SCHOOL SCHOOL BASED OBJECTIVE NOTES

Apollo Professional Learning Communities will integrate Higher-Order Questioning into core subjects.

Astronaut We at Astronaut want to increase reading comprehension of content based/non-fictional text to meet the demands of Common Core Standards, in all disciplines through school-wide implementation of essential questions to drive higher order thinking skills in students

Atlantis Professional Learning Communities will be used as the means of improving our process of using research based teaching strategies to focus on Higher Order Thinking: essential questions, higher order questioning, and writing across content. PLCs will monitor student progress, based on the careful analysis of student needs which will result in increased student achievement.

Audubon Through Professional Learning Communities, Audubon Elementary will increase knowledge and use in instruction of Essential Questions and Informational text with evidence-based written responses as demonstrated by an increase in student achievement in all subject areas.

Bayside Across all content areas, Bayside teachers will prepare students for college and career readiness by teaching students to read for key ideas and details, use textual evidence when writing to clearly convey complex ideas and information, and write arguments to support claims.

Cambridge Cambridge staff will balance the instructional use of literary and informational text, while embedding written response requirements throughout lessons, in all content areas.

higher order thinking including the planning piece

Cape View All classroom teachers will incorporate Max Thompson’s high yield vocabulary teaching strategies during daily instruction throughout all

Vocabulary strategies, Max Thompson

2011-12 School Improvement Plan Objective/FocusBrevard Public Schools - 2012-13 - School Improvement Plan School Based Objectives

curriculum areas. Over the next three years we will incorporate most of Max Thompson’s high yield Learning Focused Strategies (LFS).

Central Central Middle School will use Professional Learning Communities to drive instruction, assessment, and

improvements in teacher effectiveness with the result being higher academic achievement for all

students.Challenger 7 Higher level questioning and thinking strategies will

be implemented consistently and pervasively in all classrooms in order to positively impact student

learning.

developing higher order questioning from content area - Debbie Wood

text complexity - reading coach - true DI - continue CCS -

Christa McAuliffe All teachers at Christa McAuliffe Elementary will use Summarizing and Advance Organizers, including

Thinking Maps, to improve student achievement in all content areas.

Clearlake At Clearlake, all content area teachers will incorporate the Common Core academic vocabulary and Webb’s Depth of Knowledge (DOK) high quality, leveled questioning to influence students’ language, reading and understanding.

DI - chart from summer admin training - standard -

Max Thompson

Cocoa Beach In order to improve instructional effectiveness, the faculty of Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High School will immerse itself in researching, learning, and implementing the Common Core Reading and Literacy Standards for Informational Text 6-12 and the six Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice. One of the main focuses of Common Core is preparing students for a more successful future whether they are entering college or planning future careers. In addition, these national standards correspond to the educational standards of other high performing nations.

Common Core

Cocoa Cocoa High faculty will implement Common Core English/Language Arts Standards in all classrooms with a specific emphasis onthe use of complex informational text and hands-on experiential learning opportunities in all subject areas. All instructional staff willdevelop and implement lessons for writing activities

support in non-traditional classes - specialist support- need content area teacherssupportingMore curriculum guides - ready to serve -ex. College ready implement guide - music guidescomplex

text

based on citation of primary source documents, literary works, or other seminal

works in reference and research. Students will engage with complex text throughout all courses.

Columbia Columbia’s faculty and staff will incorporate informational text with written response bi-weekly to challenge student higher order of questioning in order to increase student achievement.

Coquina Every teacher at Coquina Elementary will implement higher-order questioning strategies throughout all

content areas on a weekly basis to increase student achievement at all levels.

Creel Utilizing a collaborative approach, including grade level teacher teams, administration, and MTSS, revise the small group instructional delivery model (that provides instruction at the level of the child) to include the development and analysis of data to inform and drive instruction; to include the development of child specific Tier I, II, and III instructional interventions including the non-negotiables, clearly stating academic standards and objectives for each lesson, utilizing summarizing techniques and previewing and scaffolding vocabulary throughout the learning cycle.

summarizing in the content area - - message of we are not doing something to them -data - way too much for what we are using it for- teachers trust their own decisions who types oftesting - day to day teachingteach first - not assess- teaching feeling the compliance- move to an assessment time - that is

not during prime instruction time

Croton Max ThompsonVoc and writing and response

instructional differentiationDelaura All teachers at DeLaura Middle School will

implement Thinking Maps within lessons as appropriate to increase literacy and student

achievement across the curriculum.

