Last modified: March 7, 2025
School Improvement Plan
School Improvement Status
- Targeted Support & Improvement (TSI) – no
- Additional Targeted Support & Improement (ATSI) – no
- Comprehensive Support Improvement (CSI) – no
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Strategic Plan Priority 1: Academic Achievement
Goals
- Goal 1: Increase the percentage of students meeting proficiency and sufficient growth in Reading by 5% schoolwide.
- Goal 2: Increase the percentage of students meeting proficiency and sufficient growth in Math by 5% schoolwide.
Action Plan & Implementation
Action Steps
- Hold New to the Country Groups for each grade (outside of WIN time, if possible with the schedule) – ML
- Goal Area: ML
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $25,000.00
- Funding Source: EARS 5364 (ML Only)
- Expenditure: Salary/Benefits
- Monthly training for all teachers on ML Strategies, Supports and Data
- Goal Area: ML
- Timeline: Monthly
- Cost: $0.00
- Funding Source: TIII (ML)
- Expenditure: Salary/Benefits
- Parent Engagement Nights – Hold Literacy and Math Nights to help parents know how to support their children with academics.
- Goal Area: Parent Engagement
- Timeline: Math & Literacy Part 1 – September, Math & Literacy Part 2 – January
- Cost: $3,186.00
- Funding Source: TI Parent Engagement
- Expenditure: Supplies
- Parent Engagement – Family Reading Challenge and Friday Readers
- Goal Area: Parent Engagement
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $5,000.00
- Funding Source: General
- Expenditure: Supplies
- Hire and train Instructional Assistants
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $180,000.00
- Funding Source: TI Personnel
- Expenditure: Salary/Benefits
- Provide tiered instruction to students daily
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $100,000.00
- Funding Source: Landtrust
- Expenditure: Salary/Benefits
- Teachers will instruct students on the Utah State Core Math Standards during Tier 1 time, using Into Math
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: Included in Instructional Assistant cost
- Funding Source: TI Personnel
- Expenditure: Salary/Benefits
- Provide systematic, explicit and evidence-based WIN (What I Need) interventions/enrichment for all students – K-6th will have a half-hour ELA WIN time and 2nd-6th will have a half-hour Math WIN time, Monday-Thursday.
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: Included in Instructional Assistant cost
- Funding Source: TI Personnel
- Expenditure: Salary/Benefits
- SWDs and ELs will have access to tiered instruction time
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: Included in Instructional Assistant cost
- Funding Source: TI Personnel
- Expenditure: Salary/Benefits
- Maintain TI Coordinator position
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $116,549.00
- Funding Source: TI Personnel
- Expenditure: Salary/Benefits
- Parent Engagement – Friday Preschool Classes – Quite often, we have children come to kindergarten unprepared. These classes help our families gain some pre-literacy and social skills.
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $1,000.00
- Funding Source: TI Parent Engagement
- Expenditure: Supplies
- Consider which grade levels need extra support based on the number of students with disabilities (make sure this is reflected in the Master Schedule)
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: Existing budgets already allocated
- Expenditure: Salary/Benefits
- Instructional Team to help build master schedule, meet monthly to talk about school climate and achievement goals
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $9,000.00
- Funding Source: Tchr Quality
- Expenditure: Salary/Benefits
- Grade Level Leaders to lead out in PLCs and to meet monthly to build capacity for leading a team to better achievement
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $9,000.00
- Funding Source: Tchr Quality
- Expenditure: Salary/Benefits
- Data Dives – Admin team to hold data review meetings (data dives) with teachers (scheduled for the beginning of October and the end of January) to review interventions and Acadience progress, making adjustments to instruction as necessary
- Timeline: October and January
- Cost: Money for substitutes
- Funding Source: General
- Expenditure: Substitutes
- LETRS – Make sure all teachers that are teaching in K-3 are trained in the Science of Reading
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: From District Budgets
- Focused PLC agenda – Continue using guiding questions and the tool developed for the PLC Agenda
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $0.00
- Schoolwide Data Tracking Sheet – Developed by District Title 1 personnel
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $0.00
Strategic Plan Priority 2: Wellness and Safety
- Hire a behavior specialist that will benefit all TSI groups, SWD and MLs. The behavior specialist will also help in making attendance incentive plans.
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $75,000.00
- Funding Source: TSSA
- Expenditure: Salary/Benefits
- New to the Country Family Classes – These classes support ML families as they try to navigate school in a new country.
- Timeline: Every other Month
- Cost: $1,000.00
- Funding Source: General
- Expenditure: Supplies
- Strengthening Family Classes – These classes help support all groups, with an emphasis on helping parents develop strategies to support their children academically, emotionally, and with school attendance.
- Timeline: Every other Month
- Cost: $1,000.00
- Funding Source: General
- Expenditure: Supplies
- Internet Safety Night – This night supports all families with knowing how to create safety online for their children. Children learn ways that they can get help and create good habits to be safe online.
- Timeline: March
- Cost: $750.00
- Funding Source: TI Parent Engagement
- Expenditure: Supplies
- Maintain a Wellness Room.
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $5,000.00
- Funding Source: General
- Expenditure: Supplies
- Second Step curriculum taught in all classrooms at least weekly – Principal has set the expectation of this. During the summer, grade levels will review their previously created pacing guide, make adjustments, and share with Admin.
