goal 1:
RCMS will maintain/or score above our proficiency score with Program Review areas.
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Measurable Objective 1:
demonstrate a proficiency with Program Review by continuing to score 8.0 or higher by 05/12/2016 as measured by Program Review
scores..
Strategy1:
Writing Initiatives - Teachers will use a variety of writing activies in order for students to produce pieces of writing that demonstrate learning.
Category: Learning Systems
AF
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Evidence seen in lesson plans.
Research Cited: KEDC professional development activities
Activity
Type
Teachers will follow the school wide writing plan Academic
to ensure that the writing curriculum is vertically Support
and horizontially aligned.
Program
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
08/13/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
Teachers and
Administration
Activity
Type
In the classroom, students will be given
Academic
opportunities to write journal entries for various Support
purposes and audiences.
Program
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
08/13/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
All language arts teachers
Activity - School Writing Plan
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Activity - Writing Journal Activities
05/12/2016
05/12/2016
Activity - Real World and On-Demand
Writing Organizer
Teachers use Real World and On-Demand
Writing Organizers to aid students in organizing
writing pieces. Special education teachers may
use a modified version, if needed, so that
students with disabilities can produce better
organized and developed pieces.
Activity
Type
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
Academic
Support
Program
08/07/2014
$0 - No Funding
Required
All teachers
Activity - Veteran's Day Essay
Activity
Type
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
10/01/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
Language Arts and Social
Studies Teachers
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
08/13/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
Kellie Crump, Henry
Parsons, Larry Slone,
Chuck Mitchell
Students were shown high quality essay
samples. Students were instructed through the
writing process to create Veterans Day Essays. Academic
Students were able to create the writing through Support
various means of technology: computer
Program
stations, laptops, IPADs or through their One
Drive online accounts.
Activity - Related Arts Writing
Related arts teachers will incorporate a writing
piece/assignment into their 6 week unit.
Activity
Type
Academic
Support
Program
05/11/2015
11/11/2015
05/12/2016
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Measurable Objective 2:
collaborate to increase student proficiency in College and Career Readiness by 12/26/2014 as measured by by Program Review..
Strategy1:
Post-Secondary College Awareness - Students need to be enthusiastic and aware of post-secondary educational opportunities. Various
college memorabilia will be placed in the hallways and classrooms to create a college ready behavior and to develop conversations about
college goal setting.
Research Cited:
Activity - College Memorabilia
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Category: Career Readiness Pathways
Activity
Type
Various college memorabilia will be displayed in
the hallways and classrooms in order to create Behavioral
enthusiasm among the students about possible Support
college options and to generate classroom
Program
discussions, as well.
Strategy2:
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
08/13/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
All teachers
05/12/2016
Operation Preparation - Community members will meet with 8th grade students to provide information and answer questions about careers.
Students will be grouped according to career selections in their ILPs.
Category: Career Readiness Pathways
DR
Research Cited:
Activity
Begin Date End Date
Type
Volunteers will provide career counseling to 8th Career
Preparation/ 03/01/2016 04/15/2016
graders.
Orientation
Activity - Operation Preparation Day
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
$0 - No Funding
Required
Kay Roe
Measurable Objective 3:
collaborate to maintain an overall score of 8.0 or greater score on the Practical Living Review area of the Program Review by 05/12/2016 as
measured by Program Review scores.
Strategy1:
Operation Preparation - Community members will meet with 8th grade students to provide information and answer questions about careers.
Students will be grouped according to career selections in their ILPs.
Category: Career Readiness Pathways
Research Cited:
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Begin Date End Date
Type
Volunteers will provide career counseling to 8th Career
Preparation/ 03/01/2016 04/15/2016
graders.
Orientation
Activity - Operation Preparation Day
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
$0 - No Funding
Required
Kay Roe
Strategy2:
Practical Living Strategis - Students will participate in Practical Living activities in the classroom, through guidance lessons, and other school
related events.
Category: Continuous Improvement
AF
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Research Cited:
Activity - ILP Completion
Activity
Type
Student work on individual plans to address
career interests throughout the school year.
Career
Preparation/ 09/07/2015
Orientation
Strategy3:
Begin Date End Date
05/02/2016
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
$0 - No Funding
Required
Teachers
Cheryl Plank
Kate Thacker
Lisa Flannery
Health Instruction - Based on the Wellness Policy, PE teachers will implement health related lessons with the physical education classroom
that help students focus on health related issues for life and to increase program review proficiency.
Category: Integrated Methods for Learning
Research Cited:
Activity - Health Issues in PE
Activity
Type
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Based on the Wellness Policy, the PE teachers
will implement lesson into their classroom that
focus on health related issues: using a heart
Behavioral
rate monitor, determining Body Mass Index,
Support
working with individual exercise machines to
Program
promote better health, and implementing the
Presidential Physical Fitness test
Begin Date End Date
08/13/2015
05/12/2016
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
$0 - No Funding
Required
Physical Education
Teachers
Measurable Objective 4:
collaborate to maintain the overall score on the Arts and Humanities Review 8.0 or higher by 05/12/2016 as measured by Program Review
scores.