Discovery

Instructional staff will use High Effect Strategies in conjunction with Learning Focused teaching to increase engagement and academic rigor as evidenced by an increase in proficiency results in all areas of the FCAT assessment Spring 2013.

Eau Gallie Teachers at Eau Gallie will implement reading comprehension strategies across the curriculum with an emphasis on informational text.

Edgewood Teachers will continue to participate in Professional Learning Communities (PLC's) to address instructional strategies to improve student academic performance. Through a collaborative effort, teachers will meet in their PLCs on a regularly scheduled basis to develop teaching strategies that will blend Common Core State Standards into the curriculum throughout the 2012-2013 school year. Teachers will utilize formative assessments periodically to check for student understanding and measure academic performance. They will also utilize common summative assessments to gather data and establish benchmarks based on the Common Core and Next Generation Sunshine State Standards. Data will then be disaggregated from the common summative assessments and other standardized tests (FAIR, FCAT, ACT, SAT, AP, EOC) to determine student mastery of the standards and curriculum. In turn, teachers will share teaching strategies with each other and implement them in their classrooms to address academic areas of concern.

in house - Science & Language Artsdisconnect with what is happening - requirements Patty Adams -

district suggested that teachers use the shortened Wednesday to complete the task

Endeavour State Template guided reading - classroom engagement - quality questioning - vocabulary

Enterprise In reading and math, teachers will utilize daily differentiated instruction among all students, teaching them at their individual point of need.

Fairglen Extended Thinking Strategies will be implemented in daily instruction. All teachers will identify which specific strategies to use aligned with the concept/skill their students are learning.

extended thinking strategies- under resourced learners

Freedom 7 To strengthen students’ comprehension, in both literature and informational text, using inquiry based strategies and Quality Questioning for teaching and learning.

quality questioning - Debbie WoodDI - targeted where schools are - is it moving

the 4 to 5 or 1 to 3

Gardendale Gardendale’s leadership team and instructional

staff will focus on Max Thompson’s High Impact Rapid Response Vocabulary to support continuous improvement, student engagement and critical thinking skills.

Gemini To increase student achievement in the areas of reading, writing, mathematics, and science by 5%, the faculty of Gemini Elementary will continue to implement Marzano’s high yield instructional strategies and integrate quality questioning to support problem solving and critical thinking.

Golfview Golfview’s administration and instructional staff will focus on utilizing informational text and reflective writing to support continuous improvement, student engagement and critical thinking skills.

would like it to be at the school level with informational text and reflective writing

in every are of the context area

Hans Christian Anderson

Utilizing 21st Century skills, teachers will consistently demonstrate and document the implementation of two Extended Thinking Strategies (cause/effect, compare/contrast, classify, construct support, analyze perspectives, justification, induction, deduction, error analysis, evaluation, abstracting, example to idea, idea to example, and writing prompts) to increase student engagement and impact student achievement.

Harbor City Harbor City Elementary will adopt the Balanced Achievement Model and will begin to implement it over the course of three years. In Year 1, Harbor

City will focus on beginning to learn how to develop learning focused units including Essential Questions,

developing quality assessments with year-end higher order question targets, developing student learning maps and using three or more connected

learning strategies in each lesson; Year 2 will be focused on the consistent and pervasive

implementation of the identified aspects of the Balanced Achievement Model, as well as the analysis of practice to identify strengths and

weaknesses; Year 3 will be the full implementation of the identified aspects of the Balanced

Achievement Model, as well as the analysis of the next steps to add to fortify our efforts in providing persistent and consistent quality instruction in our

classrooms. Heritage Heritage High School will implement writing in

response to subject area complex texts.Holland All teachers at Holland Elementary will implement a

more rigorous curriculum by incorporating higher order thinking in the Reading content area.

Hoover WRITING: All teachers will provide opportunities for students to write utilizing proper conventions. In addition, students will have opportunities to increase vocabulary and practice higher order thinking in to improve comprehension and writing skills.

Imperial Accelerated learning is a high-yield strategy that builds a foundation at the forefront of learning through the development of prior knowledge, vocabulary and use of visual organizers. By using this strategy 2 to 3 times a week in each classroom at all levels, we expect that our students will reflect gains specifically in reading with residual results in other subjects.

IndialanticJackson To enhance the culture of learning, AJMS will

implement Tier 1 and Tier 2 Positive Behavior Support (PBS) school wide.

