School Innovation and Improvement Plan (SIIP) At-a-Glance

• 2024-2025
• McNair Upper Elementary School
• Region 5
• Melissa Goddin, Principal

Reading by 3rd Grade

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

Goals: 

1. During the 24-25 instructional school year, the percentage of 3rd grade students students with disabilities  meeting or exceeding the VALLSS screener benchmarks will increase by 5 percentage points from fall 2024 to spring 2025.
2. During the 24-25 instructional school year, the percentage of students in 3rd grade meeting or exceeding the VALLSS screener benchmarks will increase by 5 percentage points from fall 2024 to spring 2025.                           

Strategies: 

1. Improve daily, systematic, explicit instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, and morphology by using the new core curriculum.
2. Increase teacher content knowledge of evidence-based literacy instruction aligned with science-based reading research to improve implementation of new core curriculum.
3. Increase use of data to plan instruction and monitor progress during intervention to ensure that students demonstrating risk master foundational skills."                            

Mathematics

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

Goals: 

1. By the end of the 2024-2025 school year, our school wide pass rate for students with disabilities will increase to at least an 80% pass rate as measured on their math SOL assessment.
2. By the end of the 2024-2025 school year, 95% of all students will pass their grade level math SOL assessment.                            

Strategies: 

1. Increase teachers' content knowledge and implementation of the 2023 FCPS mathematics program of studies.
2. Increase teacher implementation of explicit instruction and other components of effective mathematics intervention.
3. Increase teacher's implementation of strategies and conversation structures that increase academic talk between students related to Shift 4: from show and tell to share and compare."                            

School Selected: Discipline

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

Goal: By the end of the 24-25 school year, we will decrease the number of office managed discipline referrals by 25% as measured from the number of referrals submitted to our school-wide behavior referral form.                             

Strategies: 

1. Provide tailored professional development for teachers and staff on Tier 1 wellness practices, including culturally responsive teaching, conflict resolution, and trauma-informed care. Offer specialized training on restorative justice for effective disciplinary approaches.
2. Implement mandatory Tier 1 SEL and PBIS practices during protected time slots in the school schedule, including Mindfulness Moments, Community Circles for Elementary, and Restorative Advisory Meeting for Middle/High schools, alongside three Signature Practices at all levels.
3. Utilize an MTSS framework to establish and organize a schoolwide continuum of proactive behavior and wellness supports which will provide targeted interventions to students at different level of need."