Strategy1:
Dance Club - A dance club will be created to help address Arts and Humanities Program Review.
Category: Integrated Methods for Learning
Research Cited:
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Activity
Type
Academic
Students have a choice of joining a dance club. Support
Program
Activity - Dance Club
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
09/14/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
Allison Slone
05/12/2016
Strategy2:
Arts and Humanities Policy - The policy mandates that all teachers will be required to integrate arts and humanities into their lesson plans to
ensure that students have access and frequent oportunities for cross-disciplinary connections with arts and humanties curriculum.
Category:
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Research Cited:
Activity
Type
Academic
Teachers will incorporate arts and humanities
lessons into their content specific lesson plans. Support
Program
Begin Date End Date
Funding Amount
& Source
Staff Responsible
08/13/2015
$0 - No Funding
Required
All teachers
05/12/2016
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Activity - Arts and Humanities Lesson
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Comment
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Label
Assurance
Response
Comprehensive
The school conducted a comprehensive needs Yes
Needs Assessment assessment, which included a review of
academic achievement data for all students and
assessed the needs of the school relative to
each of the schoolwide program components.
Attachment
Assurance
Response
The school planned and developed Schoolwide Yes
researchbased instructional reform strategies to
strengthen the core academic program,
increase the amount and quality of learning
time, and provide additional support to all
students.
Comment
Attachment
Label
Preschool
Transition
Assurance
The school planned preschool transition
strategies and the implementation process.
Response
N/A
Comment
Attachment
Label
Research-based
Strategies
Assurance
Response
The school planned and developed schoolwide Yes
researchbased instructional strategies that
provide additional instruction for students
experiencing the greatest degree of difficulty
mastering the state's academic achievement
standards.
Comment
Attachment
Label
Highly Qualified
Teachers
Assurance
The school planned strategies to recruit and
retain highly qualified teachers.
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
RCMS participates in the
following:
1) When hiring, RCMS hires only
highly qualified teachers
2) Morehead State University
offers Teacher Recruitment
Meetings, if needed.
Label
Title I, Part A
Schoolwide Funds
Assurance
The school allocated and spent Title I, Part A
Schoolwide funds only on allowable programs
and activities and maintained appropriate
financial records in this regard on its Title I,
Part A programs and activities.
Response
N/A
Comment
DR
Label
Core Academic
Programs
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Parental
Involvement
Assurance
Response
The school planned or developed strategies to Yes
increase parental involvement in the design,
implementation, evaluation and communication
of assessment results of the Schoolwide
activities, which included the development and
implementation of a Parent Compact and a
Parent Involvement Policy.
Comment
Attachment
Label
Schoolwide
Planning
Assurance
The school incorporated the ten schoolwide
planning criteria into the existing school
improvement planning process.
Comment
Attachment
Label
Professional
Development
Assurance
The school planned or provided appropriate
professional development activities for staff
members who will be serving students.
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
Label
Comprehensive
Plan
Assurance
Response
The school an annual evaluation that addresses Yes
the implementation of the comprehensive plan
and student achievement results that will inform
changes when needed.
Comment
Attachment
Comment
Attachment
AF
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Response
N/A
Response
N/A
Label
Instructional
Strategies
Assurance
The school planned and developed research
based instructional strategies to support and
assist identified students.
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
Label
Targeted
Assistance
Activities
Assurance
Response
The school planned targeted assistance
Yes
activities for identified students that coordinated
and integrate with other federal, state, and local
programs.
Comment
Attachment
Label
Targeted
Assistance
Activities
Assurance
The school planned targeted assistance
activities for identified students that coordinate
with and support the regular educational
program so identified students have access to
both.
Comment
Attachment
DR
Label
Assurance
Comprehensive
The school conducted a comprehensive needs
Needs Assessment assessment, which included a review of
academic achievement data, and established
objective criteria for identifying eligible Title I
students.
Response
Yes
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Assurance
Response
The school planned activities to coordinate and Yes
integrate with other federal, state, and local
programs.
Comment
Attachment
Label
Targeted
Assistance
Activities
Assurance
Response
The school planned or developed strategies to Yes
monitor and evaluate the success of targeted
assistance activities with the identified students
and will use the results of the evaluation to
inform and improve instructional strategies and
professional development activities.
Comment
Attachment
Label
Highly Qualified
Assurance
The school assigned paraprofessionals who
met the requirements of Highly Qualified under
ESEA to work with targeted assistance
programs and activities.
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
Label
Federal Program
Funds
Assurance
Response
The school allocated and spent federal program N/A
funds only on programs and activities for
identified eligible students. The school
maintained appropriate financial records on its
Title I, Part A programs and activities.
