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SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN (SIP)

Northwood Middle School

2016-17


OVERVIEW

INTRODUCTION

Each School Improvement Plan (SIP) is annually reviewed and accepted by the Board of Directors. Each SIP

will be provided on the Kent School District (KSD) website once accepted. Each SIP is a living document;

therefore, all building SIPs will be updated quarterly.

To view all published School Improvement Plans, please visit www.kentschooldistrict.org/improvement.

http://www.kentschooldistrict.org/improvement


SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN (SIP)

OVERVIEW

MISSION STATEMENT

Successfully Prepare All Students for Their Future.

Motto: Learner's Today…Leader's Tomorrow

Vision: To support all students with academic and emotional needs throughout their transitional middle

school years, leading to success in high school, college, career and life.

COMPREHENSIVE NEEDS ASSESSMENT

2015-2016 State Assessment

ELA - 7th Grade: 75% Met Standards

8th Grade: 77% Met Standards

Math - 7th Grade 61% Met Standards

8th Grade 64% Met Standards

Science - 8th Grade 85% Met Standards

After analyzing 2016 State Assessment Results for ELA, data indicates twenty-six (26) 7th grade students

were Level One (significantly below standard), sixteen (16) of those students qualified for special

education services, and 2 qualified as English Language Learners. Forty-Five (45) 7th grade students were

L2 (below standards) with seventeen (17) of these students 20 points or fewer from meeting standard.

59.3% (15 students) of NW 7th grade Black students did not meet standards in ELA, and 74.1% (24

students) of our special education students did not meet standards.

After analyzing 2016 State Assessment Results for Math, data indicated 126 of our 7th grade students did

not meet standards of which twenty-six (26) of those students were served in special education and

twenty-four (24 were identified on Ethnicity data as Black. 75% of our black students did not meet

standards - 24 out of 32.

Northwood does not have a large ELL population, less than 4% (25 students) of our total student

enrollment qualify for ELL services. 5 are "emerging" and 20 are "progressing" according to 2016 ELPA21

results. Northwood currently has allocations for .2 f.t.e or one ELL teacher serving these students one day

a week for targeted language development, and a two hour paraeducator 5 days a week.


DEMOGRAPHIC OVERVIEW

PERCEPTIONS

Northwood Middle School is located in the Northeast corner of the Kent School District. Northwood

students primarily feed from 7 elementary schools in the Fairwood and NE Kent/Renton community and

feed primarily into Kentridge High School. The community is rural, primarily serving single family homes

and neighboring multi-family homes/apartments. 28% of the students qualify for free/reduce lunch

status.

38 certificated teachers, 2 full time counselors, 1 full time librarian/technology specialist and 1 part time

academic interventionist. - 75% have Master Degree, 2 are National Board Certified. Average years of

teaching experience is 11 years.

TRANSITION PLANS

Preschool , Between Grade Levels & School-to-School

Spring Activities include counselor visit to feeder elementary schools with principal and student leaders.

"Soon to Be 7th Graders" night held in March to prepare students and parents for transition to Middle

School.

June - "Moving Up Day". 6th grade students spend a portion of their school day visiting Northwood.

Students visit classrooms and eat lunch in the school cafeteria.

Student Service Parent Night held in spring for special education and ELL parents and students.

Special Education Transition meetings are held in the spring between 6th grade IEP teams and Northwood

IEP team.

Counselors and Principal attend transition meeting with feeder high school to prepare high school for

incoming 9th graders.


ASB and Student Leadership class host "incoming 7th grade orientation day" in August prior to the start

of the school year.

Rolling Start - KSD implements a rolling start for 7th graders on the first day of school. 7th graders arrive

2 hours ahead of 8th graders to give them time to adjust to new schedule and rotate through their classes

without 8th graders.


GOALS

MATHEMATICS SMART GOAL

By 2021, 90% of all Northwood students will meet or exceed math standards as measured by State

Assessment (Smarter Balanced Assessment).

In order to achieve this goal…

Northwood will increase the percentage of students meeting standards by an average of 5% each year for

the next five (5) consecutive years, increasing overall achievement levels from 63.4% in 2016 to 90% in

2021.

