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.

Memorial’s School Improvement Plan for 2006-2007 focuses on providing students with strategies and classroom instruction that will allow them to make continuous progress on the literacy portions of the Connecticut Mastery Test. A second focus is to ensure that all students in every sub-group demonstrate adequate yearly progress (AYP) in mathematics and reading.

The 2006-2007 School Improvement Plan has two main goals:

1. To analyze the 2006 CMT results and identify specific literacy strands that need improvement. Professional development will be provided to teachers related to reading comprehension and other essential literacy skills;
2. To continue the emphasis on expository writing by administering and scoring three all-school writing prompts. Results will be analyzed and areas of weakness addressed by classroom teachers.