Comment
Attachment
Label
Parental
Involvement
Assurance
The school planned or developed strategies to
increase parental involvement in the design,
implementation, and evaluation of the targeted
assistance activities, which included the
implementation of a Parent Compact and a
Parent Involvement Policy.
Label
Targeted
Assistance
Planning
Assurance
Response
The school incorporated the eight Targeted
N/A
Assistance Planning components into the
existing school improvement planning process.
Comment
Attachment
Label
Professional
Development
Assurance
The school planned or provided appropriate
professional development activities for staff
members who serve identified Title I students.
Comment
Attachment
DR
AF
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Label
Schoolwide
Activities
Response
Yes
Response
N/A
Comment
Attachment
PTO has been firmly established,
parental open forum is
established through Open House
at the start of every school year.
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Assurance
The school planned an annual evaluation that
addressed the implementation of the
comprehensive plan and student achievement
results that informed changes when needed.
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
Label
Transparency
Assurance
Response
The current school year Comprehensive School Yes
Improvement Plan (CSIP) is available for
stakeholders to examine on our school website
(provide the website link below).
Comment
http://www.rowan.k12.ky.us
Attachment
Label
Teacher Quality
Assurance
The school notifies parents when their
child(ren) are taught for four or more
consecutive weeks by teachers who are not
highly qualified.
Response
N/A
Comment
Attachment
Label
Professional
Development
Assurance
The school provides professional development
for staff based on a comprehensive needs
assessment, which included a review of
academic achievement data and additional
criteria, to ensure all students are college and
career ready.
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
Label
Ranking Report
Assurance
Response
The school ensures that if the Title I Ranking
N/A
Report lists counselors, nurses, media,
specialists or "other" staff for the school, there
is documentation indicating this need in order to
improve student achievement.
Comment
Attachment
Label
Para-educators
Assurance
Response
The school ensures that all para-educators with Yes
instructional duties are under the direct
supervision of a highly qualified classroom
teacher and providing instruction rather than
clerical work.
Comment
Attachment
Label
Para-educators
Assurance
Response
The school ensures that all para-educators with Yes
instructional duties that involve targeted
students are under the direct supervision of a
highly qualified classroom teacher and
providing instruction rather than clerical work.
Comment
All para-educators must pass a
para-educator test or have 60
college credits.
Attachment
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Label
Comprehensive
Improvement Plan
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Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
Label
Assurance
Response
Para-educator Non- The school scheduled non-instructional duties Yes
Instructional Duties for para-educators working with targeted
students demonstrating that the duties are on a
limited basis only.
Comment
Attachment
AF
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Label
Assurance
Para-educator Non- The school ensures that there is a schedule of
Instructional Duties non-instructional duties for para-educators
demonstrating that the duties are on a limited
basis only.
Assurance
The school met its cap size requirements
without using Title I funds.
Response
N/A
Comment
Attachment
Label
Cap Size
Requirements
Assurance
The school met its cap size requirements
without using Title II funds.
Response
N/A
Comment
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The Missing Piece
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Introduction
This report provides a comprehensive response to the six objectives of The Missing Piece set for the by the Commissioner's Parent Advisory
Council (CPAC). This diagnostic uses performance measurement and progress, as well as relationship building, resources and support to
build capacity within schools and districts measure parent involvement and the desired outcome being made. Use the links below to navigate
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the diagnostic content and respond to the questions.
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Stakeholders
What stakeholders (name and title) did you engage for the purpose of completing the Missing Piece diagnostic?
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All students were given parent surveys to take home. Responses were used to complete the Missing Piece diagnostic.
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Relationship Building
Overall Rating: 3.14
Statement or Question
Parents report that school staff understands
and demonstrates how strong relationships with
parents contribute to effective teaching and
learning.
Response
Rating
Parents report that school staff understands
Proficient
and demonstrates how strong relationships with
parents contribute to effective teaching and
learning.
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2.1
Response
Rating
School staff implements systematic steps to
Proficient
welcome the parents of new and ESL students
(for example, using home visits, personal calls
or letters, open houses, and/or other methods).
Statement or Question
Parents and other stakeholders report that they
are actively welcomed when they visit the
school.
Response
Rating
Parents and other stakeholders report that they Proficient
are actively welcomed when they visit the
school.
Statement or Question
School staff implements systematic steps to
encourage parents to attend school activities
and participate in decisions about their
children's learning.
Response
Rating
Parents and community stakeholders have
Distinguished
authentic participation, help plan and implement
school and district improvement activities.
2.5
Statement or Question
School staff involves parents in personal
communication about their students' progress
at least once a month.
Response
School staff involves parents in personal
communication about their students' progress
at least once a month.
2.6
Statement or Question
School staff completes needs assessment with
all parents to determine resources necessary
for their child's academic success.
Response
Rating
School staff completes needs assessment with Proficient
all parents to determine resources necessary
for their child's academic success.
Statement or Question
All parents are asked for feedback on the
school's efforts to welcome and engage parents
and the feedback is used to improve the
school's efforts.