2015-2016 - Met Standard - 63.4% 2016-2017 - Goal - 68.4% or higher

SCHOOL BLUEPRINT REFORM STRATEGIES

Aligns to Blueprint Goal(s) ☒1 , ☐2, ☒3, ☐4 (check al l that apply)

The Action Steps to achieve goal…

Collaboration:

Content area teams will collaborate 2 times a month for the purpose of increasing student learning. The

focus of the collaboration meetings will be on 4 guiding questions. During the 2016-2017 school year,

teams will increase clarity and focus on Q1 – Identifying the critical learning skills ALL students need to

know in each math unit of study/lesson; and Q2 – Developing and analyzing common formative

assessment to clearly identify students who have learned the targeted skills and students who have not

yet learned targeted skills, and determine instructional strategies that support students who did not meet

standards and/or targeted skill.

Northwood Math teachers will be assigned common planning time in the Master Schedule to increase

opportunities for daily collaboration.

Northwood math teachers will use questioning strategies with students that foster understanding,

intellectual autonomy, and mathematical reasoning that is grounded by sense making, conjecturing,

justifying, and generalizing.

Principal Directed late starts will focus on increasing collaboration time for the purpose of clearly

identifying instructional standards/skills and monitoring growth of students towards goals.


Targeted support for Special Education students:

Classroom teachers will differentiate instruction and assessments to support the learning needs of

Integrated Program (IP) students, and provide accommodations to IP students to increase math skills and

success in the classroom.

IP teacher and core teacher will implement a co-teaching model for one section of Core 8.

IP teachers and para-educators will provide additional support to IP students specifically targeting

individual skill deficits as identified in student's IEP.

Northwood, with the support of Inclusive Services, will pilot AIMSWEB during the 2016-2017 school year.

This resources will allow special education teachers to assess students on targeted skills and provide

targeted intervention during core instruction time and individual skill time. This tool will also increase

frequency of progress monitoring of student's IEP goals and give students and their parents information

on their growth.

Math PLC teams will analyze progress of IP students on team selected questions based on essential

standard (Q1) on each unit assessments (Q2) for the purpose of identifying students for targeted

intervention.

Targeted support for ELL students:

Staff will be able to Identify and support Emerging and Progressing ELL students using ELPA21 and I-

Ready assessment results.

Classroom teachers will research and implement strategies identified in the KSD curriculum center and

other ELL support sites to differentiate lessons and assessments to support the learning needs of ELL

students.

Classroom teachers will use GLAD, SIOP and/or AVID strategies in the classroom as part of their

instructional strategies to support Language Learners.

Math PLC teams will analyze progress of ELL students on team selected questions based on essential

standard (Q1) on each of the unit assessments (Q2) for the purpose of identifying students for targeted

interventions.

Targeted Support

Northwood will identify students within 20 points of meeting standard on recent State and Benchmark

assessments to target interventions and monitor progress for meeting standard during collaboration time.

Northwood will investigate options for providing students additional tutorial sessions outside of

school/school hours at a location near student's feeder elementary schools.


MONITORING EFFECTIVENESS

I-Ready Benchmark Assessments will be administered to all students, and data analyzed 3 times a year to

monitor student growth towards building SIP goal of 68.4% or higher meeting standard by June 2017.

Math teachers will use common formative assessment to monitor student success in the essential skills for

each math unit. Teams will use collaboration time to create and analyze common formative assessment

with specific focus on ELL and IP student's growth. 80% of targeted students will meet standards on

selected items on each unit assessments.

Integrated Program and Support Center teachers will use frequent progress monitoring to assess progress

towards individual Math goals in targeted skill areas. 90% of IP students will meet one or more of their

individual goals in area of math.

80% of all ELL students will move from either "emerging" to "progressing" or "progressing" to exiting ELL

services during the 2016-2017 school year.

ASSESSMENT & REFLECTION

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GOALS

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS SMART GOAL

By June 2021, 90% of all Northwood students will meet or exceed ELA Standards as measured by the

Washington State Assessment (Smarter Balance Assessment).

In order to achieve this goal…

Northwood will increase the percentage of students meeting standards by 3% each year for the next five

(5) consecutive years, increasing overall achievement levels from 76.8% in 2016 to 90% in 2021.

