dmhs 2011-2012 sip final end of year documentation

School Improvement Plan Dalton L. McMichael High School 2008-2011 6845 NC Highway 135 Mayodan, NC 27027

Dalton L. McMichael High School Continuous Improvement Plan

Rockingham County Schools Vision:

Teaching All Students to Become Productive Citizens and Lifelong Learners

School Mission and Belief Statements School Mission: Our mission is to be a student-centered school that meets the academic, emotional, and social needs of all learners while preparing them to be productive citizens who enter college or the workforce with 21st Century skills. School Vision: The staff at Dalton L. McMichael High School will make the school environment relevant to the real world and future employment opportunities, maintain a safe and nurturing environment for all students, share accountability for all opportunities that exist within the school, and continuously promote lifelong learning.


CONTACT INFORMATION

Leadership Team Members 2011-2012

School: Dalton L. McMichael High School The following team members collaborated with school staff to develop the School Improvement Plan for our school (parents, faculty, and administrators must be included):

Name Position or Role Signature Date

Leigh Jones

Principal

Tina Chestnut Assistant Principal

Cecil Kemp Assistant Principal

Amy Cuthbertson Math Department Chair

Joseph Adams Math Department Rep

Faye Staten English Department Chair

Karen Hopkins English Department Rep

Michelle Casto Science Department Chair

Jennifer Swain Science Department Rep

Beth Poplin Social Studies Department Chair


Jon Williams Social Studies Department Rep

Ann Pratt Cultural Arts Department Chair

Anna Tolley Foreign Language Department Chair

Thomas Horton CTE Department Chair

Jennifer Flynt CTE Department Rep

John Butler CTE Department Rep

Beth Ewing EC Department Chair

Rhonda Kallam Physical Education Department Chair

Jean Bullins Classified Employee Rep

Sherrie Chaney Instructional Assistant Rep

Barbara McMillan Instructional Technology Specialist

Brittany Butler Media Specialist

Sandra Diaz Parent Rep


School Improvement Plan Approval Form

Update presented to staff and approval information

Date of Presentation/Approval Vote: Oct. 5-7, 2011 Results of Approval Vote: # Approve: 87 # Disapprove: 0 Principals Signature ____________________________________________

Approved by Superintendent Date Superintendent Signature_________________________________________

Approved by Rockingham County Board of Education Date: _____________


School Improvement Plan for 2011 -2012 LEA: Rockingham County Schools School: Dalton L. McMichael High School . SMART Goal: We will increase our 4 year graduation cohort rate to 73% and our 5 year cohort rate to 81% by June 2012.

Strategy Professional Development

Person(s) Responsible

Timeline Evaluation

Resources/Technology

Required Budgeted

Identify at risk students based on current data based on attendance, grades and discipline referrals.

Drop-out Prevention Coordinator, NCWISE Data Manager, Administration, Resource Officer, Guidance Counselors, ISS coordinator

End of each grading period

Increase in attendance rate and decrease in discipline referrals among identified students

N/A

Encourage students and parents to set long term transitional goals.

College Advisor, Guidance Counselor, Teachers, Parents, and Students

March 2012 Goal setting form completed during registration.

N/A

Reduce late arrivals, early check-outs, and all-day absences.

Teachers, Administration, Office Personnel, NCWISE, Parents, and Students, ISS coordinator

June 2012 Improve attendance and decrease tardies

N/A

Interim Update March 23, 2012: What is the status of each strategy being used to attain this goal? What initial results/data have been collected? What should be modified to meet goal by June 2012? We identify the academically at-risk students every 6 weeks. Our Drop Out Prevention


Coordinator meets with those students along with a guidance counselor and tries to get them back on track. We also identify our attendance at risk students every two weeks. Once the principal gets that list of students, again, our dropout prevention coordinator meets with those students to see what is going on with them. We also currently have 38 students on a behavior/attendance contract from the first semester. Students that missed too many days and were passing the class were put on a contract. Currently, 37/38 students are progressing toward successfully completing the contract. We are working on strategies to improve late arrivals, early check outs, and all day absences; however, we are still seeking viable and consistent solutions. Our overall attendance has increased only slightly. We started with our incoming freshman for encouraging students/parents to set long-term transitional goals. We are still exploring how to implement this strategy for all our students and their families. We are not willing to abandon this goal; however, we will modify it for our next two-year plan. Final Update June 15, 2012: What strategies have been successful? What data have collected? What strategies will need modification for the upcoming school year? According to preliminary data, we significantly increased our 4yr. graduation rate from 73% to 77.5%. The strategies we found most successful was the creation of an attendance committee that monitored student tardy numbers, students at-risk for attendance failure, and collectively and collaboratively designed a contract for our at-risk students for attendance. Our Drop-Out Prevention Coordinator also closely monitored attendance and tardies by conferencing individually with at-risk students and communicating both in person and via telephone with the at-risk students parents. We did a good job of identifying students that would be at-risk; however, we need to do better with our goal of creating long-term transitional goals for students and parents. We will also design more effective early identification procedures so we can work on prevention rather than intervention strategies. We believe that the involvement of our teachers in attendance decisions was a good step forward in creating a school culture of accountability.