Response
Rating
All parents are asked for feedback on school’s Proficient
efforts to welcome and engage parents, and the
feedback is used to improve school’s efforts.
2.3
2.4
2.7
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Statement or Question
School staff implements systematic steps to
welcome the parents of new and English as-aSecond-Language (ESL) students (for example,
using home visits, personal calls or letters,
open houses and/or other methods).
2.2
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Communications
Overall Rating: 2.57
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
Response
Rating
School staff implements systematic efforts to
Proficient
inform parents about academic goals, class
work, grades and homework for their children in
their home language. (For example, using
classroom contracts, student assignment
books, homework websites, and online grade
books.)
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Statement or Question
School staff implements systematic efforts to
inform parents about academic goals, class
work, grades and homework for their children in
their home language. (For example, classroom
contracts, student assignment books,
homework websites, and online grade books).
Statement or Question
School staff offers varied ways that parents can
share information with teachers about their
children's learning needs. (For example, phone
and e-mail contacts, offering parent
conferences, making home visits, or other
methods).
Response
School staff offers varied ways to that parent
can see share information with teachers about
their children’s learning needs. (For example,
phone and email contact, offering parent
conferences, and making home visits).
Statement or Question
School staff partners with community leaders
and organizations to build parent understanding
of academic expectations, school strategies,
and student achievement results.
Response
Rating
School staff partners with community leaders
Proficient
and organizations to build parent understanding
of academic expectations, school strategies,
and student achievement.
Statement or Question
School staff offers parents opportunities to
discuss school-wide achievement issues,
including assessment data, at least once a
semester.
Response
Rating
Student achievement data or achievement
Apprentice
results are communicated informally to parents
by school staff.
Statement or Question
School staff implements systematic efforts to
maximize parent-teacher conference
participation. (For example, offering multiple
locations, convenient times, follow-up with
parents who do not reply to first notices, and
opportunities for student-led conferences).
Response
School staff implements systematic efforts to
maximize parent-teacher conference
participation. (For example, offering multiple
locations, convenient times, follow-up with
parents who do not reply to first notices,
opportunities for student-led conferences).
Rating
Proficient
Statement or Question
At least 50 percent of parents respond to
annual school and/or district stakeholder
surveys.
Response
District-wide stakeholder surveys are given to
parents and teachers encourage parents to
respond.
Rating
Apprentice
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Response
Rating
School staff develops a survey that is sent to
Apprentice
parents, with low response rate and results are
reported in school improvement plan.
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3.7
Statement or Question
Stakeholder survey data is consistently used to
plan school improvement efforts and to
evaluate their effectiveness.
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Decision Making
Overall Rating: 2.57
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
Response
School staff offers professional learning
community opportunities, workshops, and
accessible written information to equip parents
for service on SBDM council and committees.
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Statement or Question
The school staff offers professional learning
community opportunities, workshops, and easily
accessible written information to equip parents
for service on the SBDM council and
committees.
Rating
Proficient
Statement or Question
School council and committees facilitate broad
parent participation by actively recruiting
diverse membership, providing interpreters and
translated materials when needed, setting
convenient meeting times, and seeking wide
parent input. At least 40 percent of parents vote
in SBDM parent election.
Response
Rating
School council and committees have some
Apprentice
parent members, may provide translators, meet
at time and place convenient to staff. Elections
are held at convenient times and are publicized,
but less than 20% of the parents vote in SBDM
parent election.
Statement or Question
Parents on the SBDM council and committees
engage and mentor many other parents by
reporting to multiple groups and seeking input
through surveys, meetings, and varied other
methods.
Response
Rating
School council chair reports feedback to head Apprentice
of largest parent organization who then decides
further dissemination methods or input. There is
no provision for parent input other than as
required by school law.
Statement or Question
The school council adopts measurable
objectives and plans coherent strategies to
build authentic parent participation, and the
school council monitors the implementation and
impact of that work.
Response
School council has some parent involvement
components and action items that deal with
specific academic areas. Little or no funding is
provided. Little or no implementation and
impact checking is done.
Rating
Apprentice
Statement or Question
School council policies ensure active roles for
parents on SBDM council and committees, and
other groups making decisions about school
improvement.
Response
School council policies ensure active roles for
parents on SBDM committees, in school
improvement planning, and also in decisions
about the education of their individual children.
Rating
Proficient
Statement or Question
Parents report that they are treated as valued
partners on school leadership teams, SBDM
council and committees, the school council, and
other groups making decisions about school
improvement.
Response
Parents report that they are treated as valued
partners on school leadership teams, SBDM
council and committees, and other groups
making decisions about school improvement.
Rating
Proficient
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Response
Rating
School staff has a plan to identify new and
Proficient
experienced parent leaders who support and
build capacity for parents to serve effectively on
the school council and in committee work.
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Statement or Question
School staff has a plan to identify new and
experienced parent leaders who support and
build capacity for parents to serve effectively on
the school council and committee work.