Jefferson Jefferson Middle School will improve academic achievement for all students by developing school-wide awareness of the Common Core State Standards and implementing close reading of complex text across the content areas.

Johnson In an effort to increase student learning and achievement, we will implement research-based instructional strategies via Professional Learning

Teams (PLT) school wide.Jupiter Continuation of 2011-2012 - to improve core level

instruction in reading and mathematics through differentiated instruction facilitated by Professional

Learning Communities.

Kennedy Kennedy Middle School will improve reading scores across the curriculum by utilizing rigorous

informational text in core academic subjects and select electives.

FAIR data from reading coach who is shared with KMS only one day a weekinformational text -CCS - websites available

PD day unpacking standards

Lewis Carroll Increase effectiveness of school-wide instruction by collaboratively creating lesson plans which include

higher order questions across all content areas. Lesson plans will reflect the standard(s) being

addressed, a plan for monitoring and measuring standard mastery, essential questions, and what we

want students to know and doLockmar The faculty at Lockmar Elementary will implement

at least three of the six targeted Marzano’s Instructional Strategies to increase student achievement. We will continue to use the

previously introduced strategies of Identifying Similarities and Differences; Questions, Cues and

Advance Organizers; and Nonlinguistic Representations. We will be adding the strategies of

Summarizing and Note Taking; Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback; and Generating and

Testing Hypothesis.

Longleaf Students will be expected to build knowledge, gain insights, explore possibilities, and broaden their perspectives through reading a diverse array of classic and contemporary literature with a focus on integrating challenging informational texts across content areas. All Longleaf teachers will utilize research-based strategies to instruct their students to read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.

PD - all in housedistrict PD - DBQ - 4th grade- write to respond

in other grade levels

Madison Every teacher at James Madison Middle School will use Differentiated Instruction effectively to actively

engage students bell to bell.

Differentiated Instruction, How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms- year long book study, Using

instruction effectively on Block Instruction, Common Core.

Manatee Increase effectiveness of school wide instruction through the utilization of Quality Questioning strategies within all content areas.

quality questioning with Debbie WoodPD - Feb. own PD from Max Thompson - train

our own

McNair Every teacher will focus on Marzano’s Vocabulary CCS - effective group activities - moving from

and Summarizing strategies to increase student achievement in Reading, Math, Science and Writing.

the traditional classroom to the classroomsof todayLiterature - developing higher order thinking questions developed

DI - ESE- modify the curriculum - bell to bell instruction - for all students

Meadowlane Primary

Utilizing the Continuous Improvement Model, outlined in the district Strategic Plan, all teachers at Meadowlane Primary will implement instructional

strategies that will reflect a shift in practice from the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS) to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) with a focus on effective, researched based, instructional strategies to teach young children text complexity,

vocabulary, and comprehension in all content areas. Meadowlane Int. One hundred percent of Meadowlane Intermediate

staff will be accountable for consistent, pervasive implementation of research based instructional strategies yielding increased student engagement on a daily basis in order to increase student achievement.

Melbourne Melbourne High School will continue to implement Professional Learning Communities (PLC) across the entire curriculum in every discipline.

PLCs will be expanded to include Interest-Based PLCs (collaborative groups) which will target the lowest 25% population and under-achieving sub-groups, as well as student performance on the ACT.

Merritt Island Use established collaboration teams to focus on creating common assessments, data analysis of

assessments, and incorporating Common Core State Standards into the social studies, science, and career

and technical education curriculum.Mila Kindergarten through second grade teachers will

utilize Quality Questioning strategies when implementing Common Core State Standards in all content areas. Third through sixth grade teachers will utilize Quality Questioning strategies when implementing Next Generation Sunshine State Standards in all content areas. All teachers will plan lessons, assignments, and assessments that are aligned with grade level standards. Teachers will

use data to differentiate instruction based on individual student needs.

Mims Transfer the Reading Block model into the Math Block model to incorporate small group, differentiated instruction.

Oak Park Oak Park teachers will engage in PLC’s focusing on evidence based high yield strategies including (Nonlinguistic Representations, Cooperative Learning, Vocabulary-Word Walls, Student Summarizing, Essential Questioning, and Writing Across the Curriculum )to improve instructional effectiveness across all academic areas.

Ocean Breeze Teachers will use high-yield instructional practices in the delivery of standards-based instruction which targets the 21st century Learning and Innovation

skills of Communication and Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation, and Critical Thinking and

Problem Solving.Palm Bay

ElementaryWe will implement Learning-Focused strategies found in Moving Schools: Lessons from Exemplary Leaders as a means to improve our ability to differentiate while holding all students to a high level of expectations.

