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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

 

Alignments/Special Populations

School Board Goal(s) 

Superintendent Focus Area(s)             

5 Year Plan Benchmarks

9 Characteristics of High Performing Schools

Title I School-wide Plan

 

3, 6

16

9

 

AYP Target Area (Specify)

Special Education

Bilingual/ELL

Advanced Learning

Community Learning Center

 

 

 

 

 

 

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?

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

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

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