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Advocacy
Overall Rating: 2.67
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
Response
Rating
School staff ensures every student has a parent Proficient
and/or another adult who knows how to
advocate, or speak up for them, regarding the
students’ academic goals and learning needs.
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Statement or Question
School staff ensures every student has a parent
and/or another adult who knows how to
advocate, or speak up for them, regarding the
student's academic goals and individual needs.
Statement or Question
Most parents participate actively in student led
conferences or other two-way communication
about meeting their child's individual learning
needs.
Response
Some parents are involved in informal
conversation with school staff to address their
child's individual learning needs.
Rating
Apprentice
Statement or Question
Parents report participating actively and
effectively in required planning for individual
learning, for example, Individual Education
Plans, Individual Learning Plans, Gifted Student
Plans, 504 Plans, and intervention strategies to
ensure college readiness (Senate Bill 130).
Response
Rating
Parents report participating actively and
Proficient
effectively in required planning for individual
learning, for example, Individual Education
Plans, Individual Learning Plans, Gifted Student
Plans, 504 Plans, and intervention strategies to
ensure college readiness (Senate Bill 130).
Statement or Question
School staff gives parents clear, complete
information on the procedures for resolving
concerns and filing complaints, and the council
reviews summary data on those complaints to
identify needed improvements.
Response
School staff gives parents clear, complete
information on the procedures for resolving
concerns and filing complaints, and the council
reviews summary data on those complaints to
identify needed improvements.
Statement or Question
School staff ensures that parents and
community members are well informed about
how to become educational advocates, or how
to access a trained educational advocate when
needed.
Response
Rating
School staff ensures that parents and
Proficient
community members are well informed about
how to become an educational advocate or how
to access an educational advocate when
needed.
Statement or Question
As students are identified by school staff as
having disabilities or performing at the novice
level, additional intentional steps are taken to
ensure that parents have the option to use a
trained advocate to assist them in speaking for
their child's needs.
Response
Rating
Novice level students are identified by school
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staff to receive targeted strategies for academic
improvement. Parents are informed of the
strategies but do not receive training on how to
use those strategies or how progress will be
measured.
Rating
Proficient
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Learning Opportunities
Overall Rating: 2.67
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
Response
Rating
Parents have multiple opportunities to learn
Proficient
about and discuss: • Kentucky standards and
expectations for all students. • School's
curriculum, instructional methods, and student
services. • School's decision-making process,
including opportunities to participate on SBDM
councils and committees. • Their children's
learning and development, along with legal and
practical options for helping their children
succeed such as participation in IEP and/or ILP
process. • Community resources to support
learning. • Opportunities to participate in state
and district school improvement efforts, such as
forums, committees, and surveys.
Statement or Question
School staff makes systematic use of written
communications (for example, newsletters,
websites, and bulletin boards) to help parents
understand their own children's progress and
the progress of the school.
Response
School staff makes systematic use of written
communications (for example, newsletters,
Web sites, bulletin boards) to help parents
understand their own children's academic
progress and the progress of school.
Rating
Proficient
Statement or Question
School staff displays proficient student work
with scoring guides to demonstrate academic
expectations to parents and students, and
updates the displays regularly.
Response
School staff exhibits and rotates proficient and
distinguished work and provides resources to
achieve at higher levels.
Rating
Distinguished
Statement or Question
School staff offers parent workshops and
meetings in convenient locations to help
parents develop skills in supporting their
children's learning and the school's
improvement efforts.
Response
School staff offers parent workshops or
meetings in convenient locations to help
parents develop skills in supporting their
children's learning and school's improvement
efforts.
Rating
Proficient
Statement or Question
School council has a classroom observation
policy that welcomes families to visit all
classrooms.
Response
School council has a classroom observation
policy that allows parents access to most
classrooms by appointment only.
Rating
Apprentice
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Statement or Question
Parents have multiple opportunities to learn
about and discuss the following: - Kentucky
standards and expectations for all students The school's curriculum, instructional methods,
and student services - The school's decisionmaking process, including opportunities for
parents to participate on SBDM councils and
committees - Their children's learning and
development, along with legal and practical
options for helping their children succeed, such
the IEP and/or ILP process - Community
resources to support learning - Opportunities to
participate in state and district school
improvement efforts, such as forums,
committees, and surveys.
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6.1
Statement or Question
Response
School staff develops parent leaders who
There is little or no development of parent
contribute regularly to other parents'
leaders.
understanding and who help meet other parent
learning needs.
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Community Partnerships
Overall Rating: 2.83
7.3
7.4
7.5
7.6
Response
Rating
School staff networks and partners with multiple Distinguished
businesses and organizations to support
student achievement at a school council and a
programmatic level.
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7.2
Statement or Question
School leadership regularly shares information
on student achievement and involves business
and community leaders in school improvement
efforts.
Statement or Question
School leadership develops partnerships with
several businesses, organizations, and
agencies to support student learning and create
mentors for students and parents.
