EASTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN 2015-2016
FINAL – May 12, 2015
SCHOOL: Parkview
DISTRICT OVERARCHING GOAL CONNECTIONS: Goal 2: Establish Professional Development priorities that are based on the
curriculum renewal plan and aligned with state and national standards. Goal 6: Encourage reflective practice and use data to develop and
improve systems that impact student achievement.
DATA SOURCE/CURRENT REALITY: Teachers at the primary level have fewer opportunities to meet with their entire grade level (districtwide) than their colleagues in upper grades. Teachers at the primary level have many common assessments (particularly in literacy) and similar
intervention (RTI) implementation that have established similar learning expectations and intervention procedures across the district. Grade 1 and 2
teachers are all going to be using the same reading program (Reading Street) in 2015-2016. Primary level teachers have the option of setting shared
student learning goals as part of their evaluation cycle.
SHARED SCHOOL (Between Center, Moreau Hall and Parkview Schools) S.M.A.R.T. GOAL #1: Preschool, kindergarten, first grade and
second grade educators will have a minimum of five, one hour blocks of district-wide, grade level collaboration time from September 2015 –
June 2016 to share best practices and evidence of effective teaching, share Reading Street implementation experiences, explore math
standards and instructional strategies, and/or analyze common assessment data to increase instructional consistency across the three
primary schools, increase teacher empowerment, and, ultimately, improve student achievement.
Strategies and Action Steps
Who is Responsible
Target Date or Timeline
Evidence of Effectiveness
1. Select three of the nine monthly faculty meetings to
replace with district-wide grade level meetings, each
facilitated by one of the three primary principals. Agenda
items will be recommended by principals, but grade level
teachers can suggest agenda items and ultimately decide on
each grade level agenda.
Three Primary
Principals, Easton
Educators, SPED
Director,
Art/PE/Music/Library
Dept. Heads
First Meeting between Oct.
– Dec 2015, second
meeting between Jan.March 2016, third meeting
between April – June 2016
2. Primary principals will survey PreK-2 staff in June of
2015 and ask educators or prioritize professional
development/ collaboration including initiatives listed
above in shared SMART Goal. This data will drive the
three agendas of the grade level meetings that replace three
faculty meetings.
Asst. Superintendent,
Three Primary
Principals, Easton
Educators, SPED
Director,
Art/PE/Music/Library
Dept. Heads
Survey completed in June
2015
Agendas and minutes kept
from all three meetings,
teacher reflections on
TeachPoint, teacher feedback
regarding transference from
meetings to classroom
practice through survey.
Data shared among all PreK-2
faculty and evidence will
include the agendas of these
three meetings and the
minutes.
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EASTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN 2015-2016
FINAL – May 12, 2015
DISTRICT OVERARCHING GOAL CONNECTIONS: Goal 2: Establish Professional Development priorities that are based on the
curriculum renewal plan and aligned with state and national standards. Goal 6: Encourage reflective practice and use data to develop and
improve systems that impact student achievement.
DATA SOURCE/CURRENT REALITY: Teachers at the primary level have fewer opportunities to meet with their entire grade level (districtwide) than their colleagues in upper grades. Teachers at the primary level have many common assessments (particularly in literacy) and similar
intervention (RTI) implementation that have established similar learning expectations and intervention procedures across the district. Grade 1 and 2
teachers are all going to be using the same reading program (Reading Street) in 2015-2016. Primary level teachers have the option of setting shared
student learning goals as part of their evaluation cycle.
SHARED SCHOOL (Between Center, Moreau Hall and Parkview Schools) S.M.A.R.T. GOAL #1 (Continued): Preschool, kindergarten,
first grade and second grade educators will have a minimum of five, one hour blocks of district-wide, grade level collaboration time from
September 2015 – June 2016 to share best practices and evidence of effective teaching, continue work on UbD Units of Study, share Reading
Street implementation experiences, explore math standards and instructional strategies, and share/analyze common assessment data to
increase instructional consistency across the three primary school, increase teacher empowerment, and, ultimately, improve student
achievement.
