Action Plan: Part I-Brandon Garcia

Student-Learning Goal:

Research-based
Strategies

Strategy 1:
Implement formative
instructional
practices and
professional
development

By the end of the 2015-2016 school year 80% or greater of students in 9th Grade Literature will
increase analysis skill from a 2.6 average to at least a 4 in the area of Development, Analysis, and
Interpretation for the year based on pre-test to post-test written assessment (formal/informal) data using
the CHHS writing rubric.

Actions

Person
Responsible/By
When

1. The special
education teachers
that teach language
arts will attend twice
monthly PLC
meetings throughout
the year.

The lead content

instructor will set the two
dates for the PLC
meetings/monthly

2. Through Staff
Development
participation, all
teachers are being
trained in FIP.

Administration and lead

content instructors set
deadlines and guidelines
for FIP/beginning of
year, monthly

3. Teachers will
share/critique
instructional
strategies/activities

SPED Teachers/weekly

Resources/
Budget
Resources provided
by school
system/GA DOE
Handouts from
CHHS PD Training
Website related to
the professional
development
Materials from
educational websites
(Actively Learn,
Teachers Pay
Teachers etc.)

Expected
Outcomes
The training will
better prepare
teachers to use
assessments, both
formal and informal,
to help students
understand the AKS
and to adjust
instructional methods
and lesson plans.
Through
sharing/critiquing
instructional
strategies/activities
teachers will be able
to determine the level
of analysis involved
as well as how to
increase the
analytical
effectiveness of the
strategy/activity if
necessary and
implement some of
the strategies in
his/her classroom.

Monitoring
Tools/
Assessments:
Short-Term
Medium-Term
Long-Term
Short TermAdministrator sign off
on teachers that have
completed the FIP
training

Person(s)
Responsible for
Monitoring/
By When
Special Education
Teacher/SPED AP

Medium TermAttendance and

participation
records/observations
from
administrators/meeting
minutes

Principal/PD
Team/SPED AP

Long TermSpecial Education

Administrator
observations of
classroom
implementation of
strategies/activities
and observations of
meetings

Principal/PD
Team/SPED AP

Strategy 2:
Increase student
mastery and
understanding of
English/Writing
AKS(Gwinnett
County Schools
Standards)

Professional
development is being
used in the classroom
to make students
aware of learning
targets aligned with
the AKS.
The special education
teachers that teach
language arts will
participate in ongoing professional
development
regarding formative
instructional practices
to become more
intentional about
making students
aware of learning
targets and increase
their ability to selfassess.

The lead content

instructor,admin,SPED
Teachers/weekly,monthly

Resources provided
by school
system/GA DOE

Administration,lead
content instructors, SPED
Teachers/monthly

Handouts from
CHHS PD Training
Website related to
the professional
development
Copies of data
information from
previous school year
and current school
year
Data Overview
presentation
materials

Students increase
their ability to selfassess their work on
multiple assignments
and assessments.
Instructional
methods,
differentiation, and
lesson plans are
guided and adjusted
based on student data
feedback on
standards of the AKS.
Student
understanding of the
AKS will be
monitored through
formative and
common assessments
as well as student
self-assessment
strategies gained
from FIP professional
development.
Data will be collected
through these
assessments to give
more frequent
feedback on student
understanding of
AKS. Data from the
writing assessments
will be used to check
for student growth
and understanding of
AKS content

Short Term- Weekly

Planning Period
Meetings/Daily
Discussions
Medium Term- Data
observations and
feedback from interim
performance tests and
writing performance
essays
Long Term- Student
achievement on
writing performance
district exam and 9th
grade literature EOC

Special Education
Teacher/SPED AP
Principal/PD
Team/SPED
AP/SPED
Teacher/Data Team
Principal/PD
Team/SPED
AP/SPED
Teacher/Data Team

Parent &
Community
Involvement:
Describe how you
will communicate the
action plan to
parents and the
larger community.
Include how you
might involve them in
its implementation.

This action plan will be communicated through parent emails, newsletters, and the school website. The parent email, online
newsletters, and school website link can all be found when a parent logs on to the school eclass page to look at their childs
progress. By linking all the information to eclass, the likelihood of parents seeing it and participating in the action plan is
more than if letters were sent home with kids or to addresses. Parents can participate in the action plan by having children
work on English/ writing strategies at home. The writing prompts and other practice assignments will have links on the
eclass page so that they can be easily accessible at home. Feedback on effectiveness and any parent concerns will be easily
communicated through eclass links directed to the teacher.