Palm Bay High In order to improve student achievement, the Palm Bay High teachers will work in small Professional Learning Communities to develop and implement a system to analyze and use data effectively in the writing of assessments and lesson plans. This should have a direct impact on student achievement in all areas. Teachers will infuse a plan to utilize BEST strategies effectively in their classrooms on a regular basis in all lesson plans.

Common formative assessments will be powerful tools for determining what drives our Professional Learning Communities. Therefore, allowing the BEST instructional practices to improve student achievement. Results-oriented assessments will be used to problem solve areas of concern to improve

instructional practices. By assessing throughout the year, we can then create a system that will ensure that all students, learning and not learning, receive additional time and support.

The 2012/2013 school year will see an even greater commitment to Professional Learning Communities

at Palm Bay High School. Many content-specific PLCs have been organized to more intently focus on preparing students for the end of year high-stakes testing that will be administered across the major

subject areas. Other non-content-specific PLCs have been organized to focus on specific strategies, such as use of 21st century technology in the classroom,

in order to provide all faculty and staff with additional options to enhance student success.

Pinewood In the 2012-2013 school year, all teachers will utilize higher order thinking strategies and using vocabulary in context during reading/activity lessons as demonstrated by observations and peer collaboration with specific and honest feedback.

Port Malabar Every Teacher at Port Malabar Elementary will ensure that all students are exposed to

informational text across the content areas. Teachers will systematically instruct students to produce evidence based written responses after reading an informational piece. To assure that

college and career readiness standards have been introduced, teachers will guide students in

analyzing how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact within text.

Quest The Professional Learning Community at Quest Elementary School will increase the capacity to meet the learning and achievement needs of our students by expanding the use of research and evidence based exemplary practices such as: Extended Thinking Strategies, Summarizing, Vocabulary in Context, Advance Organizers, and Non-Verbal Representations.

Riviera All teachers at Riviera Elementary will implement and monitor use of Thinking Maps in all content areas on a daily basis to raise student achievement

at all levels.

Rockledge Rockledge High School will use its PLC system to focus on the use of formative assessments and

feedback to drive instruction and increase student performance

state method for training of CCSCCS and PARC - awareness to teachersconcrete examples of the test item - video of

what teaching should look like

Roosevelt Roosevelt Elementary teachers will utilize essential questions across the curriculum to create a culture of learning by establishing high expectations through collaboration to create a high performing learning culture which will increase student achievement.

Roy Allen Roy Allen will continue to improving the effectiveness of the RTI process, with the

implementation of the Data Team Process incorporating all 6 steps of the process. A

collaborative problem solving approach will be utilized to make data driven instructional decisions, to ensure that the needs of all students are being

addressed. Using the RtI process to identify student needs in Tiers 1, 2 and 3, the faculty will implement

one or more of the aforementioned best practices to support student achievement.

Sabal Our mission is to recognize student achievement and lay the foundation for life-long learning and

productivity

text complexity - formative assessments - Max Thompson

SatelliteSatellite High School will improve Reading scores by continuing to promote and support the goals and objectives of the National Model for the Professional Learning Community.

Saturn All Saturn teachers will focus on incorporating higher order thinking and questioning strategies across the curriculum every day. In addition, all Saturn teachers will incorporate writing to summarize across content areas.

Sea Park All teachers will focus their standards-based instruction on utilizing differentiated instruction in

order to increase student achievement in all content areas.

Sherwood Sherwood Elementary will continue to develop a teachers are presenting the culture information in the building as well as PLC

High Performing Learning Culture by increasing effectiveness of our Professional Learning

Communities and by using Marzano’s High Yield Instructional Strategy, Summarizing and Notetaking.

questioning techniquessummarizinglook at CCS and look at the text - get out of the textbooks as the driverneed a technical support from a teacher who

teaches student how to use the computerSouth Lake All teachers at South Lake Elementary School will

use essential questions to promote higher order thinking.

SouthwestEach Faculty member and administrator will integrate literacy strategies and skill sets into his or her learning environment to increase student performance in both reading and writing.

Space Coast The faculty and staff at Space Coast Jr/Sr High School will focus on nonfiction reading and writing across the curriculum to improve student achievement.

