School-Wide Action Plan
Improve staff collaboration and professional development to increase student achievement.
Action Plan Number 3
Goal: Improve staff collaboration and professional development to increase student achievement.
Subgoals:
 Implement PLCs to drive professional development and staff collaboration (both within Muir and with feeder schools)
Rationale: The sharing of ideas, methods, and materials, as well as the continued study of best educational practices and research, is vital to
maintaining exceptional teaching skills and holding our teachers to the highest standards of the profession. The teacher survey indicates that teachers
are eager to collaborate with their colleagues but would like more control over collaboration time and content. Additionally, teachers would like more
training in areas that they feel would most keenly impact their teaching and student achievement.
Growth Targets:
 Use 100% of allotted collaboration time to address the collaborative needs of teachers, as established by the Collaboration Team.
 Make data analysis an essential part of the professional culture. Designate/appropriate/establish collaborative time to discuss and
analyze data on a regular basis during faculty meetings, department meetings, and collaborations so all teachers understand what the
numbers mean and how to use data to inform instruction.
 Provide training and ongoing support or technological expertise to ensure that 100% of teachers and administrators have the skills to
use software for their subject area such as Accelerated Reader, ancillary materials and curriculum resources.
 All staff will also receive adequate training in Aeries, Data Director, IEP-Pro , IEP writing, district email, Cisco phones, LCD
projectors, and the internet to ensure that teachers can use these technologies and the various software to improve instruction and
provide new ways for students to access content and master standards.
 Phase in training in explicit-direct instruction (EDI) and begin to incorporate EDI teaching methods into the classroom when
appropriate. Integrate discussions about EDI into professional discussions so EDI strategies become part of the culture at Muir.
 Develop pacing guides for all courses to be used by all teachers. Work in departments to determine the best ways to apply the content of
pacing guides to classes at Muir.
 Develop an articulation plan with feeder middle schools to map curriculum and to develop an eighth-to-ninth grade transition
program.
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Link(s) to ESLRs:
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Tasks
Identify, develop and evaluate solutions to problems through critical thinking to improve the learning community.
Realize that anything is possible for the determined and motivated individual who strives to be a lifelong learner.
Responsible
Person(s)
Involved
PLCs
3.1 Establish a Collaboration
Team of multi-disciplinary
Admin
teachers who are committed to
planning relevant and effective
MLT
collaboration and professional
development. The
Collaboration
Team will:
 Represent the needs of
their PLC but plan for
the school as a whole.
 Design content area and
cross-curricular
collaboration
opportunities to
strengthen Muir’s
academic program
based on the analysis of
student academic
achievement, including
a continued focus on
writing across the
curriculum and highyield strategies.
 Create a professional
Implementati
on Strategies
Create a
curriculum
map to
discover
connections
and relevant
integration
opportunities.
Professional
Development/
Resources
District
collaboration days
Means to Assess
Improvement
Timeline
Collaboration
Team
Establish first
District
minimum days
agendas and
minutes
District
professional
development
Teacher survey
results
Estimated
Cost
Collaboration
Team meetings
annual team in
Time at
department
meetings for
collaboration
Teacher feedback
form
each
professional
development event
and at the end of the
school year
Classroom walkthrough visuals
Student
performance
John Muir High School
Faculty meetings
May 2011 for
remainder of
10- 11 and 1112; develop
each successive
year's
calendar by
June
of preceding
school year;
assess
continuously,
but specifically
at each
Collaboration
Team meetings
and year in total
each May.
Schoolwide Action Plan
Reporting
Chapter 5
Administrative
Team meetings
Department
meetings
Department Chairs
meetings
School Site
Council
meetings
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development plan
aligned with the
district’s plan.
Advise the
administration on use
of professional
development money.
Design collaboration
and professional
development for
collaboration days,
minimum days, and
summer trainings,
develop a calendar, and
document /keep records
of professional
development.
Assess success of
collaboration and
professional
development through
reflection, monitoring,
and analysis of student
work.
3.2 Develop an articulation plan
with feeder middle schools to
map curriculum and to develop
an eighth-to- ninth grade
program.
