Principal – Adriene Stephenson

• Enrollment – 371• General Education – 83%• SPED – 17%• LEP – Less than 1%• African American – 75%• White – 22%• Asian, Hispanic, Native American – 2% each• Free/Reduced Lunch – 85%• Fully Accredited

Test Name Spring 2009 Spring 2010 Spring 2011

Grade 3-5 English 72 76 78

English 83 83 84

Mathematics 69 74 77

History 56 70 81

Science 81 80 80

• Partnership• Commitment• Vision• Using Data• Shared Lesson Observations with a Focus on

Student Learning• Increased Focus on Formative Assessment

• Inconsistency in Teaching Quality and Student Outcomes

• Lack of Differentiation in Active Learning• Lack of Rigor in Teacher Evaluation• Identifying Individual Professional

Development Needs• Parental and Community Involvement

• Increased and improved lesson observations (triangulate with data)

• Revision of the teacher evaluation model to lead to more targeted PD

• Training on Teacher Strategies (targeted support for reading and math)

• PD or training on community involvement leading to strategies to progression

• Resources (White Boards, Promethean Boards, etc…)

• Contracted services with External Lead Partner (i.e. Principal coaching, Technology Specialist, job-embedded professional development)

• Reading Support Personnel• Incentive Plan - Stipends• After School Programs that provided extended

learning opportunities (i.e. 21st Century Learning Communities After School Program)

Model Strands Level of Implementation

A. Creation & Use of District Team Full Implementation

B. Enabling School Autonomy Partial Implementation

C. Principal & Hiring Teachers Full Implementation

D. Stakeholder Engagement Emerging Implementation

E. Creation & Use of School Team Full Implementation

F. Leading Change High Implementation

G. Evaluating, rewarding, removing staff High Implementation

H. Professional Development High Implementation

I. Learning Time High Implementation

J. Reforming Instruction Partial Implementation

• Geographic nature of the county has created the following challenges:– Engaging parents in the educational process– Creating and maintaining business partnerships– Connecting the school with external learning

resources

• Raise Teaching Quality• Set and Reach Challenging Student

Performance Targets (AYP)• Establish a Community Forum and Links• Every Student Shows Academic Growth

• Continue to build capacity by continuing implementation of train the teacher model

• Continue the development of shared leadership, embed practices and instructional strategies

• Continue the current methods of monitoring teacher performance via data meetings, quarterly administration of SOL released tests in all content areas, item analysis to identify student strengths and weaknesses