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $0.00
- Funding Source: General
- Weekly announcements from the Second Step curriculum will help the whole school know we are all working on the same skills.
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $0.00
- Funding Source: General
- At the beginning of the year during our PD days, we will hold a review on “learning pit”, learner dispositions and Tigers Give me 5 (be safe, responsible, respectful, kind and a problem solver).
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $0.00
- Funding Source: General
- Positive notes home called Tiger Tales to reinforce PBIS expectations.
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $3,000.00
- Funding Source: General
- Expenditure: Supplies
- Tiger Tale drawings are held each Monday morning – one student from each class is called to pick a prize from our Tiger Tale store.
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $3,000.00
- Funding Source: General
- Expenditure: Supplies
- Poster Cues are hung around school in specific areas to remind students of our expectations.
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $0.00
- Funding Source: General
- As students come to the office for behavior, those working with them will refer to Tigers Give Me 5!, restorative practices, and Second Step learning.
- Timeline: All Year
- Cost: $0.00
- Funding Source: General
- Student/Teacher/Support Staff of the Month.
- Timeline: Monthly
- Cost: $1,500.00
- Funding Source: General
- Expenditure: Supplies
- Social Worker and teachers focusing on using words, getting help from an adult or other strategies other than using physical aggression.
- Timeline: Daily
- Cost: $0.00
- Funding Source: General
- Expenditure: Salary/Benefits
Strategic Plan Priority 3: Stewardship of Resources
Fund Allocation
- General
- Allocation: $183,855.00
- Total in Plan: $19,500.00
- Remaining to Budget: $164,355.00
- TSSA
- Allocation: $116,394.06
- Total in Plan: $75,000.00
- Remaining to Budget: $41,394.06
- Landtrust
- Allocation: $95,963.24
- Total in Plan: $100,000.00
- Remaining to Budget: -$4,036.76
- EARS 5364 (ML Only)
- Allocation: $25,392.00
- Total in Plan: $25,000.00
- Remaining to Budget: $392.00
- TIII (ML)
- Allocation: $0.00
- Total in Plan: $0.00
- Remaining to Budget: $0.00
- TI 7501 Personnel (includes TI Coordinator)
- Allocation: $278,009.00
- Total in Plan: $296,549.00
- Remaining to Budget: -$18,540.00
- TI 7502 Parent Engagement
- Allocation: $4,186.00
- Total in Plan: $4,936.00
- Remaining to Budget: -$750.00
- TI 7503 Tiered Instruction
- Allocation: $0.00
- Total in Plan: $0.00
- Remaining to Budget: $0.00
- TI 7504 PD
- Allocation: $0.00
- Total in Plan: $0.00
- Remaining to Budget: $0.00
- Teacher Quality
- Allocation: $18,751.00
- Total in Plan: $18,000.00
- Remaining to Budget: $751.00
Measurement of Goals & Stakeholder Involvement
Measurement of Academic Goals
- Acadience Benchmark Tests and Progress Monitoring in Reading
- Acadience Benchmark Tests in Math
- Into Math Module Tests
- WIN time quizzes
- RISE tests in ELA and Math for both proficiency and growth
Measurement of Wellness & Safety Goals
- Educators Handbook number of incidents
- Panorama
- Stakeholder survey
- Faculty and staff survey
- Weekly report of students who are chronically absent
Use of Additional Funds
- If additional funds are available, the principal will utilize the funds to hire instructional assistants to provide extra support for academics and growth in reading and math.
Communication of Progress
- Goals and data will be shared with the school community during the Annual Title I Meeting in the Fall of 2024.
- The Needs Assessment and School Improvement Plan will be shared with the faculty during the beginning PD meetings of FY25.
- The faculty will receive copies of both documents and be asked to highlight and identify their individual roles.
- The School Improvement Plan and the Landtrust Plan will be posted on the school website, and a hard copy will be available in the front office for review.
- Progress on achievement and growth will be shared with parents during SEP conferences or sent home quarterly. This will include students with goals in an Individualized Education Plan.
- WIDA ACCESS scores for ML students will be mailed home in June 2024.
- Teachers will communicate achievement and progress on individual tests throughout the school year.
- Parents may request records or a meeting about their student’s achievement or progress at any time.
- Students with a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) will also receive communication from the Behavior Specialist about their goals as needed and during SEP conferences.
Stakeholder Involvement in the School Improvement Plan
- Throughout the year, Carrie Rawlins shared schoolwide data, including achievement and growth, with the School Community Council.
- In January and February, council members identified what they thought the greatest needs were for Timpanogos.
- Goals addressing these needs were created and voted upon during the March meeting.
Names and Roles of Contributors
- Carrie Rawlins – Current Principal
- Clint Wolfe – Principal FY25
- LeeAnn Parker – Assistant Principal FY25
- Kate Pace – Title I and Title III Coordinator
- Allison Ferguson – Current Facilitator and School Community Council Member (Staff Representative)
- Megan Seawright – School Community Council President
- Eric Chase – School Community Council Member
- Kari Kolling – School Community Council Member
- Jolyn Souffront – School Community Council Member
- Senthia Ogletree – School Community Council Member
- Aimee Clyde – School Community Council Member (Staff Representative)
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