2022-2023 ESSER III/School Innovation and Improvement Plan

Outcome goals for this academic school year

Complete ESSER school funding plan

Herndon Middle School

Region 1

Monika Vereb, Principal

2022-2023

English Language Arts 

Outcome: Ensure students are making sufficient progress to be on grade level in English Language Arts.

Goal: Increase the overall pass rate by 10% on the grade-level 22-23 Reading SOL. In addition all targeted subgroups will show at least one band of SOL vertical scaled growth from either their 21-22 Spring SOL scaled score or fall 2022 VGA scaled score.

Strategy 1- Teach essential standards through scaffolding, differentiation, and small group instruction with a focus on maximizing student work time.

Strategy 2- Reteach essential standards for identified tier 2 or 3 students through small group instruction during flexible instructional time.

Strategy 3- Partner with families/caregivers to establish supportive family partnerships.

 

Mathematics 

Outcome: Ensure students are making sufficient progress to be on grade level in Mathematics.

Goal: Increase the overall pass rate by 10% on the grade-level 22-23 Math SOL. In addition all targeted subgroups will show at least one band of SOL vertical scaled growth from either their 21-22 Spring SOL scaled score or Fall 2022 VGA scaled score.

Strategy 1 - Teach essential standards through scaffolding, differentiation, and small group instruction with a focus to shift from looking at correct answers toward looking for students’ thinking.

Strategy 2 - Reteach essential standards for identified tier 2 or 3 students through small group instruction during flexible instructional time.

Strategy 3 - Partner with families/caregivers to establish supportive family partnerships.

 

Wellness 

Outcome: Ensure students feel safe, included, and supported in the school environment.

Goal: By the end of the 2022-2023 school year, our school will utilize Responsive Advisory Meetings effectively to teach cultural awareness and action subskills, increasing schoolwide scores on the cultural awareness and action subskill of the SEL Screener by 10% from 33 to 43 percent favorable.

Strategy 1 - (Rubric/CASEL Theory of Action Section: Building Foundation) Set aside protected time to engage in required tier 1 practices schoolwide.

Strategy 2 - (Rubric/CASEL Theory of Action Section: Building Foundation) Develop adults’ foundational knowledge regarding the rationale for required practices and tools to support their implementation.

Strategy 3 - (Rubric/CASEL Theory of Action Section: Building a Foundation/Strengthen Adult SEL & Promote Student SEL) ALign content for required practices to student strength and needs, including social awareness skills and self management skills.


 

Portrait of a Graduate (POG)

Outcome: All students will complete a POG Presentation of Learning (POL) by 2025-26. 

Goal: 100% of students will demonstrate increased understanding of the Communicator attribute of POG as reported on a student survey given through Advisory at the beginning of the year.

Strategy 1 - The school will build an understanding with students about why POG attributes and skills positively impact students within and beyond school with a specific focus on the Communicator attribute.

Strategy 2 -  The school will build an understanding with staff about why POG attributes and skills positively impact students within and beyond school with a specific focus on the Communicator attribute.

Strategy 3 -  The school will build an understanding with the community about why POG attributes and skills positively impact students within and beyond school with a specific focus on the Communicator attribute.


 

OTHER End of Year SMARTR Outcome: Science 

Goal: Increase overall pass rate by 10% on the grade level 22-23 Science SOL

Strategy 1 - Teach essential standards through scaffolding, differentiation, and small group instruction with a focus on students consistently having opportunities for reading, writing, and student discourse that come from FCPS units and investigations.

Strategy 2 - Reteach essential standards for identified tier 2 or 3 students through small group instruction during flexible instructional time.

Strategy 3 - Partner with families/caregivers to establish supportive family partnerships.