Response
Rating
School leadership develops partnerships with
Proficient
several businesses, organizations, and
agencies to support student learning and create
mentors for students and parents.
Statement or Question
School leadership collaborates with employers
to support parent and volunteer participation in
students' education.
Response
School leadership rarely invites employers to
support adult participation in education.
Rating
Novice
Statement or Question
School staff collaborates with businesses,
organizations, and agencies to address
individual student needs and shares that
information with parents.
Response
School staff collaborates with businesses,
organizations, and agencies to address
individual student needs and shares that
information with parents.
Rating
Proficient
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Statement or Question
Parents make active use of the school's
resources and community resources and report
that they provide meaningful help to resolve
family challenges that could interfere with
student learning. (For example, FRYSC or Title
I coordinators connect family with community
resources and follow up).
Response
Parents make active use of school and
community resources and report that they
provide meaningful help to resolve family
challenges that could interfere with student
learning. (For example, FRYSC or Title 1
coordinators connect family with community
resources and follow up).
Statement or Question
School staff offers and publicizes communitybased learning activities aligned with the
curriculum, such as tutoring linked to the
curriculum and internships, for all students and
parents.
Response
Rating
School staff offers and publicizes communityProficient
based learning activities, such as tutoring linked
to the curriculum, for all students and parents.
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Rating
Proficient
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Reflection
Reflect upon your responses to each of the Missing Piece objectives.
Relationship Building
Relationship building is an area of strength for RCMS. According to parent needs assessment, parents responded that they felt welcomed at
the school. This may be as a result of our attempts to include parents in their child's transition to the school year. RCMS offers an
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Orientation Night for fifth graders in May to help them transition to the school in the fall. During that activity while students are being shown
around the school, parents are given the opportunity to learn about programs offered at the middle school, to review school rules, and to ask
questions. At the beginning of each new school year, RCMS offers two Open House. One for seventh and eighth grade and a separate one
for 6th grade. Again, at these activities, parents have the opportunity to meet the faculty and discuss school issues.
Our offices staff receives compliments often about how warm and welcoming they are to parents through office visits or via phone calls.
Communication
Rowan County Middle School teachers communicate with parents often. Progress reports are sent 41/2 weeks into the quarter and report
cards are sent out. Parent Teacher Conferences are held 4 times a year to discuss student progress.
Teachers communicate with parents and students through phone calls and text messages through REMIND. Parents can also communicate
with teachers during the teacher's planning periods and at the end of the day from 3:05-3:30pm.
One area of communication to improve is the parent needs assessment result. While we had an increase in parent responses this year, we
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did not have at least 50% respond even though the needs assessments were sent home with every student. RCMS needs to continue to
seek ways to motivate parents to respond.
Decision Making
Parents are given the opportunities to make decisions for our school. These opportunities are seen in the parent participation in the Site
Based Decision Making committee and PTO.
Advocacy
RCMS provides parents with various support systems. The Youth Service Center, mental health agencies, and counselors are available to
help parents and students. One reason parent response was low for one of the questions about advocacy, is because the way the question
was presented on the assessment. Next year the question will be worded with examples to help parents to realize that the supports are in
place to help them.
Learning Opportunities
RCMS needs to work on provided parents with learning opportunities to become leaders. Currently, we are working on recruiting Spanish
speaking parents and community members to volunteer in the school.
Community Partnerships
RCMS is very strong in partnering with the community. This is our second year of participating in food drives to help support our local Soup
Kitchen. We are extending this service to local food pantries, as well. Sixth grade students raised and sold vegetable during their science
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class. The proceeds were donated back the the school to provide food baskets for our own students at Thanksgiving.
In October, RCMS hosted its second annual business partnership meeting and more business were present than last year. Local business
leaders come in and give our students career advice during Operation Preparation. RCMS works with Morehead State University professors
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and the nursing program to provide students with other learning opportunities, as well.
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Report Summary
Scores By Section
Section Score
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2
3
Communications
Decision Making
Advocacy
Learning Opportunities
2.57
2.57
2.67
2.67
2.83
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Improvement Plan Stakeholder Involvement
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Introduction
The responses should be brief, descriptive, and appropriate for the specific section. It is recommended that the responses are written offline
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and then transferred into the sections below.
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Improvement Planning Process
Improvement Planning Process
Describe the process used to engage a variety of stakeholders in the development of the institution's improvement plan. Include
information on how stakeholders were selected and informed of their roles, and how meetings were scheduled to accommodate
them.
CSIP committee members, made up of teachers and administrators, met after school to review and discuss goals and strategies for school
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improvement. Teachers were asked to report to their peers in order to report and collect data. Parents were asked to complete a needs
assessment and the results were used in completing the CSIP. During Rowan County Middle School's 2nd Annual Community, CSIP
activities and needs were shared with community members that were present. CSIP goals were also shared with the Advisory Committee
which was made up of parents and community members for review and input. Lastly, the CSIP is presented to the SBDM committee for final
approval.
