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2007-2008 Action Plan 5 School: Nathan Hale High School
Goal: Communication between home and
school will be enhanced and effective
Strategy: Adopt recommendations from Achieving Family Friendly School
(AFFS) committee, consisting of parents and staff, that focuses on
communication between home and school
Rationale: High performing schools have a high level of parental and
community involvement. The more
connected parents are the more connected students will be.
How did staff participate in setting this strategy? Transformation
committee will review recommendations and prioritize for implementation
What data identifies the need
that leads us to this goal? Parents have expressed that communication between home and
school ought to be improved
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School Board Goal(s) |
Superintendent Focus Area(s) |
5 Year Plan Benchmarks |
9 Characteristics
of High Performing Schools
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Title I School-wide Plan |
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16 |
9 |
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AYP Target Area (Specify) |
Special Education |
Bilingual/ELL |
Advanced Learning |
Community Learning Center |
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Activities: What actions will occur? |
Professional Development: How will staff acquire the necessary skills and
attitudes to implement the activity? |
Timeline: When will this strategy or action begin
and end? |
Resources: What are the existing and new resources that will be
used to accomplish the activity? |
Responsibility: Who is responsible? Who is involved?
Who will provide the leadership? Who will do the work? |
Monitoring effectiveness: What ongoing criterion
referenced measures have you identified to gather evidence to show this
activity is making a difference in student outcomes? What is the projected
measurement cycle? |
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What classroom activities will occur to achieve this goal? q Daily emails home detailing the goings-on of class (activities, assignments, homework, projects, grades) |
q Effective use of Outlook q ESIS q EGP q Source q Website |
Summer 2005 thru Spring 2008 |
q Educator workstations q Professional development days |
q Transformation committee q Technology committee q Academic teams q Individual teachers |
q Student achievement ought to increase if we give parents more opportunity to partner with us in the education of their children |
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What building activities will occur to achieve this goal? q Posting course homework on webpage for peer and student access q Training from AFFS q Grade-level class meetings for parents |
q Html or xml training q SOURCE training and norming q AFFS training q Reading Horace’s Hope |
Summer 2006 thru Spring 2008 |
q Educator workstations q Professional development days q CFGs q SLC money |
q Transformation committee q Technology committee q AFFS committee q Counseling Dept |
q Parent surveys will indicate that parents are satisfied with the degree of communication between home & school q Heated conversations for information decrease |
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How will parents and the
community participate in supporting this goal? Using information supplied
by teachers to partner in educational process; parent to parent dissemination
of information both formally and informally; parent feedback loops/surveys |
What additional assistance
will you seek from supporting organizations such as district services and departments,
the ESD and outside consultants and trainers? Training on eSIS, Outlook, EGP, html or xml, Source, AFFS |
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