Strategies and Action Steps
3. Educators will follow district grade level meetings with
“Student Learning Expeditions” (SLE) and visit colleagues’
classrooms within that grade/department level, within their
own school, at least two times during the school year.
Who is Responsible
Primary Principals,
Department Heads
(Music, Art, PE,
Library), SPED
Director, Primary level
educators
Target Date or Timeline
One instructional round
following each districtwide grade level meeting.
Template shared at
Sept/Oct Faculty Meetings
4. Educators will follow district grade level meetings with
an SLE at the same grade/department level, at a different
primary school, at least one time during the school year.
Primary Principals,
Department Heads,
SPED Director, Primary
level educators
5. Teachers in Grades 1 /2 and 2 / 3, through vertical
articulation, will determine what components of the
Reading Street Program will be necessary for all
classrooms and what components will be optional, pending
needs of students. What do receiving teachers think to be
the most necessary components of RS to utilize with
students on a regular basis?
Grade 1, 2,3 Teachers,
Primary Principals,
Asst. Superintendent,
Learning Specialists, K2, Reading Specialists,
All PreK-2 educators will
observe grade level/
department colleagues in
another school once by
May 2016.
Shared components of
Reading Street, at each
Grade level (1,2) will be
determined by December
2015 for Grades 2,3 and by
May 2016 for K,1.
Evidence of Effectiveness
SLE template created and
shared among all faculty
when conducting instructional
rounds. Will include evidence
of best practice and
application to ones own
classroom.
Teacher exit slips from one of
the three grade level meetings
documenting a teaching
strategy or ex. of best practice
Teacher representatives will
document agreed upon
components of Reading Street
that will be consistently
implemented at each grade
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EASTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN 2015-2016
FINAL – May 12, 2015
SCHOOL: Parkview
DISTRICT OVERARCHING GOAL CONNECTIONS: Goal 4: Nurture the social and personal development of students so that they are
confident, compassionate, contributing members of society.
DATA SOURCE/CURRENT REALITY: 2015 School Needs Survey 15% (20/130) parents reported that their child was bullied while at
Parkview. 16% (23/141) of parents disagreed when asked, ‘School lunch meets the needs of my child.” Research supports the positive effects of
movement, proper nutrition, relaxing techniques and “brain exercises” to better prepare students to learn.
SCHOOL GOAL 2:. During the 2015-2016, Parkview will improve the health/wellness and social/emotional well-being of its students resulting in improved
learning, a decrease in behavior referrals to the office and measured through a follow up survey to parents and faculty in April 2016.
Strategies and Action Steps
1. Parkview will establish a wellness committee in
September 2015 that will meet monthly and make
recommendations to teachers, parents and students to
improve the health/wellness and safety of students and
faculty at Parkview.
2. Wellness committee to make recommendations to
improve school lunch including: improving snacks at lunch,
moving fruit and vegetable choices to the front table in
cafeteria, and sharing photos of healthy lunch choices with
parents to promote healthy options for students.
3. Meet with bus drivers and students on each bus a
minimum of twice during the year (during school time,
before pick up) to review bus expectations and
consequences if safety rules on the bus are not followed.
Recruit willing parents to volunteer to bus monitor busses.
Add an incentive program to promote Parkview
Constitution on bus with student recognition.
4. Wellness committee to promote and recommend brain
breaks, movement breaks and relaxation breaks to teachers
to use during the school day including, but not limited to:
classroom yoga, brain breaks found at www.gonoodle.com,
indoor recess movement ideas, establishing of a sensory
space for students with sensory regulation challenges, Brain
Gym, meaningful trips to the Outdoor Classroom…
Who is Responsible
Principal, Wellness
Committee at Parkview,
students, faculty, Sarah
Greeley, Whitson’s
Lead
Principal, School Lunch
Personnel, Wellness
committee
Target Date or Timeline
September 2016
committee established,
meets monthly
Evidence of Effectiveness
Achievement of action steps
listed below, agendas and
minutes.
Meeting with school lunch
personnel in summer of
2015 to make
recommendations.
Increase in healthier choices
at lunch. Follow up survey to
parents in April 2016.
