School ACHIEVEment Plan 2010 - 2013

1. School ACHIEVEment Plan2010 - 2013 Clearbrook Middle School Cardinals

2. Clearbrook Middle School Leadership Team • Mike Riley, Principal • Brandy Day, Assistant Principal • Trey Davis, Faculty Liaison to the SAP Leadership Committee • Jodie Davis, School Achievement Plan Coordinator

3. Clearbrook Middle School Appreciative Inquiry at Clearbrook Middle School • Our Students • Our Faculty • Our Community

4. Provocative Propositions • Teachers and administrators are collegial and collaborative with all stakeholders to support high student achievement. • Students are afforded opportunities to exhibit responsible citizenship and become productive members of society.

5. A.C.H.I.E.V.E. Model • Accentuate the positive • Create and nurture a Professional Learning Communities (PLC) • Handle kids with care • Invest in our stakeholders • Eliminate the negatives • Value time • Engage all learners

6. YEAR ONE

7. Professional Learning Communities • Vertical and Horizontal Articulation • Aligned lesson plans • Valid and reliable assessments • Pedagogical excellence • Reflective practice • Enhancing Teacher Efficacy • Mentoring Program • Effective pairings • Generational workforce

8. Positive Behavior Support PBS is a new approach to student discipline that focuses on prevention , not reaction. It is a systems change method that promotes positive behavior in students. • Three-tiered system • Primary Preventive Strategies • Secondary Preventive Strategies • Tertiary Preventive Strategies

9. Differentiated Instruction • Staff Development • What Every Teacher Should Know: Instructional Accountability at CMS • Paula Brown, Hampton City Schools • Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement

10. Teacher-led staff development • Three-year plan • Attend one year, present the next • Professional Development opportunities • Enhance professional expertise • Involve the entire faculty

11. YEAR TWO

12. Response to Intervention • Identify students at risk for poor learning outcomes • Monitor student progress • Provide evidence-based interventions • Tiered instruction • Decrease discipline referrals • Increase student achievement • Increase parent involvement • Adjust the intensity and nature of interventions depending on a student’s responsiveness • Identify students with learning disabilities or other disabilities

13. Creative Scheduling: social studies department

14. Community Volunteer Program • Establish a “Volunteers for Education” program • Provide struggling students extra help needed to succeed academically • Resource for volunteer tutors • Volunteers need not be current or former educators • Volunteer form • Time commitment • Once a week, 45 minute sessions • Could be working one-on-one, in small groups, or in the classroom- where ever the need is greatest • Teachers, guidance counselors and subject specialists provide ongoing assistance

15. YEAR THREE

16. Cultural Heritage Week • In association with World Heritage Day • Sponsored by the PTA • Request parent volunteers to speak and share the history of their culture • Recruit community leaders to speak of their culture • Utilize Foreign Exchange Students as available • Lesson plans connected to SOLs in History and Social Studies • Each class sponsors a booth in the week-ending celebration • Arts • Crafts • Games • Food

17. What to Expect When You’re In Middle School • “The Mysteries of Middle School are Revealed!” • Rising 6th graders are hosted by rising 8th graders to learn what they have to look forward to in middle school • Older students get a chance to “shine” • If funds are available, purchase Introduction to Middle School by Sara Davis Powell for each student

18. Principal’s Round Table • Encourage open dialogue with parents/guardians and community stakeholders on matters impacting the school • First Thursday of every month during the school year • Refreshments provided

19. Mark Twain “Out of the public schools grows the greatest of a nation.”