School Improvement Plan for 2011 - 2012

LEA: Rockingham County Schools School: Dalton L. McMichael High School

SMART Goal 2: We will implement a 1:1 teaching and learning environment where 100% of our teachers are utilizing some form of 21st Century technology and explicitly incorporating 21st Century skills in their instruction by June 2012.



Timeline Evaluation Resources/Technology

Required Budgeted

Explicit on-going PD on Google Apps for Education, Canvas, ActivInspire and Web 2.0 tools delivered to teachers during the year.

PD during planning periods, faculty meetings. and in-service training

Barbara McMillan, Brittany Butler, Leigh Jones, District ITS

June 2011-June 2012

Attendance, Formal and informal observations

Substitutes for in-service training, Staff laptops


Interim Update March 23, 2012: What is the

status of each strategy being used to attain this goal? What initial results/data have been collected? What should be modified to meet goal by June 2012? We have done a really good job of providing relevant and on-going professional development for our staff. They receive technology PD every two weeks during their planning and they are also receiving instructional professional development every two weeks from the principal. We are currently exploring Module 3 of NCFALCON and working to collaboratively decide as a school what great instruction looks like at McMichael High School. Our staff actively participants in blogging with each other as they themselves begin to learn how to interact in a 21st century PD environment. Our project based learning PD is delivered as a blended model using face to face sessions and our learning management system, Canvas. Our teachers are not only learning how to implement project based learning in their classrooms but they are also learning how to use Canvas and sharing ideas about how to use it with our students. The ITS, Media Coordinator and principal all worked together to design the PD sessions based on our school improvement plan and what we knew our staff needed based on observational data. We have planned three informational parent nights this spring where our parents will complete a survey and they will have access to every department in our school. The principal sends home an Alert Now each week for parents. The purpose of this message is to keep them up to date with information regarding McMichael High School. We will not modify this goal for this year. We will keep building a learning culture by including this goal in our next two year school improvement plan. Final Update June 15, 2012:

Administrators provide appropriate time and opportunity for teachers to learn how to effectively implement 21st Century teaching and learning strategies. Administrators model 21st Century skills through meetings and conversations.

Administrators develop and facilitate PD

Administrative staff

June 2011-June 2012

Survey after each PD for feedback and reflection opportunities

Staff laptops

Educate parents about 21st Century teaching and learning and how to monitor their child online.

Ongoing blog, parent nights, parent-student contracts, Alert Now messages, parent/student/staff 1:1 advisory committee

Entire DMHS staff, District staff

April 2011 - June 2012

Blog participation, parent night attendance, advisory committee meeting minutes


What strategies have been successful? What data have collected? What strategies will need modification for the upcoming school year? We believe that our PLC Professional Development and our entire professional development plan were effective in helping create a 21st century learning environment. Our teachers were a part of a blended learning environment during the 2nd semester and were very successful with navigating that type of model of learning. We need a more comprehensive model for measuring these beliefs for the 2012-2013 school year. The administrative staff will use an informal walk-thru form that will help establish a baseline of data for the leadership team to examine and determine more appropriate goals for this standard. We also need a much more effective model for communicating with our parents the expectations for a 21st century classroom. Our leadership team recognizes that we will also need baseline data for this goal and will work to establish procedures for helping our parents and students understand the 21st century learning environment in a more comprehensive way.

School Improvement Plan for 2011-12

LEA: Rockingham County Schools School: Dalton L. McMichael High School SMART Goal 3: We will increase our English I scores from 73.5% to 75%, Algebra I scores from 68.6% to 70%, Biology scores from 80.5% to 82% and will increase our average SAT scores from 1423 (composite of all 3 areas) to 1430 (composite of all 3 areas) by June 2012.



Timeline Evaluation

Resources/Technology

Required Budgeted

1. Explicitly teach literacy in all English classes.

Work with ERG Consultants

District level administrators, school administrators, ERG Consultants

August 2011-April 2012

Teacher Evaluation Instrument, Formal and Informal observations from school administrators and district administrators, ERG feedback forms, Midterms and EOC Exams

none

2. English department will hold professional development classes for literacy strategies with science and social studies departments.

English Department will provide PD for Social Studies and Science teachers with newly acquired ERG strategies

English Dept., school administrators

January 2012-April 2012

Professional development plans, PLC notes, Department notes, Midterm, Final, and EOC data

none

80% of classrooms will have wordwalls.