Principal, bus drivers,
Diane Karo, wellness
committee, parent
volunteers
First bus driver, principal,
student meetings in
September 2015, second
meeting in January 2016
Principal, teachers,
wellness committee
Ongoing throughout 20152016 school year
Decreased number of bus
conduct referrals, Increase in
parent satisfaction from 28%
‘strongly agree’ to over 50%
‘strongly agree’ that my child
is safe, physically and
emotionally, on the bus.
Decreased number of inschool, out-of-school
suspensions, higher rates of
student engagement in
learning activities
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5. Parkview will form a Open Circle Sustainability Team to
support the use and effectiveness of this program on
bullying and teaching social pragmatics and problem
solving within familiar contexts.
Principal, Open Circle
Sustainability Team,
teachers, Recess Aides
FINAL – May 12, 2015
September 2016 – form
OCST, Three faculty
meetings a year offer
training
Grade level open circles once
a month, track frequency of
bullying or misbehavior.
SCHOOL: Parkview
DISTRICT OVERARCHING GOAL CONNECTIONS: Goal 3: Develop and Integrate 21st Century learning expectations to provide
students with what they will need as learners, workers and citizens in today’s global knowledge economy.
DATA SOURCE/CURRENT REALITY: School Needs Survey Results February 2015: 98% of parents and 100% of faculty ‘agreed’ or
‘strongly agreed’ with ‘Parkview has a welcoming atmosphere where teachers, parents and students work cooperatively…. 98% of parents and
100% of faculty ‘agreed’ or ‘strongly agreed’ that ‘Yearly school themes have contributed to a sense of belonging and cohesiveness within our
school.’ EPS has formed a new STEAM Committee and is working to promote STEAM initiatives district-wide.
SCHOOL GOAL 3 : Parkview’s school-wide theme for 2015-2016 will be “Parkview: Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead”. This is a collective effort to
focus enrichment programming, school-wide initiatives, goals, and learning experiences in each classroom around an overarching theme for the
year. This theme will help connect classrooms and grade levels, promote school pride and overall enhance student curiosity and motivation to learn.
Strategies and Action Steps
1. Parkview will run a STEAM-based elective program
where a minimum of 30 electives will be offered to
students. Each student will be placed in an elective of
his/her choice and attend the elective once a week for 30
minutes for a four week span, twice a year. Connect with
Bridgewater State University for elective leads.
2. Parkview’s Green Team will maintain and manage
outdoor garden and classroom and teachers will utilize
outdoor classroom to promote science, math, art standards
for their students.
Who is Responsible
Principal, faculty,
parent volunteers
Green Team at PKV,
principal, faculty
3. Parkview to work with group from MIT, “Science with
Principal, FEEE Grant,
Scientists” to include scientists working in classrooms
faculty
with teachers and providing professional development with
Target Date or Timeline
First electives run from
October 2015 – December
2015, Gr 1,2 only. Second
electives run from
February 2016 – April
2016, Grades K-2
September – October
2015, March – June 2016
PKV Participation in NRT
Festival
Professional development
occurring in Fall of 2015
with follow up classroom-
Evidence of Effectiveness
Students/parents will respond
to “exit slip” survey about
elective after each course,
measuring student
engagement and satisfaction
with elective.
Students maintaining
Parkview vegetable stand,
pricing/selling vegetables
grown in garden, teachers
sharing evidence of effective
learning experiences in
outdoor classroom at grade
level and faculty meetings.
Teachers increasing teaching
time on STEAM-based
instruction
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inquiry-based science instruction at primary level.
4. Parkview Enrichment Committee to spend PTA
budgeted $5000-$7000 on high-quality, STEAM-based
enrichment programming during 2015-2016 school year.
Collaborate with Center School and Moreau Hall PACs to
review and find effective STEAM enrichment programs.
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based PD throughout year.
Principal, Parkview
Enrichment Committee,
Parkview PTA, Faculty
Five-seven STEAM
enrichment programs
scheduled throughout
year, explore idea of
“scientist in residence”
Teachers evaluate impact of
enrichment programming on
students after each
enrichment.
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