Describe the representations from stakeholder groups that participated in the development of the improvement plan and their
responsibilities in this process.
The stakeholders involved in developing Rowan County Middle School are represented by: teachers, administrators, students, parents and
community business members.
Teachers and administrators participated in reviewing and creating the new CSIP. Teachers supplied information on activities and PD that
pertained to the CSIP goals. Parents and community business members were given the chance to participate in a group activity that focused
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on RCMS' CSIP activities and how the business community could partner with the school to raise student academic performance. During the
Advisory members, parents, student and local business members, reviewed the goals of the CSIP and gave suggestion on how to raise
student performance.
Explain how the final improvement plan was communicated to all stakeholders, and the method and frequency in which
stakeholders receive information on its progress.
After the SBDM Committee gives the school's final approval of the CSIP, it is then presented to the Rowan County Board of Education for
approval. The CSIP is sent electronically to all teachers, and administration. It is placed on the Rowan County Schools webpage for public
viewing.
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School Safety Report
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Introduction
In response to recent tragic events in our nation’s schools, during the 2013 legislative session the Kentucky General Assembly took action,
through the passage of Senate Bill 8/House Bill 354, to assure that our schools are safer places for students and staff to work and learn.
Among other things, SB8/HB354 required changes to emergency plan requirements, the development of school safety practices, and
additional severe weather, lockdown and earthquake drills. The bill also required local school district superintendents to verify to the
Kentucky Department of Education that all schools in the district are in compliance with these requirements. This diagnostic is the means by
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School Safety Requirements
Assurance
Does each school have a written Emergency
Management Plan (EMP)?
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
Our EOP is reviewed annually,
presented to SBDM in August
and the first day of school to staff,
and uploaded to all staff
computers.
Label
2.
Assurance
Did the SBDM Council adopt a policy requiring
the development and adoption of an EMP?
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
Our EOP is reviewed annually,
presented to SBDM in August
and the first day of school to staff,
and uploaded to all staff
computers.
Label
3.
Assurance
Did the SBDM Council adopt the EMP?
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
Our EOP is reviewed annually,
presented to SBDM in August
and the first day of school to staff,
and uploaded to all staff
computers.
Label
4.
Assurance
Has each school provided the local first
responders with a copy of the school's EMP
and a copy of the school's floor plan?
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
Our EOP is reviewed annually,
presented to SBDM in August
and the first day of school to staff,
and uploaded to all staff
computers. After our first Code
Red, ( active shooter drill), area
first responders review the drill
and the EOP.
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5.
Assurance
Has the EMP been reviewed and revised as
needed by the SBDM council, principal, and
first responders (annually)?
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
Our EOP is reviewed annually,
presented to SBDM in August
and the first day of school to staff,
and uploaded to all staff
computers. A district up date is
planed for January 7th and 8th
upgrades in the HS and MS/HS
scheduling reveal a need for
minor changes.
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6.
Assurance
Was the EMP reviewed with the faculty and
staff prior to the first instructional day of the
school year?
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
Our EOP is reviewed annually,
presented to SBDM in August
and the first day of school to staff,
and uploaded to all staff
computers.
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1.
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Assurance
Response
Were local law enforcement and/or fire officials Yes
invited to review the EMP?
Comment
Attachment
Our EOP is reviewed annually,
presented to SBDM in August
and the first day of school to staff,
and uploaded to all staff
computers.
First responders assisted in our
first Code Red drill and then
reviewed the drill and EOP
afterwards.
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8.
Assurance
Are evacuation routes posted in each room at
any doorway used for evacuation, with primary
and secondary routes indicated?
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
This is required and monitored as
part of PGES observations, all
are in place cafeteria gym, locker
rooms etc....
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9.
Assurance
Has the local Fire Marshal reviewed the
designated safe zones for severe weather and
are they posted in each room?
Response
Yes
Comment
Annual fire safety inspections,
equipment inspections and
procedures are reviewed.
Attachment
Label
10.
Assurance
Have practices been developed for students to
follow during an earthquake?
Response
Yes
Comment
They are drilled as required.
Attachment
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11.
Assurance
Has each school developed and adhered to
practices designed to ensure control of access
to each school (i.e., controlling access to
exterior doors, front entrance, classrooms,
requiring visitor sign-in and display of
identification badges)?
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12.
Assurance
Response
Has each school completed all four emergency Yes
response drills during the first 30 days of the
school year? (Fire in compliance with <a
href="http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/815/010/060.ht
m" TARGET="_blank"> Fire Safety</a>
regulations), Lockdown, Severe Weather and
Earthquake)
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7.
Response
Yes
Comment
Attachment
Key and access expectations are
in place with first responders and
school officials
Comment
Drill compliance is maintained
and executed.
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Assurance
Are processes in place to ensure all four
emergency response drills (Fire in compliance
with <a
href="http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/815/010/060.ht
m" TARGET="_blank"> Fire Safety</a>
regulations), Lockdown, Severe Weather and
Earthquake) will occur within the first thirty
instructional days beginning January 1?