Stevenson Stevenson’s school based objective is to see increases and reading comprehension on the 2013 FCAT by having teachers model and conduct “close reading exercises with students and by having students write extended responses using good grammar, conventions, graphic organizers and vocabulary all of which aligns with the new Common Core Standards. Teachers are asked to use a variety of complex text sources that students will be required to reference in justifying their thinking and written responses.

art the of listening to students - then respond

Stone The Stone Middle School faculty will use the process of becoming an AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) National Demonstration School to address increased student achievement and instructional effectiveness.

Sunrise The implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) will be the main focus of our school improvement process this year. To maximize student achievement, the administration, CCSS Summer Institute Team and the CCSS Launch Team will work together to provide professional development and support for teachers about the

new student expectations based on the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards and the Common Cores State Standards. Classroom instruction and incorporation of the CCSS will be observed and monitored during classroom walkthroughs and during formal observations. Evidence such as lesson plans will be reviewed to monitor fidelity. In addition, on-site professional development in the area of differentiated instruction will take place this year. Two groups of 20 teachers will receive training with Rick Dillon. The first training will take place during the first semester of school and the second team will be trained during the second semester. Teachers will use this training to differentiate instruction and administer on-going formative assessment to guide instruction and monitor student progress on an ongoing basis. Evidence of teacher implementation of these instructional strategies will be collected during observations, at data team meetings and will be evident in teacher lesson plans. Communication and collaboration among all stakeholders will continue formally in grade level meetings, data team meetings and collaborative teams. Student achievement data and goals will be closely monitored and adjusted as needed.

Suntree All Suntree teachers will utilize higher order questioning strategies that are planned and

purposeful throughout daily instruction

Common language for students - consistency - especially in questioning- make ourlanguage purposeful so consistency between schools for kids ex. blooms - webbs depthFlorida's common language of instruction - from DOE

develop a common language document for our terminology

Surfside Every teacher at Surfside Elementary will increase awareness and use of Dr. Max Thompson’s and Dr.

Marzano’s research and evidenced based instructional strategies. Continuous improvement

will be a priority through collaborating and connecting high yield instructional strategies and

common core standards to the planning and delivery of more challenging lessons. Staff members will self-assess their knowledge, comfort level, and time instructing with these strategies throughout

the year as we monitor our progress levels and

Websites, resource teacher support around 5 research-based, evidence-based strategies.

assist one another through our regular Professional Learning Community efforts.

Titusville Titusville High School will implement a consistent and pervasive focus on research based and evidenced based high impact rapid response instructional practices for vocabulary and reading comprehension through our Content and Interest based Professional Learning Communities to raise student achievement for all students.

Tropical Tropical Elementary will increase the effectiveness of our collaborative teams and vertical teams within our school-wide Professional Learning Community (PLC) by focusing each meeting on analyzing errors

from common formative and summative assessments to discern patterns and trends to

improve instruction as evidenced by an increase in student achievement.

Turner In order to improve academic achievement, the instructional staff will work collaboratively in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) to create lessons that are aligned to the standards and that focus on vocabulary instruction.

University Park University Park will implement a cross-curricular approach to Research-Based Vocabulary Strategies.

Viera All teachers at Viera High School will integrate complex text with evidence-based written responses in daily/weekly lesson plans.

CCS - PARC- more examplesLack of knowledge on PARC

West Melbourne Teachers will continually incorporate speaking and writing opportunities that require students to convey ideas and information by supporting their answers using evidence based on literary or informational text so as to increase student achievement for school year 2012-2013.

West Shore CRISS Level I Training will occur with any and all “new” staff members to West Shore and CRISS

update training will occur with one third of our staff during the 2012-2013 school year. Instructional

reading strategy CIS - clozeinformational text - higher order/ level questions - thinking critically - DIwhat is the essential learning for the outcome to each lessonsK-2 is using the standards to develop lessons

staff members will utilize CRISS philosophies and strategies to enhance classroom instruction

throughout the curriculum and the use of these strategies will be aligned by grade level in order to

facilitate instructional delivery diversity.

but instruction is not different

Westside Westside Elementary will improve student learning and increase student success in all grade levels and in all disciplines by focusing on the research-based, high-yield instructional practice of summarization,

specifically writing to summarize.Williams Higher level questioning and thinking strategies will

be implemented consistently and pervasively in all classrooms in order to positively impact student

learning.

lesson planning - implementation of CCShow it will all fit together- what is the doing part - how to apply and connect to the classroom -teacher behaviors and change their practices