Professional Development by Administrators

School and District Administrators

November 2011-May 2012

Formal and informal walk-thru data, Department notes

none


4. Begin to implement common assessments and data driven instruction in ALL content area classes.

Castlelearning, CASA data/meetings, Department meeting feedback, Professional Development

Instructional Technology Specialist, overall staff, administrators, Lew Johnson


Midterm, Final, and EOC data, completion of NC Falcon, CASA forms, Department minutes

none

5. Analyze tardy data School Leadership Team

School Leadership Team and Department Teams, administrators, ISS coordinator


Weekly Tardy Data, Monthly Tardy Data, period tardy data

none

Interim Update March 23, 2012: What is the status of each strategy being used to attain this goal? What initial results/data have been collected? What should be modified to meet goal by June 2012? Our first administration of the EOCs indicates that our EOC subject areas are experiencing considerable growth and proficiency. We are still working toward our goal of 80% of teachers have word walls (we are at 60% right now), our English department is working to begin professional development for our staff but we have modified our begin date for that to August 2012, and all of our EOC teachers have given at least two common assessments that they created together and have analyzed the data from those common assessments. All of our EOC teachers meet bi-weekly with the principal to discuss common assessments, student progress, and current student data. We will begin, next week (Mar. 28th), reviewing EVAAS data and learning how to use that system. Our English department has received extremely positive feedback from the two consultants from ERG and all of our English teachers are explicitly teaching literacy within their classrooms. Our English department has performed very well with regard to implementing explicit literacy instruction and the teachers continue to grow and learn more about how to help both struggling readers and proficient readers become more engaged with reading and ultimately become critical thinkers as they read. Final Update June 15, 2012: What strategies have been successful? What data have collected? What strategies will need modification for the upcoming school year? We need to do a better job of having word walls in all classrooms. Our administrative team needs to monitor this strategy more closely. First, however, we need to educate all teachers on what appropriate word walls look like. Our EOC data, both proficiency and growth scores, showed significant improvement this school year. Alg. I: 80.5% prof (.137 growth) Biology: 82.6% prof. (.212 growth) English I: 78.5% prof. (.125 growth) *all tested areas showed positive growth)


We designed a new, and we feel more effective way, of having CASA at DMHS which specifically addressed our strategy of Begin to implement common assessments and data driven instruction in ALL content area classes. We started this idea with our EOC teachers and will move it into all content areas during the 2012-2013 school year. All EOC teachers met on a bi-weekly basis with our EC Dept. Chairperson and the principal and discussed building common assessments, common assessment data, writing appropriate questions for assessments, and individual students and their data in EVAAS. These meetings started in January 2012 and continued through April 2012. Our English teachers will partner with our Social Studies teachers during the 2012-2013 school year to implement and use more focused literacy strategies in the social studies classroom. Our English teachers were involved in the RCS High School Literacy Project during the 2011-2012 school year and are ready to begin helping other colleagues learn important literacy strategies. During the 2012-2013 school year, our Science department will be involved with EXC-ELL which is a literacy component to help improve writing and comprehension within the science classroom. We will be working with CO personnel to implement EXC-ELL.

School Improvement Plan for 2011 - 2012

LEA: Rockingham County Schools School: SMART Goal:




Required Budgeted


Interim Update March 23, 2012: What is the status of each strategy being used to attain this goal? What initial results/data have been collected? What should be modified to meet goal by June 2012? Final Update June 15, 2012: What strategies have been successful? What data have collected? What strategies will need modification for the upcoming school year?

School Improvement Plan for 2011 - 2012 LEA: Rockingham County Schools School: . SMART Goal:




Required Budgeted


Interim Update March 23, 2012: What is the status of each strategy being used to attain this goal? What initial results/data have been collected? What should be modified to meet goal by June 2012? Final Update June 15, 2012: What strategies have been successful? What data have collected? What strategies will need modification for the upcoming school year?

School-Based Management and Accountability Program Summary of School-Based Waiver Requests for 2011-2012

LEA: Rockingham County Schools School: School Code:

Request for Waiver

Title of Waiver

1. Describe the waivers you are requesting. To accommodate the reduction in faculty due to budget cuts at the Local and State levels,

we are requesting an exemption on class sizes in grades 4-12. 2. Identify the law, regulation, or policy from which an exemption is requested.

115C-301.1- Allocation of teachers; class size 3. State how the waiver will be used.

Due to reductions in Local and State Budget Allotments we would be unable to offer students required courses in all areas needed for graduation without the class size waiver. This will also allow us to include students in higher level classes when only singletons can be offered.

4. State how the waiver will promote achievement of performance goals.

Waiver of class size maximums will allow more effective scheduling where students are working on similar curriculum goals and objectives. Students can be more readily assigned to appropriate grades and classes.


__________________________________________________________ _______________________ Principals Signature Date __________________________________________________________ _______________________ Chair of School Improvement Teams Signature Date District Approval: ___________________________________________ (date)

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