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LOOKING AHEAD TABLE (COMING SOON)
EXTERNAL TEAM VISIT FEBRUARY 2019 REPORT
School Improvement Action Plan
District Overarching Goal: McCook Public Schools will focus teacher and staff development on the processes and procedures necessary to implement a high functioning professional learning community (PLC), which collaborates regularly on developing and improving curriculum, assessments, teaching/instruction, and intervention.
District Goal: Directly and significantly impact student learning through the implementation of a comprehensive instructional program approach focused on high quality teacher training, collaboration, curriculum development, assessment development, and multi-tiered student learning support structures.
Mission of the Action Plan: The mission of this plan is to appropriately prepare MPS staff to work as a collaborative community capable of equipping all students to succeed in a complex global society, which is focused on enabling all students to master a guaranteed and viable curriculum that has been deemed essential for success in school and in life after graduation
What is A Comprehensive Instructional Program Approach
Collaborative professional teams working on
Curriculum
Viable
Appropriately scoped and sequenced
All students are guaranteed opportunities to learn
Valued
Essential
Good to know
Worth knowing
Scaffolded & unpacked
Assessment development
Appropriate measure of learning objectives
Valid
Free from bias
Assessed for mastery
Depth of knowledge
Results (data) analysed, discussed, and used to guide future teaching
Instructional training on quality practices
Direct instruction lesson design
ITIP
Impactful practices
Authentic literacy approach
Jigsaw
Frayer model
Teacher clarity
Etc, etc…
Regular checks for understanding to guide instruction
Student support for interventions
RtI
Our comprehensive instructional program approach is what we do.
LINK to our look ahead table - The far right column is what we do