The purpose of school improvement planning is to ensure that teachers and administrators work collaboratively toward continuous improvement of the quality of teaching and learning in their school. The school principal, the school leadership team, and the faculty are responsible for designing an annual School Improvement Plan to be submitted to the Superintendent of Schools by October 1 of each school year. In those buildings where a Site Plan has been developed, the Site Plan is the School Improvement Plan. The school improvement goals in these buildings will consist of the action plans chosen for implementation in that school year.
Professional development is a key component of the School Improvement Plan or Site Plan. Each school’s plan includes a professional development component that will lead to improvements in instruction and resulting improvements in student achievement.
John Lyman's School Improvement Plan for 2009-2010 includes a focus on developing expertise and fluency with a variety of strategies for improved reading comprehension in both fiction and non-fiction text. A second focus is on helping students to develop an understanding of various strategies they may use to solve problems involving equivalent fractions.
The 2010-2011 School Improvement Plan has as its goals:
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