2015-2016 - Met Standard - 76.8% 2016-2017 - Goal - 79.8% or higher


Aligns to Blueprint Goal(s) ☒1 , ☐2, ☒3, ☐4 (check al l that apply)

Collaboration:

Content area teams will collaborate 2 times a month for the purpose of increasing student learning. The

focus of the collaboration meetings will be on 4 guiding questions. During the 2016-2017 school year,

teams will increase clarity and focus on Q1 – Identifying the critical learning skills ALL students need to

know in each content area's unit of study/lesson; Q2 – Developing and analyzing common formative

assessment to clearly identify students who have learned the targeted skills and students who have not

yet learned targeted skills.

ELA/SS - PLC teams will analyze progress of ELL and IP students on team selected questions based on

essential standard (Q1) on each unit assessments (Q2) for the purpose of identifying students for targeted

intervention.

Core teachers will be assigned common planning time in the Master Schedule to increase opportunities

for daily collaboration.

Northwood ELA teachers and support staff will provide timely and targeted Interventions in reading and

writing with the support of an Academic Interventionist and support staff.

The Academic Interventionist will collaborate with core ELA teachers and provide instructional support to

students in the identified skill deficits in reading and writing as determined by i-Ready and Common

Formative Assessments. Collaboration teams will identify targeted support needs, length of time for

targeted intervention, tools for monitor progress of targeted skill, and determine support

model/resources collaboratively. Using data and teacher input, Academic Interventionist will provide

scheduling and guidance to para-educators and monitor student progress using I-Ready, Formative

Assessment and Aims Web.


Targeted support for Special Education

Northwood Integrated Program teachers will Pilot AimsWeb progress monitoring tool. This tool will help

IP teachers to assess students on individual skills and provide targeted intervention during core

instruction time and individual skill time. This tool will also provide special education teachers more

targeted data to communicate progress to students, teachers and parents towards student's individual

goals.

Integrated Program teacher will co-teach with core ELA teacher – two sections 7th grade, one section 8th

grade.

Targeted support for English Language Learners (ELL).

All staff will be able to interpret ELPA21 results and identify Emerging and Progressing ELL students in

their core classrooms using Skyward or Homeroom.

Emerging and Progressing ELL students will be scheduled, when possible, into 2nd or 3rd period ELA/SS

classes for targeted Language Acquisition support using 2.5 hour ELL para educator and .2 f.t.e.

certificated ELL teacher.

Academic Interventionist will schedule para support, when needed, for small group testing and/or pre-

teaching of key vocabulary and background knowledge in core content classes.


I-Ready Benchmark Assessments will be administered and data analyzed three times a year to monitor

student growth toward building SIP goals of 80% 7th and 8th graders will meet Standard by June 2017.

Teams will use collaboration time to create and analyze common formative assessment. Core teachers

will provide targeted interventions to students not yet meeting standards to increase % of students

meeting standards to 90% or higher on unit assessments/projects.

Special Education teachers will use frequent progress monitoring to assess progress towards individual

Language Arts goals in targeted skill areas. 90% of IP students will meet one or more of their individual

goals in reading and/or writing.




GOALS

PARENT ENGAGEMENT SMART GOAL

Northwood staff will increase two-way communication with its parents, students and staff from 64%

reporting “My Child’s teacher informs me of my child’s progress” on the 2015 Parent Survey to 75% will

report teachers inform based on Parent Climate Survey.


Aligns to Blueprint Goal(s) ☐1 , ☒2, ☐3, ☐4 (check al l that apply)

Engage Parents, students, staff, and community in two-way communications focused on equity and

excellence.

Action Steps:

100% Teachers will frequently input grades into Skyward (minimum 2 weeks).

100% Teachers will use a SWIFT or Skyward account to inform parents/students of assignments,

upcoming test, and current progress in each of their classes.

Open House/Curriculum Night – Classroom teachers will inform parents how teachers access

Skyward and/or SWIFT for grade notifications.

Research for possible Implementation of a system that notifies parents when trending towards

failing grade through Skyward Mobile Access

Using EWIS/Homeroom, EWIS team will analyze data on course performance/failing grades every

three weeks. Team will determine support needs of individual students and communicate support

to students and parents.


75% of Northwood parents will report being informed of child's progress as measured by the 2016-2017

Parent Climate survey results.

