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.
Strong School’s School Improvement Plan for 2009-2010 builds on the success of the 2008-2009 plan. In 2008-2009 Strong teachers refined and implemented assessments that improved reading comprehension across all content areas. Teachers examined Connecticut Mastery Test results in reading comprehension to determine areas of weakness and developed content-specific reading tasks targeting the major comprehension strands tested on the CMT. Strong teachers used the “Tuning Protocol” process in order to examine student work as a precipitous for improving instruction. Strong also collaborated with CRHS to focus on aligning policy, instruction and assessment grades 7 – 12.
The 2009-2010 plan has one main goal:
- To improve performance on the reading comprehension portion of the CMT by implementing data teams utilizing the Scientific Research Based Intervention (SRBI) model.
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