Response
Yes
Comment
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Drill requirements are maintained
and executed.
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Equitable Access Diagnostic
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Introduction
As part of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) each state is required to develop strategies to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at
higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out-of-field teachers. The results of this effort became a national push to
ensure all teachers were highly qualified (HQT); meaning each teacher holds the appropriate certification for the content and/or grade level
for which they are assigned. National data show that poor and minority continue to be taught by inexperienced, unqualified, or out-of-field
teachers. As a result, in 2014, the United States Department of Education (USDOE) required states to develop equity plans and use
evidence based strategies to address this issue. The focus of the plan is to move away from the concept of “highly qualified” to “high
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Needs Assessment
Assurance
Response
Has a review of the data has been conducted to Yes
determine barriers to achieve equitable access
to effective educators within the school?
What are the barriers identified?
Comment
Attachment
PD, faculty meetings, technology
upgrades, and monthly data
sheets have all been reviewed
and maintained to ensure
equitable access for all educators
in the building. Persistence to
graduation taken as a first step in
identifying our " name and claim
list" to prepare students for
College and career readiness.
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Math and reading for novice learners is our primary barrier.
What sources of data were used to determine the barriers?
Math and Reading performance levels from K-Prep.
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What are the root causes of those identified barriers?
Special education students are the primary source of our novice students. Those with high scores in persistence to graduation also appear.
We are trying to increase student achievement through collaboration.
What does the Professional Growth and Effectiveness System data say about the effectiveness of teachers in the school?
RCMS teachers all are accomplished or higher. Classroom strategies incorporating the school wide use of co-teaching strategies.
Instructional aides in all classes when 2 teachers are not available.
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Equitable Access Strategies
Placement: Describe school policies or procedures that address the assignment of students to ensure low income and minority
students are not assigned to inexperienced, ineffective or out-of-field teachers more often than their peers who are not identified
as low income or minority students.
Our SBDM has a policy that addresses student placement to ensure that all students are equitably divided among all teachers. This policy
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helps assure that all inexperienced, ineffective teachers or out of field teachers do not have a higher rate of minorities, low socioeconomic,
and students with disabilities in their classroom. This policy will be updated by SBDM in the spring.
Advanced classes are in place to improve proficient and distinguished learners in Math. ELA classes are on deck for next year. Co-teaching
classrooms target special ed and low level learners. RCMS has increased class time for teachers to provide for tier I interventions. Tier 2 pull
out has student identified using Map and K-PREP scores.
Placement: How is data used to make student assignment decisions to ensure low income, minority, Limited English Proficient
and Exceptional Children and Youth are not assigned to inexperienced, ineffective or out-of-field teachers more often than their
peers?
Student placement is reviewed through a data process that allows SBDM council to monitor and help student assignment decisions. This is
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according to our SBDM student placement policy.
Recruitment and Retention: How does the school analyze student level data to design targeted recruitment of effective and diverse
teachers?
Teachers are recruited at RCMS through careful and diligent surveying of applicants. Our teacher turn over rate is low.
Recruitment and Retention: How does the school recruit teachers who are effective in implementing practices that are targeted to
support the diverse learning needs of minority students, low income students, Limited English Proficient and Exceptional Children
and Youth?
RCMS recruits teachers through careful interviewing and review of all applicants.
Recruitment and Retention: How does the school retain effective teachers? Identify any incentives.
Incentives are:
Maintaining a positive school culture, Pre- Schools to Watch recognition, rewards and awards for student and teacher success, and faculty
participation in KEDC professional development programs.
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Professional Learning: Identify supports, including mentoring and/or induction, provided to meet the needs of first year,
inexperienced and out-of-field teachers.
All first year teachers in Rowan County participate in district meetings to learn best practices, data collections strategies, and any other that
information that would help them become successful in the classroom. These meetings are beneficial because it allows teachers to have a
support and mentoring experience with teachers from other schools
Rowan County Middle School teachers participate in PLCs weekly. During the PLC meetings, new teachers learn from more experienced
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teachers how to collaborate, collect data, manage student behavior, and learn ways to be successful their first year in the classroom.
Professional Learning: Utilizing PGES data, how are the professional learning needs of teachers with an effectiveness rating
below accomplished addressed?
NA for this year. Multiple PD opportunities and PLC development assist in monitoring and steering professional learning needs.
Working Conditions: How are TELL Kentucky results being addressed to increase recruitment, retention and professional learning
needs of staff?
Rowan County Middle School reviews the results of the TELL Kentucky results. Improvement in PD opportunities and progressive curriculum
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Questions
Identify all goals, objectives, strategies and activities created that support equitable access and the responses in this diagnostic.
A goal that supports equitable access is our Gap Goal of increasing the proficiency/distinguished performance of student with disabilities.
Students with disabilities are given access to all regular education classroom settings where rigor and teacher effectiveness are highest. Co-
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teaching is incorporated in these classes.
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