Muir Department
Chairs
Counselors
Feeder School
Counselors
Review and
plan weekly
lessons using
the curriculum
map during
academy
meetings
Summer PD on
curriculum
integration
Collaboration time
for Muir
representatives and
feeder school
representatives.
Pacing guides
Admin Team
Initial meeting
spring 2011 to
plan 11-12
calendar;
continued
articulation
annually
ongoing.
PD Cost for
Summer of
2011
Planning
Meetings
Single Plan
Certification Reports
for each academy
CDE content area
standards
Teachers
3.3 Continue to discuss and
analyze data as a faculty to
PLC Team
School Plan
Faculty
understanding of
John Muir High School
Spring 2011 and
ongoing
Schoolwide Action Plan
Faculty meetings
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better understand what the
numbers indicate and to
determine how teachers can
use the data to improve
instruction.
Department
Chairs
DataDirector
District/LACOE
reports
API, AYP, CST,
and
CAHSEE data
Teacher survey
results
Department Chairs
meetings
Agendas and
minutes
from faculty
meetings
Administrative
Team meetings
presentations
and handouts from
meetings
School Site
Council meetings
Department
meetings
SST
Data presentations and
discussions will take place
during faculty meetings,
Department Chairs meetings,
Collaboration
Team meetings,
department meetings,
School Site Council
meetings, and
Administrative Team meetings.
coordinator
meetings
Site level data
3.4 Write and revise curriculum
guides for all courses and
implement effectively.
Teachers by
course
and department
Become familiar with how
benchmark assessments
align to pacing guides
and how to use these tests
to improve students’
learning, including sharing
and modifying teaching
strategies.
District
Leadership
pacing guides to
plan instruction.
Collaboration
Team meetings
District Subject
Area
Coordinators
PLC Leaders
Parent Night
Community
Forums
District Office
coordination,
including
leadership of
Assistant
Superintendent
for
Curriculum, and
Subject
Area Coordinators
Summer
collaboration
time for teachers
to
develop drafts
Completed
curriculum
guides for all
courses
Department
meetings
Chairs
meetings
Guides for first
round of courses
complete during
the 2011-2012
school year, all
other guides
complete during
2012 school
year, classroom
use ongoing
Printing
costs
Department Chairs
Meetings
meetings
Administrative
Team meetings
Collaboration
Team meetings
Audits by the
Assistant
Superintendent for
Curriculum
Collaboration
time for
teachers to revise
drafts
and discuss
benchmarks
and
implementation
Benchmark-related
collaboration
Class time to
Teacher feedback
Faculty meetings
School Site
Council meetings
Use of benchmark
tests to
improve instruction
and
learning
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administer
benchmark
assessments
CDE content area
standards
3.5 Provide faculty with adequate
technology training to further
the implementation of
technologies that assist
students in learning, teachers
in teaching, and all staff with
communication among the
school community.
All teachers
Aeries IT Trainer
School Plan
trainers
Webmaster
Certification
tool needs to be
examined and
then the report
needs to be
written through
a collaborative
effort
Time for training
sessions
Teacher survey
results
Teacher evaluation
interviews
Technology teacher
guides
Computer labs
with
internet access
Administrative
Team
Schedule of training
sessions
Record of computer
lab use
Aeries
Teacher survey
results
Accelerated
Reader
Classroom walkthrough visits
$500 for
paper and
copying
costs for
printing the
report
Faculty meetings
Department Chairs
meetings
Department
meetings
Administrative
Team meetings
Collaboration
Team meetings
Aeries reports
Math
Student achievement
3.6 Provide professional
development training in
differentiated instruction
techniques with follow-up
collaborations to further
teachers’ skills in using EDI.
All teachers
Collaboration
Team
Administrative
Team
Department
Chairs
Peer
walkthroughs
can be used to
monitor and
motivate faculty
to post student
work and post
academy
representative
materials
Professional
development
funds
Collaboration
time
Formal
observations
Informal
observations
Peer walkthroughs
Collaboration
Team
EDI
training
sessions
Classroom walkthrough
visits
$300 for
printing
costs for
Academy
logo
posters
Teacher evaluations
School Site
Council meetings
Faculty meetings
Department
meetings
Department Chairs
meetings
Administrative
Team meetings
Teacher survey
results
meetings
Student achievement
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