60% of Northwood parents will report being aware of Northwood's plan for reaching its learning goals for

all students increasing awareness from 42% in 2016 to 60% in 2017.

EWIS/Homeroom data will indicate less than 10% of Northwood students have 1 or more "F" at semester

reporting periods.




GOALS

ADDITIONAL SMART GOAL

100% Northwood students will receive social/emotional support throughout the year by classroom

teachers, counselors and other support staff to successfully prepare them for high school, college, career

and beyond. Students will feel they can go to an adult at Northwood when they need to talk.


Aligns to Blueprint Goal(s) ☐1 , ☐2, ☒3, ☐4 (check al l that apply)

Using a modified schedule during KSD late start days 10 times throughout the year, classroom teachers

will facilitate 30 minutes of time for students to complete social/emotional activities using various

curriculums, such Naviance, Second Step and other identified social/emotional curriculum and activities.

Students will be recognized during a quarterly celebration for kindness/compassion, academic growth,

community service, and/or effort towards improvement. Parents/Guardians will be invited to the

celebration. PTSA sponsored event.

Administrators will provide quarterly listening sessions with student groups that represent Northwood

student body to identify areas of concerns and support needs of the students.


Middle School climate survey will indicate a 20% increase students feeling that they can go to an adult at

Northwood when they need to talk, improving climate survey results from 55% in 2016 to 75% in 2017.

Middle school climate survey will indicate a 20% increase students at Northwood are respectful of other

students from 31% to 51% or higher.

Listening sessions with selected groups of students will be held by an administrator at the end of each

quarter to identify areas of concerns




HIGHLY EFFECTIVE STAFF

Human Resources ensures all teachers are endorsed in the core content areas they are teaching.

Human Resources ensures all paraeducators meet the qualifications needed of an AA degree, 90

college credits and/or the paraeducator professional assessment certification.

The District ensures the continuous development of staff utilizing a variety of efforts to include

clock hour content classes, develop individual professional growth plans and following OSPI

re-certification requirements.

There are currently the following number of staff in each designation:

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

During the 5 Principal Directed late start days, administrators will provide collaboration time, support and

training to all certificated and classified staff to develop and share customized instructional solutions for

learning needs within their core classrooms. The purpose of the collaboration time will be to have a clear

focus on what we want all students to learn, create and/or analyze common formative assessment to

monitor student growth towards SIP and/or TPEP goals, and develop instructional strategies and targeted

interventions to support students who have not yet met standards and enrich/enhance the learning of

those who have met standards.

In-service/workshop days will focus on awareness and strategies for increasing the safety and innovative

learning environment for all students. Trainings can include, but not be limited to, Positive Behavior

Intervention System, Restorative Justice, social media awareness, ELL/IP differentiation, and integration of

technology tools for instruction and/or student growth monitoring.


Content area teachers will increase leadership capacity and instructional skills through participation on

district-led committees, sharing their knowledge with their departments during principal directed

department meetings 4 times a year.

Core content teachers will research and implement strategies identified in the KSD curriculum center and

other ELL and Inclusive Services support sites to modify lessons and assessments to support the learning

needs of ELL Professional Development

Northwood math teachers will participate in a Math Studio professional development four (4) times a

year. The purpose of the studio is to help math teachers implement teaching practices that align with

research regarding how students learn mathematics, that produce increased and equitable mathematical

understanding and achievement by all students. The studio supports the fostering of a culture of rigorous

learning in which all students see themselves as capable mathematicians who can achieve.

Northwood Music teachers will attend Music Education Conference - February 17, 2017

AVID Summer Institute - Selected teachers/counselors will attend October workshop in Kent.

Science CCSS implementation KSD- training 4x/year.

Tutorial sessions for integration of technology provided throughout the year as needed.

Attract & Retain Highly Effective Staff

Kent School District is recruiting highly effective teachers all year long.

Offer letters of intent earlier than most districts (attract)

Travel around the county to find highly effective teachers (attract)

Build relationships with university teacher preparation programs (attract)

Grow our own teacher by partnering with universities to provide additional endorsements (retain)

Develop new teachers with our full release mentorship program (retain)

Develop the leadership capacity of teachers within Northwood (retain)

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